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A deal to bring TikTok's U.S. platform under American ownership is done and should be signed soon, with domestic control of the app's crown-jewel algorithm, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Saturday.

AI PCs are equipped with powerful processors and AI accelerators designed to increase productivity and creativity. With our round-up of the latest news, learn how AI PCs are poised to shape the future of computing. Virtually every aspect of technology has been affected, and potentially improved, by artificial intelligence (AI). PCs are no exception. While the meaning of “AI PC” is still evolving, it generally refers to a computer specifically designed to excel at AI-powered tasks. These beefed-up computers typically feature: High-end CPUs and GPUs to handle the demanding computational requirements of AI applications such as AI assistants that automate...

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If you can't resist the urge to check your phone over and over, even if you're out with friends, Meta has a solution: check your glasses instead...Meta's Reality Labs division burns cash at an alarming rate, which has concerned investors over the years...Meta has had its fair share of flops, like the entire promise of its social metaverse...But with the Meta Ray-Ban Display, Meta has created a remarkable piece of technology, unlike any other consumer-facing product on the market -- we have yet to test it ourselves, so we can't quite say just how groundbreaking this really is, but it...

Importing bookmarks from Brave on my Win 10 Pro desktop machine to my new Win 11 Pro desktop is not working. Brave SAYS the import has been made, but, nothing shows up where the Favorites bar resides. Or, at least Brave isn’t displaying it despite me making sure the “Show Bookmarks” button is on. If I go to a website and then hit the button near the top of the Brave window to add a single bookmark, that works fine. I used Notepad to take a peek at the file, and it looks ok to me - not that I’m...

Scientists from Kyoto University and Hiroshima University have identified a novel method of understanding the long-elusive W state of quantum entanglement, solving a decades-old challenge and opening new avenues to modern-day advances in quantum teleportation and computing. The phenomenon of quantum entanglement was first described in 1935 by Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky, and Nathan Rosen in what is now known as the EPR paradox. The trio argued against what Einstein famously called “spooky action at a distance,” the idea that the state of one particle could instantly affect another, no matter how far apart they were. These counterintuitive principles challenged...

Oh, boy. My Dell Win 10 Pro desktop suffered a MS Update last night, and won't reboot. None of the Dell repair / restore options have worked so far: I'm holding off on a complete "recovery" which would involve repartitioning the boot SSD & losing all the data on it, then reinstalling the OS, etc. Luckily, all my documents, images, etc., are saved to another HD, but, I would lose the programs on the boot drive and have to reinstall them, which means losing lots of settings and so on. So far as I can tell, I may be able...

The Washington Post September 11, 2025 Karen, I am writing to inform you that The Post is terminating your employment effective immediately for gross misconduct. Your public comments on social media regarding the death of Charlie Kirk violate The Post’s social media policies, harm the integrity of our organization, and potentially endanger the physical safety of our staff. Among other requirements, the Company-wide social media policy mandates that all employee social media postings be respectful and prohibits postings that disparage people based on their race, gender or other protected characteristics. The policy also reminds employees that everything they post is...

@RepJamesComer 🚨BREAKING🚨 I'm calling on the CEOs of Discord, Steam, Twitch, & Reddit to testify at an Oversight Committee hearing on October 8. The hearing will examine the radicalization of online forum users, including instances of open incitement to commit politically motivated acts. @RepJamesComer The politically motivated assassination of Charlie Kirk claimed the life of a husband, father, and American patriot. In the wake of this tragedy, and amid other acts of politically motivated violence, Congress has a duty to oversee the online platforms that radicals have used to advance political violence. To prevent future radicalization and violence, the CEOs...

Machines certainly can make businesses and people more efficient, but I have never believed that A.I. itself makes us more intelligent.Basically, Google AI, and I assume most A.I. programs, just regurgitate what they read. They do not appear to analyze or evaluate things to see how truthful they are. The great danger is that people, especially children and people posing as journalists, will believe whatever something called artificial intelligence spits out. I asked Google A.I. a simple math question. Have Trump’s tax rate cuts from 2017 cost the government trillions of dollars?Yes, most independent, non-partisan analyses of the 2017 Tax...

