YouTube Warns Creators an AI-Generated Video of Its CEO is Being Used For Phishing Scams
An anonymous reader shares a report: YouTube is warning creators about a new phishing scam that attempts to lure victims using an AI-generated video of its CEO Neal Mohan. The fake video has been shared privately with users and claims YouTube is making changes to its monetization policy in an attempt … ⌘ Read more

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Opera Adds an Automated AI Agent To Its Browser
king*jojo shares a report from The Register: The Opera web browser now boasts “agentic AI,” meaning users can ask an onboard AI model to perform tasks that require a series of in-browser actions. The AI agent, referred to as the Browser Operator, can, for example, find 12 pairs of men’s size 10 Nike socks that you can buy. This is demonstrated in an Opera-made video of the process, r … ⌘ Read more

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In-reply-to » A depressing video about the current state of printers that just ends with “fuck this, I’m gonna talk about my cat now”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpHX_9fHNqE

Yeah so disappointed. Brother was one of the last good ones.

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Brother Accused of Locking Down Third-Party Printer Ink Cartridges Via Forced Firmware Updates
Fabled RepairTuber and right-to-repair crusader Louis Rossmann accuses Brother of implementing forced firmware updates that block third-party ink cartridges and remove older firmware versions from support portals. These updates also prevent color calibration with aftermarket ink, ren … ⌘ Read more

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Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg Talks Succession - ‘I Don’t Want To Pass It To a Committee’
WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg said on a podcast he aims to eventually hand over leadership to a single successor rather than “a committee,” amid growing calls for him to step down following his legal battle with hosting company WP Engine. On a recent episode of Lenny’s Podcast, Mullenweg discussed h … ⌘ Read more

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Judges Are Fed Up With Lawyers Using AI That Hallucinate Court Cases
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: After a group of attorneys were caught using AI to cite cases that didn’t actually exist in court documents last month, another lawyer was told to pay $15,000 for his own AI hallucinations that showed up in several briefs. Attorney Rafael Ramirez, who represented a company called HoosierV … ⌘ Read more

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AMD ZenDNN 5.0.1 Released To Help With EPYC Inferencing For Recommender Systems & LLMs
Released last year shortly after the EPYC 9005 “Turin” processor launch was ZenDNN 5.0 for Zen 5 optimized CPU inferencing with the likes of PyTorch and TensorFlow. ZenDNN 5.0 delivers up to a 400% performance uplift according to AMD engineers. Out today is ZenDNN 5.0.1 with further optimizations, particularly around recommendation engines and large language models (LLMs)… ⌘ Read more

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LLVM/Clang 20.1 Released With AMX-AVX512, AMX-FP8, AVX10.2, AMD GFX950 & Much More
LLVM 20.1 was just tagged in Git as the first stable version of the LLVM 20 compiler stack including sub-projects like the Clang 20 C/C++ Compiler… ⌘ Read more

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Citi Copy-Paste Error Almost Sent $6 Billion to Wealth Account
Citigroup nearly credited about $6 billion to a customer’s account in its wealth-management business by accident. From a report: The near-error occurred after a staffer handling the transfer copied and pasted the account number into a field for the dollar figure, which was detected on the next business day, the report added. The wealth division’s near-m … ⌘ Read more

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Australia, With No Auto Industry To Protect, is Awash With Chinese EVs
Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD is rapidly gaining market share in Australia, with sales rising 65% last year as nearly one in four EVs sold in the country was a BYD, according to EVDirect CEO David Smitherman. Chinese EVs now comprise roughly one-third of electric vehicles sold in Australia, which has no domestic auto industry to pr … ⌘ Read more

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Apple Launches Legal Challenge To UK ‘Back Door’ Order
Apple is stepping up its fight with the British government over a demand to create a “back door” in its most secure cloud storage systems, by filing a legal complaint that it hopes will overturn the order. Financial Times: The iPhone maker has made its appeal to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, an independent judicial body that examines complaints against the UK se … ⌘ Read more

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Apple Launches Legal Challenge To UK ‘Back Door’ Order
Apple is stepping up its fight with the British government over a demand to create a “back door” in its most secure cloud storage systems, by filing a legal complaint that it hopes will overturn the order. Financial Times: The iPhone maker has made its appeal to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, an independent judicial body that examines complaints against the UK se … ⌘ Read more

