Collaborate Disseminate
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Hill: The number of deaths in the U.S. is expected to exceed the number of births by 2033, according to the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) annual 30-year projection of the U.S. population released on Mo… Continue reading US Deaths Expected To Outpace Births Within the Decade
The Display/Keyboard unit – DSKY for short – is the primary way that Apollo-era astronauts communicated with the onboard computers. Not all DSKYs ended up in space, however, with the …read more Continue reading Repairing a Real (and Broken) Apollo-era DSKY
In 2019, DataBreaches reported that Solara Medical Supplies in California was notifying more than 110,000 patients after an attacker gained access to some employees’ email accounts via phishing. Solara was subsequently sued and settled claims for… Continue reading HHS Office for Civil Rights Settles HIPAA Phishing Cybersecurity Investigation with Solara Medical Supplies, LLC for $3,000,000
The Australian Open has introduced a project called AO Animated — “near-live, commentated coverage of the Australian Open, free to anyone across the world via YouTube, enhanced via a stream of comments from a like-minded online community,” reports The… Continue reading Australian Open Avatars Helping Tennis Reach New Audience
Pixelfed has launched its mobile app for iOS and Android, solidifying its position as a viable alternative to Instagram. The move also comes at a pivotal moment, as a potential Supreme Court ban on TikTok could drive users to explore other social media… Continue reading Pixelfed, Instagram’s Decentralized Competitor, Is Now On iOS and Android
OpenAI’s “reasoning” AI model, o1, has exhibited a puzzling behavior of “thinking” in Chinese, Persian, or some other language — “even when asked a question in English,” reports TechCrunch. While the exact cause remains unclear, as OpenAI has yet to p… Continue reading OpenAI’s AI Reasoning Model ‘Thinks’ In Chinese Sometimes, No One Really Knows Why
I wasn’t expecting to publish a .NETpad 3.0 update this quickly, at least not on this topic, but Microsoft released .NET 9.0.1 today. And as I had hoped–and assumed–it includes the hoped-for fix for the bug that caused the app to crash when the user … Continue reading .NETpad 2025: .NET 9.0.1 Fixes the App Crashing Bug (Premium)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: The Biden administration finalized a new rule that would effectively ban all Chinese vehicles from the US under the auspices of blocking the “sale or import” of connected vehicle software from “countr… Continue reading US Finalizes Rule To Effectively Ban Chinese Vehicles
You have a project that needs something to move. Should you use a stepper motor or a servo motor? [Matthias] has an opinion, and you can hear his thoughts in …read more Continue reading Head to Head: Servos vs Steppers
A week after announcing performance-based job cuts similar to those at Meta, Microsoft said it also plans to pause hiring in part of its consulting unit. CNBC reports: The changes by the U.S. consulting division are meant to align with a policy by the … Continue reading Microsoft Pauses Hiring In US Consulting Unit