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    TCL’s German QLED ban puts pressure on TV brands to be more honest about QDs

    hanging out for my new CorrectHorseBatteryStaple model television.
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    OpenAI sidesteps Nvidia with unusually fast coding model on plate-sized chips

    Dinner-plate sized chips, using an entire wafer. Okay, cool. Can it run Crysis? Given the prices Cerberus is throwing around, would that make it the most expensive Crysis-playing-thing ever?
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    Microsoft sounds the alarm about Secure Boot certificates expiring later this year

    When 'secure boot' was originally announced, Microsoft 'helpfully' offered to hold the keys for everyone, and sign the acceptable EFI for everyone; so redhat, ubuntu, etc all need to get their install binary (or at least the boot part of it) signed by Microsoft before they can be used on a...
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    This flu season looks grim as H3N2 emerges with mutations

    As a resident of the Southern Half, I would like to apologise.. My daughter got absolutely walloped by the Flu this winter just gone. I suspect her and her classmates were all beta-testing this new strain for all y'all over the Equator. Early Access indeed. And now I get to wait for May to see...
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    What if the aliens come and we just can’t communicate?

    Cargo Cult Space Ants turn up and can't explain their hyperdrive? That's fine, we copy their tech and take off into the universe ourselves :) If we're nice, we can exchange some tech of ours, maybe LCD screens; I expect we have something hypothetical Cargo Cult Space Ant Overlords would want. I...
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    What if the aliens come and we just can’t communicate?

    We also haven't decoded cat. I am willing to bet cats are quite intelligent and able to communicate, they just choose not to. Having encountered a moderate amount of Science Fiction in my reading history, I am drawn to one story visiting a post-apocalyptic mars - the Martians are gone but they...
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    Nintendo threatens to brick Switch consoles for hacking, piracy

    TFA Wrote: Well, the majority of Wii consoles had issues with the NAND access software, causing official Nintendo updates to brick a percentage of consoles and of course the homebrew community found ways to unbrick many systems - the "evil" hackers undoing misdeeds by the "poor defenseless"...
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    Nvidia nudges mainstream gaming PCs forward with RTX 5060 series, starting at $299

    Greed. nVidia wants to sell as many AI-cards as they can for the most money they can. But nVidia fears that a 5060 with more than 8GB of RAM becomes "enough useful" to AI customers that instead of spending $$$$ on AI-cards, they only spend $$$ on video cards. So to maximise profit in a segmented...
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    Google’s 10-year-old Chromecast is busted, but a fix is coming

    Bambu Labs. Purportedly the printer has a certificate that expires in October 2025, strongly suggesting everyone is supposed to move to the new round of Cloud Everything before then. Maybe a firmware update will fix it? And disable even more of the previously open previously local access options...
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    Google’s AI-powered Pixel Sense app could gobble up all your Pixel 10 data

    So, they say it is local processing.. How many watts does that take and where does my battery life go? Or they are being economical with the truth and it is a cloud model under the hood, so where does my privacy go? One more thing to disable on my next phone, I guess
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    Burning in woman’s legs turned out to be slug parasites digging in her brain

    Many multi-host parasites are successful by hijacking predator-prey behaviours. Infect a rodent, make cysts, brainwash rodent to get eaten by a cat, grow to adult in cat and lay eggs in cat outputs... eggs that smell delicious to rodents. Or a slug and a bird. Or a snail and a fish. Or an ant...
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    From 900 miles away, the US government recorded audio of the Titan sub implosion

    Welcome to hydraulic press channel, today we have new bearing ball of pure neutronium. Our friends at NASA say this is uncompressible, but we have new 500 tonne press today, so here we go!...
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    From 900 miles away, the US government recorded audio of the Titan sub implosion

    The implosion happened faster than a human can perceive. So the end was for all intents instantaneous. There is a lawsuit where one of the key claims is "emotional trauma": the lawsuit is claiming the occupants knew something was wrong 20-40min before the implosion; mostly in the form of...
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    Bambu Lab pushes a “control system” for 3D printers, and boy, did it not go well

    Watching the key Reverse Engineering threads, one detail that caught my eye is the certificate reportedly expires in October 2025; which suggests a new printer FW is required to keep printing. If this is true, it suggests a motive to tighten the ecosystem further. Yes, the January 2025 key...
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    Bambu Lab pushes a “control system” for 3D printers, and boy, did it not go well

    Adding to what others have suggested. (All my opinion, usually coloured by my own experiences) Prusa printers are more expensive and print slower but have high quality, low tinkering rates (most kits work out-of-the-box) and are generally friendly to the community and tinkerers. Good community...
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    Watch carnivorous squirrels chow down on tasty voles

    Not from the US, but I see Squirrels as Evil. The cute appearance is to distract you from the fact they are plotting something. Framing someone for murder, overthrowing a government, or just stealing seed from the birdfeeder. Squirrels are not innocent! I understand that there is a wider trend...
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    Four desk-organizing gifts you don’t technically need but might very much want

    I can confirm that the idea in the youtube video works with the P-touch handheld label makers; as they use the arrangement of holes on the tape cartridge as the DRM; and their thermal/transfer print-head works for both heatshrink and laminated style labels. (My 3d printer has printed-label...
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    Certain names make ChatGPT grind to a halt, and we know why

    <insert duck duck go image search> Eh, the mustache is average. Nice hat tho.
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    Fans mourn loss of music-streaming app accused of ripping off YouTube

    The wording is unclear, I interpreted this as Apple "gave in" to YouTube, not Musi, and took the app off the iStore; and this removal began the lawsuit from Musi to Apple.
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    Firmware hacks are rejuvenating Spotify’s Car Thing before the company bricks it

    so we jtag the lurkers and update their uboot? <looks over at raspberry pi with clicky-wheel and 1.3" oled> You know, "one day" I really should get this thing actually playing music.. It's a thing, it's on my desk, but it aint no DeskThing :)