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The secret Python switch: How one flag makes your scripts run faster

Python -O won’t magically make every script faster, but in the right workloads it’s a free win—here’s how to test it safely.
Wall Street Journal

The Deflation Doom Loop Trapping China’s Economy

SHANGHAI—Hundreds of vendors at Shanghai’s largest clothing market were very busy. But they weren’t making sales. They were processing returns. At Qipu Road Wholesale Clothing Market, wholesalers send ...
Hackaday

How To Use Tiny Open Loop Actuators For A Living Mirror

How do you go about making a mirror with 128 segments, each of which can be independently angled? That was the question that a certain bloke over at [Time Sink Studio] found himself pondering on, to ...
TweakTown

Files Is the Perfect File Explorer Alternative Every Windows User Should Try

Although Microsoft has improved File Explorer over the years, it still doesn't meet modern expectations. You can't open folders side by side, add tags to folders, pin ...
CNN

DOJ says it has released less than 1% of its Epstein files and is still reviewing more than 2 million documents

The Justice Department on Monday said it has released 12,285 documents – less than 1% – of its Jeffrey Epstein-related files, with more than 2 million documents still being reviewed. Attorney General ...
The New York Times

Redacted Material in Some Epstein Files Is Easily Recovered

The ease of recovering information that was not properly redacted digitally suggests that at least some of the documents released by the Justice Department were hastily censored. By Santul Nerkar ...
The Atlantic

So This Is Why Trump Didn’t Want to Release the Epstein Files

Nearly two years ago, Donald Trump kicked off the presidential-campaign season with a declaration: “I was never on Epstein’s Plane, or at his ‘stupid’ Island,” he posted on Truth Social in January ...
Vanity Fair

Here’s Who’s In the Epstein Files

On Friday, after years of demands, punchlines, and politicking, the Department of Justice released the massive trove of heavily redacted documents and photos that comprise the Epstein files. A ...
PC World

Microsoft clarifies Windows 11 AI agents need permission to read your files

Microsoft updated its Windows 11 support documentation to clarify that AI agents now require explicit user permission to access six key folders: Documents, Downloads ...
TechSpot

Windows 11's updated File Explorer remains painfully slow despite using twice as much RAM

Facepalm: Users have long criticized Windows 11 File Explorer as inferior to its Windows 10 predecessor. The essential tool suffers from slow launches, sluggish file searches, and delayed right-click ...
CNN

Reading the fine print on the Epstein files legislation

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. The Epstein files bill is now a law after a roller-coaster ride that ended with an ...