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Reply to #px274va
… or maybe I should do this based on allowlisting rather than blocklisting. 🤔 Only allow a couple of bots that I think are fine …
3 hours ago
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Anyone got a link to a robots.txt that “blocks” all the “AI” stuff?
3 hours ago
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**Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Now Supporting FFmpeg**
Michael Larabel reports via Phoronix: Following Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund providing significant funding for GNOME, Rust Coreutils, PHP, a systemd bug bounty, and numerous other free software projects, the FFmpeg multimedia library is the latest beneficiary to this funding from the Germany government. The Sovereign Tech Fund notes that the FFmpeg project is receiving 15 ... ⌘ Read more
6 hours ago
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#QOTD : If you could redesign a fundamental internet protocol from scratch, which one would you choose and how would you improve it?
9 hours ago
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**Archie, the Internet's First Search Engine, Is Rescued and Running**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: It's amazing, and a little sad, to think that something created in 1989 that changed how people used and viewed the then-nascent Internet had nearly vanished by 2024. Nearly, that is, because the dogged researchers and enthusiasts at The Serial Port channel on YouTube have found what is like ... ⌘ Read more
9 hours ago
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**NetBSD Bans AI-Generated Code**
Seven Spirals writes: NetBSD committers are now banned from using any AI-generated code from ChatGPT, CoPilot, or other AI tools. Time will tell how this plays out with both their users and core team. "If you commit code that was not written by yourself, double check that the license on that code permits import into the NetBSD source repository, and permits free distribution," reads NetBSD's updated commit guideline ... ⌘ Read more
10 hours ago
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**In a Milestone, the US Exceeds 5 Million Solar Installations**
According to the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), the U.S. has officially surpassed 5 million solar installations. "The 5 million milestone comes just eight years after the U.S. achieved its first million in 2016 -- a stark contrast to the four decades it took to reach that initial milestone since the first grid-connected solar project in 19 ... ⌘ Read more
11 hours ago
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Reply to #aurawta
@aelaraji LOL which I block on purpose 🤣
12 hours ago
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**Winamp Is 'Opening Up' Its Source Code**
In a press release today, the best music player of the 1990s announced that it'll open up its source code to developers worldwide. "Winamp will open up its code for the player used on Windows, enabling the entire community to participate in its development," said the company. "This is an invitation to global collaboration, where developers worldwide can contribute their expertise, ideas, and passion ... ⌘ Read more
12 hours ago
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**Sony Lays Down the Gauntlet on AI**
Sony Music Group, one of the world's biggest record labels, warned AI companies and music streaming platforms not to use the company's content without explicit permission. From a report: Sony Music, whose artists include Lil Nas X and Celine Dion, sent letters to more than 700 companies in an effort to protect its intellectual property, which includes album cover art, metadata, musical compositions and lyri ... ⌘ Read more
12 hours ago
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**Reddit Reintroduces Its Awards System**
After shutting down its awards system last July, Reddit announced that it is bringing it back, with much of the same and some new features. There'll be "a new design for awards, a new award button under eligible posts and a leaderboard showing top awards earned for a comment or a post," reports TechCrunch. From the report: The company sunset its awards program last year along with the ability for us ... ⌘ Read more
13 hours ago
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**GTA 6 Release Date Narrowed To Fall 2025 Amid Questions about Delays**
Take-Two Interactive is doubling down Grand Theft Auto VI's release date, saying the long-awaited sequel will be out fall 2025 despite rumors of a possible delay into 2026. From a report: Take-Two announced GTA 6's updated release window in its latest earnings report, saying that its current outlook is based on the new date. "We do feel ... ⌘ Read more
14 hours ago
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**Another Billionaire Pushes a Bid For TikTok, But To Decentralize It**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Techdirt, written by Mike Masnick: If you're a fan of chaos, well, the TikTok ban situation is providing plenty of chaos to follow. Ever since the US government made it clear it was seriously going to move forward with the obviously unconstitutional and counterproductive plan to force ByteDance to div ... ⌘ Read more
14 hours ago
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**Hugging Face Is Sharing $10 Million Worth of Compute To Help Beat the Big AI Companies**
Kylie Robison reports via The Verge: Hugging Face, one of the biggest names in machine learning, is committing $10 million in free shared GPUs to help developers create new AI technologies. The goal is to help small developers, academics, and startups counter the centralization of AI advancements. . ... ⌘ [Read more
15 hours ago
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**Palo Alto Networks Is Buying Security Assets From IBM**
Palo Alto Networks is acquiring IBM's QRadar cloud software and migrating customers to its Cortex Xsiam platform as part of a broader partnership aimed at expanding its consulting capabilities and customer base. The sum of the deal was not disclosed. CNBC reports: The move normally takes one to three months, Nikesh Arora, Palo Alto's CEO, told CNBC. Also, IBM will train ... ⌘ Read more
16 hours ago
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**EU Opens Child Safety Probes of Facebook and Instagram, Citing Addictive Design Concerns**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Facebook and Instagram are under formal investigation in the European Union over child protection concerns, the Commission announced Thursday. The proceedings follow a raft of requests for information to parent entity Meta since the bloc's online go ... ⌘ Read more
16 hours ago
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**Russia Directing Hackers To Attack UK and West, Says Director of GCHQ**
Russia is increasingly seeking to encourage and direct hackers to attack British and other western targets, the director of GCHQ has said in her first keynote speech as head of the British intelligence agency. From a report: Anne Keast-Butler said her agency was "increasingly concerned about growing links" between the Russian intelligenc ... ⌘ Read more
17 hours ago
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Reply to #sp3wdea
I was able to dig up StarOffice 3.1, which I used in the 1990’ies on Windows 95. This was the highlight of my day. 🥰 As you can see in the photo below, this CD includes a version for Windows 3.1, 95/NT – and OS/2! How cool is that? My CD back then did not have the OS/2 version.

