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I’m fairly sure cars were supposed to be flying by now, but instead we’ve managed something else that would have felt like science fiction a decade ago: playing Xbox games on your fridge. Use BFG to get extra ice from the dispenser
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Beware of the ice cubes dispenser 
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Israeli security researchers have figured out how to trick self-driving cars into slamming on the brakes by flickering an image of a stop sign on a digitally-controlled billboard — a hack, they told Wired, that could cause traffic jams or even accidents. So to be safe: set your self-driving car to never stop at Stop signs
I was thinking of going with, "Was it one of those Burma Shave poems that they wanted to read the ending to?", but not enough would get it.
Not to mention it wouldn't even be funny.
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Why I have the impression that this is only the beginning?
When autonomous driving gets more usage, I suppose you are going to have enough material to compete with Windows 10 here in the news 
 
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The Windows Update client has just been added to the list of living-off-the-land binaries (LoLBins) attackers can use to execute malicious code on Windows systems. And they're coming from Redmond
Well, some of them
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I have a deja vou... this was already a topic several weeks ago... does the fix for that have new vulnerabilities now or is this another "surprise, surprise"?
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I think it’s a new one? The last one I remember was Windows Defender pulling down EXEs, now Update. It’s getting harder to keep track though.
TTFN - Kent
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Prosecutors for the Justice Department and state attorney general offices are discussing ways of curbing the search giant's market power as they prepare to sue the company. I'm sure Microsoft wouldn't mind owning it
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I'm sure Microsoft wouldn't mind owning it
Well... they have already almost copied the web browser, it was kind to expect the interest in the search engine.
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Quote: For example, the search giant has proposed a new system, nicknamed Turtledove, in which advertising auctions would take place within the browser instead of sending data to outside servers. Google argues this would better protect user privacy because a person’s data never leaves her computer or phone.
To make this more secure, I suggest a new browser plugin that would inject random bit rot into every message sent to spyvertizers trying to bid for the right to have their ad blocked. It'd be the largest distributed fuzz testing platform the internet has ever seen. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Microsoft Corp. has executed a coordinated legal sneak attack in a bid to disrupt the malware-as-a-service botnet Trickbot, a global menace that has infected millions of computers and is used to spread ransomware. I knew that stuff would come in handy one day(tm)
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Quote: The roughly 10-day operation by Cyber Command also stuffed millions of bogus records about new victims into the Trickbot database in a bid to confuse the botnet’s operators.
Nice one 
Even hackers are to be taught: Back up, Back up, Back up... 
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Hang bugs—when software gets stuck, but doesn't crash—can frustrate both users and programmers, taking weeks for companies to identify and fix. Now researchers from North Carolina State University have developed software that can spot and fix the problems in seconds. Unfortunately, it can't fix it because THE MACHINE IS HANGING
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Have they tried turning it off and back on again?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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That's what they do. I guess you didn't read their paper! 
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The earliest mention of Microsoft was a classified ad from October 10, 1979 I hear they might be going places
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One YouTuber decided to flip the script on the ole, “Does it run Doom?” test to ask the heroic question: How many potatoes do you need to generate enough electricity for a game of Doom? In case you want to play next time you're isolated on Mars
OK, not running on the potatoes, but because of them
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“We were able to study in detail what happens when a star is eaten by such a monster.” What sort of sauce goes with star spaghetti?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: What sort of sauce goes with star spaghetti?
Butternut squash?
Butternut Squash Baked Pasta Recipe | Bon Appetit
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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Kent Sharkey wrote: What sort of sauce goes with star spaghetti?
Starlic and oil?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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...with sun-ripened tomatoes?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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...and some sunchokes.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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record will be similar to string. It looks easy. All developers will use it everyday but few will realize that tricky things happen under the hood. "Some things are always true. Some things never change."
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Brussels broadens search for extra powers to curb power of digital platforms Gonna make 'em an offer they can't refuse
Must be budget season
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Chip giant says its strategy is taking a 'systems-level approach' to scaling quantum for commercialisation. Because everyone else is forgetting the quantum UI
You can either look at it, or change fields, but not both.
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