The best #tor distribution setup nowadays February 22, 2025 Link Blog Saw an interesting post on Mastadon about the best way to setup private browsing through Tor. Might come in handy in the future.. Based on the FBI Says Backup Now—Confirms Dangerous Attacks Underway February 22, 2025 Link Blog Backup your backups! FBI Says Backup Now—Advisory Warns Of Dangerous Ransomware Attacks “The FBI has observed Ghost actors obtaining initial The continuing enshitification of everything.. healthcare edition February 21, 2025 Link Blog This doens’t happen ALL the time.. but I have seen it with my own eyes. “[Private equity investors] don’t announce that they’ve acquired something. Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills February 21, 2025 Link Blog In today’s no shit news.. By way of Slashdot**** As Internet enshittification marches on, here are some of the worst offenders February 20, 2025 Link Blog Following on to my original link discussion The Enshittification of Everything we have ArsTechinca’s take on some of the worst offenders. I have to From 900 miles away, the US government recorded audio of the Titan sub implosion February 19, 2025 Link Blog Absolutely insane technology started in the cold war. The implosion took milliseconds, but its echoes lasted far longer. Back in the 1960s, Thousands of people protest across the U.S. on Presidents Day February 18, 2025 Link Blog No Kings on Presidents Day On Presidents Day, demonstrators across the U.S. descended upon state capitol buildings and other locations to protest Scientists capture extremely rare footage of a black seadevil February 18, 2025 Link Blog This is only the second time the species has been recorded while alive. “I thought it was A.I.,” says fish biologist Kory Evans. By way of The Anthropic Economic Index February 17, 2025 Link Blog In the coming years, AI systems will have a major impact on the ways people work. For that reason, we’re launching the Anthropic Economic Index, an ICED COFFEE FOREVER February 16, 2025 Link Blog Iced coffee all year over here! By way of Masslive Extremely rare ‘Einstein ring’ discovered close to Earth February 15, 2025 Link Blog The Euclid space telescope’s findings support a cosmic phenomenon first predicted by Albert Einstein. The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclid The Anti-SNARF Manifesto February 15, 2025 Link Blog Big tech destroyed the internet. What’s next? Most anxieties about the future are really about the present. We worry about a future where AI DOGE’s .gov site lampooned as coders quickly realize it can be edited by anyone February 14, 2025 Link Blog “An official website of the United States government,” reads small text atop the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) website that Elon Musk’s Why 2,000 Ancient PCs Mysteriously Appeared on eBay February 14, 2025 Link Blog NABU had its own cable-based network for downloading content long before AOL. An expanding retro community is revitalizing it with a newfound cache You are using Cursor AI incorrectly… February 13, 2025 Link Blog Like most people I’ve been dabbling with AI to help build some projects. This was an interesting take on how to get tools like Cursor to be even Trump administration suspends $5bn electric vehicle charging program February 13, 2025 Link Blog Definitely a bummer for the electric car market. “The new leadership of the Department of Transportation … has decided to review the policies You can’t fix this level of stupid.. February 12, 2025 Link Blog ‘They see the streaks in the skies:’ Kentucky bill would ban theoretical ‘geoengineering’ Kentucky lawmakers hope to follow Tennessee as the Apple just built an adorable robot lamp, a sneak peek into robotics work February 11, 2025 Link Blog At least it’s not a terminator type biped.. Leaks have indicated Apple has an internal robotics team working on building new home products. But How to Disable Disable Apple Intelligence in macOS Squoia 15.3 February 11, 2025 Link Blog I am not seeing much benefit in AI backed into macOS. Here are the instructions I’ve been able to find on disabling the feature and reclaiming the The future belongs to idea guys who can just do things February 10, 2025 Link Blog I am trying to adapt but I’m just not getting the answers I need. I think there’s likely a middle ground here for a while but I am working hard to With generative AI, MIT chemists quickly calculate 3D genomic structures February 9, 2025 Link Blog A new approach, which takes minutes rather than days, predicts how a specific DNA sequence will arrange itself in the cell nucleus. By way of MIT Why even physicists still don’t understand quantum theory 100 years on February 8, 2025 Link Blog Quantum mechanics depicts a counter-intuitive reality in which the act of observation influences what is observed — and few can agree on what that How I use LLMs as a staff engineer February 8, 2025 Link Blog Sean Goedecke wrote an interesting article on using LLMs as a staff engineer. 