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It Doesn’t Get Much Bleaker Than The US Army Offering Four Days Of GTA VI In Exchange For Several Years Of Additional Service

Four whole days in exchange for a chunk of your life, what a deal

Donald Trump’s blunt remarks offer South Korea an opportunity

US Army armoured vehicles gather to cross a river at a training field in Yeoncheon, South Korea, near the border with North Korea, on August 17. Photo: AP

Dr Gabriela Bernal is a North Korea analyst based in Seoul, South Korea.

South Korea’s security strategy has rested for more than seven decades on a single pillar: its alliance with the United States. That pillar has absorbed one blow after another during Donald Trump’s second term as US president. This week brought a fresh signal that has strained the relationship.

In a social media post, Trump criticised joint US-South Korea military

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CachyOS and AlmaLinux Beat out Windows 11 in Workstation Benchmarks

With the advent of the Steam Deck and the bump in Linux adoption that we've seen since then, a number of Linux distributions have appeared that make tweaks to the Linux kernel in the hopes of gaining performance. CachyOS is one such Linux distribution, and it appears that those kernel performance tweaks are paying off, according to some recent testing by Phoronix.

In a comparison between CachyOS, AlmaLinux 10.2, Ubuntu 26.04, Fedora Workstation 44, and Windows 11, CachyOS consistently
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Report: Smart wearables market set to generate more than $1 trillion through 2032

A new Counterpoint Research report predicts that consumer wearables will generate more than $1 trillion in cumulative revenue through 2032, with smartwatches and wireless earbuds leading the pack. Here is the breakdown.


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美國和加拿大周三(8月19日)表示,兩國已接近正式達成貿易協議。此前一天,美國總統特朗普將針對加拿大的新一輪懲罰性關稅推遲三天實施。

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