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    A mess of its own making: Google nerfs second Pixel phone battery this year

    Second Pixel battery issue? I just got $275 CDN for my Pixel 7a battery...so this would be the third battery recall...
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    Elon Musk recommends that the International Space Station be deorbited ASAP

    Pretty strange that you didn't mention the Twitter spat with Andreas Mogensen that precipitated this whole tantrum...
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    765,000 owners still have airbags recalled in 2015; stop driving, Ford says

    I'm in BC, Canada with a 2010 Ford Ranger. My local Ford dealer has been telling us for years that they're still waiting on parts...
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    Millions of OnlyFans paywalls make it hard to detect child sex abuse, cops say

    Horribly written article... What cops...where...when... Who is Trey Amick? Apparently he's Canadian. If you're going to cut and paste from Reuters...at least include the Five Ws.
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    Elon Musk is livid about new OpenAI/Apple deal

    Another article that omits any mention of Grok or xAI...strange.
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    Canada demands 5% of revenue from Netflix, Spotify, and other streamers

    I'd feel better if the money actually went to Canadian news orgs, but most of the news orgs in Canada (like Postmedia) are foreign-owned... Maybe they should make foreign-owned "Canadian" news orgs contribute as well.
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    Robocall with artificial Joe Biden voice tells Democrats not to vote

    Sounds like Dean Phillips... "The story also mentions that one of the super PAC's co-founders, Matt Krisiloff, was previously the chief of staff to OpenAI's co-founder and current CEO Sam Altman." https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/01/20/openai-dean-phillips-ban-chatgpt/
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    Visa knew about Pornhub’s child porn, judge says, and now must face trial

    You really expect us to believe that 80% of Pornhub's content was child porn..?
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    Elon Musk would let Trump back on Twitter, says ban was “morally wrong”

    When are we going to talk about Amber Heard raising Musk's surrogate..?
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    Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors

    Weren't some big ISPs already testing this years ago with their wireless routers?
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    Facebook to reverse Australia news ban after lawmakers alter bill

    Twitter gets a free pass? Or is Twitter considered a news org? For the last 4 and a half years Twitter was the place to get news.
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    Twitter appends “violence” warning to Trump tweets as mob storms Capitol

    You can't Reply to the Tweet, but you can still "Quote Tweet" it...Needs to be taken down...
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    As experts call for nationwide mask mandate, anti-maskers stab guard 27 times

    An Ars story reporting on a Wapo story, reporting on a Chicago Sun-Times story... "The security guard was taken to a hospital for his injuries, but he did not need surgery." But Police say he's in critical condition?
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    The grandfather of distributed computing projects, SETI@home, shuts down

    I'm old enough to remember when SETI@home was caught recycling old blocks. Haven't used it since.
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    Coronavirus outbreak sparks first federal quarantine in over 50 years

    Canada's 3rd confirmed case was asymptomatic when she arrived from Wuhan...and even tested negative when she later presented with symptoms at her local hospital. Only tested positive "after additional testing". https://globalnews.ca/news/6489956/3rd- ... d-ontario/
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    8chan is all the way down—“It’s DNS. It’s always DNS.”

    Couldn't they just switch to an Onion site? Even the NY Times has an Onion site these days...
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    What you need to know before importing that exotic Chinese Android phone

    The Chinese government isn't the one you have to worry about showing up at your door in the middle of the night with a no-knock warrant...
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    What you need to know before importing that exotic Chinese Android phone

    Xiaomi's "Global" phones all come with Google Play already installed. I'm in Canada, so the bands are slightly different, but I've ordered the Mi A2 and the A2 Lite both from GearBest. 3 day delivery, no taxes, no bloatware, no regrets. They both use Band 4 on my local CDN carrier, TELUS...
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    Ars Technica System Guide: December 2017

    Typos...8800...8800K...? Also...seems like an old article just updated for publication...