Windows 10 gets three more years of security updates, if you can afford them (arstechnica.com)
🔋TLP Question🔋
Does anyone know how I can change the power profile on TLP from “balanced” to “low-power” so that it will survive reboot?
Nuclear Reactor Simulator (dalton-nrs.manchester.ac.uk)
French government recommends against using foreign chat apps (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
There’s a new iMessage for Android app — and it actually works (www.theverge.com)
HP executive boasts that its controversial ink subscription model is "locking" in customers (www.techspot.com)
Why does Gboard replace spaces with characters I add between words?
For example, if I type out a sentence and decide I want to add asterisks around a word for emphasis, why does Gboard replace the space between the previous word and the emphasized word instead of just adding the new character? Is this added functionality for something I just don’t understand?...
IBM claims quantum computing research milestone (www.ft.com)
The papers presented on Monday are the work of IBM and partners including the Los Alamos National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Tokyo. They focus mainly on areas such as simulating quantum physics and solving problems in chemistry and materials science....
Last Week in the Fediverse: Episode 46 (wedistribute.org)
“Lemmy gives their developer update on the work they have been doing in the last 2 weeks. Lemmy is preparing for their new release, v0.19, and the lemmy.ml server is already running the update. One of the changes is a new sorting algorithm, scaled sorting, that gives more visibility to smaller communities on Lemmy.”
IBM releases 1,000+ qubit processor, roadmap to error correction (arstechnica.com)
twitter is so broken ... it returns a 404 when you share links (beehaw.org)
If you share a link from twitter to other platforms you used to see a preview… but not for a while now. Doesn’t matter if it’s Facebook or Lemmy, twitter.com replies with a 404 on links that work fine even without being logged in....
Large Language Models can Strategically Deceive their Users when Put Under Pressure [simulation led to insider trading] (arxiv.org)
The true Cybertruck experience (sopuli.xyz)
Flipboard now testing our #ActivityPub integration (fosstodon.org)
Each Bitcoin transaction uses 4,200 gallons of water — enough to fill a swimming pool — and could potentially cause freshwater shortages (www.tomshardware.com)
"Bing's Bizarre Blunder: Search Engine Claims Australia Doesn't Exist" (samrome58.substack.com)
Tech news doesn't understand ad blockers or Chrome extensions (www.spacebar.news)
Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive (signal.org)
We estimate that by 2025, Signal will require approximately $50 million dollars a year to operate—and this is very lean compared to other popular messaging apps that don’t respect your privacy.