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Schools are closed and public transport has stopped as rare cyclone approaches Australian coast – The Associated Press

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Early wind and rain from a rare tropical cyclone began lashing part of eastern Australia on Thursday as schools were closed, public transport was stopped and desperate residents got around shortages of sandbags by buying potting mix. Tropical Cyclone Alfred is forecast to cross the Queensland state coast somewhere between the

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Trump deepens NATO’s crisis of trust on sharing intel – POLITICO Europe

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A demo for a lost videogame based on George Orwell’s 1984 has emerged from the memory hole

Big Brother (1999 MediaX) Game-play showcase. – YouTube Watch On In 1996, a US studio called MediaX began working on a videogame inspired by George Orwell’s 1984. It was called Big Brother, and you played a member of the resistance called Eric Blair (which was Orwell’s real name), breaking into and sabotaging government installations across

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Here’s a Map of the For-Sale Government Properties the GSA Pulled From Its Website

On Tuesday, the General Services Administration (GSA) published a list of more than 400 federal buildings and properties to be sold, including the FBI headquarters, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Department of Justice, and other key federal facilities. Hours later, 123 buildings, including high-profile sites like the J. Edgar Hoover Building and

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DOGE’s $1 Federal Spending Limit Is Straight Out of the Twitter Playbook

If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIRED WIRED’s director of business and industry, Zoë Schiffer, and Katie Drummond, global editorial director, talk about credit card freezes and AI technology at DOGE, and how each is

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UK quietly scrubs encryption advice from government websites

The U.K. government appears to have quietly scrubbed encryption advice from government web pages, just weeks after demanding backdoor access to encrypted data stored on Apple’s cloud storage service, iCloud.  The change was spotted by security expert Alec Muffet, who wrote in a blog post on Wednesday that the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)

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A quarter of startups in YC’s current cohort have codebases that are almost entirely AI-generated

With the release of new AI models that are better at coding, developers are increasingly using AI to generate code. One of the newest examples is the current batch of Y Combinator, the storied Silicon Valley startup accelerator. A quarter of the W25 startup batch have 95% of their codebases generated by AI, YC managing

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Ukraine updates: EU leaders to meet at emergency summit – DW (English)

Published March 6, 2025 last updated March 6, 2025 EU leaders and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy were to meet to discuss boosting European countries’ defense spending. Meanwhile, France’s Emmanuel Macron showed openness to sharing Paris’ nuclear deterrent. https://p.dw.com/p/4rQzq EU leaders are expected to reiterate support for Ukraine, after Trump suspended military aid to the countryImage: