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Veteran Microsoft engineer Larry Osterman is the latest to throw his hat into the "tabs versus spaces" ring. From a report: The debate has vexed engineers for decades -- is it best to indent code with tabs or spaces? Osterman, a four-decade veteran of Microsoft, was Team Tabs when storage was tight, but has since become Team Spaces with the advent of terabytes of relatively inexpensive storage. "Here's the thing," he said. "When you've got 512 kilobytes, and you're writing a program in Pascal with lots of i
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Eight of Elon Musk's direct reports at Tesla have left over the past year. Read more ›
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Upon inspection, the offer of a free month of Starlink service seems to be the type of deal you might give to any new customer. Read more ›
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That Jeff Goldblum-starring series about the Greek Pantheon has already passed into myth. Read more ›
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Taylor Swift returned to Kansas City on Monday to support Travis Kelce, pairing designer clothes with $16 glitter freckles. Read more ›
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Because if we learned anything from the Terminator franchise, it's that cops are good. Read more ›
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The question isn't why I have one of these in my kitchen drawer. Why don't you? Read more ›
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PepsiCo, which makes Doritos, Ruffles, and Tostitos, is trying to win over shoppers with bigger packs of chips after years of inflation. Read more ›
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LVMH's Bernard Arnault and Kering's François Pinault took a hit to their vast fortunes as luxury stocks suffered on China stimulus disappointment. Read more ›
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Former first lady Melania Trump in her new memoir questioned how Fox News was able to call Arizona for Biden "so early" on election night. Read more ›
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Hurricane Milton rapidly intensified from a tropical storm with 35 mph to a Category 5 hurricane with 180 mph in two days. See its rapid evolution. Read more ›
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Bungie is being sued for copyright infringement by a writer who claims the studio copied his "original work about a unique and captivating fantasy world" for Destiny 2's Red War campaign. Read more Read more ›
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Nolan's sci-fi epic starring Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, and Timothée Chalamet is coming back. Read more ›
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Apple today added the final iPod nano and iPod shuffle models to its obsolete products list worldwide, marking the end of an era. Apple introduced new color options for the seventh-generation iPod nano and fourth-generation iPod shuffle in 2015, and those models are now obsolete in particular. Apple went on to discontinue the iPod nano and iPod shuffle entirely in 2017. Apple considers a device to be "obsolete" once seven... Read more ›
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The Tesla CEO told Tucker Carlson that he might face "vengeance" if Vice President Kamala Harris triumphs in the presidential election. Read more ›
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The Cybertruck is the latest addition to Tesla's electric lineup. Here's everything we know about its price, specs, range, and more. Read more ›
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Doctor Who merch is pretty spartan these days, but it's nice to see the 15th Doctor and Ruby step into the action figure spotlight. Read more ›
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Luxury river cruise line Uniworld's first women-only voyage will sail in August 2025. The announcement comes as more women have been traveling solo. Read more ›
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Rockstar has announced Red Dead Redemption - including its standalone zombie expansion Undead Nightmare - will arrive on PC on 29th October. Read more Read more ›
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Apple appears to be slowly moving away from regular, timed hardware and software releases that come on an annual basis, instead favoring more of a staggered product release cycle, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman highlighted in his most recent Power On newsletter. Gurman suggests that Apple Intelligence is evidence that Apple is "ever-so-slightly" moving away from a big fall launch for its hardware and software products. iOS 18 and macOS Sequoia debuted... Read more ›
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The Register's Thomas Claburn reports: Buck Shlegeris, CEO at Redwood Research, a nonprofit that explores the risks posed by AI, recently learned an amusing but hard lesson in automation when he asked his LLM-powered agent to open a secure connection from his laptop to his desktop machine. "I expected the model would scan the network and find the desktop computer, then stop," Shlegeris explained to The Register via email. "I... Read more ›
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The Register's Simon Sharwood reports: AT&T has claimed that Broadcom made it an offer to increase prices by 1,050 percent, and may be influencing other vendors to make a migration harder. The claim of the colossal price hike came in an email [PDF] filed in evidence by AT&T in its case alleging Broadcom hasn't honored a contract that would allow the carrier to acquire an additional two years of support... Read more ›
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The small town of Spruce Pine, North Carolina, which supplies high-purity quartz essential for semiconductor production, is reeling from the damage caused by Tropical Storm Helene. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Axios: Spruce Pine is one of the only places in the world to mine high-purity quartz. The mineral is an essential ingredient of chips in countless products, including medical devices, solar panels, cellphones and the chips powering... Read more ›
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Microsoft is releasing a new version of Office this week, designed for people that don't want to subscribe to Microsoft 365. From a report: The standalone Microsoft Office 2024 release is now available for both consumers and small businesses, and includes locked-in-time versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook across both Mac and PC. Office 2024 includes a lot of the updates that Microsoft has been delivering to Microsoft... Read more ›
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The Firefox extension for the uBlock Origin Lite content blocker is no longer available. According to Neowin, "Raymond Hill, the maker of the extension, pulled support and moved uBlock Origin Lite to self-hosting after multiple encounters with a 'nonsensical and hostile' review process from the store review team." From the report: It all started in early September when Mozilla flagged every version of the uBlock Origin Lite extension as violating... Read more ›
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Amazon is set to roll out a greater number of ads [non-paywalled link] across its blockbuster television shows and movies on Prime Video next year as the US tech giant steps up its push into ad-funded streaming services. Financial Times: The company said it had not seen a sharp drop in subscribers since it introduced advertising to its Prime Video platform eight months ago, allaying fears among top executives of... Read more ›
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Cloudflare has emerged victorious in a patent infringement lawsuit against Sable Networks, securing a $225,000 settlement and forcing the patent holder to dedicate its entire portfolio to the public domain. The case, which began in March 2021 with Sable asserting nearly 100 claims across four patents, concluded after a Texas jury found Cloudflare not guilty of infringement in February 2024. Sable, described by Cloudflare as a "patent troll," had previously... Read more ›
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The decline of journalism has been attributed to many factors, from slow adaptation to the internet to the dominance of tech giants in advertising. But a veteran journalist offers a new perspective: the death of the hyperlink could be changing the fundamental nature of the internet, with significant implications for the news industry. Matt Pearce: There is a real bias against hyperlinking that has developed on platforms and apps over... Read more ›
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A study published in Nature has found that conservative social media users were more likely to face sanctions, but attributes this to their higher propensity to share low-quality news rather than political bias. Researchers analyzed 9,000 Twitter users during the 2020 U.S. election, finding pro-Trump users were 4.4 times more likely to be suspended than pro-Biden users. However, they also shared significantly more links from sites rated as untrustworthy by... Read more ›
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Audio Overview, a new AI podcasting tool by Google, can generate realistic podcasts with human-like voices using content uploaded by users through NotebookLM. MIT Technology Review reports: NotebookLM, which is powered by Google's Gemini 1.5 model, allows people to upload content such as links, videos, PDFs, and text. They can then ask the system questions about the content, and it offers short summaries. The tool generates a podcast called Deep... Read more ›
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