This flu season looks grim as H3N2 emerges with mutations UK facing one of worst flu seasons in history—and the US is next.

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This flu season looks grim as H3N2 emerges with mutations

The UK is facing one of the worst flu seasons in history—and the US is next.

Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be. Tariffs, component volatility, and Valve's tolerance for losses all lead to uncertainty.

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Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be.

Tariffs, component volatility, and Valve's tolerance for losses all lead to uncertainty.

Google will let Android power users bypass upcoming sideloading restrictions Google will preserve sideloading for power users, but it hasn't decided how that will work yet.

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Google will let Android power users bypass upcoming sideloading restrictions

Google will preserve sideloading for power users, but it hasn't decided how that will work yet.

Valve says it’s still waiting for better chips to power Steam Deck 2 Even a 50 percent performance-per-watt improvement wouldn't be enough, engineer says.

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Valve says it’s still waiting for better chips to power Steam Deck 2

Even a 50 percent performance-per-watt improvement wouldn't be enough, engineer says.

Reddit mod jailed for sharing movie sex scenes in rare “moral rights” verdict Redditor confessed to violating actresses' "moral rights" in landmark ruling.

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Reddit mod jailed for sharing movie sex scenes in rare “moral rights” verdict

Redditor confessed to violating actresses' "moral rights" in landmark ruling.

US states could lose $21 billion of broadband grants after Trump overhaul Ernst bill would send broadband grant money to Treasury for deficit reduction.

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US states could lose $21 billion of broadband grants after Trump overhaul

Ernst bill would send broadband grant money to Treasury for deficit reduction.

Lawyers keep giving weak-sauce excuses for fake AI citations in court docs I got hacked; I lost my login; it was a rough draft; toggling windows is hard.

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You won’t believe the excuses lawyers have after getting busted for using AI

I got hacked; I lost my login; it was a rough draft; toggling windows is hard.

Being too nice online is a dead giveaway for AI bots, study suggests New "computational Turing test" reportedly catches AI pretending to be human with 80% accuracy.

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Researchers surprised that with AI, toxicity is harder to fake than intelligence

New "computational Turing test" reportedly catches AI pretending to be human with 80% accuracy.

Commercial spyware “Landfall” ran rampant on Samsung phones for almost a year Targeted attack could steal all of a phone's data and activate camera or mic.

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Commercial spyware “Landfall” ran rampant on Samsung phones for almost a year

Targeted attack could steal all of a phone's data and activate camera or mic.

FAA says commercial rockets must launch at night, citing government shutdown "The FAA is concerned with the system's ability to maintain the current volume of operations."

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The government shutdown is starting to have cosmic consequences

The FAA is concerned with the system's ability to maintain the current volume of operations."