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Giving Windows total recall is a privacy minefield (www.theregister.com)

Microsoft’s Windows Recall feature is attracting controversy before even venturing out of preview....

Researchers explore mining seawater for critical metals (grist.org)

North Korea says its latest attempt to launch satellite failed (www3.nhk.or.jp)

YouTube videos are skipping to the end for users with adblockers (9to5google.com)

Valve confirms your Steam account cannot be transferred to anyone after you die | Your Steam games will go to the grave with you (www.techspot.com)

The Internet Archive is under a DDoS attack (bsky.app)

Brought to you by the Department of Erasing History.

Study finds a quarter of all webpages from 2013 to 2023 no longer exist (www.pcgamer.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.

Microsoft shot real lasers through a window to make Windows 10's wallpaper — surprisingly the iconic art wasn't computer generated (www.tomshardware.com)

CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information (futurism.com)

You know how Google’s new feature called AI Overviews is prone to spitting out wildly incorrect answers to search queries? In one instance, AI Overviews told a user to use glue on pizza to make sure the cheese won’t slide off (pssst…please don’t do this.)...

How Python Compares Floats and Ints: When Equals Isn’t Really Equal (blog.codingconfessions.com)

Does String Theory Actually Describe the World? AI May Be Able to Tell (www.wired.com)

17 cringe-worthy Google AI answers demonstrate the problem with training on the entire web (www.tomshardware.com)

These are 17 of the worst, most cringeworthy Google AI overview answers:...

Cloudflare took down our website after trying to force us to pay $120000 within 24h (robindev.substack.com)

Also, interesting comment I found on HackerNews (HN):...

Elon Musk's xAI plans to build 'Gigafactory of Compute' by fall 2025 — using 100,000 Nvidia's H100 GPUs (www.tomshardware.com)

Windows 11 IoT LTSC 2024 arrives making TPM and Secure Boot optional — lower storage requirements, too (www.tomshardware.com)

Microsoft word update messes up exams in Denmark (www.dr.dk)

Sorry for the Danish post i hope you can translate it....

Actually, Winamp is not going Open Source (x.com)

x.com/winamp/status/1793615140241240395

OpenAI backpedals on scandalous tactic to silence former employees (arstechnica.com)

Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search (www.theverge.com)

My blog cost USD44 a year (merecivilian.com)

Didn’t know VPSs could get that cheap

Synapse, backed by a16z, has collapsed, and 10 million consumers could be hurt (techcrunch.com)

Amazon Kills Shareholder Proposals on Worker Protections and AI Oversight (www.404media.co)

An Important Hypothetical - What Android Apps Do You Install?? (sh.itjust.works)

You’re twelve years old on Thanksgiving at six thirty in the morning. You’ll be leaving for Grandma’s in about a half hour, and she’s lives a three hour drive away, going in one direction. You have nothing to prepare yourself on this journey, other than a tablet running Android Eleven. Beware, the speaker is broken and...