Lee esta nota de prensa en español aquí. Media accreditation is open for the launch of three observatories that will study the Sun and enhance the ability to make accurate space weather forecasts, helping protect technology systems that affect life on Earth. NASA is targeting no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 23, for the launch of the […]

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'Legal inquiry' shuts down one of Final Fantasy 14's most popular mods, adding yet another blurry line in the sand from Square Enix

Sorry, sorry—I'm trying to stuff all these worms back into the can.

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Trump's Stargate is already turning into a tire fire.

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Happy 60th Birthday, Medicare & Medicaid!

Trump and his Republicans just gutted both and the ACA with Project 2025 and their "Big Beautiful Bill", and we are throwing them out in 2026 and 2028, so we can move toward universal health care.

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Splinter Cell: Deathwatch: New Trailer, Poster and Voice Cast Revealed

Netflix revealed the teaser trailer and more voice cast members for its upcoming animated series Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Deathwatch at Anime NYC on Thursday. Liev Schreiber voices Sam Fisher.

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i am reminded of the last time i removed the shifter linkage, there is a roll pin, aka the "bitch pin" locking the linkage to the tranny, notorious for getting stuck among honda enthusiasts.

it was a lot easier this time because i had my mini pin puller i had to make last time to wrap around the bar and press the pin out. glad that is out of the way.

getting close to dropping the tranny

Some tech stories

theregister.com/2025/08/21/app…
Apple security updates for an actively exploited zero day flaw. Not big - about 5-10 minutes to update; YMMV.

theregister.com/2025/08/21/goo…
Google offering AI packages to USG for $0.47 - valid through 2026. GSA approved rate.

theregister.com/2025/08/21/ai_…
Looking at the rate at which AI Bots & Fetchers will hammer a web site. Up to 39K requests per minute.

theregister.com/2025/08/21/aws…
AWS CEO wants to keep entry level workers; AI helps them work.

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Bungie CEO Pete Parsons Stepping Down, Replacement Named

Longtime Bungie CEO Pete Parsons has stepped down after 23 years and named Justin Truman as his successor.
The post Bungie CEO Pete Parsons Stepping Down, Replacement Named appeared first on Insider Gaming.

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Democracy’s Foundation: Why the Four Pillars Matter More Than Ever – Pillars of Democracy – Introduction – DrWeb's Domain

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Hey internet friends, I somehow landed myself a neat new gig heading up research at @vulncheck (there goes the neighborhood)!

We're doing a webcast next Tuesday, August 26 on 1H 2025 vulnerability and exploitation insights, including:

• 400+ CVEs were exploited for the first time and added to the VulnCheck KEV.
• 32% of VulnCheck KEVs had exploitation evidence on or before the day a CVE was disclosed.
• 180+ CVEs were newly attributed to known threat actors, but the vast majority of these had exploitation evidence (but no public attribution) before 2025.

If that sounds like we're threatening you with a good time, we are! Register here: wwv.vulncheck.com/1h-state-of-…

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The Dumbocrats make no mystery of their desire to use their hatred of POTUS 47 to usher in revolution.

The Left has always been dangerous and violent. If they can't get the Courts, backed by mend with guns, then they will resort to their own violence.

This, is the very idea of fascism which they claim is their enemy😂

It would be funny if it weren't so dangerous.

@renchap
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Coming soon on your Mastodon server… The long awaited quote posts, with user-control (you can chose if you want to be quoted on a per-post basis, change it later, and retract any quote of your post)

Amazing work by the team 🎉

Expect a blog post with all the details in a few weeks, support in the mobile apps, then we will enable the feature on mastodon.social, then release Mastodon 4.5

#mastodon #quotePosts


Can APT and dpkg be normally used on Arch? I just found out they're in the official repos now.


<> $ pacman -Si apt Repository : extra Name : apt Version : 3.1.4-1 Description : Command-line package manager used on Debian-based systems Architecture : x86_64 URL : https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/apt Licenses : BSD-3-Clause GPL-2.0-only GPL-2.0-or-later MIT Groups : None Provides : None Depends On : systemd-libs libseccomp perl xxhash dpkg gnutls bzip2 sequoia-sqv xz gcc-libs lz4 bash zlib zstd db libgcrypt glibc Optional Deps : None Conflicts With : None Replaces : None Download Size : 2.63 MiB Installed Size : 8.24 MiB Packager : Alexander Epaneshnikov <alex19ep@archlinux.org> Build Date : Mon 11 Aug 2025 08:52:43 PM CEST Validated By : SHA-256 Sum Signature

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Coming soon on your Mastodon server… The long awaited quote posts, with user-control (you can chose if you want to be quoted on a per-post basis, change it later, and retract any quote of your post)

Amazing work by the team 🎉

Expect a blog post with all the details in a few weeks, support in the mobile apps, then we will enable the feature on mastodon.social, then release Mastodon 4.5

#mastodon #quotePosts


Cartoons for today (1/2)

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Ben Garrison has "Adam Schiff Shifts Into Reverse" (Schiff as a car trying to avoid the graybar hotel)

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Chip Bok with Trump & Putin in AK; have to go to stoke the war more.

