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Tuesday October 22, 2024. 01:31 PM
The Federal Trade Commission's rule prohibiting fake, paid-for or AI-generated reviews went into effect yesterday. The rule also bans business from making threats against people posting real reviews—a surprisingly common occurence. 'Fake reviews not only waste people's...
I haven't seen Alien: Romulus yet, but it was clearly a successful antidote to things viewers disliked about the seemingly-abandoned Prometheus trilogy, which ground to a halt after the oddly mispitched Alien: Covenant in 2017. Romulus made a lot of money on a modest budget...
Carpet Gallery is a free online exploration game by ivy sly with music by fibr/faec. Though incredibly simple—a toy—I was struck by the evocative minimalism of its screens and the startling vastness of its map. Filed under 'Games that might be incipient religions.' —...
Intuit sells TurboTax, an app that does your taxes for you, and lobbies to keep it complicated and difficult to give the government money without its help. After it deceptively marketed its tax-filing services as free of charge, the Federal Trade Commission took it to court...
Saying the legal profession is document-intensive is like claiming that a library is filled with books. Unlike researchers using the Dewey Decimal System, though, lawyers face an ocean of big data from which they must fish out case evidence. For more than a decade, law...
Elon Musk-backed generative AI venture, xAI, has unveiled a new API service for its Grok models to allow developers to underpin their applications and agents with xAI’s large language models (LLMs). Musk took to Twitter, now X, to announce that the API service was live...
Long-lived credentials on major cloud platforms continue to be a huge risk for organizations, according to a new report from Datadog. Long-lived cloud credentials never expire and frequently get leaked in source code, container images, build logs and application artifacts,...
The phenomenon of data gravity moving away from the cloud continues as businesses reassess their cloud strategies. Many now realize that the initial allure of unlimited storage and processing power often comes with unforeseen costs and complications. Historically, the cloud...
Agile methodologies empower teams to prioritize backlogs, commit to an accomplishable amount of work, and deliver reliable software. Devops teams, aligned by culture, collaborative practices, and automation, focus on improving customer experiences, responding faster to...
The widespread adoption of AI is creating a paradigm shift in the software engineering world. Python has quickly become the programming language of choice for AI development due to its usability, mature ecosystem, and ability to meet the data-driven needs of AI and machine...
Windows 11 24H2 (or Windows 11 2024 Update) underwent an incredibly long period of testing with users before it was finally unleashed on the general public earlier this month. Despite the prolonged beta test, the update remains incredibly problematic -- to extent that...
A 17-year-old kayaker went missing in the ocean for 12 hours off the Honolulu coast before an off-duty lifeguard — who was friends with the boy's father — spotted him. The teen, Kahiau Kawai, had been paddling after a day of classes with his high school team last...
Elon Musk's handpicked judge, a proud Tesla shareholder, was humiliated when a federal appeals court yesterday overruled him, ruling that Xitter couldn't inspect donor information from the nonprofit watchdog group Media Matters. As Reuters reports, 'In a ruling on Sunday,...
A major sinkhole spread across both sides of a highway in southern Italy today, swallowing up a car along with its passengers in the process. The hole opened up in the Calabria region after a storm of heavy rains and a mudslide, according to the UK's Channel 4 News. — Read t...
TL;DR: Relax with a PulseMax Extended Handle Massager for $59.99 (reg. $179). When a friend tells me they want to start working out, I don't go for the obvious holiday gifts. Running shoes? Gym memberships? Amateur hour. Any time I work out after going without for months,...
A novel training approach could help older adults stay mentally sharp and physically fit even when fatigued, according to a new study. Researchers at the University of Extremadura in Spain investigated the effects of Brain Endurance Training (BET) on cognitive and physical...
A few weeks ago, adjudicated rapist and convicted felon Donald Trump declared North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson 'Martin Luther King on steroids.' Now, Trump can't remember him. That is how it goes when a Trump lackey gets in trouble. Donald suddenly...
The attorneys general of Missouri, Idaho, and Kansas have sued over their right to pregnant teens and the funding that comes with them. This is as creepy as creepy gets. Three Republican Attorneys General have sued the FDA that mifepristone is robbing them of valuable...
Monday October 21, 2024. 11:51 PM
In 1998 when Steve Jobs recruited current CEO Tim Cook to Apple, the company was on the verge of bankruptcy. In this Wall Street Journal video interview below, Tim explains why he took a job there anyway. Among other stories, he also reflects on his 'first job as a paperboy...
TL;DR: See nature up close and personal with this microscope that has a 4-inch LCD screen, now $69.97 (reg. $100) until October 27! Microscopes quite literally gave us a whole new way of looking at the world, and now you can bring that power anywhere with this portable one....
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