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Delete LinkedIn – you'll have zero fucking regrets (2021) (thenextweb.com)

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$400k worth of lobster stolen en route to Costco wholesale stores in US (sky.com)

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Mythbusting: Is a cold night at Stoke tough for players? (bbc.co.uk)

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What can you do with used wind turbine blades? (rte.ie)

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HoustonTracker2 – A Music Sequencer for the Texas TI-82 (irrlichtproject.de)

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The 'Race Against Time' to Save Music Legends' Decaying Tapes (nytimes.com)

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Judge wants $54M for lost pants (irishtimes.com)

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Office of the Ombudsman responding to cybersecurity incident (ombudsman.ie)

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Roomba maker iRobot files for bankruptcy, pursues manufacturer buyout (rte.ie)

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Drivers fined after speed camera issue across major A-roads and motorways (sky.com)

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Shadow Enigma (shadowenigma.com)

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Proton now has an end-to-end encrypted spreadsheet app (theverge.com)

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Ireland's first mobile phone call made 40 years ago (rte.ie)

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New digital wallet to restrict social media access in Ireland for under-16s (irishtimes.com)

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UK unveils new undersea warfare technology to counter threat from Russia (gov.uk)

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There's one big problem with Australia's social media ban (sky.com)

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Morse Blinking Xmas Tree with Arduino and Snap Circuits (brian-fitzgerald.net)

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Samsung's recent AI ad spam crushes creativity, and the irony is stunning (sammobile.com)

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The Dial-Up Volunteer Army (2021) (tedium.co)

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Hostile states may target Ireland during EU presidency (irishexaminer.com)

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Smartphones, Except Landlocked (2019) (tedium.co)

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Mamoru Oshii's Patlabor 2 Has Most Realistic Movie Portrayal of Aerial Combat (cartoonbrew.com)

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Mamoru Oshii's Patlabor 2 Has Most Realistic Movie Portrayal of Aerial Combat

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Faberge egg, set with 4,500 diamonds, sells in London for world record £22.9M (sky.com)

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How to detect text which has been written by ChatGPT (rte.ie)

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Staff at Irish Meta client firm told 400 jobs at risk just ahead of Christmas (thejournal.ie)

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Toy Story: the first digitally-animated feature film (bbc.co.uk)

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Yawning abyss of the decimal labyrinth (oh4.co)

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LinkedIn is loud, and corporate is hell (ramones.dev)

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Why have so many people stopped posting on social media? (rte.ie)

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Disallow code usage with a custom `clippy.toml` (schneems.com)

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Delete all contact images via AppleScript (tinyapps.org)

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Genetics testing startup offers to genetically optimise would-be parents babies (sky.com)

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What is the 'Aurora Berryalis' spotted over Dublin? (rte.ie)

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All you need to know about the evolution of the spice bag (rte.ie)

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Tokyo Overtaken as World's Biggest City (sky.com)

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The console wars have ended – is this a new era in gaming? (rte.ie)

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How to Deal with Difficult People at Work: 4 Secrets from Experts (bakadesuyo.com)

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New Inflight Portable Charger Ban Reaches Hawaii Route December 15 (beatofhawaii.com)

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Hello World on the PlayStation (generalreasoning.com)

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Victorious Scotland fans caused 'small' earthquake in Denmark win (sky.com)

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RNE announces switch-off of its medium wave broadcasts (worlddab.org)

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Proof by Induction (Ft. The Tower of Hanoi) (jdhwilkins.com)

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Mystery of where Led Zeppelin first rehearsed together solved after 56 years (ledzepnews.com)

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Why do women feel the cold more than men? (rte.ie)

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[flagged] Drone footage shows scale of revolting 60M-long mountain of waste next to river (sky.com)

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Caitriona Jennings smashes 100-mile world record (rte.ie)

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Scientists Have Trained Bumblebees to Understand a Form of Morse Code (sciencealert.com)

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Reverse Engineering Yaesu FT-70D Firmware Encryption (landaire.net)

