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Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down (www.theverge.com)

Google Cloud accidentally deletes a financial institution account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’ (www.theguardian.com)

A week of downtime and all the servers were recovered only because the customer had a proper disaster recovery protocol and held backups somewhere else, otherwise Google deleted the backups too...

SGE, ChatGPT and the likes are the stupidest thing to come from AI

This may be an unpopular opinnion… Let me get this straight. We get big tech corporations to read the articles of the web and then summarize to me, the user the info I am looking for. Sounds cool, right? Yeah, except that why in the everloving duck would I trust Google, Microsoft, Apple or Meta to give me the correct info,...

Firefox 126: New Search Data Telemetry, Improved Copy Without Site Tracking, Security Fixes, and More (www.mozilla.org)

Telemetry was added to create an aggregate count of searches by category to broadly inform search feature development. These categories are based on 20 high-level content types, such as "sports,” “business,” and “travel”. This data will not be associated with specific users and will be collected using OHTTP to remove...

Benefits of resolutions beyond 1080p

This is a genuine question, so please don’t do me like Vlad the Impaler. What is your opinion about the benefits of upgrading to displays beyond 1080p?...

Deactivating Facebook for just a few weeks reduces belief in fake news (english.elpais.com)

ASUS Scammed Us (Gamers Nexus) (www.youtube.com)

A Staggering 19x Energy Jump in Capacitors May Be the Beginning of the End for Batteries (www.popularmechanics.com)

Comcast Unveils Peacock, Netflix, Apple TV+ Streaming Bundle (www.hollywoodreporter.com)

Cable is dead. Long live the cable bundle. Curious to see the pricing and if the bundle only includes ad tiered options.

Report: Microsoft to face antitrust case over Teams (arstechnica.com)

Apple, SpaceX, Microsoft return-to-office mandates drove senior talent away (arstechnica.com)

The study (PDF), published this month by University of Chicago and University of Michigan researchers and reported by The Washington Post on Sunday, says:...

The Birth, Boom and Bust of the Hard Disk Drive (www.youtube.com)

Read the memo: Meta is shutting down Workplace, cutting back enterprise ambitions (techcrunch.com)

Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports to add proper ray tracing, ultrawide, high FPS, and more (www.tomshardware.com)

Firefox to collect your (anonymized) search data (blog.mozilla.org)

The Flaws that Allow Hackers to Remotely Access Cars (yt.artemislena.eu)

Canonical YouTube link

Waymo Under Investigation for Driverless Car Crashes and Traffic Violations (www.thedrive.com)

The NHTSA is probing Google-supported Waymo regarding crashes caused by its driverless taxi program and underperforming self-driving tech.

Microsoft wipes out evidence of real ads in Windows 11 Start menu (www.xda-developers.com)

‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services (www.theguardian.com)

Google Accidentally Deleted $125 Billion Pension Fund's Account (gizmodo.com)

Hello GPT-4o (openai.com)

GPT-4o (“o” for “omni”) is a step towards much more natural human-computer interaction—it accepts as input any combination of text, audio, and image and generates any combination of text, audio, and image outputs. It can respond to audio inputs in as little as 232 milliseconds, with an average of 320 milliseconds,...

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