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First recall triggered after people got infections from a few of the products. Second recall after the FDA inspection found the factory had sanitation issues :-( and covers all the products made there.

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Yeah, I’m not seeing any new information here.

People were initially confused and angry, three days later when word of the fee wavers for using their own ad network started circulating you could practically hear the collective “Oh!” from space.

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“Oh… the humanity!!”

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Popular Science/Mechanics runs this story every 5 years. I’m not even going to read it this time ;-)

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Just acting normal, nothing to see here…

California Gov. Newsom has surprise meeting with China’s leader Xi amid warm welcome in Beijing (apnews.com)

California Gov. Gavin Newsom had a surprise meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing on Wednesday after being warmly welcomed by other senior leaders in a display of friendliness that stands in sharp contrast to the dialogue between the United States and China in recent years....

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Yeah… the annual governor of california/emperor of china visit. Everyone’s heard of that… ;-)

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And yet my hands get swapped 10 years later for bringing a pair of sumo robots in my luggage.

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LOL they just pick on a few of us so we spread the word that they’re vigilant.

British Museum is digitizing its entire collection in response to recent thefts | All of that scanning will cost over $12 million. (www.engadget.com)

British Museum is digitizing its entire collection in response to recent thefts | All of that scanning will cost over $12 million.::The British Museum is digitizing its entire collection of more than eight million pieces, at a total cost of over $12 million. This move was announced after the museum experienced a theft back in...

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Higgs is suspected to have taken uncategorized items and selling them on the e-commerce website eBay. One item worth $64,000 was offered for online auction for as little as $51 and listings for artifacts from the museum’s collection appeared online as early as 2016, according to a report in the Telegraph.

A Marvelous Footnote in Tech History – the Mindset Computer and the Vyper Game (blisscast.wordpress.com)

Even if it’s not anywhere as famous as Silicon Graphics machines, this workstation from the 80s has something that others don’t have; a game exclusive to it, that fully takes advantage of the so impressive graphics that it could display! Check it out at the link here!...

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Nice writeup. I remember seeing an odd looking computer that definitely came with a backpack in the window of a local computer store growing up… unfortunately my memory is a bit to hazy to recall the logo and I was definitely never able to play with it (I asked).

Hopefully you get to Vyper some day :-)

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“What we have here, is a failure to moderate.”

Comcast resists call to stop its misleading “10G Network” claims | Comcast renamed its whole network "Xfinity 10G" despite cable's slower speeds. (arstechnica.com)

Comcast resists call to stop its misleading “10G Network” claims | Comcast renamed its whole network “Xfinity 10G” despite cable’s slower speeds.::Comcast renamed its whole network “Xfinity 10G” despite cable’s slower speeds.

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If you say so… that’s a pretty big tube.

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Wait… are you saying it’s not a series of tubes?

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Cars registered in the U.S. after '24 have to include this :-( Although it doesn’t say they have to “announce it” like the Volvo in the article does.

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I don’t know… needing google for a 90% accurate speed limit indicator isn’t great. I suppose this has more to do with paving the way fully self driving cars. I just hope whenever that finally arrives we can get a better target freeway speed than 45 mph average :-)

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Yeah, I’m a hero in my own mind too ;-)

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So pleased. He was a very determined looking little loaf.

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TIL that libertarians managed to agree on something.

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After death and dismemberment by train this was a welcome relief :-S

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I agree… but it’s not going to stop me from trying 😅

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‘To dangerous:’ Why even Google was afraid to release this technology publicly.

There. I fixed it ;-)

sramder ,
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So the PimEyes subscription fee… is the only thing preventing global thermal nuclear war?

Seems as plausible as anything these days ;-)

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Customers who were sent free products “to honesty review”

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Anyone know how many hours of training data it takes to build up a convincing model of someone’s voice? It was 10’s of hours when I did a bit of research a year ago… the article says social media is the likely source of training data for these scams, but that seems unlikely at this point.

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Wow! That’s really impressive.

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I’ll have to check that out, thanks for the link.

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That’s downright scary :-) I think it took longer in the last Mission Impossible.

