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An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Something very strange is happening inside Super Nintendo (SNES) consoles as they age: a component you've probably never heard of is running ever so slightly faster as we get further and further away from the time the consoles first hit the market in the early '90s. The discovery started a mild panic in the speedrunning community in late February since one theoretical consequence of a faster-running console is that it could impact how fast games are runnin
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Tesla protests, falling sales, and fierce competition are testing the popular saying, "You should never bet against Elon Musk." Read more ›
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A directive from the National Institute of Standards and Technology eliminates mention of “AI safety” and “AI fairness.” Read more ›
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Tesla is set to unveil a more affordable vehicle in the first half of 2025. Details are scarce, but new reports say it could take after the Model Y. Read more ›
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Before graduating from college, Rajan Chida and Renzo Sanio plan to build a luxury cabin retreat in Virginia — and they're starting from scratch. Read more ›
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Amazon is killing a privacy feature to bolster Alexa+, the new subscription assistant. Read more ›
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Business Insider spoke to nearly a dozen older Americans about how they view their retirement amid a wave of market and economic uncertainty. Read more ›
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DOGE terminated Navy veteran Ben Gibson after he moved from Idaho to Washington, DC, for a VA job. He said the process was unbelievable. Read more ›
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Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway owns the BNSF Railway. It's suffered a surge in thefts of items such as Nike sneakers and Turtle Beach headsets. Read more ›
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A UC Riverside study argues that if a certain group of methyl gases is found in exoplanet atmospheres it could be a biosignature. Read more ›
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Brion cheated on his partner by having a threesome on Netflix's "Temptation Island." Here where his relationship with Shanté stands today. Read more ›
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Tom Trotter, 29, was used to people thinking it was strange he worked long hours growing his business. So when loved ones worried he was obsessed with fitness, he didn't listen at first. Read more ›
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Amy Gleason, acting DOGE office administrator, said in a court filing that she doesn't work for Elon Musk, nor does the billionaire work for her. Read more ›
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From Salt Lake City to Park City, I spent three days exploring Utah's Silicon Slopes. I made mistakes when booking and packing for the winter trip. Read more ›
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Leslie Redmond, 38, moved from Anchorage, Alaska, to Winnipeg, Canada, in 2022. She feels it's a safer, more caring place to raise her kids. Read more ›
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Johnson & Johnson signed a multibillion-dollar contract with ChemImage in 2019. The two companies will face off in court next week. Read more ›
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After using Samsung and Google phones for three years, I’ve picked up an iPhone again – here’s what I thought about going back to Apple with the iPhone 16e. Read more ›
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Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona said he could no longer stand the association with Elon Musk. Read more ›
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One Canadian visitor to Palm Springs, California canceled his $7,000 Airbnb reservation. It comes amid rising tensions between the US and Canada. Read more ›
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Senate Democrats decided not to block a GOP-led funding bill, which many have said fails to do enough to rein in Elon Musk's DOGE. Read more ›
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Glide bombs, drones and ground assaults have been key to Russian offensives in Ukraine. NATO should be paying close attention. Read more ›
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"The ubiquitous ESP32 microchip made by Chinese manufacturer Espressif and used by over 1 billion units as of 2023 contains an undocumented 'backdoor' that could be leveraged for attacks," writes BleepingComputer. "The undocumented commands allow spoofing of trusted devices, unauthorized data access, pivoting to other devices on the network, and potentially establishing long-term persistence." This was discovered by Spanish researchers Miguel Tarascó Acuña and Antonio Vázquez Blanco of Tarlogic Security,. Read more ›
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smooth wombat writes: In what can only be described as a no-brainer, Volkswagen has announced it will have once again have physical buttons in all its vehicles. As Andreas Mindt, design chief at the company said, removing buttons was "a mistake". "From the ID 2all onwards, we will have physical buttons for the five most important functions -- the volume, the heating on each side of the car, the fans... Read more ›
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As Christie's auction house planned the first-ever auction dedicated to AI-generated art works, over 5,600 people signed an online letter urging them to cancel it. "Many of the artworks you plan to auction were created using AI models that are known to be trained on copyrighted work without a license," the letter complained. "These models, and the companies behind them, exploit human artists, using their work without permission or payment... Read more ›
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Philosophy/ethics professor Troy Jollimore looks at the implications of a world where many students are submitting AI-generated essays. ("Sometimes they will provide quotations, giving page numbers that, as often as not, do not seem to correspond to anything in the actual world...") Ideally if the students write the essays themselves, "some of them start to feel it. They begin to grasp that thinking well, and in an informed manner, really... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: AI excels at following instructions -- but it's not pushing the boundaries of knowledge, says Thomas Wolf. The chief science officer and cofounder of Hugging Face, an open-source AI company backed by Amazon and Nvidia, analyzed the limits of large language models. He wrote that the field produces "overly compliant helpers" rather than revolutionaries. Right now, AI isn't creating new knowledge, Wolf wrote. Instead,... Read more ›
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Microsoft says that some USB printers will start printing random text after installing Windows updates released since late January 2025. From a report: The known issue affects Windows 10 (version 22H2) and Windows 11 (versions 22H2 and 23H2), but according to an update to the Windows release health dashboard, the latest Windows 11 24H2 is not impacted. "After installing the January 2025 Windows preview update (KB5050092), released January 29, 2025,... Read more ›
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Microsoft is preparing to launch an AI-powered Copilot for Gaming soon that will guide Xbox players through games and act as an assistant to download and launch games. From a report: Copilot for Gaming, as Microsoft is branding it, will be available through the Xbox mobile app initially and is designed to work on a second screen as a companion or assistant. Microsoft is positioning Copilot for Gaming as a... Read more ›
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The Washington Post reports: Meta was willing to go to extreme lengths to censor content and shut down political dissent in a failed attempt to win the approval of the Chinese Communist Party and bring Facebook to millions of internet users in China, according to a new whistleblower complaint from a former global policy director at the company. The complaint by Sarah Wynn-Williams, who worked on a team handling China... Read more ›
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Microsoft is ending support of its Remote Desktop app for Windows on May 27th. From a report: If you use the Remote Desktop app to connect to Windows 365, Azure Virtual Desktop, or Microsoft Dev Box machines then you'll have to transition to the Windows app instead. The new Windows app, which launched in September, includes multimonitor support, dynamic display resolutions, and easy access to cloud PCs and virtual desktops.... Read more ›
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"The early web was fun," Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian posted Wednesday on X.com. "It was weird. It was community-driven. It's time to rebuild that. "Which is why Kevin Rose and I just bought back Digg." The amount of that purchase is "undisclosed," reports CNBC: The deal is backed by venture capital firms True Ventures, where Rose is a partner, and Ohanian's Seven Seven Six.... The company said in a release... Read more ›
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