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'Mutual destruction': Analyst claims Trump now realizes dumping Musk would doom himself

President-elect Donald Trump and his billionaire sidekick Elon Musk have locked themselves into a partnership that would be almost impossible to break without mutual destruction, a CNN columnist wrote...

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Happy New Year from sir, with love

Columnist Sabrina Haake imagines the future in this satire piece.

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'Can't believe that': Pollster winces at latest Trump voter data

A pollster this week winced at his own survey's results when it comes to the policies supporters of President-elect Donald Trump support when it comes to dealing with undocumented immigrants.

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The devastating truth about the GOP's war on education

“Those who control the present, control the past; and those who

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'It is tremendous': Kremlin insiders explain how Trump is already helping advance Putin’s goals

During the 2024 presidential race, many supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris — from lifelong Democrats to right-wing Never Trump conservatives — argued that Ukraine would be much better off if s...

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'Surreal': Why Trump DOD pick Pete Hegseth worries some women veterans

For veteran Jennifer Hunt, the recent rehashing of women’s ability to serve in combat has been a distraction from the profound issues the Department of Defense has to deal with.

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ZLUDA v4 Released For Initial CUDA Support On Non-NVIDIA GPUs

One of the unexpected twists this year was after several years of AMD quietly funding the ZLUDA developer for enabling unmodified CUDA applications to run on AMD GPUs at near-native performance, the ZLUDA atop AMD HIP code was made available and open-source following the end of the AMD contract. But then later on that ZLUDA code was taken down at the request of AMD. Back in October ZLU…
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Samsung Galaxy S20 & S9 With Exynos 9810 Support Coming To Linux 6.14

The Samsung ARM device updates are in the process of being queued up to the SoC tree ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.14 merge window in January...
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Almost all of Puerto Rico plunged into darkness on New Year’s Eve

Power outages affected close to 90 percent of customers in the US territory today, the Associated Press reports. Local energy company Luma says it’s investigating the cause and suspects a damaged underground power line. Getting the lights back on could take 24 to 48 hours. Blackouts have been a persistent problem for Puerto Rico’s struggling electricity grid since Hurricane Maria.

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