How we saved 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1’s DNS cache

Five Rust-level memory optimizations to the DNS cache layout of Big Pineapple cut per-entry memory by 56%, freeing approximately 100 TB of memory across Cloudflare's fleet.

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The ‘Rich Dad, Poor Dad’ Author Is $1.2 Billion in Debt

VF visits Robert Kiyosaki in Arizona to unravel the self-mythology of a longtime bestseller and friend of Trump.

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The Search for a Second Earth Begins: NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is Poised to Make History

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Telescope will search for another Earth around a Sunlike-star using a light-warping technique called microlensing.

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Flock Planned to Turn 350,000 Uber and Lyft Cars Into Rolling Surveillance Cameras

Flock Safety systems have been making news recently, as incidents of vandalism targeting their cameras get reported across various U.S. states where they are deployed. This time, though, Flock’s plan ...

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First ‘space elevator’ — a 66,000-mile cable to the cosmos— closer than ever before as scientists make breakthrough

“There’s no reason we can’t put a honeymoon hotel on one of those legs.”

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Fox’s Rachel Campos-Duffy Admits She May Have Been ‘Too Naive’ About Trump’s ‘Motivations’ in Venezuela

Campos-Duffy warned that only the implementation of free elections in Venezuela would prove what the administration’s purpose was freeing the people.

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Army Secretary Driscoll resigns after months-long turf war with Hegseth

Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is set to depart his role at the Pentagon in the coming days, leaving the Trump administration after being embroiled in a months-long turf war with Defense Secretary Pet…

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Opinion | ICE thought it would scare these churches. Instead it launched a revival.

G. Travis Norvell: Surveillance inside churches was another awful feature of Trump's Operation Metro Surge

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Texas Politicians Slowly Realize Elon Musk Hijacked Billions In Taxpayer Broadband Grants

Back in June I wrote a feature for The Verge about how Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos had convinced Republicans to redirect billions in taxpayer money away from future-proof fiber optic upgrades, and tow…

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Report projects Florida hospital districts could lose $323M under Amendment 3

A new report suggests Florida's public hospital districts could lose $323 million in tax revenue if Amendment 3 passes.

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Former Trump aide laughs as 'Epstein Bookmobile' heads for TX convention

Miles Taylor targets Trump's midterm "pep rally" with millions of printed files and an army of Epstein survivors.

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🟡 Semafor Washington, DC: Keep it in the family | Semafor

In today’s edition: Trump faces a dwindling inner circle, and the Iran conflict flares once again.

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Waging War in Secret

What we don’t know can hurt us

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Another Army leader abruptly resigns after clashing with Pete Hegseth

The Army now has zero Senate-confirmed leaders, civilian or military, after Secretary Dan Driscoll resigned following months of open warfare with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.Driscoll submitted his ...

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Bewilderment after Trump's 'out of touch' interview with Trey Gowdy: 'Pathetic stuff'

President Donald Trump's strange interview with Fox News host Trey Gowdy on Sunday night bewildered the president's critics. Trump appeared on "Sunday Night in America" with Gowdy, where the two men d...

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Yen down to pre-intervention level of 160 per dollar after Fed chair speech - The Mainichi

NEW YORK (Kyodo) -- The Japanese yen briefly fell below 160 per U.S. dollar on Friday in New York for the first time since Japan conducted coordinated

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Dolly’s America or Trump’s America?

One spent a lifetime building things people could take with them.

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In a rare moment of unity, Americans are fighting Big Tech together

From data centers to Flock cameras to artificial intelligence, Americans are pushing back against the ambitions of Big Tech.

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Democratic Rep Makes Logical Argument Against Impeaching Trump

The South Carolina lawmaker also explained what he believes should be the party’s top priority after the midterms.

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California lawmakers pass plug-in solar bill, aimed at reducing costs

California legislators approved a bill that could help reduce energy costs for residents by allowing them to install plug-in solar panels.

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Apple Races to Meet Surging Demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio as AI Adoption Accelerates

Apple announced new Mac mini and Mac Studio models on August 25, 2026, as Mac sales surged 29% year-over-year in the June quarter to $10.4 billion, outpacing iPhone growth of

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Bank of England chief warns new AI models threaten global financial stability

Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey has warned that frontier AI could materially increase cyber risks to the global financial system.

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Funds from Trump Texas fundraiser diverted away from cash-strapped Paxton campaign

President Donald Trump is not putting his money where his mouth is when it comes to getting scandal-plagued Ken Paxton elected to the US Senate.As part of a Wall Street Journal report on the Texas Att...

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$1 added to Texans’ car insurance policies paid for thousands of Flock cameras

KVII serves the Amarillo, Texas and Panhandle region with local news, sports and weather for the city and surrounding towns, including Canyon, Hereford, Borger, Pampa, Dalhart, Dumas, Childress, Perry...

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Trump's Voting Hypocrisy: Mail-in Voting for Me but Not Thee - Factkeepers.com

If Trump genuinely believes mail voting is fundamentally corrupt, then perhaps he should explain why he keeps participating in this supposedly corrupt system whenever it is convenient for him.

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Exploding the “Separated-at-Birth” Twin Study Myth

In twin studies, pairs were often not “separated at birth." They were raised nearby, often by family members, and interacted frequently.

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