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The massive update to Windows 11 rolled out this week is proving to be a headache for users who are running some third-party UI customization applications on their devices. Thou shalt not tinker with the last operating system
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Researchers from Microsoft introduced Kosmos-1, a multimodal model that can reportedly analyze images for content, solve visual puzzles, perform visual text recognition, pass visual IQ tests, and understand natural language instructions 65% confidence it looks like a weasel
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their research division where the shareholders money goes into a black hole.....
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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The Biden-Harris administration today released its national cybersecurity strategy that focuses on shifting the burden of defending the country's cyberspace towards software vendors and service providers. Because if you want to know how to defend yourself from hackers, ask an 80 year-old man
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Because if you want to know how to defend yourself from hackers, ask an 80 year-old man ... or a politician or lawyer of any age.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do. - Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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Its graphical user interface inspired change at Apple’s core See the game last night? How about this weather?
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Huh - and here I thought NEXT inspired changes at Apple's core...
A river has many tributaries
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Microsoft restricted Bing AI in recent days after wild responses, but a new toggle lets the chatbot get more creative once again. Because that's what I want from my search engine: personality
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New ChatGPT API can generate text that's a tenth of the cost of previous models. Because you never know when your app could use a little more intelligence
Or at least some "confident lying" skills
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Gates would go into other people's offices to play Minesweeper, since the game had been removed from his PC. Is that why they hide all the explosives in the Windows source code?
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You'd think Gorilla.bas was addictive enough.
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: You'd think Gorilla.bas was addictive enough.
Was that the gorilla throwing the bananas?
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Yup - a demo program for Microsoft Basic.
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Ooh, I haven't thought about this one for a while.
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I actually miss that game.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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Needs a Virtual Reality reboot.
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GitHub has announced that its secret scanning alerts service is now generally available to all public repositories and can be enabled to detect leaked secrets across an entire publishing history. Find those secrets before someone finds them for you
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Gotta collect them all (Pokemon-ish)
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By the end of 2023, only 9 percent of knowledge workers worldwide will be fully remote, but 39 percent will combine remote and office-based work, according to analysis by Gartner. "I wish I was homeward bound"
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The Rust project has published its plans for a new governance model, following a 2021 crisis that led to the mod team's resignation. We the programmers, in order to kill C++ (again), establish a compiler, and insure no one forks the project...
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Establishing a standard time for the moon is necessary for the new era of lunar exploration. The moon, in June is stuck at high noon
Or maybe just use the time zone for Saskatoon
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(From anywhere facing earth) its always earth-o'clock!
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How about just do what Science Fiction authors have done for decades - use GMT as the time zone for the Moon and other space activities. I honestly don't understand the reason this is so hard.
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obermd wrote: I honestly don't understand the reason this is so hard. EU vs US, I suspect
TTFN - Kent
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