Highway 1 is the winter break drive every UWT road-trip fan should try
A San Francisco to San Diego road trip before winter break showed how calming, affordable and energizing Highway 1 can be and why
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The Tacoma Ledger
A Student News Magazine for UW Tacoma
Author: Huzaifa Afzal
GitHub Education and Jobscan give UWT students free tools for learning and job hunting
As autumn quarter ends, UWT students can use free GitHub Education tools to build real-world work in their own major
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GTA 6 delayed to November 2026, stretching a 13-year wait and anger over Rockstar layoffs
Rockstar Games has pushed back “Grand Theft Auto VI” to Nov. 19, 2026. It’s second delay as reports of a $1–2 billion budget
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Turkeys, Thunderstruck and the Upside Down: Thanksgiving, Black Friday and UWT’s Game Pass
From “Stranger Things” in “Fortnite” to Thunderstruck in EA FC 26 plus free Xbox Game Pass at the Y this
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The cloud’s bad week shows why “resilient by default” can’t wait
AWS’s Oct. 20 meltdown, Google Cloud’s June 12 outage and Azure’s Oct. 29 hiccup weren’t flukes; they’re the predictable costs of hyperscale centralization. If we keep
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From SNAP uncertainty to campus harvests: Where Tacoma can turn for food support
A prolonged federal shutdown threatens nutrition benefits and paychecks. Tacoma’s Hilltop Urban Gardens, UW Tacoma’s Giving Garden, The Pantry, and
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AWS outage ripples across campus life: UW Tacoma, Canvas, Snapchat and Fortnite all hit
A major Amazon Web Services incident on Oct. 20 knocked out popular apps and the Canvas learning platform used by
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Xbox Game Pass price hike ignites gamer backlash and tests Microsoft’s timing
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate jumps from $19.99 to $29.99 a month, sparking debate over whether the subscription still offers the
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“Battlefield 6” returns to form with intensity and innovation
“Battlefield 6” revives large-scale combat, new creative tools and smoother performance. While its campaign lacks depth, the multiplayer experience brings
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Building the future with AI Purple: UW students join forces with UW-IT to shape next-gen AI
Following The Ledger’s earlier coverage of UW’s AI initiatives, UW-IT’s lead AI architect Jared Reimer offers an inside look at
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