Academy Award-winning documentarian Alex Gibney directed Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room and Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief. His latest, Musk, profiles the wealthiest man in the world. But you won't be seeing paid ads for it on YouTube, Facebook or TikTok, as all of them are refusing to run the trailer as an advertisement. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: The ChatGPT & Automation E-Degree includes 12 beginner-friendly courses and over 25 hours of training on ChatGPT, AI tools, automation, data visualization, and more for $19.99 (reg. $790).

ChatGPT is easy enough to open and start typing into. Figuring out how to make AI useful for work is the part that takes a little more effort. — Read the rest

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Barstardica is an online type "foundry" that generates fonts mashed-up from classic typefaces. The resulting abominations are perfect for hostage letters, zany comedy and upsetting graphic designers. Preset features include scale, offset and skew, and you can set specific glyphs not to be swapped. — Read the rest

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This photo of a Borzoi lying in a patch of green grass is visually stunning, yet silly because of the angle. The angelic pup looks more like a rug than a canine spread out in the grass. His fur doesn't help him look like a dog because it's so flat and long. — Read the rest

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Watch a playful capybara twirl a stick around his mouth like he's performing a trick at a talent show. He seems very dedicated to the art of stick twirling. His serious expression says it all.

Another capybara hanging out nearby simply chews on a stick to pass the time. — Read the rest

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These stunning nature videos show small colorful wonders that aren't visible to the naked eye. The videos in these slides were all submitted to the Nikon Small World in Motion competition. From tiny sea creatures to fungus to single-cell organisms swimming around, each video shows the magic that lies just beneath the surface of our everyday life. — Read the rest

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After 30 years, Pokémon remains among the most desirable collectible franchises in fandom and auctions regularly prove the cards' growing value. But one scalper went too far in his efforts to acquire the latest Squirter or PewPew or whatever, attaching a GPS tranceiver on a delivery driver's vehicle and using it to track her movements. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Microsoft Office 2024 Professional Plus includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, and Access for one Windows PC, with a lifetime license now $49.97 (reg. $249.99).

Your streaming services, cloud storage, and probably half the apps on your phone already want a monthly payment. — Read the rest

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If you haven't figured out the deal with Elon Musk, yet, a blockbuster documentary is on its way to explain it in detail. Filmed by Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) and scheduled for release on October 9, the "definitive and unvarnished examination" of the world's richest person was years in the making and was well-received at its premier at the Venice Film Festival. — Read the rest

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I've maintained for a while now that GTA 6's marketing runup has exemplified everything wrong with the way games are sold today, from Rockstar skipping out on making a physical edition to the paywalled trailers to, inexplicably, a Vice City-scented candle. — Read the rest

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A daycare in Fort Worth, Texas, is being sued after a substitute teacher allegedly encouraged 4-year-olds to fight one another, and herself injured one of them. Surveillance video from the Arka Montessori Academy shows the incident clearly, and KDFW News reports that the state "confirmed the child suffered physical injuries and emotional distress" and cited the daycare 16 times since it opened in 2024. — Read the rest

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Researchers are sending an underground robot into a hill whose vaguely boat-like shape has long excited Biblical literalists in search of Noah's Ark. The Noah's Ark Scans expedition hopes to find evidence of The Flood at the Durupinar formation near Mount Ararat in Türkiye. — Read the rest

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The government of the Netherlands plans to replace Microsoft's Windows and other software with a custom Linux-based operating system and IT suite named DAWO (Digitaal Autonome Werkomgeving Overheid).

De Nederlandse overheid maakt een eigen digitale werkomgeving op basis van de Nederlandse Linux-distributie NixOS.

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TL;DR: Internxt's 10TB lifetime plan gives new users encrypted cloud storage across unlimited devices for $269.97 (MSRP $2,900) through Sept. 29.

Some people delete files. Other people look at a photo from 2014, think, "I may need this someday," and immediately close the storage-management screen. — Read the rest

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Elizabeth Holmes, the Theranos founder and convicted felon, will move to a halfway house next year. ABC News was first to report her forthcoming transfer from federal prison, where she was imprisoned after being sentenced to 10 years and 3 months on wire fraud charges. — Read the rest

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In the early days of computer game development, Star Trek was a popular topic for young programmers with access to mainframes. Players could hunt Klingon ships across the galaxy's numbered sectors while conserving their dilithium crystals and photon torpedoes. The programs were copied, edited and expanded by those who played them—or just made over from scratch. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: AskAnyModel puts 50+ AI models in one browser-based platform and lets you compare up to six responses at once, with lifetime access to the Pro Plan now $39.99 (reg. $499).

