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Electric vehicles fail at a lower rate than gas cars in extreme cold | Electrek (electrek.co)

How to Actually Clean Install Windows 11 (www.wired.com)

Basically, install Windows as you normally would, but when asked for Time and Currency format, select English (World) instead of your country....

Google fires more workers after CEO says workplace isn’t for politics (wapo.st)

Nintendo Switch emulator, Yuzu, developers settling lawsuit from Nintendo with $2.4M payout, handing over its domains, and agreeing "Yuzu [is] primarily designed to circumvent [DRM]". (www.theverge.com)

This also includes ceasing development and destroying their copies of the code....

There’s a new iMessage for Android app — and it actually works (www.theverge.com)

• A new Android app called Beeper Mini allows users to send iMessages as blue bubbles from non-Apple devices....

Xbox's new policy — say goodbye to unofficial accessories from November thanks to error '0x82d60002' (www.windowscentral.com)

Xbox’s new policy — say goodbye to unofficial accessories from November thanks to error ‘0x82d60002’::Got error 0x82d60002 on your Xbox accessory? There’s no fix, Xbox is going to block the use of detected unauthorized accessories with its consoles from November 12, 2023.

Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water (news.mit.edu)

Engineers at MIT and in China are aiming to turn seawater into drinking water with a completely passive device that is inspired by the ocean, and powered by the sun....

Whatsapp is going to run terribly... (www.androidcentral.com)

All these (ad)ons always take priority over performance.

Report: Potential NYT lawsuit could force OpenAI to wipe ChatGPT and start over (arstechnica.com)

cross-posted from: nom.mom/post/121481...

'FUCK SPEZ': Reddit Users Unite to Turn r/Place Mural Into a Protest (www.vice.com)

‘FUCK SPEZ’: Reddit Users Unite to Turn r/Place Mural Into a Protest::Reddit’s collaborative art project seemingly has one overarching message to Reddit’s CEO.

Did ad blockers survive YouTube's offensive? Letting numbers talk (adguard.com)

TL;DR version:...

A Spanish agency became so sick of models and influencers that they created their own with AI — and she’s raking in up to $11,000 a month (fortune.com)

A Spanish agency became so sick of models and influencers that they created their own with AI — and she’s raking in up to $11,000 a month::Founder Rubén Cruz said AI model Aitana was so convincing that a famous Latin actor asked her on a date.

Small modular nuclear reactors get a reality check in new report (newatlas.com)

[T]he report’s executive summary certainly gets to the heart of their findings....

Senate passes bill forcing TikTok’s parent company to sell or face ban, sends to Biden for signature. Biden expected to sign on Wed. (apnews.com)

AI Is Poisoning Reddit to Promote Products and Game Google With 'Parasite SEO' (www.404media.co)

Apple Cancels Work on Electric Car, Ending Decadelong Effort (www.bloomberg.com)

Masimo — the company that got the Apple Watch banned — has unveiled its new smartwatch (www.tomsguide.com)

Masimo, the company that sued Apple over patent infringement, has unveiled its own blood oxygen monitoring smartwatch called the Masimo Freedom....

Over 50 per cent of users may shun social media by 2025 as misinformation, toxicity grow (www.newindianexpress.com)

Over 50 per cent of users may shun social media by 2025 as misinformation, toxicity grow::A Gartner survey found that 53 per cent of consumers believe the current state of social media has decayed compared to either the prior year or five years ago.

Elon Musk’s Grok Twitter AI Is Actually ‘Woke,’ Hilarity Ensues (www.forbes.com)

Elon Musk Stormed Into the Tesla Office Furious That Autopilot Tried to Kill Him (futurism.com)

Lyft and Uber say they will leave Minneapolis if the mayor signs a minimum wage bill for drivers (www.cnn.com)

Lyft and Uber say they will leave Minneapolis if the mayor signs a minimum wage bill for drivers::Lyft and Uber threatened to stop doing business in Minneapolis after the city council adopted a new rule Thursday that would set a minimum wage for rideshare drivers.

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