How Meta’s MAGA heel turn is a play for global power
Image: Mark Harris for The Verge Law professor Kate Klonick explains what Big Tech’s Trump appeasement is really about. Read the full story at The Verge.
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27 dead horses found in California, leading to woman’s arrest
A California woman is facing charges after 27 dead horses were found across multiple properties outside of Sacramento, police say. The discoveries were made in Clements as law enforcement carried out search warrants linked to an “ongoing animal neglect investigation,” the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office announced late Wednesday. “During the operation, several malnourished horses…
LA Hughes Fire only 14% contained after burning 10K acres
The Hughes Fire in Los Angeles has now burned over 10,000 acres and remains just 14% contained, fire authorities in the city announced Thursday. The Hughes Fire, which was first reported on Wednesday morning, was first located in the unincorporated community of Castaic in northwestern Los Angeles County. It quickly spread thanks to aggressive winds…
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 review: a new king of 4K is here
The next-gen GPU battle begins with Nvidia alone at the top. Read the full story at The Verge.
I fit the world’s most powerful graphics card in my aging miniature SFF PC
The Nvidia RTX 5090 Founder’s Edition in an Ncase M1. The Nvidia RTX 5090 FE barely fit my 12.7-liter small form factor case, but using it was a dream. In 2022, I wrote that GPUs were headed in the wrong direction — their price, size, and power consumption were off the charts. And while I…
Pokemon TCG Pocket’s next expansion launches on January 30th
The Pokémon Company The latest batch of new Pokémon TCG Pocket cards finally has a concrete release date, but it seems like you won’t be able to trade them right off the bat. The Pokémon Company announced today that Space-Time Smackdown, Pokémon TCG Pocket’s latest expansion, is set to debut at the end of the…
VA Dems reject Youngkin’s antisemitism expert pick from George Mason Univ board amid troubling incidents
As George Mason University grapples with the latest incident of antisemitism linked to its Fairfax, Virginia, campus, Democrats in the Virginia State Senate rejected Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s nomination of one of the nation’s preeminent antisemitism scholars to its Board of Visitors. Kenneth Marcus, the Brandeis Center’s founder and a former undersecretary in the Education Department’s…
Putin reportedly concerned over Russia’s economy ahead of possible Trump tariffs
Russian President Vladimir Putin is reportedly worried about the state of his country’s economy as President Donald Trump returns to the Oval Office. According to a Reuters report citing five sources, Trump’s push to end the war in Ukraine is only adding to Putin’s concerns. Throughout his campaign, Trump pushed to end world conflicts, including…
Star Trek: Section 31 is firing on all cylinders
Image: Paramount Plus Paramount Plus’ new Star Trek film is the sound of scene chewing in space, which is to say, it’s pretty damn fun. As the very first nontheatrical Star Trek feature (one that’s debuting almost a decade after Star Trek Beyond), Star Trek: Section 31 seems like the sort of project that could…
The Cadillac Lyriq-V is quicker than the CT5-V Blackwing
Image: Cadillac After months of teases, Cadillac officially announced the Lyriq-V as a 615-horsepower, high-performance electric SUV that will go on record as the “quickest” vehicle ever produced by the luxury automaker. With that much horsepower, and 650 pound-feet of torque, Cadillac says the Lyriq-V is able to leap from zero to 60mph in just…