StarWriter of StarOffice 3.1 can do a lot of the stuff that I’m missing in the tool at work. Like automatic numbering of sections/chapters and cross-references to other parts of the document. Essential basic stuff like that.

All the following screenshots are from QEMU VMs (OS/2 2.1, Windows 3.11, and Windows 98), but I think I’m gonna install this on my real OS/2 Warp 4 box soon. 🧓

https://movq.de/v/eebbe648a5/

What really blew my mind is this feature, though: You can rearrange your document’s structure using drag-and-drop. Here’s a demo (Window 2000):

https://movq.de/v/67523d0d3f/so31.mp4

I really, really wish the tool at work would have a feature like that. It would have saved me so much time already. 😭
17 hours ago
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**Samsung Mocks Apple's Controversial 'Crush' Ad With 'UnCrush' Pitch**
Samsung has released a response to Apple's recently criticized "Crush" ad, which featured the destruction of instruments, arcade games, and sculptures to promote the new iPad Pro. Apple subsequently apologized, with an executive admitting they "missed the mark."

In a video titled "UnCrush," created by BBH USA and directed by Zen Pace, Samsung ... ⌘ Read more
18 hours ago
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**Revolutionary New Google Feature Hidden Under 'More' Tab Shows Links To Web Pages**
An anonymous reader shares a report: After launching a feature that adds more AI junk than ever to search results, Google is experimenting with a radical new feature that lets users see only the results they were looking for, in the form of normal text links. As in, what most people actually use Google for. "We've ... ⌘ Read more
18 hours ago
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**Smartphones Can Now Last 7 Years**
Google and Samsung used to update smartphone software for only three years. That has changed. From a report: Every smartphone has an expiration date. That day arrives when the software updates stop coming and you start missing out on new apps and security protections. With most phones, this used to happen after about only three years. But things are finally starting to change. The new number is seven. I firs ... ⌘ Read more
19 hours ago
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**US House of Representatives Passes TICKET Act To Create Transparency in Pricing**
After bipartisan constituents introduced the Transparency in Charges for Key Events Ticketing (TICKET) Act in June 2023, the United States House of Representatives passed the legislation this week in the ongoing efforts to reform the ticketing industry. From a report: The bill received a substantial amount of biparti ... ⌘ Read more
20 hours ago
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**Toshiba To Cut 4,000 Jobs in Restructuring Drive**
Japan's Toshiba said on Thursday it will cut up to 4,000 jobs domestically as the industrial conglomerate accelerates restructuring under new ownership. From a report: Toshiba delisted in December due to a $13 billion takeover by a consortium led by private equity firm Japan Industrial Partners, capping a decade of scandal and upheaval. The consortium's efforts to engineer a turna ... ⌘ Read more
21 hours ago
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**Visa Adds New Way To Share Customer Shopping Data With Retailers**
Visa is rolling out new technology that will allow the payments giant to share more information about customers' preferences [non-paywalled source] based on their shopping history with retailers as it seeks to remain a top player in the competitive e-commerce space. From a report: The data will be shared via the payments giant's proprietary "token ... ⌘ Read more
21 hours ago
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**'Microsoft's Quest For Short-Term $$$ is Doing Long-Term Damage To Windows, Surface, Xbox, and Beyond'**
In an op-ed on Windows Central, the site's co-managing editor Jez Corden laments Microsoft's "short-sighted" decision-making and "inconsistent" investment in its products and services, which he argues has led to a loss of trust among customers and missed opportunities in the tech ... ⌘ Read more
22 hours ago
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**Microsoft Asks Hundreds of China-Based AI Staff To Consider Relocating Amid US-China Tensions**