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After Exam Fiasco, California State Bar Staff Recommend Reverting To In-person Exams
After California’s bar exams were plagued last week with technical problems, the State Bar of California is recommending that the agency return to in-person tests as it scrutinizes whether the vendor behind the new testing system met the obligations of its contract. From a report: “Based on the administration … ⌘ Read more

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In-reply-to » (#oknfufq) @lyse i appreciate you updating this with that info. been in the weeds at work so haven't been tracking the conversation here much. let me sit on this for a bit because often times the edits are within seconds of first post so maybe maybe i just allow them within a certain time frame or do away with them all together. i really only do it because it bugs me once i notice the typo :)

@bmallred@staystrong.run Oh, I hear you! It’s always after carefully proofreading and publishing that a typo suddenly pops up. :-) Not sure if amending your edit implementation is really worth it, but happy hacking in case you do.

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In-reply-to » I went on a 5:30 hours long hike to my second backyard mountain. About 12km to get there and roughly 9km on the way back. It was super nice, sunny all day long, 12°C and luckily just a little bit of wind. Great scenery. I managed to capture one great spotted woodpecker hammering along. There was also a kestrel hovering over a meadow and then landing on a sports field light pole. At the castle ruin I could watch 10-12 gliding red kites (with the V-shaped tail) and other raptors, maybe bussards, I don't know, for about five minutes. That was fascinating. Unfortunately, my camera doesn't too well with moving targets.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Luckily, they’re not made of steel as I would not have made it home with such heavy weights. :-D

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In-reply-to » A depressing video about the current state of printers that just ends with “fuck this, I’m gonna talk about my cat now”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpHX_9fHNqE

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Fuck! So there aren’t any non-criminal printer vendors out there anymore. Very sad. I really don’t understand why this is not highly illegal in the entire world.

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Scientists Create ‘Woolly Mice’
EmagGeek shares a report: Scientists have genetically engineered mice with some key characteristics of an extinct animal that was far larger – the woolly mammoth. This “woolly mouse” marks an important step toward achieving the researchers’ ultimate goal – bringing a woolly mammoth-like creature back from extinction, they say.

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Apple Unveils iPad Air With M3 Chip
Apple today announced a significant update to its iPad Air lineup, integrating the M3 chip previously reserved for higher-end devices. The new tablets, available in both 11-inch ($599) and 13-inch ($799) configurations, deliver substantial performance gains: nearly 2x faster than M1-equipped models and 3.5x faster than A14 Bionic versions.

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Intel Finds More Women Getting Involved In Open-Source, Maintainer Burnout Continues
Intel has been running an annual open-source developer survey and they recently wrapped up their survey for 2024 and today published the results to provide various insight into the health of open-source development… ⌘ Read more

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ExpressVPN Adds A GUI To Their Linux App
There are a number of NetworkManager VPN plug-ins for different virtual private networking providers as a great way for setting up VPN access from the Linux desktop. But for those interested in using ExpressVPN with their official Linux client, they now offer a GUI to ease the setup process for using their commercial VPN service and proprietary software package… ⌘ Read more

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Show HN: Bayleaf – Building a low-profile wireless split keyboard
Hey HN,

I built a wireless, split, ultra-low profile keyboard from scratch called Bayleaf. As a beginner I learned all things electronics, PCB-building, designing for manufacturing, and many other hardware-related skills to put this together.

This case study dives into the build process and of course the final result, hope you enjoy!

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43255529](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4325552 … ⌘ Read more

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China’s Supreme Court Calls For Crack Down on Paper Mills
China’s highest court has called for a crack down on the activities of paper mills, businesses that churn out fraudulent or poor-quality manuscripts and sell authorships. Nature: Some researchers are cautiously optimistic that the court’s guidance will help curb the use of these services, while others think the impact will be minimal. “This is the first time … ⌘ Read more

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Realme Charts Path To 10,000mAh Phone Batteries by 2026
Realme plans to double smartphone battery capacity to 10,000mAh within its three-year strategic roadmap, the company said at tradeshow MWC on Tuesday. Current flagship devices typically offer 5,000mAh, while Realme’s latest models already ship with 6,000mAh cells. The company expects to implement 7,500mAh batteries next year before reaching the 10,000mAh target, … ⌘ Read more

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Linux GPU Compute Performance
Ahead of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 graphics cards seeing retail availability tomorrow, today the review embargo expires on the GeForce RTX 5070 Founders Edition graphics cards. I’ve been testing out the GeForce RTX 5070 under Linux and today have a number of GPU compute benchmarks to share. ⌘ Read more