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Qilin Ransomware Attack on Yaesu, Leading Japanese Manufacturer (dexpose.io)

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Who Eats French Fries with Mayonnaise? (savorysaga.info)

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A new AI model can forecast a person's risk of diseases across their life (economist.com)

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Winnebiko II (microship.com)

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Central Bank fines Coinbase Europe €21.5M for anti-money laundering breaches (rte.ie)

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Oldest woman to finish Ironman World Championship in Kona (bigislandnow.com)

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Collins' Word of the Year for 2025 revealed (rte.ie)

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Computing Across America (1983-1985) (microship.com)

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Your Gen Z colleagues have the right idea about work-life balance (rte.ie)

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Steps to turn off AI (againstdata.com)

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The cartographers who found the shape of Ireland (rte.ie)

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Scientists reverse Alzheimer's in mice with groundbreaking nanotech (sciencedaily.com)

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Erosion threatened properties in Hemsby at risk of collapse (greatyarmouthmercury.co.uk)

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Why do some people play their phones out loud on buses and trains? (rte.ie)

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Physicists capture trillion degree heat from the Big Bang's primordial plasma (sciencedaily.com)

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Escape from Petscii Castle (Commodore 64) (jimbo.itch.io)

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The Violators by Censor Design – C64 2025 [video] (youtube.com)

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Why Millennials and Gen Z Are Going Gray Early, According to Experts (newsweek.com)

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Why you shouldn't pour coffee down the drain (rte.ie)

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Four out of five drivers worried about dazzling headlights in the dark (sky.com)

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The sad story of Jeison, the man with the biggest feet in the world (elpais.com)

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Hugh Grant spotted in Somerset town buying a sausage roll (somersetlive.co.uk)

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The Rapture of Listening to a Fake Baseball Game (2022) (newyorker.com)

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Was Catch Me If You Can Based on a Complete Lie? (thesegoldwings.com)

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Car Runs Out of Honk (topgear.com)

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Driver avoids speeding fine by pretending to be self-driving car (topgear.com)

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Cubical Quad Antennas and Margaret's Letter (ei3lh.eu)

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A frank piece about influencers (avas.space)

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Parkinson's patient plays clarinet during brain surgery (sky.com)

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Daniel Naroditsky: Chess grandmaster dies unexpectedly aged 29 (sky.com)

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Virtual Enigma (virtualcolossus.co.uk)

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EGLL The Ghosts of Heathrow Past (atchistory.wordpress.com)

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Gaius Apuleius Diocles: History's Highest-Paid Athlete (alexandermeddings.com)

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Reverse engineering a 27MHz RC toy communication using RTL SDR (nitrojacob.wordpress.com)

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Hurricane Helene: One Year Later (qrper.com)

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Got a cold? Try sucking on a peppermint, say scientists (sky.com)

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The forgotten history of stone lifting in Ireland (rte.ie)

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Big Score: The business of TV and film soundtracks (rte.ie)

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As food delivery drones take off in Ireland, here are the most popular items (sky.com)

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Quintessentially American, drive-in cinemas are going dark (rte.ie)

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Satanic panic – how Dublin's Hellfire Club inspired a new video game (rte.ie)

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Does the road to hell begin in Cork? (rte.ie)

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Calls to regulate commercial drones at Dublin meeting (rte.ie)

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The dark meaning behind Nirvana's In Utero angel (rte.ie)

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Apple and Samsung phone users could get compensation (sky.com)

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How can airports fight back against drones? (rte.ie)

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Radio enthusiast at risk of losing lifelong hobby (bbc.co.uk)

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Japan faces Asahi beer shortage after cyber-attack (bbc.com)

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Hunter S. Thompson's death to be reviewed 20 years after ruled a suicide (thejournal.ie)

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World Creme Egg-Up-Bum Champion Eaten by Crocodile (2023) (pressreader.com)

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Cyber attacks: '80%' of ransomware victims pay up, insurer says (sky.com)