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Let Tom Hiddleston be your guide to Pompeii’s final day

July 21, 2026 Blogmaster

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, it spewed molten rock, pumice, and hot ash over the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, killing thousands of people. It’s one of the…

Technology

Nintendo customers have no legal right to tariff refunds, company tells judge

July 21, 2026 Blogmaster

Nintendo urged a court to dismiss a lawsuit demanding that it pass tariff refunds on to customers, saying that people who bought a Switch console or other products have no…

Technology

TreeSize won’t renew perpetual-license support unless users subscribe

July 21, 2026 Blogmaster

The company behind the disk space analyzer TreeSize has irked some users by no longer offering support or updates for perpetual licenses beyond their maintenance period unless customers subscribe. Further…

Technology

Google announces Gemini 3.6 Flash and cybersecurity AI, teases 3.5 Pro and Gemini 4

July 21, 2026 Blogmaster

Google announced a significant evolution of its AI models at I/O in May with the release of Gemini 3.5 Flash, and it’s not slowing down. The company revealed three new…

Technology

Steam Deck sales are losing steam since May’s price hike

July 21, 2026 Blogmaster

Since its 2022 launch, the Steam Deck has consistently been at or near the top of the company’s “top selling products by revenue” charts, with brief dips outside of the…

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Florida Fires Expose Violations Of Over 100 Court Orders By ICE, DOJ

July 21, 2026 Blogmaster

The Trump administration continues to pretend migrants don’t have due process rights. It does this despite racking up nearly 10,000 rulings to the contrary — losing in roughly 90% of…

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Daily Deal: AdGuard Personal or Family Plan

July 21, 2026 Blogmaster

Welcome to the world of seamless browsing with AdGuard Personal or Family plans. This intuitive ad blocker offers an unparalleled web experience, powered by its three core features: an advanced…

Cybersecurity

Google Launches Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber AI to Find and Fix Software Vulnerabilities

July 21, 2026 Blogmaster

Google’s DeepMind on Tuesday announced the release of Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, a specialized artificial intelligence (AI) model built atop 3.5 Flash that’s designed to discover, validate, and patch vulnerabilities…

Cybersecurity

AWS Kiro Flaw Let a Poisoned Web Page Rewrite Its Config and Run Code

July 21, 2026 Blogmaster

Hidden text on a web page was enough to make Kiro, AWS’s agentic coding IDE, rewrite its own configuration file and run an attacker’s code on a developer’s machine, with…

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Tom Homan Again Promises That ICE Will Keep Murdering People Until Democrats Stop Calling Them Murderers

July 21, 2026 Blogmaster

Earlier this year “Border Czar” Tom Homan, with an apparently straight face, told the media that if Democrats didn’t stop calling ICE murderers for the murders they committed, then they…

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