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Thursday December 7, 2023. 09:51 PM
Ever wondered who's using your Wi-Fi? Or how to kick off someone who shouldn't be there? This article on How to Geek is a guide to securing your network and taking control. Here's a summary: Change your Wi-Fi password: This is the most effective and secure...
Tech giants including Google and Facebook parent Meta have dramatically ramped up charitable giving to university campuses over the past several years -- giving them influence over academics studying such critical topics as artificial intelligence, social media and...
In the race for the Red Planet, NASA is falling behind Inspired by the success of NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter, Chinese boffins are proposing a more capable extraterrestrial flier for a planned Mars sample return mission. …
Today, McDonald's CEO Chris Kempczinsk announced the pilot launch of CosMc's, a coffeeshop that they seem to think could compete with Starbucks. 'What would happen if a McDonald's character from the 1980s that was part alien, part surfer, part robot — what would happen...
The US broadband industry is protesting a Federal Communications Commission plan to measure the affordability of Internet service. From a report: The FCC has been evaluating US-wide broadband deployment progress on a near-annual basis for almost three decades but hasn't...
'Long after these folks are in jail, we will still be practicing law.' In a recent email, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis discussed jail time for Donald Trump and his co-defendants as if it were a foregone conclusion. Guardian: The district attorney raised the...
Plogue today launched Chipsynth C64, a DAW plugin that emulates the famed SID sound chip found in the Commodore 64. Crunchy, bleepy and completely distinctive, the SID is famously difficult to replicate—and inconsistent in its own right. Which is why Chipsynth C64 emulates ...
Middling performance, but check out the longevity Fairphone has retained top marks for repairability, with the Dutch manufacturer's fifth iteration scoring high for software longevity, even if some components are starting to get a little more 'conventional.'…
For over a decade, I've read stories about how olive oil is rarely olive oil. I assumed that whatever it is that must be making it into the widely reputed fake supermarket, olive oils were edible, but just not olive. — Read the rest
Nintendo has cancelled Nintendo Live 2024 Tokyo and postponed other Japanese esports events after persistent threats were made to both staff and spectators. From a report: A Japanese press release, shared by reliable translator Genki on X/Twitter, revealed the 'all ages...
Out-on-bail fraudster Donald Trump decided to return to his fraud trial on the day a New York Court of Appeals upheld the summary judgment of fraud against his family-run business. Having told his man-child Eric not to testify in their defense, Trump senior can only have...
SparkyLinux, a well-known Debian-based distribution, has just released its latest update -- version 7.2. Code-named 'Orion Belt,' this update offers a variety of enhancements and new features. As a quarterly updated point release of Sparky 7 “Orion Belt”, Sparky 7.2...
As the legendary TV creator Norman Lear was dying on Tuesday at the age of 101, his family serenaded him bedside with the classic theme songs to his groundbreaking television shows which included The Jeffersons, All in the Family, Maude, One Day At a Time, and Good Times. —...
The UK accused Russia's main intelligence agency of seeking to hack the emails of British politicians and officials in an attempt to interfere in its democratic processes. From a report: 'They have been targeting high-profile individuals and entities with a clear intent:...
In honor of All in the Family creator Norman Lear, who died at the age of 101 this week, here's a 50-year-old clip of Archie Bunker setting 2023 GOP policy on gun control and abortion. He sounds like a more articulate version of Donald Trump. — Read the rest
So far, Microsoft has show AI living in the cloud. AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm want AI to live on the PC, powered by their own processors. Does that pose a potential conflict? Apparently not. At AMD’s “Advancing AI” presentation, where the company launched the Ryzen 8040 family ...
I spoke with Venky Veeraraghavan, Chief Product Officer at DataRobot, about key strategies for deploying AI in enterprise settings, including choosing large language models and how to manage the concerns about getting started with AI. See below for a podcast and video...
As Cyber Solidarity Act edges closer to full adoption in Europe The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has signed a working arrangement with its EU counterparts to increase cross-border information sharing and more to tackle criminals.…
A new book argues that the invention of states and corporations has something to teach us about A.I. But perhaps it's the other way around. From a report: One of the things that make the machine of the capitalist state work is that some of its powers have been devolved upon...
Lawmakers voted to censure Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D–NY) today for pulling a fire alarm in September — an act for which he already apologized, paid a fine, and said was an accident. And while House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries called the censure 'fake, fraudulent, and...
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