TL;DR: iProVPN will protect your privacy when you access global content for the amazing Deal Days price of $14.97 (MSRP $365) for a 5-year subscription. Available only until July 1 at 11:59 p.m. PT.

It's time to get a VPN. Right now, you can begin accessing the global internet with powerful security for a seriously good price. — Read the rest

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Despite temperatures over 100 degrees, tens of thousands of people attended Budapest's first post-Orbán Pride march. Orbán's far-right government had prohibited such events, but LBGTQ Hungarians and their friends defied those bans and the new management is more encouraging.

Participants set off from Budapest's iconic Opera house and wound through the city center before crossing the Erzsébet Bridge over the Danube River.

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Australia's ban on social media accounts for children has failed to produce an immediate drop in use among adolescents, according to an analysis published this week in The BMJ. The study casts doubt on the world's first national age-based restriction, even as governments in Europe and North America attempt similar measures. — Read the rest

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Almost half of American adults now use AI chatbots, but only 16 percent think the technology will have a positive impact on society—and most expect AI to make society worse. That's according to a Pew Research Center survey which found chatbot use soaring, with roughly a quarter of U.S. — Read the rest

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Doctors in Spain suspected that a man suffering from chronic headaches had brain cancer. A scan showed a number of poorly-defined lesions, typical of cancer that has spread from elsewhere in the body. But when they conducted a higher-resolution MRI, they found not tumors but the larvae of pork tapeworm, a parasitic infection. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Grab the complete Office 2024 suite with advanced features with the Microsoft Office 2024 Professional Plus Lifetime License for $54.99 (reg. $249.99).

Deal Days is StackSocial's take on Prime Day, and with just 24 hours left, it's your last chance to grab any wishlist items you want at discounted prices. — Read the rest

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SpaceX stock soared to $251 after its launch then came back to Earth. It traded today at $149, less than ther $150 it opened at following the $135 IPO. Virtually everyone who bought it after the bell on day one has lost money, and Elon is no longer a trillionaire. — Read the rest

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Sony unceremoniously announced that it would be deleting 551 movies from PlayStation customers' accounts in the U.K.: no apologies, no refunds, just a cold reminder that the only thing bought was a revokable license to access "content." The wipe is the result of Sony's deal with movie distributor StudioCanal ending. — Read the rest

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As a child, I used to be fascinated by the indicators on old radios for faraway cities: magic places such as Warsaw, Nador, Ulaanbatar… and Droitwich. Longwave radio was surely something amazing we had found but already forgotten about, those markings and frequencies being absent from newer devices. — Read the rest

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Apple sharply raising the prices of laptops and other gear brought home that the datacenter-driven computer parts shortage is only getting worse. It will be years before prices fall, with RAM at the epicenter of the crisis. The long-awaited Steam Box is $1049 to start, with disappointing specifications. — Read the rest

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Tim Langdell found success publishing computer games in the 8-bit era, but became more famous for his extractive policing of trademarks around the word "Edge." This enterprise seemed to come to an end 15 years ago after courts ordered the trademarks cancelled, with one judge furious at the shenanigans involved. — Read the rest

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Administrators at East Brook Middle School in Paramus, New Jersey, announced that "we immediately collected the yearbooks so the image would not remain in circulation" after it turned out that a baby photo in the 2026 volume was of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. — Read the rest

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When troops from Ohio's National Guard were deployed to Washington D.C. to menace locals as part of President Trump's crime "emergency" there, Sam O'Hara followed them around playing The Imperial March from John Williams' score to The Empire Strikes Back. He was detained by local police, and now he has won what the American Civil Liberties Union describe as a "substantial" financial settlement. — Read the rest

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When the White House appointed conspiracy theorist Gregg Phillips (previously) to a top job in the Federal Emergency Management Agency, that was not his most interesting sudden movement. Phillips claimed to have experienced teleportation on multiple occasions, including into the Waffle House in Rome, Georgia. — Read the rest

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Nicholas Rossi fled the United States after faking his own death, hoping to avoid prosecution on rape charges. Recognized by staff at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow, Scotland, and extradited, he was eventually convicted in two separate trials in 2024 and sentenced to 10 years to life imprisonment. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: The All-in-One CompTIA Certification Prep Courses Bundle includes training for certifications covering IT support, networking, cybersecurity, cloud computing, Linux, and more — all for $19.97 (reg. $299) during Deal Days.

