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Why this World Press Photo 2025 photo story hit me harder than ever

Among this year’s 2025 World Press Photo winners is Carlos Barrera, a documentary photographer and photojournalist. His photo story, titled ‘Life and Death a Country without Constitutional Rights’, won the North America and Central America Long-Term Projects category, and hits particularly hard as a Salvadoran and journalist. El Salvador has long been synonymous with violence. The…
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DefenseNews

China debuts new warship, boosts South Pacific presence

China has debuted yet another new warship built to launch amphibious landings in military exercises held this month. China’s naval branch, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy, announced it launched its fourth Type 075 Amphibious Assault Ship, CNS Hubei, during…
DefenseNews

Vulcan Elements wins Pentagon deals as $65M round fuels expansion

Vulcan Elements, a 2-year-old startup manufacturing rare earth magnets in North Carolina, has quietly landed more than $10 million in Defense Department contracts across every branch of the U.S. military. The deals underscore how urgent the Pentagon’s need has become to build a domestic supply chain for one of the most critical components in modern technology. China currently produces 94% of the…
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DefenseNews

US Coast Guard offloads record amount of narcotics

The U.S. Coast Guard offloaded 76,140 pounds of illicit narcotics on Monday, the largest single illegal drug dump in Coast Guard history. The illegal narcotics surrendered by the Coast Guard cutter Hamilton in Port Everglades are valued at $473 million, according to a…
ComputersNews

A free VPN allegedly takes screenshots of Chrome users

“If the product is free, you are the product.” You can apply that thinking to pretty much anything supported by advertising or data collection, including tools like Chrome and Gmail. (And you’re not paying to read these words, are you? Food for thought.) But one VPN tool, claiming to increase user privacy and security, might be snooping on the people it’s claiming to protect. That’s…
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GamingNews

Shinobi: Art of Vengeance Review

2025 is turning out to be a stellar year for fans of 2D ninja platformers. The 16-bit blood sprites have barely dried on Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound’s katana, and now Sega’s iconic Shinobi series has emerged from a 14-year stay in the shadows to fling a fistful of kunai…
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Dungeons & Dragons and a Grounded Setting Are Why Dragon Age: Origins' Mage Ended Up Overpowered, Ex-BioWare Developer Says

Fans have always felt that Dragon Age: Origins’ mage class was more complete, perhaps even more dominant, than the game’s other two classes, the rogue and the warrior. But why was that? Former BioWare executive producer Mark Darrah has said it’s mostly about second edition Dungeons & Dragons. In a recently published video, Darrah explained why the mage in BioWare’s much-loved 2009…
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