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Thursday October 31, 2024. 08:31 PM
Microsoft originally intended to delay its controversial Recall feature until October. But on Halloween, Microsoft has confirmed that Recall will be postponed again to avoid becoming the privacy nightmare before Christmas. Microsoft told The Verge that Recall has been...
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No rush, guys Amazon's cloud-hosted email service for enterprises now offers multifactor authentication, which is great, except that the service launched nearly a decade ago. …
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Republican candidate for the Vice Presidency JD Vance, well known for saying stupid things, verbally stepped off a few new cliffs. Holy smokes. Vance claims women celebrate abortions. Even JOE ROGAN tried to back him down. This is callous beyond callous. — Read the rest The...
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Microsoft is once again delaying the roll out of its controversial Recall feature for Copilot Plus PCs. From a report: The software giant had planned to start testing Recall, which creates screenshots of mostly everything you see or do on a Copilot Plus PC, with Windows...
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he’ll make big changes in the US government if Donald Trump is elected. He may find them hard to pull off, no matter what position he’s appointed to.
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I was a huge fan of Patrick Radden-Keefe's Northern Irish history slash true crime book Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland. It's one of those non-fiction books I recommend to everyone I meet who shows even a passing curiosity in the history of ...
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OpenAI on Thursday launched a search feature within ChatGPT, its viral chatbot, that positions the high-powered AI startup to better compete with search engines like Google, Microsoft's Bing and Perplexity. From a report: ChatGPT search offers up-to-the-minute sports scores, ...
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The 'infinite monkey theorem' suggests that if you gave a monkey an infinite amount of time to randomly hit keys on a typewriter, it would eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare—Hamlet included—purely by chance. Unfortunately, it won't happen before the end ...
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In a Halloween update, ChatGPT has rolled out an improved search feature designed to deliver faster, more relevant information directly within its chat interface. This feature gives users the option to access timely information from the web -- such as sports scores, stock...
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Walking against a red light or at the middle of a block is not an advisable thing to do. But in 120 days, it will no longer be a crime to jaywalk in New York City. From The New York Times: '[A]fter decades of mostly turning the other way, city officials finally...
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Meet Zachary Peterson, who plays violin and, according to his social media, makes 'strange fiddles,' including acoustic and electric violins made out of Legos. Here's a video of Zachary demonstrating how he made a Lego electric violin, and here he is playing 'Barbie Girl' by...
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These days, you don’t need a full-blown desktop PC or laptop to get your work done — a mini PC will do just fine. Not just fine, but even better. If you don’t need the portability of a laptop or the boundary-pushing power of a top-tier gaming PC, a mini PC might be...
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Amazon, in what it described as a 'difficult decision,' is winding down Kindle Vella and shutting it down completely in February 2025. From a report: When the company launched the serialized story platform in 2021, it said Vella was a way for readers to discover new...
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Given the cost of EUV litho machines, the Netherlands' ASML might be the real winner here The Biden administration on Thursday announced plans to invest $825 million in US CHIPS and Science Act funding to establish a semiconductor research and development center in Albany,...
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When it rains, it pours. But when your name is Rudy Giuliani it's a category 5 shitstorm. Rudy is in more trouble than his mobster father ever was. Yesterday was one of the worst days he's had in a string of nightmarish ones: First, the disbarred Trump toady had to turn over ...
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The online musical equipment marketplace Reverb just listed a pretty remarkable find: the original EMI TG12345 recording console that was used by the Beatles at Abbey Road studios to record the album Abbey Road. The one-of-a-kind console was actually built specifically for...
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If there's something weird, who you gonna call? Maybe try UK nonprofit Electrical Safety First. On Halloween, the electricity industry charity warns that some of the weird phenomena often attributed to poltergeist activity could actually be 'something far more frightening.'...
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As Donald Trump dressed up as a garbage truck driver yesterday, pretending to relate to the working class, he lost $1.3 billion of his net worth in a single day. Which is what happens when your social media stock drops like a lead bin of trash. — Read the rest The post...
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While nothing can top the winning entry from 2022, Ulster County, New York, once again has an 'I voted' sticker that is the envy of other counties in the state. This year's winner, chosen by popular vote, is Tess Gallo, a thirteen-year-old middle school student who created a ...
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg laid down the newest marker in generative AI training on Wednesday, saying that the next major release of the company's Llama model is being trained on a cluster of GPUs that's 'bigger than anything' else that's been reported. From a report: Llama 4...
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