Two by Broc Smith

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"The Emperor Has No Clothes" (naked Newsom behind a CA flag)

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"Dodo Logic" (the Cracker Barrel redesign; Masino says she took off the cracker)

Another game where the British guy calls Japs savages and if you just don't get mad at that he's actually really nice despite that. I like how he says this in the context of what he said during the boss fight so we just accept that he previously fought me while we were burning down his embassy but now we're just kinda friends.

To be fair, the Brits believed at the time every other race were savages, and they were, of course, correct.

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if you read the journals of the first brit that made contact with the japs its actually really charitable
shipwrecked there and got niggered over by the japs and portuguese for years while westernizing jap shipbuilding until like a decade later he could write home
his letter basically said that the japs were the first civilized people in asia that he'd seen and that the crown should ally with them to own the continent. unfortunately commercial and political relations didn't allow for that as japan closed to foreigners soon after. but it's a nice thought
he died a samurai and you can still visit his memorial in japan

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Cyberpunk 2077: TAXPUNK

“In Night City, taxes are as inevitable as betrayal.”


Forget chrome-plated shootouts and corpo espionage—this expansion dives into the real horror of the 2070s: navigating the Night City Revenue Service (NCRS).


New Main Questline: “Audit or Die”
You’ve dodged bullets, hacked Arasaka mainframes, and tangled with cyberpsychos—but now comes the deadliest gig of all: filing your tax returns on time.

  • The Hook: After a high-profile gig goes sideways, V receives a notice: you owe 1,475,000 eddies in back taxes. Interest is compounding at 120% daily (Night City rates, baby).
  • The Twist: Turns out, refusing to pay taxes in Night City doesn’t get you arrested—it gets you flatlined. The NCRS contracts tax enforcement to budget cyber-assassins called Auditors.

New Gameplay Features

  • Holo-1040EZ Forms: Jack into the TaxNet and manually fill out cyber-forms riddled with corpo-coded jargon. One wrong keystroke and your deductions trigger an audit-bot swarm.
  • Skill Tree Expansion: “Financial Literacy”
    • QuickBooks Reload – Reduce penalty damage from missed filings.
    • Offshore Haven – Unlock secret Panamanian servers for laundering eddies.
    • Charitable Donation Exploit – Generate tax write-offs by donating to “nonexistent” charities run by Fixers.


  • Mini-games:
    • Receipts Tetris – Organize your crumpled meal and ammo receipts before they expire.
    • Corporate Shell Shuffle – Hide income by stacking shell companies like Russian dolls.



New Factions

  • The Deductibles: A gang of ex-accountants turned mercs who exploit tax loopholes as both weapon and shield.
  • The Turbo Auditors: Cybered-up revenuer hounds with chrome calculators built into their arms. Rumor says their leader, Form-69X “The Withholder”, can sniff out undeclared income from a mile away.
  • Militech Tax Division: Not officially a faction, but they’ve cornered the market on “premium tax assistance”—aka extorting small-time mercs for kickbacks.

Romance Option

  • Lydia “The Ledger” Kowalski – A jaded, chain-smoking tax preparer who helps you navigate the NCRS’s labyrinth. She can be romanced if you prove your ability to hide income from three megacorps simultaneously.

New Weapons

  • W-2 Widowmaker: A smartgun that automatically recalculates your opponent’s net worth and deducts it from their health pool.
  • The Red Pen: A mono-katana styled like a giant IRS auditor’s pen. Critical hit chance increases against corpo execs.
  • Refund Grenade: Blows up and showers enemies with counterfeit eddies—stunning them as they scramble to scoop up the cash.

Endings

  1. Pay in Full – You liquidate your chrome, your guns, even your apartment, and pay off the debt. V lives…but broke as a preem.
  2. The Loophole – By founding a “religion,” you exempt yourself from Night City taxes entirely. You become a prophet of the Cult of Write-Offs.
  3. Audit Armageddon – You refuse to play by the system. The NCRS deploys its final weapon: The Mega-Auditor, a 12-story robot shaped like a calculator. Boss fight ensues.

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