Effort begins to fill the void left by terminated US climate report

First paper added to community collection is a roadmap for research.

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More and more workers are feeling stressed at work due to security risks

91% feel stressed because of IT security risks, but 74% say the recovery tools they have access to are too hard to use.

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Microsoft guts Halo Studios as Activision takes over making the next Halo game

The company is only three-quarters of the way through this round of layoffs.

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Google killed the Pixel Tablet. So why is it hiring engineers for Pixel tablets?

Job listings hint Google may not be done with Pixel tablets after all.

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Apple government liaison Tim Cook talked child safety at the UN General Assembly

Apple Executive Chairman Tim Cook spoke with the EU Commission President about child safety while visiting the UN General Assembly, but there was no mention of bringing Siri AI to the market. Tim Cook and Ursula von der Leyen. Image source: Ursula von der…

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Save $600 on these M5 Max MacBook Pros with month-end deals

Amazon is slashing $600 off two M5 Max MacBook Pros, with both 14-inch and 16-inch options available. Save $600 on M5 Max MacBook Pro laptops today - Image credit: Apple The month-end savings deliver $600 off two M5 Max MacBook Pro configurations, starting…

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Apple Will Soon Announce an All-New Operating System

Apple is developing an all-new operating system that is essentially a mix of tvOS, watchOS, and iOS, according to Bloomberg 's Mark Gurman. In his latest Power On newsletter , Gurman reiterated that the operating system will feature a grid of app icons…

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Volkswagen’s new EVs are so popular that the company is now cutting ICE shifts

Volkswagen’s new family of entry-level electric cars is proving to be more popular than its internal combustion engine vehicles.…

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How to clear System Data on Mac and free up storage space

Macworld If your Mac is warning that you are running out of storage, you need room for a macOS update, or your Mac simply seems to be slowing down, you may have looked at the large chunk of storage labelled System Data and wondered if you can safely delete it…

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Nvidia DLSS 5 may be a killer feature, literally, as user thinks it killed their RTX 5080

Nvidia's new DLSS 5 could be a killer feature quite literally, as one user claims it killed their RTX 5080. Here's what went down.

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Was Windows Me the worst version of Windows?

Windows Me was never intended to be the successor to Windows 98, and it lasted just a year before being replaced by Windows XP. Notorious for bugs, crashes and slowdowns, did the Millennium Edition of Windows really deserve the hate?

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Apple's iOS 27 found to break NordVPN's scam and phishing protection — and it isn't the only privacy tool impacted

Connectivity Assist conflicts with NordVPN’s real-time protection, NordVPN says

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This new Samsung One UI feature is awful; there's no way to turn it off

Samsung really needs to rethink this

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'We believe that this IP has a future' — Rayman Legends Retold brand producer wants to continue the series after the 3D remake 'if everything goes according to plan'

Rayman Legends Retold brand producer Loïc Gounon believes the series has a future and said he's interested in making new games using Ubisoft's latest tech.

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Researcher Drops BigDiskBuster Zero-Day PoC That Blocks Microsoft Defender Updates

A zero-day proof-of-concept tool that stops Microsoft Defender from installing platform and signature updates by filling all available disk space was published on GitHub on September 19. The tool, called BigDiskBuster, has no patch, no CVE, and no Microsoft…

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Apple Watch Series 10 vs. Series 12 Buyer's Guide: Should You Upgrade?

The Apple Watch Series 12 is now available, two years after the Series 10 introduced the current thinner design. But is it worth upgrading? While last year's Series 11 brought just four changes , the Series 12 is a much more substantial update, with a new…

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Parloa says it is partnering with Zalando on AI customer conversations

Parloa co-founder and chief executive Malte Kosub said Zalando will use the Berlin company’s AI for customer conversations across Europe, though neither company has published an announcement and Zalando has not commented. Article 50 of the AI Act, applicable…

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The youngest exoplanet ever detected has been discovered by astronomers

Astronomers have discovered the youngest exoplanet ever detected, located several light-years from Earth. However, similar discoveries may soon follow, particularly thanks to the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.

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16-year-old PC game gets 750,000 Steam wishlists in two weeks after developer expected just 5,000

Sixteen years after its browser debut, Happy Wheels amassed 750,000 Steam wishlists in two weeks - 150 times creator Jim Bonacci’s expectation - before launching to strong early sales and positive reviews. The Steam edition combines more than five million…

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When your Mac just won’t let go of the Wi-Fi connection

You ever have one of those moments when you start to copy a large file in the Finder and groan when the Progress Window tells you it’s going to take forever?…

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This RTX 5070 Ti gaming laptop is just $1,399 at Walmart today — it's the one I'd personally spend my own cash on

You can get a very nice gaming laptop for very cheap at Walmart today — if you're willing to sacrifice a little on a few specs.

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This UN week, Bill Gates is touting a new coalition that aims to make AI more inclusive

Bill Gates told his foundation’s Goalkeepers gathering that “increased generosity” and “the smart use of AI ” together could accelerate the fight against inequality , urging the world’s richest countries to expand international aid and apply artificial…

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‘The Hobbit’ introduced us to The Shire, second breakfast and Gandalf in his gray era — but how much do you remember?

You shall not pass until you complete this Middle Earth-themed quiz for International Hobbit Day

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Acer releases new 16-inch gaming laptop with Intel Panther Lake and up to 20 hours battery life

Acer has released a new 16-inch gaming laptop featuring Nvidia GeForce RTX 50 series laptop GPUs. Also packing a 180 Hz display, the new Nitro V 16S combines Intel's Panther Lake architecture with a 76 Wh battery for up to 20 hours of battery life in official…

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Rivian’s R2 beat its own climate goals four years early

Rivian always planned for its all-important R2 vehicle to be less expensive than its pricey R1 predecessors, but also less polluting. The production process for the R2 would rely on more renewable energy, and the vehicle itself would feature more recycled and…

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I tested ChatGPT against Copilot in Microsoft Word

I tried ChatGPT and Copilot side by side in Microsoft Word, and I was surprised by what I found.

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I ran DLSS 5 on my Radeon GPU, and it's actually more playable than you think

My RX 9070 XT could handle DLSS 5 at 1080p, but any higher is asking far too much

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Trump says the US is officially renaming AI to ‘super intelligence’

In a speech Tuesday morning at the UN General Assembly, Donald Trump railed against Iran, "globalists," climate change, and transgender people while also claiming that the US is now "officially" renaming artificial intelligence to "super intelligence." Oddly…

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VPN Deal of the Week: NymVPN drops low-commitment price plans – a cheaper way to try out its class-leading mixnet security

Extreme security technology with a new price

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European neocloud Verda raises $189M to build the AI infrastructure of tomorrow

Helsinki, Finland-based neocloud outfit Verda Cloud Oy, formerly DataCrunch, today announced it raised $189 million in early-stage funding to expand its artificial intelligence cloud infrastructure, from AI compute capacity to platform services. Emergence…

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