TL;DR: You can get Windows 11 Pro plus a beginner-friendly training course for just $19.97 (reg. $237) through June 14.

As of October 2025, Microsoft has phased out support for Windows 10. That means no more software updates, technical support or security fixes. — Read the rest

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A song lyric from rapper Fetty Wap, attributed to the principal in a school yearbook published by Trout Creek Academy in St. Johns' County, Florida, has scandalized local parents and gotten the principal placed on administrative leave: "Everybody hating, we just call them fans though! — Read the rest

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Microsoft announced the Surface Laptop Ultra this morning, which it described as the most powerful Surface laptop yet and the first to run on Nvidia's new ARM-based RTX Spark platform. It comes with a Blackwell RTX GPU and full CUDA support, and is pitched at creators, developers and anyone running large language models on their own machine. — Read the rest

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Teddy Warner created Heard Recently, a website showing the birds heard near his apartment. Unlike our Bird Buddy (a smart feeder with a camera) it uses audio to identify avian visitors and doesn't require a subscription.

I mounted a tiny microphone on my apartment balcony to listen for any birds passing by and built a site to collage them as they're heard

The software was built using Cornell University's BirdNet, which uses deep learning to recognize more than 6,000 species, and BirdNET-PI, an implementation that runs on inexpensive hardware. — Read the rest

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Dell just announced the new XPS 13, a well-timed response to the wildly successful MacBook Neo. It starts at $599 through September, but only for students and educators, and everyone else pays $699. By matching the Neo's price with a premium ultraportable, though, Dell's giving Windows buyers what they're asking for and gives other PC makers something else to worry about. — Read the rest

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Various business stiffs wheeled out lately to tell graduates to "deal" with AI were surprised to find themselves booed and jeered. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, private equity strategist Gloria Caulfield and music exec Scott Borchetta didn't get the memo. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: If you're simply looking to learn a new skill or boost your resume, Mondly has you covered at 73% off.

Translation apps are all well and good, but in this global world we live in, learning a new language is still the best way to get ahead. — Read the rest

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Let me be up front: I'm not a huge James Bond fan. I've seen Daniel Craig's good movies, Austin Powers, and essentially nothing else. When 007: First Light was first announced, I was hooked not by the IP attached, but the pedigree of the developer chosen to handle it. — Read the rest

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If, like me, you're sick of searching for literally anything on the internet only to be bombarded, against your will, by AI summaries, stick around, because I've got something you're going to love. I recently encountered a poem by writer Kelly Link that perfectly captures the rage I feel when unwanted AI is shoved down my throat. — Read the rest

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United flight UA236 was supposed to take passengers from Newark to Mallorca. Instead, it became a lesson in why teenage comedy and aviation security should never share a cabin.

It turns out that an eagle-eyed passenger had seen a Bluetooth device listed with the name 'BOMB' and alerted the flight attendants.

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This YouTube video shows how to sideload apps onto a Roku, which is useful if your streaming box has not been doing enough 1980s computer-game archaeology. Games lovingly ported to Roku include Prince of Persia and the ultra-classic Lode Runner.

The work for these games was done by Marcelo Cabral, and has been around a while. — Read the rest

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Arthur Cofield was already famous for running an $11 million fraud scheme from prison with contraband phones, gold coins, and a private security company. Now he has improved the story by not being in prison.

The United States Marshals Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and other law enforcement agencies are searching for 34-year-old Arthur Cofield.

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A man was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment after admitting he took shots at police in Milwaukie, Oregon, while fleeing a traffic stop. Loony Tune, 43, pleaded guilty to four counts of first-degree attempted assault and other crimes. Already a convited felon, the sentence was a plea deal arranged with Clackamas County District Attorney's Office. — Read the rest

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For 150 years, Jack Daniel's sold the tidy story of a white country preacher teaching a boy to make whiskey. The man actually running the still was Nearest Green, an enslaved master distiller whose work gave Tennessee whiskey its signature trick. — Read the rest

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Grandpa Pudding Brains is bragging that America has "a war going on" and the economy is booming, because apparently, the Dow hitting "number 69" is now how we measure national health.

