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    AI can rewrite open source code—but can it rewrite the license, too?

    with enough reviewing and suggestions you can turn hello world into linux kernel.
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    AI can rewrite open source code—but can it rewrite the license, too?

    you can as long as you never looked at the original code and were given only the signature of the function. The moment you have the code in the same room/building and you happen to create similar enough implementation good luck defending it courts
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    Windows 11 has hit 1 billion users just a hair faster than Windows 10 did

    The change for the sake of change of taskbar is annoying. I don't like the center since it moves when you open more apps. On the other hand window snapping and arrangement is much better. But some things were broken since windows xp... All i want from windows is to use less memory and disk space...
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    RAM shortage chaos expands to GPUs, high-capacity SSDs, and even hard drives

    Lol Late 1800s I guess you were quite adept at pinball, whack-a-mole and fortune tellers :)
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    Deny, deny, admit: UK police used Copilot AI “hallucination” when banning football fans

    at least military admit that they are not perfect and they expect collateral damage. The police claim to do the due diligence...
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    Pornhub is urging tech giants to enact device-based age verification

    if it is unique, there is a one-to-one mapping. If it gets logged somewhere or there is a hash-verification function it is liable to deanonymization
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    Pornhub is urging tech giants to enact device-based age verification

    There might be differences in processing fees and when the funds get deposited, but the whole idea is that you can use a debit card on a visa credit network without any frictions. There might be different number ranges and such. But those cannot be used as a reliable filter, since they an...
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    Pornhub is urging tech giants to enact device-based age verification

    Something, something , security theater , think of the children... By your argument we should be allowed to bring water on airplanes. Alas, no!
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    Pornhub is urging tech giants to enact device-based age verification

    doh,I got "your manhood is under legal .. size, access denied"
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    Pornhub is urging tech giants to enact device-based age verification

    Well, in my local store i can buy a gift card , which is effectively a visa card. And nobody will stop underaged boys with eagerness to get those The hope is that some wrists will have less of Repetitive Strain Injury Syndrome
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    Developers joke about “coding like cavemen” as AI service suffers major outage

    yet it provided the full functionality of notepad, not that there was much more than text control, menu, scrollbars and read/write file
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    Developers joke about “coding like cavemen” as AI service suffers major outage

    there is a reason neovim is taking some traction. Just yesterday my eclipse started behaving funky, so for simple edits a good editor might be enough. If you want automated refactoring... good luck
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    Developers joke about “coding like cavemen” as AI service suffers major outage

    p.s. I check what it takes to integrate an application with copilot and it is quite complicated. I would rather just use keyboard injection :)
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    Developers joke about “coding like cavemen” as AI service suffers major outage

    notepad app was literally an example in VC++/MFC. About a couple hundred lines. The newest one has multiple tabs, might be a bit more complex. The co-pilot integration seems to be just a menu item that is kinde (ctrl+a, ctrl+c, switch to co-pilot widget, paste) without using the clipboard. I...
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    Developers joke about “coding like cavemen” as AI service suffers major outage

    And the notepad of yesteryear didn't have copilot integration. The most advanced feature was word wrapping and Ctrl+a shortcut ....
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    Strong men, hot mics: Putin and Xi dream about “immortality,” living to 150

    There were quite a few senators living to 90
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    Strong men, hot mics: Putin and Xi dream about “immortality,” living to 150

    And yet, achieving by the end of the century (2100) a life expectancy of 150 doesn't seem revolutionary at all. My immediate wants are to be healthy into my 80s. Without Alzheimer's nor disability. I do hope Aubrey de Gray succeeds before I kick the bucket. It would be ironic if he gets financed...