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Perforator 0.0.5 Released - Switches To Apache 2.0 License, Drops CLA Requirement
Open-sourced back in January was the Yandex Perforator as a new software project for uncovering code inefficiencies and potentially “save billions of dollars” in expenses. Perforator has continued evolving since its open-source announcement and out today is Perforator 0.0.5 as the latest milestone… ⌘ Read more

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Google Releases SpeciesNet, an AI Model Designed To Identify Wildlife
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Google has open sourced an AI model, SpeciesNet, designed to identify animal species by analyzing photos from camera traps. Researchers around the world use camera traps – digital cameras connected to infrared sensors – to study wildlife populations. But while these traps can provide … ⌘ Read more

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Linux’s AMD Radeon Vulkan Driver Adds Experimental Support For The BC-250 Mining Board
The AMD BC-250 is a crypto mining GPU launched by AMD back during the Bitcoin mining craze when it was profitable using GPUs for mining. At its heart is a Navi “RDNA1” GPU similar to the APU found within the Sony PlayStation 5. The AMD BC-250 can be found used these days for $50~100 USD and with the latest open-source Mesa graphics driver code for Linux systems can now be used with the Vulkan API for graphics/gaming… ⌘ Read more

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Direct3D Video Decode To Vulkan Video API Being Worked On For Wine
In addition to mapping the Direct3D graphics API to Vulkan, Wine developers are working on mapping the Direct3D video acceleration APIs to work atop the Vulkan Video API… ⌘ Read more

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I’ve written before about the use of US cloud services within EU and how that goes against the GDPR, even with all the attempts to create exceptions. The latest exception was being challenged, but hinged on a few things that the new US administration is tearing down.

EuroActiv has a nice new article about all of this:

https://www.euractiv.com/section/tech/news/deafening-commission-silence-with-no-credible-eu-us-data-oversight-left/

The most important thing there, for me, is at the end:

“if the EU executive does scrap the deal, it will undoubtedly be seen as a political move against Washington. Better to say and do nothing in the meantime, seems to be the policy.

But silence can’t last forever.

On 5 February, 19 MEPs from across the political spectrum called on the Commission to address the question of whether the DPF is still viable. The Commission has until 19 March to respond in writing.

On 6 February, the chair of the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) Committee wrote to Commissioner McGrath asking whether the DPF still meets the essential equivalence requirement established by the ECJ after the PCLOB shootings and whether this affects the validity of the DPF.

Schrems told Euractiv that the Commission’s silence could leave companies in the legal limbo of an invalidated DPF.

“My biggest worry… is that there is no fucking contingency plan,” he said.”

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Intel Revises DRM Sharpness Property For Use With Lunar Lake Sharpening Capabilities
Going back nearly one year Intel has been working on Linux driver support for a new adaptive sharpening filter with Lunar Lake graphics. That’s culminated into working on a common DRM sharpness property for communicating sharpness preferences and this week the latest patch series for that property was posted… ⌘ Read more

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In-reply-to » I went on a 5:30 hours long hike to my second backyard mountain. About 12km to get there and roughly 9km on the way back. It was super nice, sunny all day long, 12°C and luckily just a little bit of wind. Great scenery. I managed to capture one great spotted woodpecker hammering along. There was also a kestrel hovering over a meadow and then landing on a sports field light pole. At the castle ruin I could watch 10-12 gliding red kites (with the V-shaped tail) and other raptors, maybe bussards, I don't know, for about five minutes. That was fascinating. Unfortunately, my camera doesn't too well with moving targets.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Lyse, the man with feet of steel. 🦾

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CISA Tags Windows, Cisco Vulnerabilities As Actively Exploited
CISA has warned U.S. federal agencies about active exploitation of vulnerabilities in Cisco VPN routers and Windows systems. “While the cybersecurity agency has tagged these flaws as actively exploited in the wild, it has yet to provide specific details regarding this malicious activity and who is behind it,” adds Bleeping Computer. From the report: The … ⌘ Read more

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Private Lunar Lander Blue Ghost Aces Moon Touchdown
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander successfully touched down on the moon, making it the first private company to achieve a stable lunar landing without crashing. The craft is carrying various NASA-funded experiments, including a “vacuum to suck up moon dirt for analysis and a drill to measure temperature as deep as 10 feet (3 meters) below the surface,” reports the … ⌘ Read more

