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Cryptocurrencies use massive amounts of power – but eco-friendly alternatives come with their own risks
Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin can use more power than countries such as Finland. The emergence of eco-friendly alternatives provides hope, and a few concerns, for crypto users.
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FCC restores net neutrality- here's what it means for the internet
The FCC votes 3-2 to reinstate rules ensuring equal treatment for all internet traffic. But that doesn't mean the issue is settled.
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NASA Selects New Crew for Next Simulated Mars Journey - NASA
NASA has selected a new crew of four volunteers to participate in a simulated mission to Mars within a habitat at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
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How Google RUINED the Internet
You may have noticed that Google isn't what it used to be. Search results are buried under ads and sponsored links, and when you do find a result, it's overflowing with SEO garbage. You aren't imagining things: the internet is getting quantifiably worse. In this video, Adam explains how the same Google that once helped make the internet more accessible to countless people has doomed the internet itself for the foreseeable future.
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SUSE Upgrades Its Rancher Kubernetes Management Family
The new features are designed to empower platform engineering teams to offer developers self-service capabilities alongside bolstered support for AI workloads.
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Linus Torvalds takes on evil developers, hardware errors and 'hilarious' AI hype
While all is 'calm and steady and boring' with the next kernel, Linux creator Torvalds tells an Open Source Summit crowd exactly how he feels about almost everything else.
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OpenSSF warns of Open Source Social Engineering Threats
What are the trust best practices? We honestly don't know yet. But, if we're to trust our open source projects, we must figure it out.
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Why are Apple, Amazon, Google and Meta facing antitrust lawsuits and huge fines? And will it protect consumers?
Governments around the world keep filing antitrust lawsuits against the ‘big four’ tech companies. Here’s why that matters for everyone who uses their products.
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The hyper-clouds are open source's friends
No, really. Look at the evidence
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The Commonhaus Way to Manage Open Source Projects
Commonhaus is taking a laissez-faire approach to open source group management.
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Ultra-Heavy EVs Will Easily Demolish Nation’s Unprepared Guard Rail System
The U.S. is a global leader in traffic-related fatalities, with a thirty-percent jump in the last decade. That’s in contrast to every other developed country, which saw a decline. So, of …
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ChatGPT Plugins are being replaced by GPTs. Here's why - and what it means for you
GPTs will do everything plugins ever did - except better. Here's a breakdown of the key differences.
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The Uniqueness of the Human Writer
The fiction writer designs a plot, characters, and detail in order to create an intended effect or meaning. The best a bot can do is scramble for pre-existing literary patterns and throw something together. Its “creativity” depends on the massive collection of human-made content.
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It's baaack! Microsoft and IBM open source MS-DOS 4.0
How did the operating system so bad it likely steered users to Linux 35 years ago come to be open-sourced now? Here's what happened.
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FCC Reinstates Net Neutrality In A Blow To Internet Service Providers
Major internet providers once again will have to abide by a set of robust rules as the FCC today reinstated net neutrality regulations.
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The psychology of cancel culture: New study pinpoints key drivers
A recent study in Acta Psychologica reveals that political identity centrality increases the likelihood of engaging in cancel culture, mediated by social vigilantism and virtue signaling.
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Outlook is Microsoft’s new data collection service
The new Outlook now appears to be a data collection service for Microsoft’s 801 external partners for targeted advertising.
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Is AI driving tech layoffs?
Tech stocks go ever higher, but how much of that is due to real gains and how much is because of layoffs done in the foolish hope that generative AI tools can replace workers?
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Nintendo Confirms It Will Announce Switch Successor Console ‘Within This Fiscal Year’ - IGN
Nintendo has said it will finally announce its Switch successor console “within this fiscal year”, so at some point before March 31, 2025. New Nintendo Direct confirmed.
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BASIC turns 60: Why simplicity was this programming language's blessing and its curse
Since the 1960s, BASIC has introduced countless beginners to computer programming. Here's how the language got started, the paths it cleared for Windows and Apple, and where you can still find it today.