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Chinese embassy in Washington, DC, condemns designation, calling it ‘discriminatory’., Chinese embassy in Washington, DC, condemns designation, calling it ‘discriminatory’. The United States has designated Chinese corporate giants Alibaba, BYD and Baidu as companies that support China’s military, expanding its blacklist to some of the country’s best-known commercial brands. TheContinue Reading

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Bad Men Behaving Badly Chap. 746: ‘Cause it’s not awful enough we have to endure the racist crap spewing from our home-grown jackasses, the rest of the world bore grim witness to it as dunk-tank Christofascist Pete Hegseth chose a D-Day remembrance to flip the script on World War 2,Continue Reading

Microsoft and Nvidia are betting on AI to make old x86 Windows apps run better on next-gen RTX Spark PCs

Microsoft and Nvidia are currently making a calculated bet that AI can handle much of the heavy lifting in running older, unoptimized apps on the latest Windows on Arm and x86 hardware, including Nvidia’s powerful new RTX Spark chips and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X processors. At Computex on June 1, 2026, Nvidia announced that its Arm-basedContinue Reading

World Cup referee from Somalia barred from entering US – Politico

World Cup referee from Somalia barred from entering US  PoliticoSomali referee for World Cup denied entry into United States  ESPNSomali referee denied entry to US for 2src26 World Cup over ‘vetting concerns’  CNNWorld Cup 2src26: Somali referee Omar Artan to miss tournament after being barred from entering US  BBCU.S…Continue Reading

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A UN spokesman says forced evacuation orders issued across southern and eastern Lebanon are nearly impossible to follow, NewsFeed A UN spokesman says forced evacuation orders issued across southern and eastern Lebanon are nearly impossible to follow safely, and calls into question whether Israel is complying with international humanitarian law.Continue Reading