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I spy with my little eye... a starfighter equipped with light sabers?

Roughly 50 minutes of video confirms Vice City setting, Latina protagonist.

"I didn't believe we could survive just doing what everyone else is doing."

Dealmaster also has Xbox gift cards, MacBooks, SSDs, and gaming monitors.

Sustained peak performance makes for a powerful 13-inch XPS. But there are costs.

Dog trainers have long relied on punishment as a training tool.

Ducks is a devastating memoir about life in the oil sands of northern Alberta.

Critics warn the law could lead to more hate speech and disinformation online.

The bills can discourage rape reporting and compound victims' trauma.

Russia wasn't happy about Starlink providing broadband in Ukraine after invasion.

Fire ants will change shape of the raft to reduce drag and adapt to fluid flows.

EVGA will continue selling current-gen GeForce cards until it runs out of stock.

Using software that creates art on demand, some artists attempt to cash in on AI-generated content.

No details on why PSVR2 enhancements mean it can't run less-advanced games.

Musk countersuit claims "numerous independently sufficient reasons" to break deal.

Simulations appear to tie up lots of loose ends.

You can see why some don't want Avast having access to every site they visit.

Graphics card prices have been dropping all year—and could go even lower.

By telling AI bot to ignore its previous instructions, vulnerabilities emerge.

“I announce I am a hacker and Uber has suffered a data breach,” intruder says on Slack.

It's buried behind the flag menu for now, but you can enable it on the stable channel.

Roy Scheider's final movie is now back on Facebook.

Climate’s role is tough to quantify this time, though.

Laptop CPUs will switch first; no word on whether desktop CPUs will follow.

Summer saw heat waves, droughts, and floods—sometimes one on top of the other.

"This really gives the financial resources to take the next steps."

Threat actor has connections to hackers backed by North Korean government.

"I say we sit here and wait for death.... some combination of sitting and death."

The meeting follows years of mounting data on inaccuracies and potential harms.

In-depth analysis has us wondering what is going on with Halo's stewardship.

Maya ritual enemas, constipated scorpions, and moose crash test dummies feature.

Most of the West Coast will need floating hardware to harvest offshore wind.

A Patreon partner explains why CSAM may still appear on Patreon.

Mast1c0re hijacks weaknesses in Sony's own PS2-on-PS4 game emulator.

Electron-based Teams apps can be easily mined for tokens and used for phishing.

The dream of the '90s is alive on Discord.

The group has launched several successful projects, but now it's focusing on AI.

Adept's ACT-1 has learned how to automate complex UI tasks in web apps using an AI model.

Ethereum replaces proof-of-work with proof-of-stake, making miners unnecessary.

Yurii Shchyhol gives a rare interview about the state of the online conflict with Russia.

DNA may enable computation in storage on massive data sets.

Seesaw has declined to say how many accounts were spammed with Goatse.

Sans human data, mouse study offers first direct comparison of the two omicron boosters.

Plus, a wrap-up of Sony's TGS 2022 biggies: God of War: Ragnarok, Tekken 8.

Alleged victims include domestic violence shelter that paid hackers $13,000.

Microsoft faces prolonged competition investigation into $75 billion acquisition.

Baidu's ERNIE-ViLG text-to-image model prevents users from creating political images.

Lawsuit mirrors DC's case dismissed in April. Now, DOJ backs DC's appeal.

From 2024, Ford EVs will only be sold at Model e-certified dealerships.