The Escapist

I put a bullet in Windows and now use Linux – and you can too!

On the 31st of December, just as the world’s time in 2025 was coming to an end, I jammed a USB stick into my PC to purge it of Windows. The time to move to Linux had come, and so, much like George did ...
The Washington Post

China is using American AI against the U.S. Here’s how to stop it.

Jack Crovitz is a deployment strategist at Palantir Technologies and executive editor of the Republic, the Palantir Foundation’s journal on technology and national security. An agent of the Chinese ...
The New Yorker

Dyslexia and the Reading Wars

In 2024, my niece Caroline received a Ph.D. in gravitational-wave physics. Her research interests include “the impact of model inaccuracies on biases in parameters recovered from gravitational wave ...
GamesRadar+

Arc Raiders tester found that PvE players get put in friendlier lobbies while PvP ones are sectioned to aggressive matches by using two accounts

Third Person Shooters Arc Raiders lead responds to complaints about late spawns, says late joiners are important and "profit way more" Third Person Shooters "Will this blow up the server?": Arc ...
PBS

Read the full report on Hegseth’s use of Signal from the Pentagon inspector general

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth put U.S. troops at risk by sharing sensitive plans about an upcoming military strike in Yemen on his personal phone, according to a Pentagon inspector ...
PBS

Pentagon watchdog says Hegseth’s use of Signal app put U.S. personnel at risk, AP sources say

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon’s watchdog found that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth put U.S. personnel and their mission at risk when he used the Signal messaging app to convey sensitive information ...
PC Magazine

I Tested Gemini's Nano Banana AI Image Editor—and These 7 Tricks Seriously Impressed Me

Nano Banana is better than ever at editing images with AI. I show you how to do everything from creating custom filters to removing imperfections. I’ve been writing about consumer technology and video ...
Yahoo

Sheriff tells owner: 'We’re going to put you out of business' using nuisance law

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Willie Turral, owner of St. Helena Island’s Willie’s Bar and Grill, asks Beaufort County Sheriff PJ Tanner on Nov. 14, 2025, why ...
Forbes

Organizations Should Use AI To Reinvent Processes, Not Put Out Fires

When it comes to the emergence of new technologies, few have made as dramatic an entrance as generative AI. None have seen such breakneck corporate adoption, and few have seen such robust projections ...
ZDNet

Two ways to remove a directory in Linux - plus a bonus method for extra security

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ZDNet

Logging in as root on Linux? Here's why that disaster waiting to happen

Logging in as the root user should never be done on Linux. Using the root account could lead to disaster. Sudo is the preferred method of gaining elevated privileges. When I first started using Linux ...
Defense One

The Air Force wants to put private AI data centers on its bases, raising security, land-use fears

Air Force officials want private companies to build artificial intelligence data centers on more than 3,000 acres of land on five of its military bases, raising questions about security, ethics, and ...