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MayQueen Introduces a 2.13″ Four Color E-Paper Display for Embedded Applications
MayQueen has introduced the PIXPAPER-213-C, a 2.13-inch prototype electronic paper display developed with Triangle Alien Studio. Featuring a four-color display and an SPI interface, it is designed for low-power, high-contrast embedded applications. The PIXPAPER-213-C supports black, white, yellow, and red colors with a resolution of 250×122 pixels and a density of 130 DPI. The active … ⌘ Read more

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Adafruit Metro RP2350 is Available for $24.95 with Arduino Form Factor Compatibility
The Adafruit Metro RP2350 is designed for projects that require Arduino form-factor compatibility, multiple GPIO options, and debugging capabilities. Built around the Raspberry Pi RP2350 microcontroller, this board provides various connectivity features and programming support, making it a flexible choice for embedded development. As its name suggests, the Metro RP2350 feature … ⌘ Read more

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ADLINK and LIPS Introduce 3D Perception DevKit for Autonomous Mobile Robots
ADLINK Technology and LIPS have introduced a perception solution for autonomous mobile robots. The LIPSAMR Perception DevKit integrates ADLINK’s DLAP-411-Orin platform with LIPSedge AE Active Stereo 3D cameras, providing enhanced 3D vision with a wider field of view and higher resolution than LiDAR. Built on NVIDIA Isaac Perceptor, it is designed for smart manufacturing and

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Researchers Find Less-Educated Areas Adopting AI Writing Tools Faster
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Since the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022, experts have debated how widely AI language models would impact the world. A few years later, the picture is getting clear. According to new Stanford University-led research examining over 300 million text samples across multiple sectors, AI … ⌘ Read more

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NASA Photo Captures Sound Barrier Being Broken
NASA used specialized Schlieren photography to capture an image of Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator aircraft breaking the sound barrier on February 10, 2025 and producing shock waves as it exceeded Mach 1. The flight produced no audible sonic boom, marking progress toward the goal of quiet supersonic travel. CNN reports: “This image makes the invisible visible,” said Blake Sc … ⌘ Read more

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Rust-Written Redox OS Expands Use Of Dynamic Linking
The Redox OS open-source operating system written from scratch in the Rust programming language is continuing to enjoy nice progress in 2025 on its goals. The Redox OS project has published their February 2025 status update that highlights achievements made over the past month… ⌘ Read more

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Google Play Is Going To Start Highlighting Apps With Widgets
Google Play on Android devices is being updated to include a new search filter for widgets, widget badges on app detail pages, and a curated editorial page dedicated to widgets. The Verge reports: With the search filter, users will be able to more easily search for apps with widgets. The badge “eliminates guesswork for users and highlights your widget … ⌘ Read more

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US To Halt Offensive Cyber Operations Against Russia
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The United States has suspended its offensive cyber operations against Russia, according to reports, amid efforts by the Trump administration to grant Moscow concessions to end the war in Ukraine. The reported order to halt U.S.-launched hacking operations against Russia was authorized by U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Heg … ⌘ Read more

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Driverless Race Car Sets a New Autonomous Speed Record
A fully driverless Maserati MC20 Coupe set a new autonomous land speed record, reaching 197.7 mph at the Kennedy Space Center. The Verge reports: The Maserati was running self-driving software developed by Politecnico di Milano, Italy’s largest scientific and technological university. The team also worked with the Indy Autonomous Challenge, which most recently ran a … ⌘ Read more

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Microsoft Unveils New Voice-Activated AI Assistant For Doctors
Microsoft has introduced Dragon Copilot, a voice-activated AI assistant for doctors that integrates dictation and ambient listening tools to automate clinical documentation, including notes, referrals, and post-visit summaries. The tool is set to launch in May in the U.S. and Canada. CNBC reports: Microsoft acquired Nuance Communications, the company behin … ⌘ Read more

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TSMC Pledges To Spend $100 Billion On US Chip Facilities
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Chipmaker TSMC said that it aims to invest “at least” $100 billion in chip manufacturing plants in the U.S. over the next four years as part of an effort to expand the company’s network of semiconductor factories. President Donald Trump announced the news during a press conference Monday. TSMC’s cash infusion w … ⌘ Read more

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it’s been while since I’d stopped #window-manager hopping and just settled with #Herbstluftwm but I’m NGL, the River #Wayland compositor is starting to grow on me… I’m still not sure if it’s just me but something about it feels clean and snappy. The shortcuts in the vanilla/example configuration feel a bit clunky, but then again, it’s just me being used to the same old ones I keep adopting and replicating across WMs. I’ve got 0 energy for ricing so I’ll just roll with the vanilla config as is (maybe add in a short-cut for a launcher but that will be it).

