Secret meeting between Apple and TSMC reported, possibly to reserve all 2nm capacity (9to5mac.com)
How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money (www.theguardian.com)
The theory is simple: instead of buying a household item or a piece of clothing or some equipment you might use once or twice, you take it out and return it.
Male birth control breakthrough safely switches off fit sperm for a while (newatlas.com)
Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
Tack “&udm=14” on to the end of a normal search, and you’ll be booted into the clean 10 blue links interface. While Google might not let you set this as a default, if you have a way to automatically edit the Google search URL, you can create your own defaults.
What's up with all the ads here?
So, uhm, what the hell is going on with all these ad posts I’m seeing in this community?
How Researchers Cracked an 11-Year-Old Password to a $3 Million Crypto Wallet (www.wired.com)
China’s military shows off rifle-toting robot dogs (www.cnn.com)
ICQ messenger shuts down after almost 28 years (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Microsoft shot real lasers through a window to make Windows 10's wallpaper — surprisingly the iconic art wasn't computer generated (www.tomshardware.com)
A look at search engines with their own indexes (seirdy.one)
cross-posted from: reddthat.com/post/19788762...
Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining (www.neowin.net)
Statcounter reports that Windows 11 continues to lose its market share for the second month in a row. Windows 10, meanwhile, is gaining more users and is now back above the 70% mark.
ASUS GT-AX6000 vs RT-AX88U Pro vs RT-AX86U Pro: Which of the three is the better WiFi 6 router? (www.youtube.com)
Skip the gloomy tech news a bit and just enjoy some good ol’ router reviews with tests and stuff.
The Device-First Risk AI Platform that Stops Fraud at Its Root (sh.itjust.works)
Eliminate Fake Accounts with Accurate Device Intelligence SHIELD’s Device Intelligence persistently identifies devices, users, and accounts you can trust — and those you can’t....
Actually, Winamp is not going Open Source (x.com)
x.com/winamp/status/1793615140241240395
Synapse, backed by a16z, has collapsed, and 10 million consumers could be hurt (techcrunch.com)
Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good (arstechnica.com)
Device Fingerprinting that Stops Fraud, Builds Trust & Drives Growth (shield.com)
Stop fraud before it starts, Detect and stop fraud in real time with device intelligence powered by machine learning. Build trust with your users, Know which users, devices, and accounts are trustworthy. Ensure that fraudsters don’t ruin everyone else’s experience.
Databases and their real world use examples
I am very curious as to how databases are used in the real world, whether you’re using MySQL and what not, how does it all come together in a real world business? Banking and gaming I know, but is it something that gets stored on data centres and then put into a VM?...
Lilium (LILM) inks new partnership to bring eVTOL jet rides to the South of France (electrek.co)
20 Years of Blogging on my own website (jeena.net)
Reflecting on two decades of blogging evolution
Researchers explore mining seawater for critical metals (grist.org)
iFixit is breaking up with Samsung. ‘Samsung’s approach to repairability does not align with our mission,’ says iFixit’s CEO. (www.theverge.com)
iFixit and Samsung are ending their partnership on a direct-to-consumer phone repair program....
Nvidia denies pirate e-book sites are “shadow libraries” to shut down lawsuit (arstechnica.com)
Elon Musk's xAI plans to build 'Gigafactory of Compute' by fall 2025 — using 100,000 Nvidia's H100 GPUs (www.tomshardware.com)
'Google Cast' is replacing the 'Chromecast built-in' brand (9to5google.com)
Well, at least they aren’t outright throwing the functionality in the trash.
