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At least 10 Jewish homes and businesses around Paris and a synagogue in the northern French city of Rouen have been defaced, according to police, with antisemitism being considered as a motive.

The acts of vandalism came as France marked 10 years since the Paris terrorist attacks that shook the country. Twelve people were killed at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and five people were killed in the subsequent antisemitic attacks on a kosher supermarket in January 2015.

Buildings in the Parisian suburbs of Vincennes, Saint-Mandé and Fontenay-sous-Bois, many located near the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket where the attacks took place a decade ago, were affected on Sunday and Monday, police said. A rabbi’s home and a synagogue in Rouen were also targeted with antisemitic messages and swastikas scrawled on the buildings.

Data shows election didn’t spike X users or end ad boycott.

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Google and Microsoft have each donated $1 million to Donald Trump's 2025 inauguration fund, joining other major companies like Amazon, Meta, OpenAI, Toyota, and Uber.

The fund has raised a record $170 million, far surpassing prior inauguration funds for Biden and Obama.

Despite Trump’s history of criticizing tech firms for bias, the donations are seen as efforts to improve relations with his administration.

Meta also announced plans to reduce platform censorship. The tech sector appears to be aligning with Trump’s second term for strategic reasons.

Now that we know AI bots will ignore robots.txt and churn residential IP addresses to scrape websites, does anyone know of a method to block them that doesn't entail handing over your website to Cloudflare?

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I recently impulse purchased a refurbished 1TB Steam Deck directly from Valve, and I wanted to share my experience since I initially had a lot of questions that I couldn’t find any real clear answers for online. Spoiler: It’s essentially like buying a brand-new one but at a fraction of the cost.

Valve does a fantastic job with their refurbishment process. Here’s what you get:

• The Steam Deck itself (of course). My unit is flawless – no scratches, dents, or signs of previous use.
• The official carrying case – the same as the new model, which for the 1TB also includes the special carrying case with the liner.
• The power brick + cable and even the extra microfiber cloth.
• The full Valve warranty, so you’re covered just like you would be with a brand-new unit.

Performance-wise, it’s everything you’d expect from a Steam Deck with no compromises. Even the power brick on my unit is flawless.

If you’re on the fence about going refurbished, I’d say go for it. The savings are significant (my cost was going to be $697 new after tax and i ended up paying $560), and you’re not sacrificing anything in terms of quality or functionality. Valve’s refurbishment process ensures it feels and works like new. I had a lot of initial questions about whether it was the real “1TB OLED experience” and i can report it absolutely is.

Would highly recommend it to anyone looking for a Steam Deck without breaking the bank!

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/Crypto-Wolf-Life on 2025-01-09 22:19:32+00:00.

All of these windows handhelds are just giving me a headache. Every review I see there’s some sort of downfall for these handhelds. I’m thankful I put my money down on a SD that’s backed up by this community.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLro9wdHq44