This is the Grandpa Pudding Brains worldview: war is not a catastrophe, or a policy failure, or a thing that gets people killed. — Read the rest

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Diplomat Elementary's school yearbook has parents in Cape Coral, Florida, upset after it included a photo of a toddler extending their middle finger to the reader. The kid's mom (and school board member) Vanessa Chaviano apologized for the image im a statement provided to media. — Read the rest

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When online shopping was the wild west, you could buy delights such as male-to-male power cords, but they disappeared as retailers and platforms refined their policies. Big tech having outgrown state capacity to apply consequences, wildly dangerous junk is back on the menu. — Read the rest

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A mysterious boom heard across New England yesterday was a meteor entering the earth's atmosphere, say scientists. The rocky visitor came in off the coast of Massachussets and was large enough to create a loud shockwave as it disintegrated over Cape Cod Bay. — Read the rest

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A YouTuber stuffed a box of chicken McNuggets down his pants, smuggled them onto a roller coaster, then filmed himself eating them as the train climbed and dropped at up to 93 MPH. Six Flags banned Allen Ferrell for life after his video of the stunt went viral, reports Fox 8 News, noting that he had failed to comply with the park's policies against loose articles. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Get lifetime access to VibeFarm Lite for just $29.99 with code SAVE25 through June 14 and turn scattered prompts into reusable creative assets.

There's a very specific modern problem that nobody talks about enough: You finally write the perfect prompt. — Read the rest

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A United Airlines flight to Spain returned to Newark on Saturday and made an emergency landing there, with passengers reporting on Reddit that it turned back after cabin crew told everyone aboard to disable Bluetooth on their devices. Though the report is unverified, flight data confirms that Flight 236 declared a general emergency, reversed course and returned to the airport. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Get a near-mint Apple MacBook Pro 13″ (2020) with 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD for $394.97 through June 14 and upgrade to premium Apple hardware without paying premium-new pricing.

Nobody really buys a laptop because they love buying laptops. You buy one because your current one has started negotiating every task, and you're over it. — Read the rest

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I am not sure who failed harder, the AI used to create the image, or the social media manager who let it out into the wild:

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Grandpa Pudding Brains is mad that the "Third Rate Artists" are getting "the yips," so he may replace them with the only performer he truly respects: Grandpa Pudding Brains. Get ready for an extended double-fisting them dance while YMCA plays on repeat. — Read the rest

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Muxcard is a working, programmable computer built into the footprint and roughly the thickness of a credit card. Its developer, who goes by krauseler on GitHub, published the hardware and firmware specification as open source and has a working prototype in hand. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: InfoSec4TC's Platinum Membership includes lifetime access to 90+ cybersecurity courses covering ethical hacking, CISSP, GRC, Python security, certification prep, and career development, now $49.97 (reg. $280).

Human civilization has now connected nearly everything to the internet, including financial systems, hospitals, infrastructure, and, somehow, even the refrigerators in our homes. — Read the rest

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A wild $35m Friday night haul put Kane Parsons' Backrooms on track for a $75m weekend (including Thursday's $10m preview take)—far more than what was even hoped for on its $10m budget. The total will easily surpass studio A24's previous best, Civil War, which cost $50m and made $127m all told. — Read the rest

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Milan is repairing the worn-out testicles of a mosaic bull on the floor of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, reports Taimaz Szirniks for the AFP. The casualty of a good-luck ritual that draws thousands of tourists—placing one's right heel on the testicles and spitting three times—the bull was restored by Gianluca Galli, who used modern materials such as epoxy resin in hopes of a more durable finish. — Read the rest

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The Freedom 250 concert series, pitched as a "Great American State Fair" to take place on the National Mall over 16 days in July, looks like an enjoyable American birthday boozathon featuring a variety of contemporary and oldschool musical acts. When its Trump connections became clear, though, the scheduled acts started dropping off the roster. — Read the rest

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Paul Lagier built a tiny note-taking device with an e-ink display, a couple of buttons, and no significant functionality except recording what you say to it, organizing and playing it back, and sending you the text of it.

"Just press a button, speak, and the device saves everything directly onto the SD card," Lagier writes. — Read the rest

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