The Department of Justice on Friday night asked a federal court to reject TikTok’s bid to have the law that could ban it overturned, citing national security concerns that include its alleged use of internal search tools to collect information on users…
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The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves and China Miéville
A few years ago, Keanu Reeves took a dive into the world of comics with a series called BRZRKR, which he wrote with long…
Continue reading "What to read this weekend: Keanu Reeves wrote a book with ‘weird fiction’ author China Miéville"Somehow in all these years, I’ve never gotten into visual novels, despite being a person who loves both reading and video games. The idea has always intrigued me in some way, but I’ve never really felt compelled to actually pick one up. That changed wh…
Continue reading "Echoes of the Emergent, a hauntingly beautiful Playdate exclusive, sold me on visual novels"Engineers from Boeing and NASA have spent much of the last month running ground tests on a Starliner Reaction Control System (RCS) thruster to get a better idea of what went wrong during the active Starliner’s flight in early June, and they finally wra…
Continue reading "Boeing and NASA engineers have wrapped up ground tests on the Starliner thruster"NASA scientists say pure sulfur has been found on Mars for the first time after the Curiosity rover inadvertently uncovered a cluster of yellow crystals when it drove over a rock. And it looks like the area is filled with it. It’s an unexpected discove…
Continue reading "NASA’s Curiosity rover accidentally uncovered pure sulfur crystals on Mars"The global outage caused by a faulty update from cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike on Friday affected some 8.5 million Windows devices, Microsoft said in a blog post. The update triggered a blue screen of death, bringing systems used by hospitals, air…
Continue reading "Outage caused by CrowdStrike’s disastrous update affected 8.5 million devices"Rivian just opened its first EV charging rest stop 24 miles outside of Yosemite National Park, complete with bathrooms, a lounge with a small library, a water refill station, free coffee and (not free) “make your own” trail mix. Only Rivian owners will…
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I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones
Stephen Graham Jones is something of an expert on slashers. The author has tackled the genre in a slew of his novels (most not…
Continue reading "What to read this week: The Light Eaters, Paranoid Gardens and I Was a Teenage Slasher"The only thing better than a robot that vacuums for you is one that empties its own dust tray, too. The popular Shark AI Ultra robovac, which is normally a hard-to-swallow $600, is half off for Prime Day, bringing the cost down to just $295. You can co…
Continue reading "Prime Day robot vacuum deals include this Shark AI Ultra machine for half off"The horde is relentless. Every time I naively get overconfident in the timing of my laser sweeps and think I finally have the advantage over my enemies, the next wave comes in tenfold just to put me back in my place. I flatten them, they come back stro…
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