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Thursday October 31, 2024. 01:25 AM
Paid door-knockers for Elon Musk's Get Out The Vote effort, America PAC, complain of mistreatment, threats, and impossible goals. An article by Wired details the many abuses suffered by people who've accepted Elon's kind offer to pay them to campaign for Donald Trump. —...
For months, the Colorado Department of State inadvertently exposed partial passwords for voting machines in a public spreadsheet. 'While the incident is embarrassing and already fueling accusations from the state's Republican party, the department said in a statement that it ...
The race for better generative AI is also a race for more computing power. On that score, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Meta appears to be winning.
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The standard trope when talking about timezones is to rattle off falsehoods programmers believe about them. These lists are only somewhat enlightening – it’s really hard to figure out what truth is just from the contours of falsehood. So here’s an alternative approach. ...
Ars Technica's Samuel Axon reports on Microsoft's quarterly earnings: Some investors have been uneasy about the company's aggressive spending on AI, while others have demanded it. During this quarter, Microsoft reported that it spent $20 billion on capital expenditures,...
And what do you know, Google's former CEO just so happens to have a commercial solution Former Google chief Eric Schmidt thinks the US Army should expunge 'useless' tanks and replace them with AI-powered drones instead.…
Flutter, the Google-led development environment for building multi-device UIs from a single codebase, has been forked. The intention behind the fork is to expand Flutter’s available labor and accelerate development, said developer Matt Carroll. In an October 27 Flutter...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Br OS is a Brazilian Linux distribution based on Ubuntu and featuring the KDE Plasma desktop. The project's latest release, Br OS 24.10, ships with the Plasma 6 desktop environment and enabled Wayland by...
Wednesday October 30, 2024. 11:40 PM
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gaming On Linux: Valve announced a change for Steam today that will make things a lot clearer for everyone, as developers will now need to clearly list the kernel-level anti-cheat used on Steam store pages. In the Steamworks Developer ...
'People collect spiders a bit like people collect Pokemon – they want to 'catch 'em all',' says University of Hong Kong biologist Alice Hughes. She's referring to the booming global trade in tarantulas, much of which is entirely illegal. Through online forums, collectors...
Comcast says the latest installment of Call of Duty, released on October 25th, resulted in a whopping 19 percent of its overall traffic last week. The ISP says it's the company's 'biggest weak in internet history.' The Verge reports: It's not really possible to quantify that ...
Jay Olson is a stage magician and psychology researcher at University of Toronto. Given his unique background, he was recently called in to help design a scientific study in which the participants would be convinced they had taken a psychedelic compound when really they were ...
America PAC door knockers were flown to Michigan, driven in the back of a U-Haul, and told they’d have to pay hotel bills unless they met unrealistic quotas. One was surprised they were working to elect Donald Trump.
Plus a free micropatch until Redmond fixes the flaw There's a Windows Themes spoofing zero-day bug on the loose that allows attackers to steal people's NTLM credentials.…
Proton VPN has rolled out its Apple TV app, responding to what it claims has been a high demand from its user community. The app, available to those with a paid Proton VPN subscription, allows users to access streaming content while using Proton VPN’s privacy features on...
The Register's Tobias Mann reports: Supermicro shares took a nose dive on Wednesday, sliding more than 30 percent after the accounting firm hired to review its reporting practices resigned after determining they were just a bit too sketchy to warrant the risk. 'We are...
Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and let's be honest—you're going to need some backup. With 18 bottles of wine (yes, 18!), this deal from Swirl Wine Shop is your secret weapon for surviving all the awkward family conversations and the inevitable political debates at ...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Intercept: Less than a year after OpenAI quietly signaled it wanted to do business with the Pentagon, a procurement document obtained by The Intercept shows U.S. Africa Command, or AFRICOM, believes access to OpenAI's technology...
Wasmer 5.0, the latest stable version of the WebAssembly-based runtime, has been released with support for the iOS mobile operating system. The release also features a leaner codebase and enhanced performance, and support for the Emscripten compiler toolchain has been...
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