Year: 2025

Hegseth says he will not publicly release video of the boat attack that killed survivors in the Caribbean

Hegseth says he will not publicly release video of the boat attack that killed survivors in the Caribbean

πŸ”₯ Discover this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: Boat Strikes,Caribbean,pete hegseth πŸ’‘ Main takeaway: WASHINGTON (AP) β€” The Pentagon will not publicly release unedited video of a strike that killed two survivors of an initial attack on a boat allegedly carrying cocaine in the Caribbean, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday. Hegseth said members of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees would have the opportunity this week to review the video, but he did not say whether all members of Congress would be allowed to see it, even as the defense policy bill calls…
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Study shows that over 90% of live shows created by white people | American television

Study shows that over 90% of live shows created by white people | American television

πŸš€ Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: US television,Television industry,US news,Television,Culture,Television & radio,Race,Trump administration,Gender,Women βœ… Main takeaway: A new UCLA study shows that popular scripted series on streaming services have shown a marked decline in cultural diversity behind and in front of the camera in the past year as inclusion programming dwindles in Hollywood.The latest edition of the school's Hollywood Diversity Report, published Tuesday, found that of the top 250 most-watched current scripted and office series in 2024, more than 91.7% were created by a white person, and white men account for 79% of…
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WikiFlix shows us what Netflix was like 100 years ago

WikiFlix shows us what Netflix was like 100 years ago

πŸ”₯ Check out this insightful post from TechCrunch πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: Media & Entertainment,Wikipedia βœ… Key idea: It's good to remember that not everything on the internet needs a subscription-based platform with ads. On WikiFlix, a Netflix-inspired archive of public domain films, you can watch films like "It's a Wonderful Life" and "Noseferatu" for free. You don't even have to create an account! Crazy, right? WikiFlix, a project of the volunteer Wikipedia community, hosts more than four thousand films from Wikimedia Commons, the Internet Archive, or YouTube that have fallen into the public domainβ€”meaning they are free to share and…
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Coming soon: Simpler pricing and a better experience for GitHub Actions

Coming soon: Simpler pricing and a better experience for GitHub Actions

πŸš€ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: πŸ“Œ Here’s what you’ll learn: On January 1, 2026, GitHub will reduce the price of GitHub-hosted runners by up to 39% depending on the machine type used. The free usage minute quotas will remain the same. On March 1, 2026, GitHub will introduce a new $0.002 per minute GitHub Actions cloud platform charge that will apply to self-hosted runner usage. Any usage subject to this charge will count toward the minutes included in your plan, as explained in our GitHub Actions billing documentation. Runner usage in public repositories…
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WATCH LIVE: Johnson and Jeffries lead the unveiling of a statue of civil rights activist Barbara Rose Jones

WATCH LIVE: Johnson and Jeffries lead the unveiling of a statue of civil rights activist Barbara Rose Jones

πŸš€ Read this awesome post from PBS NewsHour - Politics πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: Barbara Rose Johns,congress,Robert E. Lee βœ… Here’s what you’ll learn: Starting Tuesday, the U.S. Capitol will display a statue of teenager Barbara Rose Jones protesting poor conditions at her segregated high school in Virginia, an obvious replacement for the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was removed several years ago. Jones' statue will be unveiled at 3 p.m. ET. Watch in the player above. The unveiling ceremony for the statue representing Virginia will be held in the Capitol building in Emancipation Hall, with the participation…
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The Housemaid review – Sydney Sweeney takes the job from hell in a gruesome thriller | film

The Housemaid review – Sydney Sweeney takes the job from hell in a gruesome thriller | film

✨ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: Film,Thrillers,Sydney Sweeney,Paul Feig,Amanda Seyfried,Film adaptations,Books,Culture πŸ’‘ Key idea: DDirector Paul Feig is known for his broad comedies. Now he turns the serious schlock dial for a highly entertaining - or at any rate very entertaining - psychological thriller in the spirit of 1990s noir thriller, adapted by screenwriter Rebecca Sonnenschein from the 2022 bestselling book by Frieda McFadden. We're back in the glossy, sleazy world of Curtis Hanson's The Hand That Rocks the Cradle or Joe Eszterhas's Basic Instinct, but we're much closer to satire, if not…
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The study shows that Instacart may charge some shoppers 20% more for the same product

The study shows that Instacart may charge some shoppers 20% more for the same product

πŸ’₯ Discover this insightful post from TechCrunch πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: Commerce,Amazon,dynamic pricing,e-commerce,Instacart πŸ“Œ Main takeaway: A recent study published by Consumer Reports claims that Instacart is experimenting with dynamic pricing based on artificial intelligence, which in some cases significantly inflates the cost of some products. CR and its research partner, Groundwork Collaborative, found that the delivery app was conducting these experiments at the locations of the platform's retail partners, such as Kroger, Albertsons, Costco and Safeway. In some cases, consumers were paying up to 23% more than other shoppers for the exact same product, the report says. The software participating…
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No Graphics API β€” Sebastian Aaltonen

No Graphics API β€” Sebastian Aaltonen

πŸš€ Read this trending post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: βœ… Key idea: ToolingHow can we debug code that doesn’t bind buffer and texture objects and doesn’t call an API to describe the memory layout explicitly? C/C++ debuggers have been doing that for decades. There’s no special operating system APIs for describing your software’s memory layout. The debugger is able to follow 64-bit pointer chains and use the debug symbol data provided by your compiler. This includes the memory layouts of your structs and classes. CUDA and Metal use C/C++ based shading languages with full 64-bit pointer semantics. Both…
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How Trump’s business deal with a cryptocurrency company reveals a potential conflict of interest

How Trump’s business deal with a cryptocurrency company reveals a potential conflict of interest

πŸš€ Discover this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: crypto,Cryptocurrencies,Donald Trump news πŸ“Œ Here’s what you’ll learn: WASHINGTON (AP) β€” Crypto.com was under siege. For more than a year, the company has been under investigation by the Democratic administration of President Joe Biden, as part of an aggressive push to regulate the largely unregulated cryptocurrency industry. Financial regulators have told the company that enforcement action is likely. Then Donald Trump won the 2024 election, and the company's legal risks dissipated. Crypto.com boosted spending on a lobbyist close to Trump and donated $11 million to political committees…
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