Microsoft is asking hundreds of employees in its China-based cloud-computing and AI operations to consider transferring outside the country, as tensions between Washington and Beijing mount around the critical technology. WSJ: Such staff, mostly engineers with Chinese nationality, were recently ... ⌘ Read more
23 hours ago
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**Airbus Unveils Half-Plane, Half-Copter In Quest For Speed**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Airbus Helicopters showcased an experimental half-plane, half-helicopter on Wednesday in a quest for speed as competition heats up to define the rotorcraft of the future. The $217 million Racer is a one-off demonstrator model combining traditional overhead rotors with two forward-facing propellors in a bid to ... ⌘ Read more
1 day ago
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**AT&T Goes Up Against T-Mobile, Starlink With AST SpaceMobile Satellite Deal**
Michael Kan reports via PCMag: AT&T has struck a deal to bring satellite internet connectivity to phones through AST SpaceMobile, a potential rival to SpaceX's Starlink. AT&T says the commercial agreement will last until 2030. The goal is "to provide a space-based broadband network to everyday cell phones," a spokesperson ... ⌘ Read more
1 day ago
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prologic
Reply to #aurawta
@aelaraji Bahahaha 🤣 The domain for that image is blocked on my local network 😅
1 day ago
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**Microsoft's AI Push Imperils Climate Goal As Carbon Emissions Jump 30%**
Microsoft's ambitious goal to be carbon negative by 2030 is threatened by its expanding AI operations, which have increased its carbon footprint by 30% since 2020. To meet its targets, Microsoft must quickly adopt green technologies and improve efficiency in its data centers, which are critical for AI but heavily reliant on carbon-intensive ... ⌘ Read more
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**Wallet Recovery Firms Buzz as Locked-out Crypto Investors Panic in Bitcoin Boom**
The recent surge in bitcoin prices has the phones at crypto wallet recovery firms ringing off the hook, as retail investors locked out of their digital vaults make frantic calls to regain access to their accounts. From a report: Cryptocurrencies exist on a decentralized digital ledger known as blockchain and investors m ... ⌘ Read more
1 day ago
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**MIT Students Stole $25 Million In Seconds By Exploiting ETH Blockchain Bug, DOJ Says**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Within approximately 12 seconds, two highly educated brothers allegedly stole $25 million by tampering with the ethereum blockchain in a never-before-seen cryptocurrency scheme, according to an indictment that the US Department of Justice unsealed Wednesday. In ... ⌘ Read more
1 day ago
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**Bay Area City Orders Scientists To Stop Controversial Cloud Brightening Experiment**
Last month, researchers from the University of Washington started conducting an experiment on a decommissioned naval ship in Alameda to test if spraying salt water into the air could brighten clouds and cool the planet. However, their project was forced to stop this month after the city got word of what was goi ... ⌘ Read more
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**Netflix To Take On Google and Amazon By Building Its Own Ad Server**
Lauren Forristal writes via TechCrunch: Netflix announced during its Upfronts presentation on Wednesday that it's launching its own advertising technology platform only a year and a half after entering the ads business. This move pits it against other industry heavyweights with ad servers, like Google, Amazon and Comcast. The announcement sig ... ⌘ Read more
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**US Regulators Approve Rule That Could Speed Renewables**
Longtime Slashdot reader necro81 writes: The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), which controls interstate energy infrastructure, approved a rule Monday that should boost new transmission infrastructure and make it easier to connect renewable energy projects. (More coverage here, here, and here.)

