Collaborate Disseminate
Nature magazine reports that “A study that stoked enthusiasm for the now-disproven idea that a cheap malaria drug can treat COVID-19 has been retracted — more than four-and-a-half years after it was published.”
Researchers had critiqued the con… Continue reading Hydroxychloroquine-Promoting COVID Study Retracted After 4 Years
Readers may recall when we first covered the $5 Xiaomi LYWSD03MMC temperature and humidity sensor back in 2020. Prolific hacker [Aaron Christophel] wrote a custom firmware for the affordable gadget …read more Continue reading Custom Firmware For Even Cheaper Bluetooth Thermometers
An anonymous reader shared this report from TechCrunch:
Microsoft-owned GitHub announced on Wednesday a free version of its popular Copilot code completion/AI pair programming tool, which will also now ship by default with Microsoft’s popular VS Code … Continue reading Microsoft Integrates a Free Version of Its ‘Copilot’ Coding AI Into GitHub, VS Code
“California’s population grew this year by nearly a quarter of a million residents,” reports the Los Angeles Daily News, “closing in on record-high population levels the Golden State reached before the pandemic, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Thursday… Continue reading California’s Population Jumps Back to Near Pre-Pandemic Levels
The Linux Foundation partnered with GitHub and Harvard’s Laboratory for Innovation Science to research organization-driven investments in open source software — the how and the why — surveying over 500 organizations around the world.
So wh… Continue reading ‘Open Source Software Funding Report’ Finds 86% of Corporate Contributions are Employees’ Time
Although the world of the X86 instruction set architecture (ISA) and related ecosystem is often accused of being ‘stale’ and ‘bloated’, we have seen a flurry of recent activity that …read more Continue reading Intel Terminates X86S Initiative After Formation of New Industry Group
I noticed DNS requests to the domain: ctldl.windowsupdate.com.
Some report it as malicious but I think it a false-positive, and it is legitimately Microsoft. It is also mentioned in https://security.stackexchange.com/a/233376/72031 in rela… Continue reading Why does ctldl.windowsupdate.com not use (valid) TLS?
Plagued by delays, tied to a rival’s electric platform, yet somehow still being clever and innovative, Ford’s European EV experiment embodies the automaker’s failure to commit to electric cars. Continue reading The Electric Explorer’s Nightmare Launch Shows Everything Ford Gets Right and Wrong About EVs
In a legal filing, Google said a DOJ proposal to break up the company was too extreme, and it offered alternatives to address its Search monopoly abuse.
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Continue reading Google Proposes Alternatives to a Breakup
We clocked thousands of test miles to bring you the best running shoes for every pace, ability, and running goal. Continue reading Best Running Shoes (2024): Asics, Hoka, Nike, On Running