37Signals is not a company that makes its policy or management decisions quietly. The productivity software company was an avowedly Mac-centric shop until Apple’s move to kill home screen web apps (or Progressive Web Apps, or PWAs) led the firm and its very-public-facing co-founder, David Heinemeier Hansson, to declare a “Return to Windows,” followed by a...
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Microsoft and OpenAI’s Close Partnership Shows Signs of Fraying
The “best bromance in tech” has had a reality check as OpenAI has tried to change its deal with Microsoft and the software maker has tried to hedge its bet on the start-up.
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This $350 Oura Ring 4 Tracks Your Sleep. Is It Worth the Splurge?
The $350 Oura Ring 4 looks sleek and cool, and it may be useful for data-hungry health enthusiasts. But it failed this sleep-deprived parent.
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Amazon, Google and Microsoft Are Investing in Nuclear Power
Large technology companies are investing billions of dollars in nuclear energy as an emissions-free source of electricity for artificial intelligence and other businesses.
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Trump Signals Skepticism of Google Breakup, Citing Competition With China
The former president also said he would do “something” to make Google “more fair” if he regained the presidency.
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Tesla Self-Driving System Will Be Investigated by Safety Agency
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it was looking into what Elon Musk’s electric car company called the full self-driving system.
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OpenAI releases ChatGPT app for Windows
On Thursday, OpenAI released an early Windows version of its first ChatGPT app for Windows, following a Mac version that launched in May. Currently, it’s only available to subscribers of Plus, Team, Enterprise, and Edu versions of ChatGPT, and users can download it for free in the Microsoft Store for Windows. OpenAI is positioning the...
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Finally upgrading from isc-dhcp-server to isc-kea for my homelab
A few months back, I put together a big fat guide on how to configure DNS and DHCP on your LAN the old-school way, with bind and dhcpd working together to seamlessly hand out addresses to hosts on your network and also register those hosts in your LAN’s forward and reverse DNS lookup zones. The...
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Cheap AI “video scraping” can now extract data from any screen recording
Recently, AI researcher Simon Willison wanted to add up his charges from using a cloud service, but the payment values and dates he needed were scattered among a dozen separate emails. Inputting them manually would have been tedious, so he turned to a technique he calls “video scraping,” which involves feeding a screen recording video...
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Men accused of DDoSing some of the world’s biggest tech companies
Federal authorities have charged two Sudanese nationals with running an operation that performed tens of thousands of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against some of the world’s biggest technology companies, as well as critical infrastructure and government agencies. The service, branded as Anonymous Sudan, directed powerful and sustained DDoSes against Big Tech companies, including...