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Microsoft's $30 Windows 10 Security Updates Cover 10 Devices

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Microsoft's $30 Extended Security Updates license for Windows 10 will cover up to 10 devices under a single Microsoft Account, the company confirmed in updated support documentation. The ESU program, which provides security updates through October 13, 2026, requires a Microsoft Account for all three enrollment options: the $30 one-time purchase, redemption of 1,000 Microsoft Reward points, or free enrollment for users who sync their PC settings to OneDrive. Windows 10's support ends October 14, 2025.

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Dean Cain becomes new face of plummeting ICE recruitment standards

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While you do not, under any circumstances, have to give it up for United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, we do feel moved to acknowledge a rare moment of self-awareness from the rapidly metastasizing government agency today. After all, we can’t think of a better way to impress upon the public that ICE has been drastically dropping its recruitment requirements lately than to let it be known that Dean “A lot of movies with ‘Angel’ in the title” Cain has signed up to serve amongst its various ski-masked teens.

Cain announced his incredible ability to still, after all this time, find a genuinely downward-trending career move on social media this week, in a video meant to lure in people with similar employment prospects to his own. (We kid Cain, of course; America will always need people willing to be second-billed to Kevin Sorbo in a film called Pickleball Pandemonium.) Noting his own law-enforcement bona fides—i.e., being sworn in as a reserve officer for a police force in Idaho so he could make web safety courses with Erik Estrada—Cain employs his full range of acting talents in the video, assuring viewers that ICE only goes after bad people, and in no way serves as a poorly trained, highly armed cadre of people heavily incentivized to do whatever the executive branch tells them to do in exchange for validation and table scraps.

Speaking of: Cain also talked up the fact that ICE is now—as reported by our colleagues over at Splinter—getting pretty bribe-y when it comes to trying to lure in recruits to fill out its flagging ranks, offering a $50,000 signing bonus, student loan forgiveness, and other benefits to folks willing to don the agency’s standard uniform of “Whatever will keep people from identifying us for doing this thing we have very willingly chosen to do.” And it’s never been easier to join, as Cain himself represents: Just today, the Department Of Homeland Security announced that it was removing all age restrictions on who could sign up, a huge boon to 59-year-old former Superman actors everywhere.



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Still trying to one-up Kevin Sorbo
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Constitution Sections on Due Process and Foreign Gifts Just Vanished from Congress' Website

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Constitution Sections on Due Process and Foreign Gifts Just Vanished from Congress' Website

Congress’ website for the U.S. Constitution was changed to delete the last two sections of Article I, which include provisions such as habeas corpus, forbidding the naming of titles of nobility, and forbidding foreign emoluments for U.S. officials.

The last full version of the webpage, archived by the Internet Archive on July 17, still included the now-deleted sections. Parts of Section 8 of Article I, as well as all of Sections 9 and 10 of Article I are now gone from the live site. The deletions, as of August 6, are also archived here. The change was spotted by users on Lemmy, an open-source aggregation platform and forum. 

This webpage, maintained by the U.S. government, hasn’t changed significantly in the entire time it’s been saved by the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine—since 2019. The page for the Constitution on the National Archives website remains unchanged, and shows the entire document.   



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The Best Shonen Manga Right Now Is About A Niche Performance Artist’s Fall From Grace

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Akane-banashi getting an anime isn't shocking because it's the best ongoing Shonen Jump manga

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An Illinois Bill Banning AI Therapy Has Been Signed Into Law

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An anonymous reader shares a report: In a landmark move, Illinois state lawmakers have passed a bill banning AI from acting as a standalone therapist and placing firm guardrails on how mental health professionals can use AI to support care. Governor JB Pritzker signed the bill into law on Aug. 1. The legislation, dubbed the Wellness and Oversight for Psychological Resources Act, was introduced by Rep. Bob Morgan and makes one thing clear: only licensed professionals can deliver therapeutic or psychotherapeutic services to another human being. [...] Under the new state law, mental health providers are barred from using AI to independently make therapeutic decisions, interact directly with clients, or create treatment plans -- unless a licensed professional has reviewed and approved it. The law also closes a loophole that allows unlicensed persons to advertise themselves as "therapists."

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Perplexity is Using Stealth, Undeclared Crawlers To Evade Website No-Crawl Directives, Cloudflare Says

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AI startup Perplexity is deploying undeclared web crawlers that masquerade as regular Chrome browsers to access content from websites that have explicitly blocked its official bots, according to a Cloudflare report published Monday. When Perplexity's declared crawlers encounter robots.txt restrictions or network blocks, the company switches to a generic Mozilla user agent that impersonates "Chrome/124.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" running on macOS, the web infrastructure firm reported. Cloudflare engineers tested the behavior by creating new domains with robots.txt files prohibiting all automated access. Despite the restrictions, Perplexity provided detailed information about the protected content when queried, while the stealth crawler generated 3-6 million daily requests across tens of thousands of domains. The undeclared crawler rotated through multiple IP addresses and network providers to evade detection.

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