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    GOG will transfer your dead relative’s game account, but only with a court order

    When all you own is an ephemeral vector of voltages or magnetic moments then you own nothing.
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    Meta to train undefined AI tech on Facebook users’ posts, pics in EU

    Young me thought that in future there would be cool robots, zippy flying cars and comfy spaceships. Somehow, I did not predict the need to use enough GPUs to melt the ice caps so we could attach stickers to our BS internet ramblings.
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    Storing energy with compressed air is about to have its moment of truth

    The opposite in fact, colder air is denser. The heat comes for free and expands the gas further which allows you to create more pressure to run a turbine using less gas, which should improve efficiency by re-using some of the energy lost to heat in pumping the gas into the cavern.
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    DOJ explains how Google-Apple deal should have been done to avoid legal peril

    What was onerous was figuring out how to make money off it. Secondary to this is the cat and mouse game you play to keep the SEO optimizers at bay. And Google's actual monopoly is not search, its open web targeted advertising. Search is just the bright shiny light dangling in front of the...
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    April updates for Windows 10 and 11 break some VPN software, Microsoft says

    Also, the number of permutations of testing across different hardware permutations and driver settings is astronomical. And networks and network adapters may present the hardest of the hard. When you control the hardware and the software like Apple does you can keep this under control. For...
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    Email Microsoft didn’t want seen reveals rushed decision to invest in OpenAI

    That is after all their business. Search is just the hook to reel in the fish.
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    Microsoft and IBM release source code for one of the weirdest versions of MS-DOS

    Non-GUI versions of OS/2 could multitask, and it was true preemptive multitasking with processes and threads. Even after the GUI was available you could still configure the OS to boot to a console.