Some 11,000 projects totaling 2,600 GW of capacity ... ⌘ Read more
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**UK Police Could Get Ghostbusters-style Backpack Devices To Halt Ebike Getaways**
Police officers in Britain could be armed with Ghostbusters-style devices that fire electromagnetic rays to shut down the engines of ebikes being used in a crime. From a report: Gavin Stephens, chair of the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC), said the weapon was in development and could be months away from being av ... ⌘ Read more
1 day ago
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**Arizona Accuses Amazon of Unfair, Deceptive Business Practices**
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes filed two lawsuits Wednesday against the international online retail giant Amazon.com, accusing it of deceptive and unfair business practices. Courthouse News Service: The two lawsuits, filed in state court, say Amazon's Prime cancellation process and the algorithm that decides whether a product is offered through a ... ⌘ Read more
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prologic
Reply to #aurawta
@aelaraji Good luck! 🤞
1 day ago
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Reply to #66sdgyq
@mckinley I see 🤔
1 day ago
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**Quantum Internet Draws Near Thanks To Entangled Memory Breakthroughs**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from New Scientist: Efforts to build a global quantum internet have received a boost from two developments in quantum information storage that could one day make it possible to communicate securely across hundreds or thousands of kilometers. The internet as it exists today involves sending strings of di ... ⌘ Read more
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**Google Opens Up Its Smart Home To Everyone**
Google is opening up API access to its Google Home smart home platform, allowing app developers to access over 600 million connected devices and tap into the Google Home automation engine. In addition, Google announced that it'll be turning Google TVs into Google Home hubs and Matter controllers. The Verge reports: The Home APIs can access any Matter device or Works with Google Home device ... ⌘ Read more
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**Apple Brings Eye-Tracking To Recent iPhones and iPads**
This week, in celebration of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, Apple is introducing several new accessibility features. Noteworthy additions include eye-tracking support for recent iPhone and iPad models, customizable vocal shortcuts, music haptics, and vehicle motion cues. Engadget reports: The most intriguing feature of the set is the ability to use the front-fac ... ⌘ Read more
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**Android 15 Gets 'Private Space,' Theft Detection, and AV1 Support**
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Google's I/O conference is still happening, and while the big keynote was yesterday, major Android beta releases have apparently been downgraded to Day 2 of the show. Google really seems to want to be primarily an AI company now. Android already had some AI news yesterday, but now that the code- ... ⌘ Read more
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**Walmart's Reign as America's Biggest Retailer Is Under Threat**
With Amazon on its heels, the nation's biggest company by revenue is hunting for ways to continue growing. From a report: For a decade, Walmart has reigned as the nation's biggest company by revenue. Its sales last year added up to $648 billion -- more than $1.2 million a minute. That status comes with benefits. It gives Walmart power in negotiations wit ... ⌘ Read more
1 day ago
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mckinley
Reply to #xpz5p3a
@rrraksamam I'm looking forward to my all-SSD Btrfs RAID5 NAS. I think it'll be a while, though. I just paid $6.92/TB for a couple of used 12TB HDDs.
1 day ago
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mckinley
Reply to #66sdgyq
@prologic They're shutting down after 7 years. It was a great place to buy Monero with cash by mail. https://localmonero.co/nojs/blog/announcements/winding-down
1 day ago
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**Troubling iOS 17.5 Bug Reportedly Resurfacing Old Deleted Photos**
An anonymous reader shares a report: There are concerning reports on Reddit that Apple's latest iOS 17.5 update has introduced a bug that causes old photos that were deleted -- in some cases years ago -- to reappear in users' photo libraries. After updating their iPhone, one user said they were shocked to find old NSFW photos that they deleted in ... ⌘ Read more
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movq
Reply to #xpz5p3a
@rrraksamam You sure that’s enough? My laptop already has 32 GB RAM. You gotta pump those numbers up!
1 day ago
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**Senators Urge $32 Billion in Emergency Spending on AI After Finishing Yearlong Review**
A bipartisan group of four senators led by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is recommending that Congress spend at least $32 billion over the next three years to develop AI and place safeguards around it, writing in a report released Wednesday that the U.S. needs to "harness the opportunities and address the ... ⌘ Read more
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**Intel's New Thunderbolt Share Provides File and Screen Sharing Without Hurting Network Performance**
Intel unveiled Thunderbolt Share on Wednesday with which it promises to streamline screen and file sharing between two PCs. Tom's Hardware: Thunderbolt Share will allow PC owners to connect their two computers with a wired connection that leverages Thunderbolt's speed (40Gbps or higher) ... ⌘ Read more
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