Collaborate Disseminate
The free face-image search engine PimEyes “scans through billions of images from the internet and finds matches of your photo that could have appeared in a church bulletin or a wedding photographer’s website,” -us/news/technology/they-made-a-public-rol… Continue reading PimEyes ‘Made a Public Rolodex of Our Faces’. Should You Opt Out?
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post:
A few weeks ago, analysts at a specialized technological lab put a microchip from China under a powerful microscope. Something didn’t look right… The microscopic proof was there that … Continue reading How America’s Export Controls Failed to Keep Cutting-Edge AI Chips from China’s Huawei
An anonymous Slashdot reader shared this report from CNBC:
Threads now has nearly 275 million monthly users, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday. “We continue to be on track towards this becoming our next major social app,” Zuckerberg said on a call w… Continue reading Threads Soars to 275 Million Monthly Users, Says Zuckerberg
In diary entry “Analyzing PDF Streams” I answer a question asked by a student of Xavier: “how can you export all streams of a PDF?”. I explained how to do this with my pdf-parser.py tool.
Continue reading qpdf: Extracting PDF Streams, (Sat, Nov 2nd)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: More than 50 US lawmakers are calling on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to join dozens of other countries in banning a widely used weedkiller linked to Parkinson’s disease and other heal… Continue reading US Lawmakers On EPA To Ban Pesticide Linked To Parkinson’s Disease
These are the best bubblers we’ve found for fresh carbonation at a moment’s notice. Continue reading Best 5 Soda Makers for Sparkling Water (2024)
Tesla’s coming Model Y refresh may have been delayed to make it more Fido friendly, but it’s by no means the first car to be created with canines in mind. Continue reading Model Y Is Getting a Mutt Makeover, Joining the List of Cars Designed for—and by—Dogs
Let’s say you’ve got a fun little organization that does things together under a collective branding or banner. Maybe you want to celebrate that fact with some visually appealing signage? …read more Continue reading How Purdue Hackers Made a Big Sign That They’re Really Proud Of
Starlink has launched home Internet service to 99.5% of residents in the National Radio Quiet Zone (NRQZ) after a multi-year collaboration with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory to minimize interference with radio telescopes. “The vast majority … Continue reading Starlink Enters National Radio Quiet Zone
[David Shadoff] has a clear soft spot for the NEC console systems and has been collecting many tools and data about them. When developing with these old systems, having a …read more Continue reading An RP2040-based PC-FX Development Cartridge