30 minutes is still pretty minimal for the kind of targeted attack it sounds like this is used for. I suppose we all need to work with our families on code words or something.

I went in thinking the article was a bit alarmist, but that’s clearly not the case. Thank for the insight.

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The technology has clearly come a long way in a short time, really fascinating.

I remember the first examples I read about being trained with celebrity read audiobooks because they needed so much audio data. I want to say Tom Hanks or Anthony Hopkins but I could have that confused with something else.

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Someone else mentioned that Microsoft has one capable of working with far less material.

But 30 minutes is definitely short enough to make this sort of scam/attack feasible in my mind.

‘It’s a cult’: Inside effective accelerationism, the pro-AI movement taking over Silicon Valley — They have “e/acc” on their X handles and sun god memes in their social feeds (www.theinformation.com)

‘It’s a cult’: Inside effective accelerationism, the pro-AI movement taking over Silicon Valley — They have “e/acc” on their X handles and sun god memes in their social feeds::“Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli, Y Combinator president Garry Tan and Notion co-founder Chris Prucha looked up at the cartoon of a shirtless...

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Sounds like they have a throughly nuanced understanding of the world and a solid plan for the future ;-)

sramder ,
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I’m really having a lot of fun imagining Nixon negotiating for some of those bears that look like police cars for our zoos. Except it inevitably becomes Nixon from Futurama.

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I really don’t think so 😎

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People who insist on real flesh porn will ultimately be viewed as weirdo’s out of touch with reality like people who insist everything sounds better on vinyl.

Fast forward 25 years past the first Ai war and a ragged but triumphant humanity must rediscover the lost art of waxing.

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AFIK they have some problems but not quite this bad. Maybe I don’t know all the incidents?

I thought they sent the preview video without HTTPS. Same with a face preview, and most concerning an ID string of unknown intent with the face preview.

I have a few outside and I’m pretty happy with them. The motion detection isn’t perfect, and you’d have to be lucky to read a license plate… but they are also pretty inexpensive.

Unfortunately they are susceptible to a standard deauth attack.

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To paraphrase the CEO they are de-orbiting a 1986 Toyota Corolla. So if you try any course correction over about 80 Mph it’s just going to crash ;-)

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Could just explicitly mean impact analysis, like we’re not cool with what happens if the parachute burns up or fails to deploy.

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Right? Like was the kickstarter only partially funded ;-)

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JJ Abrams buried them in a time capsule to be opened after his death, along with the good ending to Fringe.

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I just kind of treat season 3 as the last one.

Although there’s a bit where Peter looks up at the moon breaking up and goes, “What did you idiots do?” And that’s got to be one of my favorite lines in TV.

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I don’t mind the app, I paid extra for it in most cases… it’s the forced login that bugs…

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I’m certainly not an expert but sometimes I overpack my portafilter and the extraction process takes to long… these shots taste both bitter and salty to me. I call them the devil’s tears.

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Super! Flying was one of the few remaining things I wasn’t afraid of :-(

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That was like a meme++ or something. Awesome:-)

EXCLUSIVE: Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes (www.hackingbutlegal.com)

When China's prodigious tech influencer, Naomi Wu, found herself silenced, it wasn't just the machinery of a surveillance state at play. Instead, it was a confluence of state repression and the sometimes capricious attention of a Western audience that, as she asserts, often views Chinese activists more as ideological tokens than...

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Been a fan for years and this sucks :-(

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I hope not :-)

Someone pointed me at this series of Medium articles she wrote on an incident with Vice running an article outing her after explicitly agreeing not to. So that’s where the general air of animosity towards western journalists probably comes from.

I was also told that The Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj took clips from another interview she gave and put them together out of context in support of a story on China’s censorship. I haven’t watched either interview yet, but that story apparently got the attention of the government and resulted in her being detained by the police. The “first strike” implied in this article.

I really hope she’s able to make more videos. I was a kind of dismissive when she would pop up in my YouTube feed… I figured she was just a paid presenter, had to be, right? But you pick up on her dry humor and depth pretty quickly.

I have to say I would be very upset if she came to harm and would not forget :-(

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