Should We Sing the Praises of Agile, or Bury It?
February 6, 2025
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I am firmly on the bury it side.. By way of Slashdot
Apple launches Invites, a new app for creating custom invitations
February 5, 2025
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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
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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
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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
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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
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“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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Scientists find traces of life’s building blocks in historic asteroid samples
February 1, 2025
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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
Researchers find huge buried reservoir atop Oregon’s Cascade Range
February 1, 2025
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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
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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
Government Tech Workers Forced to Defend Projects to Random Elon Musk Bros
January 31, 2025
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Better get it before it’s gone.. again
PC MASTER RACE
January 18, 2025
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.