The AP reports that U.S. president Donald Trump asked China's president if he wanted to buy US arms on Sunday, describing a deal that would "upend generations of U.S. policy toward China"—as if Trump blurting it out it meant anything.

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I remember waiting hours¹ for an AmigaBASIC mandlebrot set to render on my Commodore A500 in 1992 or so, its 7Mhz CPU tackling 64,000 pixels one by one until the amazing results were complete. Now I can stare at wastingmytime's fractals zooming and morphing at 60 frames per second. — Read the rest

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When Concord Public Library in New Hampshire announced a yearlong amnesty on overdue fines, hoping to get some of its many purloined publications back, it didn't expect to see a 1894 issue of Century Illustrated. Local man John Hanson walked in with it, reports NPR's Sophia Palaza-Carre, and the given excuse that he did not himself withdraw the item was impossible to refute, him having not been born for another half a century. — Read the rest

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A truck-mounted crane tipped over onto a house in Fort Lauderdale on Thursday morning, and then a second crane brought in to lift the first one toppled while trying to right it. It too fell onto the house, reported Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue spokesman Frank Guzman. — Read the rest

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More than a dozen English words long-used in Bermuda and the Caribbean found their way into the Oxford English Dictionary in 2016, joining last year's set in the definitive record of the English language.

Bimpert, from Bermuda, refers to a stupid or foolish person, as found in the traditional phrase "A bimpert is justah wuffless bye" (just a worthless boy) and Hornerman, attested in Trinidad since 1975 and referring to an unfaithful man, got top billing in coverage. — Read the rest

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You've surely seen interactive maps showing the effects of the sea level rising, but Sliding Shores makes a game of it: you get a beautifully-rendered globe and a slider to raise or lower the oceans. There's a load of presets, from "oceans drained" to "drown Everest," a feat not even Waterworld managed. — Read the rest

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Newcastle University in the United Kingdom has a new Professor of Sustainability: Anant Ambani, the heir to an Indian fossil fuels fortune and owner of an enormous zoo. Ambani earned the professorship for "his work in conservation, biodiversity protection, animal welfare and environmental stewardship" (he owns an enormous zoo) and "significant contributions to advancing a more sustainable future" (biggest oil company in India), reported The Guardian, to howls of laughter and derision. — Read the rest

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Microsoft and chip company Qualcomm launched the "Copilot+" PC branding in 2024 for so-called "AI" PCs. They even had a "Copilot" button that you could press to bring up the "AI". Though it at least indicated decent hardware, it was a hamfisted grasp at a vague buzzword and the "AI" features were badly implemented. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Get this Microsoft Windows 11 Pro lifetime license for a one-time deal of $9.97 (reg. $199)—no subscription, no renewal. Available now, through October 4.

Upgrading software can feel like a drag. But when the price is right, even the most boring digital admin can feel like a win. — Read the rest

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Matthew Ammel, the former bodyguard and former boyfriend of former Arizona U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema, was arrested after allegedly breaking into her home while she was out of town and causing $200k worth of damage. Ammel, police say, demanded that Sinema post a video to social media and threatened to throw one of her paintings into her swimming pool every ten minutes until she complied. — Read the rest

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Reelizer is a collection of movie poster art curated by Roger Erik Tinch. First published in 2011, it blew up after being linked to by Daring Fireball, slowly faded over the years, went on hiatus, and is now back thanks to new content management software. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Use Apple Find My to keep track of your wallet, bags, and work badges with this Gen 2 Lite KeySmart SmartCard 4-pack while it's 31% off.

Apple Find My is useful for tracking your iPhone, AirPods, and other Apple devices—but why stop there? — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Handle work and fit in some play on this Lenovo 300e Chromebook, on sale now for just $79.99 (MSRP $284.99).

If you're looking for a laptop that can get your daily tasks done, you probably don't need to spend thousands of dollars. — Read the rest

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Cartoonist Matt Bors has teamed with artist Tristan Wright to create a new comic book version of the early 90s TV kids' cartoon series "The Toxic Crusaders." While the cartoon series was edgy for a children's TV show, this new comic book version is for adults and is more explicitly political, with its gross-out humor serving critiques of capitalism, environmental malfeasance, and crimes against humanity. — Read the rest

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DLSS 5 is Nvidia's AI-powered tech for dynamically repainting video game scenes in real-time, with more realistic lighting, textures and geometry. Controversial enough on recent games, where it succeeds on a technical level, the real fun is to be had applying it to old ones. — Read the rest

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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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