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INSIDE those OLD pinball machines (www.youtube.com)

First, wear your dust mask. Who knows where these machines have been?

Why several big-box stores have ditched their self-checkouts | CBC News (www.cbc.ca)

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Brace yourself, a report suggests that Copilot is coming to Windows 10 (ghacks.net)

WhatsApp head Will Cathcart says the chat app could introduce ads in Status (techcrunch.com)

Home heating from datacentres - good use of waste energy or a waste of money? | TechRadar (www.techradar.com)

Your website can now opt out of training Google's Bard and future AIs (techcrunch.com)

Huawei launches Nearlink, a better than bluetooth competitor. The us won't benefit from it for now (newatlas.com)

Compared to bluetooth :...

Shoplifting up driven by rising cost of living - Coles responding with employee body cams (www.abc.net.au)

The cofounder of Google's AI division DeepMind says everybody will have their own AI-powered 'chief of staff' over the next five years (www.businessinsider.com)

The cofounder of Google’s AI division DeepMind says everybody will have their own AI-powered ‘chief of staff’ over the next five years::Mustafa Suleyman said AI will “intimately know your personal information” and be able to serve you 24-7.

The Kids Online Safety Act is Still A Huge Danger to Our Rights Online. (www.eff.org)

The Kids Online Safety Act is Still A Huge Danger to Our Rights Online.::Congress has resurrected the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), a bill that would increase surveillance and restrict access to information in the name of protecting children online. KOSA was introduced in 2022 but failed to gain traction, and today its authors,...

Elon Musk's X follower count bloated by millions of new, inactive accounts (mashable.com)

We took a close look at Elon Musk's more than 150 million followers on X aka Twitter. What we found is…concerning.

An Instacart customer said she discovered the app's higher prices cost her nearly $100 after accidentally seeing the store's paper receipt (www.businessinsider.com)

An Instacart customer said she discovered the app’s higher prices cost her nearly $100 after accidentally seeing the store’s paper receipt::undefined

Can I faraday cage my ISP-issued router in order to use my own?

I have a family member living on my property in a separate but adjacent living space, close enough together to share my router’s wifi. She likes to let her youtube app endlessly autoplay talking head news videos at full volume due to her hearing loss, and this goes on for a few hours in the mornings. The sound through the...

'Limitless' energy: how floating solar panels near the equator could power future population hotspots (theconversation.com)

‘Limitless’ energy: how floating solar panels near the equator could power future population hotspots::New research shows densely populated countries in Southeast Asia and West Africa could harvest effectively unlimited energy from solar panels floating on calm tropical seas near the equator.

The return of pneumatic tubes (www.technologyreview.com)

Apple AI vs. Microsoft AI

Why are people happy or approving of AI on apple products, when it seems like the same thing was treated (rightly) horribly when Microsoft just did it....

Tesla chair says Elon Musk needs $46 billion pay plan to stay motivated (arstechnica.com)

Here's What Netflix's First Big Redesign in a Decade Looks Like (gizmodo.com)

Global navigation jamming will only get worse. The U.S. needs to move fast - SpaceNews (spacenews.com)

Interesting implications, perhaps the global positioning system is not as infallible as we thought

The problem with GIMP (www.spacebar.news)

Is Firefox still good ?

To the people, is Firefox still the go to browser? Is there something better out there for the average person? I’ve heard good things about internet explorer.

ASML could brick Taiwan's chipmaking machines in case of uninvited guests (www.theregister.com)

what if the hacker provided the public key for https connection? (www.youtube.com)

So this video explains how https works. What I don’t get is what if a hacker in the middle pretended to be the server and provided me with the box and the public key. wouldn’t he be able to decrypt the message with his private key? I’m not a tech expert, but just curious and trying to learn.

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