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- Trump admin fires more health employees amid government shutdownby Beth Mole on October 10, 2025 at 9:48 pm
HHS would not say how many are being let go, but union says “thousands.”
- Putin OKs plan to turn Russian spacecraft into flying billboardsby Stephen Clark on October 10, 2025 at 9:10 pm
This Soyuz mission is brought to you by the Wagner Group.
- People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with adsby Scharon Harding on October 10, 2025 at 8:58 pm
“I’m about to just toss the whole thing…”
- Marvel gets meta with Wonder Man teaserby Jennifer Ouellette on October 10, 2025 at 7:48 pm
“There is an opportunity to shock audiences, to re-imagine a whole genre of storytelling.”
- “Extremely angry” Trump threatens “massive” tariff on all Chinese exportsby Ashley Belanger on October 10, 2025 at 7:12 pm
Trump claimed China’s export controls on rare earths came “out of nowhere.”
- Bose SoundTouch home theater systems regress into dumb speakers Feb. 18by Scharon Harding on October 10, 2025 at 6:44 pm
Ending support for SoundTouch may help Bose avoid a Sonos situation.
- Microsoft warns of new “Payroll Pirate” scam stealing employees’ direct depositsby Dan Goodin on October 10, 2025 at 6:07 pm
Among other things, the scammers bypass multi-factor authentication.
- Termite farmers fine-tune their weed controlby Jacek Krywko on October 10, 2025 at 5:45 pm
The termites know how much of their agricultural area has been taken over by weeds.
- UK regulators plan to force Google changes under new competition lawby Ryan Whitwam on October 10, 2025 at 4:58 pm
The CMA will focus on regulating search and search advertising, but not Gemini (for now).
- AMD and Sony’s PS6 chipset aims to rethink the current graphics pipelineby Kyle Orland on October 10, 2025 at 4:45 pm
Project Amethyst focuses on efficient machine learning, new compression techniques.