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Now that humanoids are all the rage in the robotics industry, Boston Dynamics on Tuesday officially retired theirs. Put them down before they come for us
Especially the guy with the hockey stick that keeps poking it to test if it will fall over
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The company explains that someone used AI voice-cloning tech to spoof the voice of its CEO in an attempt to trick one of its employees. Fortunately, the CEO wasn't Stephen Hawking
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In recent years, Microsoft has been hit with a series of embarrassing hacks that have exposed corporate and government customers. Even the bugs have backward compatibility
I mean, it's almost like it's the #1 OS and productivity software suite so that most of the hackers attack their software. Almost.
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Those aren't bugs, they're features.
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The blinder leading the inept. We're so dead.
Legislators drafting measures "to make it all stop, we're unhappy" 
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A nifty HDD disassembly tool, sure, but we also have a larger global need for magnets. Shake, shake, shake. Shake your boot disc
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Generative AI has advanced and developed so rapidly that even Bill Gates believes it could eventually take his job. Poor guy. I hope he has enough saved up to retire
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Only deranged AI would try to do Gates's current "job".
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Ohh! Great idea! AI fully animating (and vocalizing) Bill's avatar in the Metaverse! Nothing like a crappy experience in a crappy environment!  (Or two avatars, playing both lead roles in Dumb & Dumber, or a Beavis and Butt-Head sketch.)
(Would be one more reason to not join the Metaverse! )
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Microsoft has announced the upcoming end of support (EOS) date for Office 2016 and Office 2019 apps, along with related productivity servers. All of those apps will no longer be supported after October 14, 2025. They were still supported?
I could also ask, "There are newer version of Office?"
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Microsoft has finally lifted a compatibility hold blocking Windows 10 users from updating to Windows 11 on systems with Intel Smart Sound Technology (SST) audio drivers and Intel 11th Gen Core processors. For those about to reboot, we salute you
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A new report from Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), which studies AI trends, found that global investment in AI fell for the second year in a row in 2023. How nice of them to join us
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The culture that promotes innovation and helps engineering teams to move fast Don't blame me if you disagere
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Finding and correcting root causes, rather than assigning blame, makes for a good working environment (and good software) as long as incompetence is not overly tolerated.
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Ah! But how could you ever have job security without incompetence?
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Very insightful! Let's keep 'em around!
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David, Greg said that incompetence is not overly tolerated. That implies that some incompetence is tolerated, perhaps even neccesary. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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We are excited to announce the new MSTest SDK built on top of the MSBuild Project SDK system. For the testy ones
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A few months ago I learned that there were only around 30 GPS satellites serving the entire planet. "Remember: no matter where you go... there you are."
Because I've never really thought of the details of the signal, and the article enlightened me. (not like I have any interest in replicating)
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Phillip Tennen wrote: A few months ago I learned that there were only around 30 GPS satellites serving the entire planet.
I suspect that is all the GNSS you know of.
Well, truth to be told: When I bought my current mobile in early spring 2016, using it properly for positioning would have been against the law in USA: For another two years, receiving positioning information from Galileo satellites was considered 'communicating with a foreign satellite system', which was not permitted until November 2018. I have not seen similar information for GLONASS, but would be surprised if communicating with Russian satellites were more acceptable than communicating with European ones. Even more so for the BeiDou system from China (which we call Red China).
Any decent smartphone sold in Europe for the last few years can handle both GPS, Galileo, GLONASS and BeiDou. My 2016 vintage S7 only handles the first two of these. At the moment, the two have 14 satellites over my head. I guess doubling the number of GNSS services would roughly double the number of satellites over my head as well. Wikipedia tells me that until Nov. 2018, S7 phones sold in the US had Galileo blocked, and needed a software update when listening to them became legal.
Fact is, if the entire GPS network was bombed, all 30 satellites at the same time, it would take a long time before non-US smartphone users (and users of dedicated GNSS equipment) would notice. With the old US panic for 'communicating with foreign satellite systems', I wonder what would be the result in USA. Would a total breakdown of GPS paralyze a lot of activities, because Usatians are so patriotic that they will not communicate with foreign satellites? Or maybe reject Galileo, GLONASS and BeiDou on NIH grounds?
Or would most Usatian people and systems be as unaffected by a GPS breakdown as European customers? In particular (but I do not expect any reliable answer to this!), has the USAF degraded themselves to install duplicate (triplicate, quadruplicate) NIH GNSS solutions in their various systems, in case GPS is sabotaged?
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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The US Space Force announced Thursday it is partnering with two companies, Rocket Lab and True Anomaly, for a first-of-its-kind mission to demonstrate how the military might counter "on-orbit aggression." They just have to convince the aliens to line up and only come in waves
{Insert your choice of Space Invaders or Galaga theme music here}
it was either that, or a Kobayashi Maru reference
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Moonraker. With the silver verses yellow jumpsuits.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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 I wish I had remembered that one in time.
Pew pew!
TTFN - Kent
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Kent, see the time difference between my post and your original? That's how long it took me to remember it so don't kick yourself.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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