@RedWave_Press JUST IN: The FBI is investigating social media posts by at least seven different accounts that “appeared to indicate foreknowledge of the ass*ssination of Charlie Kirk,” according to the Washington Free Beacon. The Washington Free Beacon: “The posts—one of which referenced the date of Kirk’s ass*ssination, September 10, more than a month before it took place—were all deleted in the days following the killing. Several of the accounts appear to belong to tr*nsg*nder individuals, and at least one of them followed suspect Tyler Robinson's roommate, with whom Robinson was allegedly in a relationship, on TT.”

Jaguar Land Rover’s suppliers have been warned that car production may not resume until November as the fallout from a devastating cyber attack grows. The company’s factory lines have already been paralysed for two weeks after hackers compromised its computer systems, a situation that has forced bosses to temporarily send thousands of plant workers home. But with the crisis now in its third week, senior insiders are understood to have told suppliers that production could be knocked out for another seven. One person briefed on the situation said senior JLR figures were divided on how long the shutdown would drag...

@unlimited_ls FBI Director Kash Patel reveals that Charlie Kirk's alleged assassin Tyler Robinson’s Discord group had more than 20 members and they may soon be questioned. “Going back to the group chats real quick, there's more than 20 individuals.” “We, the FBI, are running the investigation point on the Discord chat group. There are scores of individuals that are going to be spoken to.”

Prominent opinion columnist and editor Karen Attiah has been fired from The Washington Post over a series of posts she wrote following the murder of Charlie Kirk. Attiah, 39, said she was sacked last week over the 'unacceptable social media posts' in the wake of the conservative commentator's assassination in Utah. One read: 'Part of what keeps America so violent is the insistence that people perform care, empty goodness and absolution for white men who espouse hatred and violence.' Another of the posts, on social media platform Bluesky, said: 'Refusing to tear my clothes and smear ashes on my face...

A transgender author fired from writing a prestigious comic book after belittling Charlie Kirk's murder has now mocked the late conservative star's appearance. Gretchen Felker-Martin took to her Patreon crowdfunding website to defend writing '[I] hope the bullet's OK' after Kirk's murder last Wednesday. She wrote: 'I had spent years smelling traces of the poison fumes he left in his wake, seeing his sneering face, his mouth full of teeth like baby corns and gums like congealed aspic.' Felker-Martin - who previously spoke of her desire to slit Harry Potter author JK Rowling's throat over the novelist's views on transgender...

President Donald Trump told reporters on Sunday evening that he was "looking at names" when asked if he'd revoke the visas of foreigners living in America who have celebrated Charlie Kirk's death. "We haven't [starting revoking visas], but we are looking at names," Trump said. "We don't like that. That's not right." He added, "We wouldn't celebrate if something happened on their side. And we don't. These are sick people. These are really deranged people."

The halt to production at Jaguar Land Rover has been extended again as it grapples the impact of a cyber attack, with a trade union demanding a COVID-style furlough scheme for workers affected in the supply chain. There have so far been 12 days of costly inactivity as attempts to recover vital systems continue. Earlier this week, Monday had been slated as a possible day for manufacturing to restart but that has now been put back until Wednesday at least. The disruption is not only affecting output at JLR's factories but its supply chain too, with thousands of jobs threatened....

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Former Gawker editor Elizabeth Spiers unloaded in the Nation what may be the most caustic postmortem on Charlie Kirk found anywhere in media so far — comparing the slain Turning Point founder to Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbles and labeling Kirk “an unrepentant racist, transphobe, homophobe, and misogynist.” The latter name calling appeared in the lead paragraph alone of the 1000-word essay under the headline: “Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning.” Quoting gracious comments by California Gov. Gavin Newsom about the slain father of two, Spiers wrote, “There is no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign, and refusing to...