Why ask one robot when you can convene a panel of six? — Read the rest

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Roland's GO:KEYS is an all-in-one portable keyboard with speakers and plenty of presets: great for beginners and musicians on the run. The GO:KEYS 3 Minion, a new co-branded model, is aimed at youngsters. But I think we can all take enormous pleasure in the built-in Minion voice instrumentation, which includes singing, choruses and various examples of laughter and gibberish. — Read the rest

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U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly has granted a temporary restraining order reinstating Politico, MS NOW, and CNN to the White House press pool. He doesn't think DOJ has much chance of pulling this off.

Reporters immediately reported for work, only to find they weren't allowed to enter the White House for several hours as their "hard cards" were turned back on. — Read the rest

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Ranting about "transgenderism" in Congress, U.S. Senator Thomas "Tommy" Tuberville (R—Alabama) briefly diverted his attention to a different group: furries. "Many" airline pilots, flight attendants, and air traffic controllers, he said, are part of the furry community. If the thought represents a masterclass in the unprovable and unfalsifiable, it's one that's clearly been on his mind; Tuberville did not identify a source for his claim. — Read the rest

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It is unclear whether her plea to pardon broker and President of the United States Donald Trump helped speed this along, but Elizabeth Holmes is getting out of prison quite a bit early.

Just four years into an eleven-year term, Elizabeth Holmes will head to a transitional facility intended to help rehabilitated criminals find work, manage their finances, and re-enter society as a productive cog in our machine. — Read the rest

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If you like Tove Janssen's Moomin, with its nearly perfect charm-disquiet ratio, you'll surely love the above "Diving with Shells" mug with Moomintroll enjoying a dip. The €46,023 sale price, though, set a record at Muumimukit rahaksi, a website specializing in Moomin rarities. — Read the rest

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This week on the popular theme park podcast Disney Dish with Len Testa and Jim Hill, Disney historian Jim Hill tells the story of The Walt Disney Transportation Company and its one achievement: installing a PeopleMover in what was then called The Houston Intercontinental Airport (now The George Bush Intercontinental Airport). — Read the rest

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If you have ever eaten French fries in the vicinity of seagulls, you have experienced kleptoparasitism, even if you don't know the word. Seagulls snatch fries from humans. Bald eagles harass ospreys into dropping fish. Pea crabs live inside mollusks like clams and oysters and steal their food. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: This $32.97 (reg. $418.99) bundle gives one PC perpetual licenses for Windows 11 Pro and Microsoft Office Professional 2021, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Access, and Publisher.

A Windows PC isn't much use without an operating system, and for plenty of people, it isn't quite ready for work until Word and Excel show up, either. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: DVDneXtCOPY DVD Ripper converts your discs, including copy-protected ones, into MP4, MKV, AVI, and MOV files that play on the devices you actually use. Get it for $29.99 (reg. $59.99).

Discs don't age well. The player in the living room is probably the last one in the house, and the shelf of movies sitting next to it plays on nothing else you own. — Read the rest

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Actor and director Richard Harrison, famed for low-budget but eminently memorable military epics, spaghetti westerns and martial arts flicks, is dead at 90. His friend Joan Borsten announced his death on social media and eulogized "an A-life in B-movies"

Harrison never let his movie star status, especially in Italy where he couldn't walk down the street without being recognized, go to his head.

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Turns out Walter Masterson's question to voters at Trump's mid-term Republican convention was so difficult it was unfair: Who are you voting for?

Perhaps they are ashamed. Maybe they really do not know. Certainly, MAGA does not care who it votes for or what their values are, so long as they are "Republican." — Read the rest

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The Lotus is a card-shuffling robot. It bridges the gap between super-cheap card shufflers that don't really work and casino-grade ones that cost thousands of dollars. This one is under $100, and it looks great.

From the company's Our Story page: "At the bottom, you have $20 plastic shufflers that jam, break, and sound terrible. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: A one-time $54.97 payment gets you Microsoft Project Professional 2024 for Windows, the scheduling and resource-planning tool that normally lists at $1,129.99.

Project auto-populates start and end dates from task dependencies, so moving one milestone reshuffles everything downstream without you rebuilding the timeline by hand. — Read the rest

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