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Former Intel CEO Barrett Calls for Board Dismissal and Gelsinger’s Return
Former Intel CEO Craig Barrett urged the rehiring of Pat Gelsinger, who was abruptly fired two months ago, arguing he should “finish the job he has aptly handled over the past few years.”

“Pat Gelsinger did a great job resuscitating the technology development team,” Barrett wrote, criticizing the company’s current leadership under “a … ⌘ Read more

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In-reply-to » I went on a 5:30 hours long hike to my second backyard mountain. About 12km to get there and roughly 9km on the way back. It was super nice, sunny all day long, 12°C and luckily just a little bit of wind. Great scenery. I managed to capture one great spotted woodpecker hammering along. There was also a kestrel hovering over a meadow and then landing on a sports field light pole. At the castle ruin I could watch 10-12 gliding red kites (with the V-shaped tail) and other raptors, maybe bussards, I don't know, for about five minutes. That was fascinating. Unfortunately, my camera doesn't too well with moving targets.

And I just added a video clip of the woodpecker. As you can easily see from the shaking, it hammers so dang hard that the whole ground around the tree vibrates.

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Call Centers Using AI To ‘Whiten’ Indian Accents
The world’s biggest call center company is using artificial intelligence to “neutralise” Indian accents for Western customers. From a report: Teleperformance said it was applying real-time AI software on phone calls in order to increase “human empathy” between two people on the phone. The French company’s customers in the UK include parts of the Government, the NHS, Vodafone and eBay. … ⌘ Read more

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I went on a 5:30 hours long hike to my second backyard mountain. About 12km to get there and roughly 9km on the way back. It was super nice, sunny all day long, 12°C and luckily just a little bit of wind. Great scenery. I managed to capture one great spotted woodpecker hammering along. There was also a kestrel hovering over a meadow and then landing on a sports field light pole. At the castle ruin I could watch 10-12 gliding red kites (with the V-shaped tail) and other raptors, maybe bussards, I don’t know, for about five minutes. That was fascinating. Unfortunately, my camera doesn’t too well with moving targets.

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The US Cities Whose Workers Are Most Exposed to AI
Silicon Valley, the place that did more than any other to pioneer artificial intelligence, is the most exposed to its ability to automate work. That’s according to an analysis by researchers at the Brookings Institution, a think tank, which matched the tasks that OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4 could do with the jobs that are most common in different US cities. From a report: The result … ⌘ Read more

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How the British Broke Their Own Economy
Britain, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, now suffers from its opposite: profound energy shortages and deep affordability crises

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In-reply-to » (#tbyqv7a) @andros Do edits cause problems? I sometimes make them and didn't realize it may be an issue

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org i appreciate you updating this with that info. been in the weeds at work so haven’t been tracking the conversation here much. let me sit on this for a bit because often times the edits are within seconds of first post so maybe maybe i just allow them within a certain time frame or do away with them all together. i really only do it because it bugs me once i notice the typo :)

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Waiting For the Paperback? Good Luck.
U.S. publishers are increasingly abandoning paperback editions of nonfiction books, eliminating a traditional second chance for authors to reach readers with lower-priced versions of their work. New adult nonfiction paperback titles plummeted 42% between 2019 and 2024

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In-reply-to » @eapl.me There are several points that I like, but I want to highlight number 7. https://text.eapl.mx/a-few-ideas-for-a-next-twtxt-version #twtxt

a few async ideas for later

The editing process needs a lot of consideration and compromises.

From one side, editing and deleting it’s necessary IMO. People will do it anyway, and personally I like to edit my texts, so I’d put some effort on make it work.
Should we keep a history of edits? Should we hash every edit to avoid abuse? Should we mark internally a twt as deleted, but keeping the replies?

I think that’s part of a more complete ‘thread’ extension, although I’d say it’s worth to agree on something reflecting the real usage in the wild, along with what people usually do on other platforms.