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By way of Slashdot Apple launches Invites, a new app for creating custom invitations February 5, 2025 Link Blog Apple on Tuesday launched a new app called “Invites” that allows users to create custom invitations for any occasion. With Invites, users can create How to have a career even when OpenAI’s o3 drops February 5, 2025 Link Blog Nobody has lived through a technological change that in theory at least promises to take all of our jobs, change our existence as the apex species FDA approves new class of painkiller — the first in more than 20 years February 5, 2025 Link Blog The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of a novel painkiller as an effective treatment for short-term moderate-to-severe pain in These are the engineers taking over $6T at the Treasury February 4, 2025 Link Blog The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing I Moved Abroad For A Better Life. Here’s What I Found Disturbing During My First Trip Back To America. February 4, 2025 Link Blog “The hardest part wasn’t seeing these differences — it was realizing I could never unsee them.” By way of Huffpost The Console Wars Are Over And Nobody Really Won February 3, 2025 Link Blog Nintendo moved on, Xbox gave up, and Sony is left fighting nobody In a technical sense, Sony has won the console wars because it’s A) Still here Majority of US teens have lost trust in Big Tech February 3, 2025 Link Blog Don’t trust companies. They’re not people and don’t have feelings. Companies aren’t loyal to you, they’ll drop/ban/overcharge you without a second The Damage to Federal Medical Research Is Already Done February 2, 2025 Link Blog Clinical trials may have to be scrapped, research applications will be pushed back, and unpaid researchers will quickly leave the sector—even if the How America Got Mean February 2, 2025 Link Blog It does seem as though everyone is miserable when you’re out and about. In a culture devoid of moral education, generations are growing up in a Researchers find huge buried reservoir atop Oregon’s Cascade Range February 1, 2025 Link Blog A massive aquifer is stored just beneath volcanic rocks at the crest of the central Oregon Cascades — possibly the largest aquifer of its kind in Comparing Adhesives for Gluing PETG Prints February 1, 2025 Link Blog PETG is a pretty great material to print 3D models with, but one issue with it is that gluing it can be a bit of a pain. In a recent video by Cosel Scientists find traces of life’s building blocks in historic asteroid samples February 1, 2025 Link Blog New discoveries from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission were ‘a complete surprise.’ It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that Government Tech Workers Forced to Defend Projects to Random Elon Musk Bros January 31, 2025 Link Blog A recent high school graduate and former Neuralink intern has joined meetings to review lines of code and other work history of career public New glowing molecule, invented by AI, would have taken 500 million years to evolve in nature, scientists say January 31, 2025 Link Blog Finally a use for AI that isn’t just plagiarism! An artificial intelligence (AI) model has simulated half a billion years of molecular evolution to OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us January 30, 2025 Link Blog Theif getting theifed.. Not only is what OpenAI arguing wildly hypocritical on its face, it also undermines many of its own arguments that OpenAI Why everyone is freaking out about DeepSeek January 29, 2025 Link Blog Not sure what DeepSeek is? See this great video by Dave’s Garage Did AI just disrupt Sam Altman’s job? DeepSeek’s successes call into question Peeing Is Socially Contagious in Chimps January 29, 2025 Link Blog