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Official: EU users can swerve App Store and download iOS apps from the web

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Time ticking also for

Microsoft Edge on Windows

When will the uninstall option drop?

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What can be done to protect open source devs from next xz backdoor drama?

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Open Source Quality Institutes

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/04/01/OSQI

get the government to pay

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Sleuths who cracked Zodiac Killer's cipher thank the crowd

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WTF?

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Want to keep Windows 10 secure? This is how much Microsoft will charge you

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Year of Lunix desktop

coming up!

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Don't be like these 900+ websites and expose millions of passwords via Firebase

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Burning down the house

...

Here's your ticket, pack your bags

Time for jumpin' overboard

...

Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3eC35LoF4U

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McDonald's ordering system suffers McFlurry of tech troubles

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Click ☰ menu

and reboot.

I'm loving it!

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Voyager 1 starts making sense again after months of babble

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TS Eliot:

...

Not fare well,

But fare forward, voyagers.

from /The Dry Salvages/

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It's crazy but it's true: Apple rejected Bing for wrong answers about Annie Lennox

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If you're on Safari

then you are a Tourist, no?

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Top LLMs struggle to make accurate legal arguments

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IANAL

IAAAI

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Something nasty injected login-stealing JavaScript into 50K online banking sessions

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App safer?

Doesn't using an app rather than the web site avoid this particular beast?

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Tesla sues Swedish government after worker rebellion cripples car biz

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Elon's Musketeers

that made my morning

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New information physics theory is evidence 'we're living in a simulation,' says author

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Information is not knowledge...

Knowledge is not wisdom...

Wisdom is not truth...

F.Zappa

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Mozilla's midlife crisis has taken it from web pioneer to Google's weird neighbor

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One differentiator is that ...

Firefox allows Addons on Android and is now opening up to all comers.

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2023/08/10/prepare-your-firefox-desktop-extension-for-the-upcoming-android-release/

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Researchers train an AI system to find extraterrestrial life

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AI system to find extraterrestrial life ...

... only to find itself

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Boffins reckon Mars colony could survive with fewer than two dozen people

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A philologist by the name of Ransom

would be the ideal candidate

if he might be persuaded

by say a ruthless and arrogant scientist by the name of Dr Weston.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_the_Silent_Planet#Characters

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Voyager 2 found! Deep Space Network hears it chattering in space

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Re: The disco-era spacecraft

NASA to VGER2

...

Love is so confusing, there's no peace of mind

If I FEAR I'M LOSIN' YOU, it's just no good

You teasin' like you do...

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Building bits of brain in the lab will change our minds

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That Hideous Strength - CS Lewis Chap 8

“And you think that some day we shall really find a means of

keeping the brain alive indefinitely?”

“We have begun already. The Head himself . . .”

“Go on,” said Mark. This at last was the real thing. “The Head

himself has already survived death, and you shall speak to him this

night.”

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.207839

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Google unleashes fightback against ChatGPT, a Bard by any other name

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Can't wait to ...

ask one to imitate the other

and vice versa.

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Publisher breaks news by using bots to write inaccurate stories

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Pint

Long Live ...

ElReg!

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Scientists tricked into believing fake abstracts written by ChatGPT were real

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Cartoon

https://i.postimg.cc/j2G3gmzg/Pier-Review.jpg

(Sorry don't seem to be able to embed image here)

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University students recruit AI to write essays for them. Now what?

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Oral exams ...

where the student explains their submitted essay.

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Voice assistants failed because they serve their makers more than they help users

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Has anyone tried ...

having Siri to chat to Alexa to GoogleAssistant

while Chat.GPT riffs off the results

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How do you solve the problem that is Twitter?

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Given how upbeat Elon Musk is:

it's not so surprising he's an anagram of Me No Sulk

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Twenty years on, command-line virus scanner ClamAV puts out version 1

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It's on VirusTotal

so you may be using ClamAV already without having installed it.

