During JD Vance’s brief career as a venture capitalist, few startups attracted his support more than AppHarvest, a now bankrupt plan to build greenhouses across Appalachia.
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FortiGate admins report active exploitation 0-day. Vendor isn’t talking.
Fortinet, a maker of network security software, has kept a critical vulnerability under wraps for more than a week amid reports that attackers are using it to execute malicious code on servers used by sensitive customer organizations. Fortinet representatives didn’t respond to emailed questions and have yet to release any sort of public advisory detailing...
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Basecamp-maker 37Signals says its “cloud exit” will save it $10M over 5 years
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...