Not every tech career starts with a computer science degree. — Read the rest

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A judge has ordered Huntington Beach to adopt ranked-choice voting after finding that the city's at-large elections diluted Latino voting power, which means Surf City's latest culture-war adventure may end with voters being allowed to rank candidates instead of just picking one. — Read the rest

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Daniel Sanchez-Estrada didn't attend the Fourth of July protest at the Prairieland ICE detention facility in Alvarado, Texas. His wife called him from a prison phone afterward and asked him to move some boxes. The boxes contained leftwing zines. A federal judge sentenced him to 30 years, and federal prosecutor Frank Gatto explained why: "People with that kind of extremist beliefs need extra time in prison. — Read the rest

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The Gary Fadden incident is one of those American folk tales that sounds like it was generated by a gun-store campfire: road rage, a 17-mile chase, a 6'8" weapons salesman named Gary, the Ruger AC-556 made famous by The A-Team, and a jury that ultimately decided the machine-gun shooting was self-defense. — Read the rest

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House Oversight's Epstein probe took a turn Friday when Chairman James Comer issued two subpoenas to billionaire Leon Black during questioning, after lawmakers said Black refused to answer questions about nondisclosure agreements.

This is the Epstein universe doing what it always does: important men, enormous sums of money, sealed agreements, lawyers saying everything is misunderstood, and Congress trying to pry open the drawer marked "please do not open." — Read the rest

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A woman lying on the sand at Half Moon Bay's Francis Beach was struck and run over by a lifeguard vehicle, because apparently even relaxing on the beach now requires checking for traffic.

A 20-year-old beachgoer was taken to the hospital after being struck and run over by a lifeguard driving a vehicle on a popular beach in Half Moon Bay on Wednesday, according to a statement by the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office. 

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The Great American State Fair, Trump's 16-day National Mall celebration of America's 250th birthday, reportedly began with empty stalls, electrical chaos, and a cow named Melania, which may be the most honest exhibit the administration has produced all year.

Adding to that, the centerpiece Ferris wheel offering free rides with views of the mall, operated only "intermittently due to a faulty generator," with workers acknowledging the ride's unreliability as frustrated fairgoers waited in line.

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Landing somewhere between a smartphone and a dumbphone, the upcoming Commodore Callback 8020 breaks the social media addiction.

Commodore went from selling the best-selling computer of all time, the Commodore 64, to bankruptcy, killed off by PC compatibles and the Apple Macintosh. — Read the rest

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OS9Map is a new OpenStreetMap browser for Mac OS 9, which was last updated 24 years ago: three years before the volunteer-maintained mapping service was even founded. The app requires a PowerPC processor, an internet connection, and 16 megabytes of RAM. — Read the rest

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A few years back, Jason told me that my body has the marks of an interesting life. It's a nice way of saying that I've had the crap beaten out of me and survived to talk about it and complain whenever a thunderstorm is incoming. — Read the rest

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The same coffee that kicks your ass into gear every morning may soon be able to power the espresso machine that made it. The South Korean National Research Council of Science and Technology announced that a Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM) research team has figured out how to turn used coffee grounds into biochar: a type of high-quality charcoal that can be used in power generation. — Read the rest

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I've been enjoying the hell out of Ethan Hawke's work over the past few years. His turns in The Good Lord Bird, The Lowdown, and First Reformed have been powerful, entertaining stuff that makes me glad I put down the book I'm reading long enough to enjoy them. — Read the rest

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Dust mites eat your dead skin, leave behind microscopic fecal pellets loaded with allergens, and those allergens have a half-life upward of ten years. They are in mattresses, curtains, and carpets. 84% of American homes have detectable levels.

The Dust Mite Guide lays out the biology and the fix: Dust mites can't drink water. — Read the rest

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A 19-year-old man from Wales admitted to deliberately fouling a public swimming pool 18 times, forcing staff to close it repeatedly to collect the matter and sanitize the water. Dyfed-Powys Police said the man was identified through security footage and, when interviewed, fully admitted to being the source of the feces. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: The MagTag Ultra Slim Tracker Card works with Apple's Find My app, fits inside wallets and luggage, and is on sale for $19.99 (reg. $59.99).

One of the most useful pieces of modern technology might not be a smartphone or smartwatch. — Read the rest

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