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Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to 11 years in prison

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Devil

Vampirella

any one:

https://archive.org/details/vampirella_202003

(Angela Carter's)

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How I made a Chrome extension for converting Reg articles to UK spelling

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Re: Spellerizer?

If it's a web-extension Addon it should also br portable to Firefox.

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Astroboffins present fresh evidence of moving liquid water on Mars

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Linux

Water, water, everywhere,

And all the boards did shrink;

Water, water, everywhere,

Nor any drop to drink.

https://poets.org/poem/rime-ancient-mariner

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Merge shifts Ethereum to full proof-of-stake, price slumps

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and Proof of Randomness?

How does one tell if the validator selection is fair and random?

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NASA uses occult means to spot tiny moon orbiting asteroid

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Lucy in the Sky

with solar panels.

Kaleidoscope eyes - anyone?

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Microsoft open-sources its emojis as part of new design philosophy

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Comment

Smiley Face

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First-ever James Webb Space Telescope image revealed

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Re: Still missing?

Any sign of god?

The devil is in the details

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Google: How we tackled this iPhone, Android spyware

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> It appears the snoops using the surveillance tool got the victims' cellular providers to degrade their wireless internet connectivity, thus convincing the marks to run the app.

Which Italian cellular provider?

TIM?

Vodafone?

Three?

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Telegram criticizes Apple for 'intentionally crippling' web app features on iOS

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So that's why Safari remains in the stone age.

To avoid webapps taking away their AppStore revenue stream.

Surprised?

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UK competition watchdog seeks to make mobile browsers, cloud gaming and payments more competitive

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Firefox is not a complete sock-puppet

- in particular it distinguishes by permitting some degree of WebExtension add-ons.

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Google now requires two staff to sign off each Go change

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Stop

Going to A Go Go ...

else Stop Go

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The first step to data privacy is admitting you have a problem, Google

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Google Access Denied for your link to Douglas Leith report

But I found it here:

https://www.scss.tcd.ie/doug.leith/privacyofdialerandsmsapps.pdf

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Russian demand for VPNs skyrockets by 2,692%

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Isn't it all his troll farms trying to get back to work?

VPN = Vladimir Putin Network?

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Brave takes the spring out of creepy bounce tracking

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Big Brother

Yeah but ...

Firefox addressed this issue back in 2020:

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2020/08/04/firefox-79-includes-protections-against-redirect-tracking/

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Foxstuck: Firefox browser bug boots legions of users offline

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Yes, another own goal.

Firefox redirected the less-savvy users towards other browsers/

Head should roll, but won't.

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Linux Mint 20.3 appears – now with more Mozilla flavor: Why this distro switched Firefox defaults back to Google

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Better to make a MINT

with linux

rather than with Dogecoin

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Mobile networks really hate Apple's Private Relay: Some folks find iOS privacy feature blocked on their iPhones

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Re: Private Relay

I they want a

paler variety (anag)

of private relay

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Google: We disagree with Sonos patent ruling so much, we've changed our code to avoid infringement

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Holmes

Why didn't Google

just buy Sonos?

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Timekeeping biz Kronos hit by ransomware and warns customers to engage biz continuity plans

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Time will say nothing but I told you so,

Time only knows the price we have to pay;

If I could tell you I would let you know.

More lines here:

https://allpoetry.com/poem/8492977-Villanelle-by-W-H-Auden

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Assange extradition case goes to UK Home Secretary as High Court rules he can be sent to US for trial

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Big Brother

Go whistle

don't whistle blow.

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Give us your biometric data to get your lunch in 5 seconds, UK schools tell children

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Face on a plate

Much to his Mum and Dad's dismay,

Horace ate himself one day.

He didn't stop to say his grace,

He just sat down and ate his face.

...

https://www.oatridge.co.uk/poems/m/monty-python-horace.php

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Microsoft turns Windows Subsystem for Linux into an app for Windows

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Can I now dump Cygwin?

and run all my shell scripts in WSL?

(just dreaming I suppose)

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Maker of ATM bombing tutorials blew himself up – Euro cops

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At.m bomb

anyone?

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