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Nvidia and Broadcom Testing Chips on Intel Manufacturing Process
Nvidia and Broadcom are conducting manufacturing tests using Intel’s advanced 18A chip production process, according to Reuters, signaling potential confidence in the struggling chipmaker’s contract manufacturing ambitions. The previously unreported tests could lead to significant manufacturing contracts for Intel, whose foundry business has suffered d … ⌘ Read more

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Lenovo’s ThinkBook Flip Puts an Extra-Tall Folding Display On a Laptop
Lenovo unveiled its ThinkBook “codename Flip” AI PC Concept at Mobile World Congress on Monday, featuring a flexible 18.1-inch OLED display that can transform between three configurations: a traditional 13.1-inch clamshell, a folded 12.9-inch tablet, or a laptop with an extra-tall vertical screen.

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In-reply-to » @eapl.me There are several points that I like, but I want to highlight number 7. https://text.eapl.mx/a-few-ideas-for-a-next-twtxt-version #twtxt

looks good to me!

About alice’s hash, using SHA256, I get 96473b4f or 96473B4F for the last 8 characters. I’ll add it as an implementation example.
The idea of including it besides the follow URL is to avoid calculating it every time we load the file (assuming the client did that correctly), and helps to track replies across the file with a simple search.

Also, watching your example I’m thinking now that instead of {url=96473B4F,id=1} which is ambiguous of which URL we are referring to, it could be something like:
{reply_to=[URL_HASH]_[TWT_ID]} / {reply_to=96473B4F_1}
That way, the ‘full twt ID’ could be 96473B4F_1.

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How Many Episodes Should You Watch Before Quitting a TV Show? A Statistical Analysis
Daniel Parris: Some TV shows take a while to “get good.” Modern classics like Breaking Bad, The Wire, Community, and Bojack Horseman are notorious for “starting slow” and are often recommended with a disclaimer like “Give it a few episodes; I promise it gets good!”

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China May Be Ready To Use Nuclear Fusion for Power by 2050
China aims to commercialize nuclear fusion technology for use in emissions-free power generation by 2050, according to the countryâ™s state-owned atomic company. From a report: China National Nuclear Corp., which runs an experimental device dubbed the ‘artificial sun,’ could start commercial operation of its first power generation project about five years afte … ⌘ Read more

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‘Why Can’t We Screenshot Frames From DRM-Protected Video on Apple Devices?’
Apple users noticed a change in 2023, “when streaming platforms like Netflix, HBO Max, Amazon Prime, and the Criterion Channel imposed a quiet embargo on the screenshot,” noted the film blog Screen Slate:

At first, there were workarounds: users could continue to screenshot by using the browser Brave or by downloading extension … ⌘ Read more

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In-reply-to » Blender-Rendered Movie 'Flow' Wins Oscar for Best Animated Feature, Beating Pixar It's a feature-length film "rendered on a free and open-source software platform called Blender," reports Reuters. And it just won the Oscar for best animated feature film, beating movies from major studios like Disney/Pixar and Dreamworks.

That’s pretty darn neat, the little indie movie (‘Flow’) made in Blender beat out some Disney/Pixar heavyweights. I actually watched it a month or so ago, nice little movie. It’s not the highest detailed animation or anything, but it has a style that it makes work.

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Can TrapC Fix C and C++ Memory Safety Issues?
“TrapC, a fork of the C language, is being developed as a potential solution for memory safety issues that have hindered the C and C++ languages,” reports InfoWorld.
But also being developed is a compiler named trapc “intended to be implemented as a cybersecurity compiler for C and C++ code, said developer Robin Rowe…”

Due by the end of this year, trapc will be a free, open so … ⌘ Read more

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Blender-Rendered Movie ‘Flow’ Wins Oscar for Best Animated Feature, Beating Pixar
It’s a feature-length film “rendered on a free and open-source software platform called Blender,” reports Reuters. And it just won the Oscar for best animated feature film, beating movies from major studios like Disney/Pixar and Dreamworks.

In January Blender.org called Flow “the manifestation of Blender’s mission, … ⌘ Read more

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Linux’s Marketshare Drops in Monthly Steam Survey
What’s Linux’s marketshare on Steam? The Steam Survey numbers tell this story:

11/24: 2.03%
12/24: 2.29%
01/25: 2.06%
02:25: 1.45%

“The February numbers show a staggering 0.61% drop to Linux use…” reports Phoronix. But they attribute this to an sampling error:
According to the survey, it shows 50% of Steam users using the Simplified Chinese language pack [a 20% increase … ⌘ Read more

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