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Kim Guillois and her family made some financial sacrifices to move nearer to her parents.
  • Kim Guillois loved living in Texas but decided to move closer to her family in Massachusetts.
  • She swallowed a 20% pay cut and bought a house in a suburb with a much higher cost of living.
  • The 35-year-old said emotional support from relatives and help with childcare made it worthwhile.

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Jessica Gunning as Martha Scott in "Baby Reindeer."
  • A judge has allowed a defamation lawsuit against Netflix's 'Baby Reindeer' to move forward.
  • Fiona Harvey, who claims "Martha" is based on her, is suing for defamation.
  • A judge says Netflix used untrue details, and should have known viewers would identify Harvey.

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams was indicted on five counts. He has denied wrongdoing.
  • In a court filing Monday, Eric Adams argues his bribery charge should be dismissed.
  • The NYC mayor says it was legal for him to accept lavish travel accommodations from Turkey.
  • These trips were gifts, not bribes, he argues.

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After arriving two weeks late, AMD's Ryzen 9000-series desktop processors disappointed some buyers and reviewers due to lackluster performance. Now, the company has addressed those issues with several new updates. 

The biggest speed brake for Ryzen 9000 desktop CPUs was the lack of Windows 11 branch prediction optimizations. For relief, you needed to either wait for Windows 11 24H2 (currently in



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AMD is releasing new BIOS updates that will boost performance for its Ryzen 9600X / 9700X processors and address some latency issues. The performance improvements and latency reductions arrive around a month after disappointing Zen 5 desktop CPU reviews and appear alongside updates to Windows 11 that include optimized AMD-specific branch prediction for both Zen 4



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US President Joe Biden will send Taiwan $567 million in military aid. It's the largest aid package ever sent to Taiwan.
  • President Joe Biden on Sunday approved $567 million in defense aid for Taiwan.
  • It is the largest aid package that US has ever sent to Taiwan.
  • China responded, stating the move violates the one-China principle.

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Autumn is here, and once again, warnings are going up about the spread of the covid-19 virus — along with the flu and RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus. To try to minimize the upsurge, the US government is once again offering free home rapid antigen tests to each US household. According to the government website, orders will start shipping



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If successful, the merger would create a combined satellite streaming business with around 20 million US subscribers. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

DirecTV has reached an agreement to acquire Dish TV, Sling TV, and the rest of Dish parent company EchoStar’s wider TV business, a move that would combine Dish’s roughly 8.1 million subscribers with DirecTV’s 11



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Destroyed ammunition storage buildings at Oktyabrsky, in Russia, on September 22, 2024.
  • Ukraine struck three ammunition depots deep inside Russia this month, causing significant damage.
  • According to UK intel, the strikes caused the largest loss of Russian and North Korean ammo in the war.
  • The UK Ministry of Defence said Russia has struggled to stop strikes