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While a revolutionary storage system for their time, floppy disks are not terribly useful these days. Though high failure rates and slow speeds are an issue, for this project, the …read more Continue reading Playing Factorio on a Floppy Disk Cluster
Mercedes-Benz is pausing the roll-out of Drive Pilot, an “eyes off” conditionally automated driving feature that was available in Europe and the US. From a report: As first reported by German publication Handelsblatt, the revised S-Class will not have … Continue reading Mercedes Temporarily Scraps Its Level 3 ‘Eyes-off’ Driving Feature
The January 2026 Patch Tuesday updates for Windows 11 address a battery issue on devices with a Neural Processing Unit, and they also remove some modem drivers from the OS.
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Today, Microsoft released patches for 113 vulnerabilities. One of these vulnerabilities affected the Edge browser and was patched upstream by Chromium.
Continue reading January 2026 Microsoft Patch Tuesday Summary, (Tue, Jan 13th)
Budget-friendly headphones are a dime a dozen, so what makes the Haylou S40s worthy of buying? Continue reading I tested this pair of $40 headphones and refuse to believe they sound this good
The Federal Communications Commission is letting Verizon lock phones to its network for longer periods, eliminating a requirement to unlock handsets 60 days after they are activated on its network. From a report: The change will make it harder for peop… Continue reading Verizon To Stop Automatic Unlocking of Phones as FCC Ends 60-Day Unlock Rule
Telegram will add a warning for proxy links after reports showed they can expose user IP addresses with a single click, bypassing VPN or privacy settings. Continue reading Telegram to Add Warning for Proxy Links After IP Leak Concerns
Meta is laying off 10% of employees working at its Reality Labs group as the company is scaling back its investments in the metaverse.
The post Meta is Cutting 10% of its Reality Labs Workforce as it Shifts its Focus to Mobile and Wearables appeared fi… Continue reading Meta is Cutting 10% of its Reality Labs Workforce as it Shifts its Focus to Mobile and Wearables
In episode 83 of The AI Fix, Graham reveals he’s taken up lying to LLMs, and shows how a journalist exposed AI bluffers with a made-up idiom. Meanwhile Mark invents a “Godwin’s Law” for AI, and explains how to ruin any LLM with humus.
Also in this epi… Continue reading The AI Fix #83: ChatGPT Health, Victorian LLMs, and the biggest AI bluffers
America’s largest power-grid operator, PJM, which delivers electricity to 67 million people across a 13-state region from New Jersey to Kentucky, is approaching a supply crisis as AI data centers in Northern Virginia’s “Data Center Alley” consume elect… Continue reading America’s Biggest Power Grid Operator Has an AI Problem – Too Many Data Centers