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What is Firefox supposed to do? (www.spacebar.news)

Ancient CRT monitor hits astonishing 700Hz — resolution reduced to just 120p to reach extraordinary refresh rate (www.tomshardware.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/18305395

Meta releases the biggest and best open-source AI model yet (www.theverge.com)

[Reuters->Bloomberg] Hackers Leak Documents From Pentagon IT Services Provider Leidos [Charles Gorrivan | July 23 2024 | Bloomberg] (www.reuters.com)

Edit: replaced Reuters article with Bloomberg article...

People are having trouble following Harris’s campaign Twitter account (newrepublic.com)

Google to purge low-quality apps from the Play Store with new policy starting next month (alternativeto.net)

Intel breaks silence on 13th and 14th-gen Raptor Lake desktop CPU instability issues (www.notebookcheck.net)

Astronomers are scrambling to save the world's most powerful X-ray space telescope (www.npr.org)

Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe says too many carmakers are copying Tesla (www.theverge.com)

New youtube layout? (lemmy.world)

Hey, I was browsing youtube in private mode, and out of nowhere it started looking like this, I really hope this doesn’t go through lolol…...

A New Approach to Accelerate the Discovery of Quantum Materials | Berkeley Lab (newscenter.lbl.gov)

On the Origin of Emacs in 1976 (onlisp.co.uk)

Google to Block Entrust Certificates in Chrome Starting November 2024 (thehackernews.com)

See also: …googleblog.com/…/sustaining-digital-certificate-…

Reproductive rights are under attack using online data. These tools help people protect themselves (www.salon.com)

Waymo Is Suing People Who Allegedly Smashed and Slashed Its Robotaxis (www.wired.com)

Google cancels plans to kill off cookies for advertisers (www.cnbc.com)

After Musk's pro-Trump/Vance bender, X users report issues following Kamala Harris' accounts (www.dailydot.com)

Archived at web.archive.org/…/kamala-twitter-account-follow-l…

What's Going On With Trump Media & Technology Stock On Tuesday? (orino.pages.dev)

Google scraps plans to deprecate third-party cookies in Chrome (www.campaignlive.com)

In a blog post released on Monday, VP of Privacy Sandbox Anthony Chavez said that Google is “proposing an updated approach that elevates user choice” by allowing users to select whether or not they want to enable cookies on Chrome and adjust that choice “at any time.”...

AI companies promised the White House to self-regulate one year ago. What’s changed? (www.technologyreview.com)

When ChatGPT summarises, it actually does nothing of the kind (ea.rna.nl)

Local AI is one step closer through Mistral-NeMo 12B (www.techzine.eu)

Mistral NeMo 12B is the name of the new AI model, presented this week by Nvidia and Mistral. “We are fortunate to collaborate with the NVIDIA team, leveraging their top-tier hardware and software,” said Guillaume Lample, cofounder and chief scientist of Mistral AI. “Together, we have developed a model with unprecedented...

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