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Netflix Trailer Drops for FTX Scandal Series 'The Altruists'
Netflix released the trailer for The Altruists, which dramatizes the FTX collapse and features a fictionalized Sam Bankman-Fried debuting November…
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Orkut's Founder Wants to Bring Back the Social Network
Orkut's founder plans to eliminate algorithms and AI-generated content from the revived platform, letting humans post and view content directly.
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BBN Picks: What to Watch Tonight
Chip and Nina recommend Wonka's The Golden Ticket, A Different World, and Demon Slayer from this week's Netflix Tudum Top 10 list.
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16-Year-Old Accused of Running Ransomware Gang, Fox Reports
Operation KillSwitch dismantled the ransomware infrastructure allegedly run by the teenager, who is accused of orchestrating hundreds of…
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Video Frame Photo Trick; Big Tech Donors Win Science Prizes
iPhone, Samsung and Google phones have built-in tools to convert video frames to photos without screenshots, a feature buried in settings for years.
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NASA asks industry to build private space stations
Ars Technica reports NASA has formally invited private companies to design, build and operate commercial stations in low Earth orbit; the landlord…
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Magnetic Toys, Hand Warmers, and Rapture Pre-Workout Recalled
Magnetic toys pose ingestion hazards, hand warmers risk fire, and a pre-workout contains banned DMAA ingredient; consult product notices immediately.
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Engineers Build Cray-1 Replica From 30 Old Mac Minis
Engineers at a Spanish museum assembled thirty discarded Mac Minis into a functioning Cray-1 supercomputer replica, a 1970s-style machine originally…
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Cam Talbot becomes first NHL goalie to win with nine teams
Talbot stopped 20 shots in a shootout win over Pittsburgh, surpassing Curtis McElhinney, Sean Burke and Ron Tugnutt for the NHL record.
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Ohio Blogger Guilty of Harassment Over Shrek Image Sent to Senator
DJ Byrnes, owner of political blog The Rooster, was ordered to pay $200 after texting an explicit Shrek image to a Republican state senator.
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SpaceX Wants Orbit Traffic Rules After Starlink Near-Misses
SpaceX said close passes between orbiting objects were tens to hundreds of meters apart, prompting calls for better coordination protocols in space.
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Bonk-O-Meter rates the Kirk Douglas $10,000 tale
The ten thousand dollars and the on-your-own talk come from Michael Douglas's new memoir, per Fox News; the check was apparently not a gift card.