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Is it possible to design a social media app or service that rather than focuses on farming engagement, it tries to promote quality content?

This Year, RISC-V Laptops Arrive (spectrum.ieee.org)

cross-posted from: lemmy.bestiver.se/post/174306...

Samsung, Google take on Dolby Atmos with new 'Eclipsa Audio' (www.theverge.com)

Biohybrid's Neural Implant Connects to the Brain With Living Neurons (singularityhub.com)

To get around the problem of damaging 10,000 neurons just to connect with 1,000, Biohybrid is experimenting with an approach that makes donor neurons a part of the implant itself - potentially allowing for dramatically better connection scaling.

China to subsidise smartphone purchases in bid to lift spending (www.straitstimes.com)

Generative AI is a Parasitic Cancer (www.youtube.com)

Germany hits 62.7% renewables in 2024 energy mix, with solar contributing 14% (www.pv-magazine.com)

Apple to pay $95 million to settle Siri privacy lawsuit (www.reuters.com)

Samsung is the next company to try to popularize 3D displays (again) (arstechnica.com)

Self-Driving Waymo Cab Smashes Into Delivery Robot (futurism.com)

Meta's Nick Clegg to step down, will be replaced by well-connected Republican (www.axios.com)

Almost the entire US South is now being blocked by Pornhub (arstechnica.com)

AI-generated phishing emails are getting very good at targeting executives (arstechnica.com)

Solidigm pulls out of consumer SSD market with discontinuation of drives (www.tomshardware.com)

"SPINACH": LLM-based tool to translate "challenging real-world questions" into Wikidata SPARQL queries (en.wikipedia.org)

More generally, this kind of task is called "Knowledge Base Question Answering" (KBQA). The authors observe that many benchmarks have been published for it over the last decade, and that recently, the KBQA community has shifted toward using Wikidata as the underlying knowledge base for KBQA datasets. However, they criticize...

Linux Context Switching Internals: Part 1 - Process State and Memory (blog.codingconfessions.com)

Canada joins the hunt for rare earths to make chips (www.tomshardware.com)

Integrate sex dolls into your life! (www.bestrealdoll.com)

The first step to getting your full size sex doll involved in your life is to treat her like a member of your family. Sex dolls, especially high-quality silicone sex dolls, are designed to be incredibly lifelike. This realism can make the experience feel more real, and by giving her a place in your home, such as in your living...

2024 Brought Even More Customization To Boxes.py (hackaday.com)

[Europe only] This year whatsapp will finally open interoperability ?

due to the new rules of European Union, whatsapp has/had one year - iirc - to open the app to talk with other apps. iirc, this started on February/March of 2024 and we are in 2025. Anyone knows more details or news about it? This is ONLY applicable to European Union countrys, iirc.

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