Month: September 2025
Him is a grueling and messy takedown of American football culture
There is a certain degree of body horror baked into American football that becomes readily apparent whenever players sustain gruesome, career-ending injuries on camera. For some, football’s overt violence is part of its appeal, and players are seen as people who have chosen to risk their safety in pursuit of…
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8 Best Alexa Speakers and Amazon Echo Devices We’ve Tested (2025)
We’ve rounded up our favorite speakers that let you talk to Alexa, from the best Echo devices to third-party options like the Sonos Era. Source
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This RPG series does everything wrong, and it’s working
In case it wasn’t clear, The Last of Us made it obvious: at their very best, big-budget video games should be comparable to prestige television, so much so that adapting one for HBO is a relatively straightforward affair. This bar-setting exercise is further exemplified by other PlayStation franchises marching toward…
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How Apple used ANC to build its best AirPods features
Once upon a time, noise-canceling headphones primarily existed for one purpose: air travel. Bose and Sennheiser were among the first on the scene commercially, blocking unwanted sounds for pilots long before wireless headphones were even a thing. Today, active noise cancellation (ANC) is not just commonplace, it's practically expected for…
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VPS servers hijacked into malware proxies – here’s how to stay safe
SystemBC botnet hijacks VPS servers, making up 80% of its active proxy nodes Infected VPS machines relay traffic for phishing, brute-force, and ransomware operations Bots generate high-volume traffic daily, often staying active for weeks despite blacklisting Cybercriminals are increasingly hijacking Virtual Private Servers (VPS) to build high-volume malware proxy networks,…
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Microsoft announces “world’s most powerful data center” in latest billion-dollar AI spending splurge
Microsoft declares its Wisconsin data center is 10x more powerful than today’s supercomputers The company will have invested more than $7 billion into the project Its first facility will open in early 2026, a second comes within three years Microsoft has lifted the wraps off what it’s calling “the world’s…
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