House Republicans scuttle MAGA budget vote after Mike Johnson fails to win over holdouts
House speaker comes up short ahead of vote to extend Trump tax cuts on the back of spending reductions
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EU’s desperate £17bn mega-plan to catch up with US and China
Brussels’ plan includes expanding Europe’s AI and supercomputing infrastructure with large scale AI gigafactories.
Downsides of electronic deadbolts?
I’m moving into a place with one of those keypad electronic deadbolts.
Just wondering what the downsides are. Should I replace it with an old-school deadbolt?
On paper, locks like this look really convenient but I’m wondering if there are weaknesses.
As an example, if something as simple as the battery dies, I’m locked out–unless I have a key, which perhaps I wouldn’t have it on me because I didn’t need one because of the keypad. There’s probably a low-battery warning, but I don’t know the brand of the lock to research further.
Are there any security issues?
For example, if someone sees the keypad code somehow (maybe with a video recorded with a telephoto lens), they could get in, whereas if it was just a dumb lock, they would have needed a physical key.
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With a push from Trump, House GOP will try to approve their tax breaks and spending cuts bill
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