For-profit Pie Adblock (from the founder of Honey) called out for copying uBlock Origin open source code without credit (www.theregister.com)
This Year, RISC-V Laptops Arrive (spectrum.ieee.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.bestiver.se/post/174306...
Reddit is Dead. Lemmy is Dead. Everything is Dead. (pomogaev.ca)
Just some thoughts I have on reddit and lemmy and some interesting things I have found. A piece of original content. No AI.
Sonic Galactic Is So Good "It Could Stand As An Official Sega Product" (www.timeextension.com)
Trailer...
Samsung, Google take on Dolby Atmos with new 'Eclipsa Audio' (www.theverge.com)
Nintendo Switch games coming in 2025 (www.nintendo.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)
Germany hits 62.7% renewables in 2024 energy mix, with solar contributing 14% (www.pv-magazine.com)
What a random person on the internet thought of Half-Life: Opposing Force (scratch-that.org)
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...
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)
Nintendo Switch 2 Leaked Motherboard Analysis Suggests SoC Uses Samsung 5nm Node; NVIDIA DLSS 4K Upscaling Mentioned in New Patent (wccftech.com)
Linux Context Switching Internals: Part 1 - Process State and Memory (blog.codingconfessions.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...
Solidigm pulls out of consumer SSD market with discontinuation of drives (www.tomshardware.com)
Gar-Type is a free pixelart shooter based on a cosmic horror meme about a lazy, ravenous housecat (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Link to game: lumpytouch.itch.io/gar-type
YSK: There's a site that lists delisted games (delistedgames.com)
The site also has pages for keeping track of what has been delisted from specific vendors, such as Steam, Epic or GOG for PC
GTA 5 Cheat Codes To Maximize Your Gameplay (www.the-headline.com)
