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    Europe tries to force age verification onto Pornhub and other adult sites

    I hate to break it to you, but your kid is turning off the restrictions.
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    Calif. Gov. vetoes attempt to require new privacy option in browsers and OSes

    I'll grant that. You literally quoted the part: Ah, but what does "Businesses" mean? It's not otherwise defined, so let's assume the common definition, meaning companies like Instagram or whatever. Well, when I'm using my phone to interact with them, I am using some app to do it, either a...
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    Calif. Gov. vetoes attempt to require new privacy option in browsers and OSes

    Right here: It seems that they have put almost the entire onus on the CPPA. Not ideal, certainly, but it's better than nothing.
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    Calif. Gov. vetoes attempt to require new privacy option in browsers and OSes

    Disclaimer: IANAL I'm not sure what exactly I've missed here, but reading the text of the bill, it seems pretty straight forward. In my reading it boils down to this: 1. Operating Systems (mobile only? that isn't clear) must provide a global setting for opting out of data collection 2...
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    The huge power and potential danger of AI-generated code

    There is a difference between a ducking spellchecker and a trying to write sensible code from a language model. Just it can produce an answer doesn't mean it is correct.
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    Apple plans mental health-focused journaling app for iOS 17

    This is very true. I remember back around the iPhone 4 when developers were freaking about about Apple adding a notes app (or something similar, it has been a while)
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    iSIM vs eSIM vs SIM: The constantly shrinking ways carriers ID your phone

    On the carrier's website. I have no idea how it works if you don't have external internet access.
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    iSIM vs eSIM vs SIM: The constantly shrinking ways carriers ID your phone

    Last summer, at one point my cell phone's cellular service completely stopped working. Data was fine, but I could not place or receive phone calls. I spent all day iMessaging them to try and get it resolved, and in the end they "opened an engineering ticket" and considered the matter resolved...
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    Developer creates “self-healing” programs that fix themselves thanks to GPT-4

    You want jokes about self-modifying AI taking over the world? This is how you get jokes about self-modifying AI taking over the world!
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    Questionable $2,500 hoodie makes you look like you were plucked out of <em>Minecraft</em>

    Hm, I am the last person to make aesthetic judgements, but I'm not really seeing the Minecraft connection. At least, not on the hoodie or t-shirt. Minecraft doesn't really go for black outlines, at least not for entities. Items in your inventory, sure, but that's not what they look like when you...
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    Congressman confronts FBI over “egregious” unlawful search of his personal data

    Expecting a new addendum to section 702 that excludes sitting and formerly sitting congresspeople
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    ChatGPT-style search represents a 10x cost increase for Google, Microsoft

    I'm not going to lie, being able to ask eg "what does the /v1/frob/buzz API response look like" and not have to trawl our sprawling confluence wiki/JIRA system (or the Google/Microsoft/whatever equivalents) would be incredibly useful. However, it does sound like it would be expensive to build...
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    Dwarf Fortress, the most inscrutable game of two decades, is getting a tutorial

    This is not even remotely close to true. Is it inscrutible? Sure. However, I have a much easier time scrutining this game than, eg, any Moba.
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    Patreon denies viral TikTok claim that it hosts child sexual abuse materials

    Having CSAM "officially" protected by company policy would be fucking insane. All it would take is one whistle-blower going to the police to shutter the company. Extraordinary claims, etc.
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    Developer creates delightful programming font based on Minecraft

    I'm willing to trying it out. If it doesn't work, then I just switch it back, nbd.
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    Samsung heir pardoned due to South Korean economic needs

    The reason people are talking about South Korea is because the article is about South Korea. Very few/no people are saying other parts of the world aren't as corrupt (mostly that they arent' as nakedly corrupt)
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    Musk wants Twitter to identify employees who calculate spam percentage

    1. This is a civil case, not criminal 2. The entitiy backing up the spam data is Twitter, not John Doe, Sr. Engineer working for Twitter So, yes, this seems insane. Which is to say, par for the course.
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    Bayonetta 3 on Switch will include an optional “put on more clothes” mode

    There are a bajillion M-rated games on Switch
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    Court severely limit’s the EPA’s ability to regulate carbon emissions

    More like the Supreme Court, Republican, Of The United Males
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    TikTok can’t stop users from doxxing the Supreme Court

    That is very not true. It might have happened later, but the GOP has been working on this for decades, a few more years would not have deterred them.