I found this oddly interesting. “The decision to urinate involves a complex combination of both physiological and social considerations,” said How Massachusetts Became the Richest State in the USA January 28, 2025 Link Blog Title Town (not that I am biased or anything)! By way of Economics Explained on YouTube Scammers Are Creating Fake News Videos to Blackmail Victims January 27, 2025 Link Blog Scammers based in West Africa, likely in Nigeria and going under the broad umbrella of the Yahoo Boys, have increasingly been seen sending blackmail The $500 Million Debacle at Sonos That Just Won’t End January 27, 2025 Link Blog I saw this Sonos train wreck play out at the gym I was coaching at when they decided to switch to the new app. The gym had up until that point a US Cyberdefense Loses Its Head January 26, 2025 Link Blog Under Trump, US Cyberdefense Loses Its Head Chinese hacks, rampant ransomware, and Donald Trump’s budget cuts all threaten US security. In an exit OpenAI Launches Operator January 25, 2025 Link Blog Just when I was thinking it would be better to use a thousand watts of power to move the mouse two inches OpenAI saves the day. OpenAI announced on Subaru is Tracking You January 24, 2025 Link Blog Subaru Security Flaws Exposed Its System for Tracking Millions of Cars. And it turns out the admins of the system can still see all your Developer Creates Infinite Maze That Traps AI Training Bots January 23, 2025 Link Blog I would love to toss a little something on this blog to trap AI training bots but allow Google to index it. “Nepenthes generates random links that Trump Admin Fires Security Board Investigating Chinese Hack of large ISPs January 22, 2025 Link Blog By way of Ars Technica: sigh The Department of Homeland Security has terminated all members of advisory committees, including one that has been Another Day Another AI Intrusion January 22, 2025 Link Blog If you thought having the CoPilot icon following your cursor in Office 365 was intrusive we now get automatically opt-ed into Google AI in 1954 CBS “The Search” Documentary January 21, 2025 Link Blog By way of @retrocomps.bsky.social on BlueSky: Computer vision. Machine learning. 3D printing. Autonomous robots. All these seem recent - but as Ryujinx 1.2.80 is out (again) January 20, 2025 Link Blog Better get it before it’s gone.. again PC MASTER RACE January 18, 2025 Link Blog We all knew this already.. This Insider Gaming article talks about a recent report that PC gaming bigger than console platforms in both content and AWS Management Console Now Supports Multiple AWS Accounts January 17, 2025 Link Blog Although there are ways to do this with Firefox using multi-account containers and the AWS SSO plug-in this native capability is a long time coming. Why Does Candy Crush Need My Location? January 17, 2025 Link Blog NSA Warns iPhone And Android Users—Disable Location Tracking Another day and another assualt on privacy: As first reported by 404media, hackers Alien Graphics in 1979 January 16, 2025 Link Blog The Alien film series is one of my favorite movie franchises of all time. I can’t think of a time when one of the movies was on television and I Quantum Fidelity Breakthrough January 15, 2025 Link Blog I don’t know what any of this means but it seems cool? MIT sets world record with 99.998% fidelity in quantum computing breakthrough. The team used No One Understands Playing Cards January 13, 2025 Link Blog I’ve always been fascinated by playing cards but a quote in this article really blew me away Polygon: Klarreich goes on: “Any time you shuffle a AI means the end of internet search as we’ve known it January 12, 2025 Link Blog The MIT Technology Review put out an article on the end of internet search as we know it due to the integrated AI Summary from Google. I’m not sure BBS: The Documentary DVD Set January 11, 2025 Link Blog Jason Scott put his BBS Documentary on archive.org for everyone to enjoy. I’m downloading the toerrent now and cannot wait to check it out. If you The Enshittification of Everything January 10, 2025 Link Blog A thought provoking article from Ed Zitron on the Rot Economy and the enshittification of everything with the relentless drive to squeeze every cent Phishing Scam January 9, 2025 Link Blog The EFF is warning people to keep an eye out for this new phishing scam that’s becoming more common: Last year saw the rise of a new phishing scam.