Future of Apple Fitness+ ‘Under Review’
The future of Apple Fitness+ is “under review” amid a reorganization of the service, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.
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‘Breaking Bad’ Creator Hates AI, Promises New Show ‘Pluribus’ Was ‘Made By Humans’
The new series from Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan, Pluribus, was emphatically made by humans, not AI, reports TechCrunch:
If you watched all the way to the end of the new Apple TV show “Pluribus,” you may have noticed an unusual disclaimer in the credits: “This show was made by humans.” That terse messa … ⌘ Read more
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Philippines evacuates hundreds of thousands as super typhoon nears
Nearly a million people have been evacuated and floodwaters were rising in the Philippines on Sunday before Typhoon Fung-wong’s expected late-night landfall on the east coast. ⌘ Read more
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Boring Company fined nearly $500K after it dumped drilling fluids into manholes
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The Ofcom Files, Part 2: IP Blocking the UK is Not Enough to Comply with the Online Safety Act
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Russian Ka-226 helicopter crashes in Dagestan, killing weapons plant employees ⌘ Read more
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New Firefox Mascot ‘Kit’ Unveiled On New Web Page
“The Firefox brand is getting a refresh and you get the first look,” says a new web page at Firefox.com. “Kit’s our new mascot and your new companion through an internet that’s private, open and actually yours.”
Slashdot reader BrianFagioli believes the new mascot “is meant to communicate that message in a warmer, more relatable way.”
And Firefox is already selling shirts wit … ⌘ Read more
SquashFS Tools 4.7.3 Brings Optimizations For As Much As “1500 Times” Speed Improvement
For those dealing with SquashFS compressed, read-only file-systems, a new version of the user-space tools were released this week… ⌘ Read more
Former nurse turns ‘absolute passion’ for lavender into 35-year career
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Uncertainty for small-scale Tasmanian farmers over new food safety rules
The new regulations would bring Tasmania into line with national standards, but smaller growers are worried they will have to pay the same fees and meet the same auditing requirements as large-scale growers. ⌘ Read more
How to Brew Solar Powered Coffee
Image: The solar powered coffee maker that we build in this manual. Photo by Marie Verdeil.
There are many different methods for making coffee, some more energy-efficient than others. However, there are no coffee makers that … ⌘ Read more
SLogic16U3 USB3 Logic Analyzer Combines Compact Design with 3.2 Gbps Bandwidth
The SLogic16U3 is a next-generation USB3 logic analyzer designed for engineers and hobbyists seeking high-speed signal analysis in a small form factor. Measuring just 40 × 40 × 10 mm, it provides sampling rates of 800 M @ 4 channels, 400 M @ 8 channels, and 200 M @ 16 channels over a USB 3.0 […] ⌘ Read more
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Common Crawl Criticized for ‘Quietly Funneling Paywalled Articles to AI Developers’
For more than a decade, the nonprofit Common Crawl “has been scraping billions of webpages to build a massive archive of the internet,” notes the Atlantic, making it freely available for research.
“In recent years, however, this archive has been put to a controversial purpose: AI companies including OpenAI, Goo … ⌘ Read more
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Scientists Edit Gene in 15 Patients That May Permanently Reduce High Cholesterol
A CRISPR-based drug given to study participants by infusion is raising hopes for a much easier way to lower cholesterol, reports CNN:
With a snip of a gene, doctors may one day permanently lower dangerously high cholesterol, possibly removing the need for medication, according to a new pilot study published Sat … ⌘ Read more
Debugging BeagleBoard USB boot with a sniffer: fixing omap_loader on modern PCs
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Debugging BeagleBoard USB boot with a sniffer: fixing omap_loader on modern PCs
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