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Where the CHIPS Act money has gone (www.theverge.com)
How Python Compares Floats and Ints: When Equals Isn’t Really Equal (blog.codingconfessions.com)
Apple’s Photo Bug Exposes the Myth of ‘Deleted’ (www.wired.com)
Two students find security bug that could let millions do laundry for free (www.theverge.com)
Chinese social media companies remove posts ‘showing off wealth and worshipping money’ while the gap between the country's rich and poor widens (www.theguardian.com)
Targeting posts boasting of personal wealth appears to be part of campaign to ‘purify the internet cultural environment’....
Google unveils Veo, a high-definition AI video generator that may rival Sora (arstechnica.com)
On Tuesday at Google I/O 2024, Google announced Veo, a new AI video-synthesis model that can create HD videos from text, image, or video prompts, similar to OpenAI's Sora. It can generate 1080p videos lasting over a minute and edit videos from written instructions, but it has not yet been released for broad use.
Meet My A.I. Friends | Our columnist spent the past month hanging out with 18 A.I. companions. They critiqued his clothes, chatted among themselves and hinted at a very different future. (www.nytimes.com)
I used an original iPod in 2024, and it was pretty fun (www.spacebar.news)
“Dumb phones” offer an escape from the endless scroll (www.ktla.com)
Stack Overflow and OpenAI Partner (files.mastodon.online)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15315562...
Which RSS aggregator do you use? I cannot seem to find one that works for me.
I cannot stand google news any more, too much spam, clickbait and advertisement. So I decided to try to selfhost an RSS aggregator to make myself a news feed that I would be comfortable with. Being RSS such an "ancient" thing I thought there will be many mature systems, but I'm not sure that's the case.....
Ukraine unveils AI-generated foreign ministry spokesperson (www.theguardian.com)
How RCS on iPhone Will Make Texting Better for Everyone (www.cnet.com)
HMD Pulse trio unveiled: affordable phones with 'Gen 1 repairability' (www.gsmarena.com)
HMD is betting that consumers are moving to more environmentally-conscious products and are placing an emphasis on repairability. HMD says the Pulse range is built to “Gen 1 repairability” and that users can pick up self-repair kits from iFixit. Repairs include changing the battery, but also swapping the screen.
Big Tech passkey implementations are a trap | Proton (proton.me)
Big Tech has implemented passkeys in a way that locks users into their platforms rather than providing universal security...
Wikipedia is gauging interest for an extension that uses AI to see if any claim is cited on Wikipedia (meta.wikimedia.org)
A prototype is available, though it's Chrome-only and English-only at the moment. How this'll work is you select some text and then click on the extension, which will try to "return the relevant quote and inference for the user, along with links to article and quality signals"....
"No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and over again." (pluralistic.net)
[ANSWERED]libreoffice or onlyoffice?
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Frequent/Long-Term use of the Apple Vision Pro may rewire our brains in unexpected ways (www.businessinsider.com)
Taliban Shuts Down 'queer.af' Domain, Breaking Mastodon Instance (www.404media.co)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/11820406...
Thoughts on BOOX Tab Ultra C? (shop.boox.com)
Does anyone here have a BOOX e-paper tablet? I'm a big fan of e-paper devices—I love my Pebble smartwatch, Kindle Paperwhite, and Light Phone II. I've been eyeing the Tab Ultra C for quite a while, and I am considering the pros and cons. Mostly, I intend to use it for browsing the web and maybe some light note taking and...
[History] 1 February 1988: "Perl, a 'replacement' for awk and sed, Part01/10" (usenet.trashworldnews.com)