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NotSanguine writes:According to Ars Technica:

upstart writes:Changing just 0.001% of inputs to misinformation makes the AI less accurate:

upstart writes:Ted Farnsworth, former CEO of Helios and Matheson Analytics, lied about the success of MoviePass to attract investors:

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owl writes:http://www.coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-computers/

AnonTechie writes:[Source]: FUTURISM

taylorvich writes:https://techxplore.com/news/2025-01-ai-unveils-strange-chip-functionalities.html

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upstart writes:Remake of 1993 classic lets you drink wine and eat hors d'oeuvres as you admire masterpieces from art history:

Freeman writes:https://crawshaw.io/blog/programming-with-llms/

c0lo writes:The 2024 Fish Doorbell season is over

Frosty Piss writes:Quantum? No solace: Nvidia CEO sinks QC stocks with '20 years off' forecast

owl writes:https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2024-chick-fil-a-lemonade/Archive link: https://archive.is/xQDaH

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AnonTechie writes:[Source]: Techdirt

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taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2025-01-ants-grudges.html

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owl writes:They can't even follow their own rules:https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/08/eu-court-fines-european-commission-for-breaching-its-own-data-privacy-laws/

Motor Trend is reporting on early production of a new permanent magnet material https://www.motortrend.com/features/niron-magnetics-clean-earth-permanent-magnets-ces-2025/ suitable for replacing the rare-earth magnets used, for example, in electric car motors, as well as loud speakers and many other products.Invented some time back by university researchers and now in the pilot production stage (with suitably large investors like car companies),

fliptop writes:Facebook, Instagram, and Threads are ditching third-party fact-checkers in favor of a Community Notes program inspired by X, according to an announcement penned by Meta's new Trump-friendly policy chief Joel Kaplan. Meta is also moving its trust and safety teams from California to Texas:

taylorvich writes:https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-01-mediterranean-diet-linked-memory-gut.html

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fliptop writes:Lukasz Olejnik opines:

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taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2025-01-pollution-widespread-iq-declines-ancient.html

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mrpg writes:https://english.elpais.com/technology/2024-12-22/hybrid-work-a-cause-of-techno-stress-you-have-to-be-there-all-the-time.html#?rel=mas

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Automobile Sales, Including EVs and Hybrids, Surge in 2024hubie writes:EV Sales, Including Hybrids, Surge for Auto Giants Not Named Tesla:

owl writes:https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/03/science/mystery-volcano-1831-eruption-simushir/index.html

fliptop writes:The incident exposes the growing vulnerabilities tied to digital ID systems and mandatory KYC (know your customer) data collection:

hubie writes:Social media addiction can reduce grey matter, shorten attention spans, weaken memory, and distort core cognitive functions, according to recent research:

hubie writes:Hollow-eyed insincere robot posters are already flooding Meta's sites and they're everything we dreaded:

upstart writes:The iPhone 6 and Apple Watch were two devices owned by the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit:

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upstart writes:Once you get over the ick factor, new technologies are efficiently transforming human waste into agricultural solutions:

taylorvich writes:https://newatlas.com/good-thinking/indent-data-storage/

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ElizabethGreene writes:Eric Raymond has a lovely essay here: http://www.catb.org/esr/structure-packing/ that describes some non-intuitive behavior in how compilers assemble structures in memory. The default is to pad structures out with empty bytes to align data types around arbitrary byte boundaries for similarly non-intuitive reasons.If you don't immediately understand why this struct is 12 or 16 bytes long, it's worth reading.struct Foo {

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looorg writes:https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/indiana-bakery-still-using-commodore-64s-originally-released-in-1982-as-point-of-sale-terminalsThese things pop up every now and then. The last one I recall now was some car-autorepair-shop in Poland that still used one for some function.

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upstart [soylentnews.org] writes:Autism Prevalence Reaches 61.8 Million Globally, Study Shows:[Editor's Note - See disclosure that several authors have ties the to pharmaceutical industry--JR]