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In addition to today's blog post calling out the need for others to takeover the This Week In Plasma series, KDE developer Nate Graham also published another blog post to highlight the successes of the Plasma desktop over 2025. In particular, the KDE Plasma Wayland transition "nears completion" as i…
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NVIDIA's Olympus are the ARM64 cores found within the upcoming Vera CPU that will be paired with Rubin. Olympus cores are claimed to be twice as fast as NVIDIA's current CPU cores found in Grace and based on Neoverse-V2. Earlier this year the open-source compilers landed initial support for Olympus …
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TikTok’s parent company ByteDance Ltd. has revealed plans to jack up its already heavy spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure next year as it races to catch up with U.S. technology giants, according to a report in the Financial Times. Tuesday’s report, which cites two people familiar wit…
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Israeli President Isaac Herzog swiftly denied President Trump's claim on Monday that he had told the U.S. president he would pardon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Why it matters: Trump has intervened repeatedly in Israel's politics and judicial system by pressuring Herzog to pardon Netanyahu, wh…
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One video shows multiple Black women screaming and pounding on a door with the caption "store under attack." Another captures distraught Walmart employees of color being loaded into an ICE van. Why it matters: These AI-generated viral videos aren't just perpetuating racism — they're influencing pol…
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A photo of President Trump along with a batch of other files was initially removed from the Justice Department's newly released tranche of thousands of Jeffrey Epstein-related documents, images and recordings.The photo of the president has since been re-uploaded by the DOJ.The big picture: The vanis…
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Some leading vaccine manufacturers could be exposed to litigation they've been protected from for decades if the U.S. decides to adopt a new childhood vaccine schedule resembling Denmark's, as it appears likely to do in the new year.Why it matters: The threat of expensive lawsuits could ultimately d…
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Democrats eyeing 2028 presidential runs are losing weight, upgrading their wardrobes and changing their hairstyles — a time-honored tradition for White House hopefuls that has taken on new urgency in the TikTok era.Why it matters: The makeovers by former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Illi…
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he had a "very good" Christmas Day call with Trump advisers Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner on ending the Russia-Ukraine war, per a post to X Thursday that Kushner reposted.The big picture: Zelensky, President Trump's son-in-law Kushner and Witkoff discuss…
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Data: House Clerk; Chart: Axios VisualsHouse lawmakers barely edged out COVID-era voting days in 2025, despite being in the make-or-break year for President Trump's MAGA agenda.Why it matters: House Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-La.) lawmakers are frustrated and losing their cool, and aside from the "on…
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Vice President JD Vance plans to literally fly above MAGA's rising civil war — campaigning coast to coast in the midterms and sticking close to President Trump, while building support for an expected presidential run in 2028. Why it matters: Vance has to get ready for a national campaign. But he can…
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President Trump casually told a radio show last week that the U.S. "knocked out" a "big facility," seemingly in Venezuela, as part of the militarized pressure campaign against alleged narco-terrorists.The big picture: If the U.S. struck Venezuela as the president suggested, it would be a major escal…
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