X jacks up Premium+ prices 37.5%, hits some markets harder (techcrunch.com)
Possible ban on Chinese-made drones dismays U.S. scientists (www.science.org)
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Watching the Generative AI Hype Bubble Deflate (ash.harvard.edu)
Scottish Government bans use of WhatsApp for official business (www.scotsman.com)
Data centers consumed 4.4% of US power in 2023, could hit 12% by 2028 (www.datacenterdynamics.com)
Startup set to brick $800 kids robot is trying to open source it first (arstechnica.com)
guy builds WOPR. bad news wardialers, doesnt include a modem for game mayhem. (www.hackster.io)
Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, WOPR has been reborn and is intent on world domination. With a Raspberry Pi upgrade, it might succeed.
TIL in 2012 NASA's messenger mission found icy glaciers on mercury (cosmosmagazine.com)
VPN used for VR game cheat sells access to your home network (www.wired.com)
Elon Musk hints at 'X Mail,' a potential Gmail competitor (www.pcworld.com)
All of Telegram's Lies About Privacy (donald.cat)
As firms abandon VMware, Broadcom is laughing all the way to the bank (arstechnica.com)
Search for alternative to WordPress surges worldwide amidst rift between WP-Engine and Matt Mullenweg (www.techradar.com)
Data from Google Trends noted search requests around the website builder boomed in October 2024, especially on October 8, where it reached a peak score of 100....
Apple collaborates with NVIDIA to research faster LLM performance (9to5mac.com)
Apple engineers have shared new details on a collaboration with NVIDIA to implement faster text generation performance with large language models.
Mozilla: Proposed contractual remedies in United States v. Google threaten vital role of independent browsers (blog.mozilla.org)
As written, the proposed remedies will force smaller and independent browsers like Firefox to fundamentally reexamine their entire operating model.
Google Contract Staff Reach Union Deal Banning Keystroke Monitoring (www.bloomberg.com)
Netflix struggles to understand its cloud costs (www.theregister.com)
Mozilla partners with Ecosia for a better web | The Mozilla Blog (blog.mozilla.org)
Seagate launches 30/32TB capacity Exos M mechanical HDD (30/32TB capacity) (www.guru3d.com)
Apple Intelligence summary botches a headline, causing jitters in BBC newsroom (www.theregister.com)
Really cool audio based social network for the blind (livewire.us)
Livewire - Audio Social Network for the blind. Check out their site livewire.us or call 602.560.6050. Big community. Basic service is always free!
Perplexity, not Google, is now the best search engine (www.theregister.com)
X's declining user base: Elon Musk's platform projected to lose millions of users in 2025 (mashable.com)
Most iPhone owners see little to no value in Apple Intelligence so far (9to5mac.com)
You know what scares us about big tech? Planned obsolescence. (www.fairphone.com)
