Workaround helps improve gaming performance on outdated Intel CPUs — Resizable Bar UEFI mod works with CPUs as old as Sandy Bridge (www.tomshardware.com)
Is it known that some of the streaming services with advertising artificially reduce their ad length after the holidays?
Assuming to artificially secure people with new memberships through their first 4-6 weeks to establish a habit through the first billing cycle. Is this a known thing?
Browser maker love-in snubs Google-shunned JPEG XL (www.theregister.com)
Browser makers Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla have announced Interop 2024, a project to promote web browser interoperability....
YouTube Premium announces 100 million subscribers (arstechnica.com)
Vision Pro Teardown—Why Those Fake Eyes Look So Weird (www.ifixit.com)
Browser Wizardry: How to Find Your Lost Tabs! (www.youtube.com)
More and more USB sticks and microSD cards are being made with dubious components — data recovery firm uncovers no-name, low-quality NAND inside many devices (www.tomshardware.com)
Armies of bots battled on Twitter over Chinese spy balloon incident (www.newscientist.com)
Armies of bots battled on Twitter over Chinese spy balloon incident::Large proportions of users posting on Twitter – now X – about the Chinese balloon that drifted over the US and Canada in 2023 were bots attempting to shape the debate
Scientists Develop New Dirt-Powered Fuel Cell That Runs Forever (scitechdaily.com)
Northwestern University researchers have introduced a soil-microbe-powered fuel cell, significantly outperforming similar technologies and providing a sustainable solution for powering low-energy devices.
Google’s CEO faces employee questions about layoffs — “Why has there been such an extraordinary effort to limit the internal visibility of layoffs announcements?” (www.theverge.com)
Google’s CEO faces employee questions about layoffs — “Why has there been such an extraordinary effort to limit the internal visibility of layoffs announcements?”::During a recent TGIF all-hands meeting, Google CEO Sundar Pichai addressed what sources describe as a growing morale crisis inside the company.
How Quora Died (slate.com)
“Why Do So Many Music Venues Use Ticketmaster?” “What’s It Like to Train to Be a Sushi Chef?” “How Do Martial Artists Break Concrete Blocks?” If you were looking for answers to such questions 10 years ago, your best resource for finding a thorough, expert-informed response likely would have been one of the most...
Facebook at 20: Four ways the app changed the world (www.bbc.com)
Top 5 Free Scavenger Hunt Apps To Explore Exciting Adventures (assets-global.website-files.com)
As someone who enjoys the idea of making own scavenger hunt experiences, I’ve discovered the top 5 scavenger hunt apps that are considered the best for it....
Reddit chooses New York Stock Exchange for long-stalled IPO (www.ft.com)
Reddit chooses New York Stock Exchange for long-stalled IPO::Social media platform’s valuation is expected to have tumbled from $10bn in 2021
'The Last of Us Part 3' concept confirmed by Neil Druckmann (ew.com)
‘They thought they were doing good but it made people worse’: why mental health apps are under scrutiny (www.theguardian.com)
Latest GPT-4-0125-preview and Bard-Feb-2024 are live at https://chat.lmsys.org (programming.dev)
🔥The battle for AI supremacy is heating up! 🔥 Latest GPT-4-0125-preview and Bard-Feb-2024 are live at chat.lmsys.org 🤖🤖. Will Bard and Mistral unseat OpenAI as the reigning champ? 🤔🤔
'Betrayed' SAP workers rebel against forced office return (www.euronews.com)
‘Betrayed’ SAP workers rebel against forced office return::The German software giant has changed direction, and more than 5,000 employees have signed an internal petition saying they feel ‘betrayed’.
New Study Says Artificial Intelligence Still Too Costly To Replace Most Human Jobs (mitechnews.com)
New Study Says Artificial Intelligence Still Too Costly To Replace Most Human Jobs::Artificial intelligence is still costly to replace most human jobs, according to a study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.The MIT Beyond AI Exposure study said, “Machines will steal our jobs” is a sentiment frequently expressed...
Apple employees outnumbered customers at Vision Pro launch in San Francisco's Union Square (www.sfgate.com)
Apple employees outnumbered customers at Vision Pro launch in San Francisco’s Union Square::Apple’s new Vision Pro headset drew a sparse but eager crowd to San Francisco’s Union Square on Friday, for pickups and demos.
Multinational firm’s Hong Kong office loses HK$200 million after scammers stage deepfake video meeting (www.scmp.com)
Multinational firm’s Hong Kong office loses HK$200 million after scammers stage deepfake video meeting::undefined
AnyDesk confirms production systems were breached. (www.thestack.technology)
Both Samsung and TSMC will be keeping 2nm chip manufacturing in their home countries (www.gsmarena.com)
Ethiopia set to become first country to ban internal combustion cars (electrek.co)
A startup allegedly “hacked the world.” Then came the censorship—and now the backlash. (arstechnica.com)
A startup allegedly “hacked the world.” Then came the censorship—and now the backlash.::Anti-censorship voices are working to highlight reports of one Indian company’s hacker past.
