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Meta Is Lying to You in New Quest VR Ad (www.howtogeek.com)

Elon Musk has unusual relationships with women at SpaceX, WSJ reports - The Verge (www.theverge.com)

Which decentralized social media? Minds? Deso? Or Bastyon?

Which decentralized social media do you use? And why?...

What's Inside the Recent Massive Google Search API Leak? (hackernoon.com)

May 5, 2024, marked the first-ever leak of the most comprehensive collection of Google Search API ranking factors in the history of search engines – a truly historical moment we might not have seen if Erfan Azimi, founder & CEO of an SEO agency, hadn’t spotted Google’s documents that were mistakenly released on Github on...

Lynn Conway, leading computer scientist and transgender pioneer, dies at 85 (www.latimes.com)

I have mixed feelings on the pronoun use, but having read some of her autobiographical writing I don’t think she would have taken much issue with it. This piece is more focused on her work in computer engineering, so I felt it was appropriate to post here.

Japanese researchers mull using particle accelerator for chipmaking — researchers claim EUV-like lithography capabilities (www.tomshardware.com)

iOS 18 Hints At A Buttonless Future For iPhone 16, Improved Battery On The Horizon (www.ibtimes.co.uk)

The latest iOS 18 update strongly hints that Apple’s forthcoming iPhone 16 lineup might incorporate the highly anticipated solid-state buttons....

Elon Musk drops lawsuit after OpenAI published his emails | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)

Lawyers for Elon Musk on Tuesday moved to dismiss the billionaire’s lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, ending a months-long legal battle between co-founders of the artificial intelligence startup....

The OpenBSD folks are working on their own version control system, Game of Trees (gameoftrees.org)

I didn’t know about this and thought it interesting. Figured some others might as well.

xaitax/TotalRecall: This tool extracts and displays data from the Recall feature in Windows 11, providing an easy way to access information about your PC's activity snapshots. (github.com)

this rootless Python script rips Windows Recall’s screenshots and SQLite database of OCRed text and allows you to search them.

China's chip exports are booming but may be nearing overcapacity, stoking fears of chip glut — SMIC revenues rise as profits fall (www.tomshardware.com)

Is Your Driving Being Secretly Scored? The insurance industry, hungry for insights into how people drive, has turned to automakers and smartphone apps like Life360. (www.nytimes.com)

Thefts of charging cables pose yet another obstacle to appeal of electric vehicles (apnews.com)

T-Mobile tries to convince customer to drop price hike-related FCC complaint, fails spectacularly (www.phonearena.com)

Study finds 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects (www.theregister.com)

We all knew it

Yesterday someone found CSS injection on Github profile using Math mode. Now Patched BTW (kennethnym.com)

Are there any third party file explorers WITH TABS for Windows?

Bleh, haven’t been here in a while. So I have a Windows 10 PC that I use for gaming and a Fedora laptop I use for everything else. I simply cannot go back to not having tabs. I don’t understand why Windows doesn’t have them by default. So help me out here.

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