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12-Jan-2024 – All I Want for Mr. Christmas Is Some New Music

Brief Summary: “You, it’s true; you really can find anything (except maybe LEGO) in thrift stores. When [thecowgoesm”

12-Jan-2024 – Wisconsin bill to restrict pathogen studies worries scientists

Brief Summary: “U.S. House and three states have now passed or considered bans on “gain-of-function” research for vi”

12-Jan-2024 – Artifact, Personalized News App From Instagram Co-Founders, Is Shutting Down

Brief Summary: “Artifact, the personalized news reader built by Instagram’s co-founders, is shutting down roughly a “

12-Jan-2024 – Artifact Is Shutting Down

Brief Summary: “Kevin Systrom announced the decision to shut down Artifact on Medium:

While we’ve made this deci”

12-Jan-2024 – Amazon sells products with titles like “I’m sorry, I cannot fulfill this request as it goes against OpenAI use policy”, as sellers use ChatGPT to write listings (Elizabeth Lopatto/The Verge)

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Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge:
Amazon sells products with titles like “I’m sorry, I cannot fulfill”

12-Jan-2024 – How I Configure Brave

Brief Summary: “Brave is free and open source, it blocks ads and trackers automatically, and it’s safer, faster, and”

12-Jan-2024 – The George Carlin AI Standup Is Worse Than You Can Imagine

Brief Summary: “The cursed hour-long special is the work of Dudesy, a podcast hosted by Will Sasso and Chad Kultgen “

12-Jan-2024 – Pluralistic: The Cult of Mac (12 Jan 2024)

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The Cult of Mac: You cannot reason a person out of a position they did not reason t”

12-Jan-2024 – Linux Mint 21.3 is Now Available

Brief Summary: “Linux Mint 21.3, the popular Linux distribution’s latest long-term support release, is now available”

12-Jan-2024 – Decoding a ROM From a Picture of the Chip

Brief Summary: “Before there were home computers, among the hottest pieces of consumer technology to own was a pocke”

12-Jan-2024 – E-Ink Photo Frame Is A Simple, Pleasing Design

Brief Summary: “Regular photo frames are good, but they tend to only display a single photo unless you pull them to “

07-Jan-2024 – Mouse filmed tidying up man’s shed every night – video

Brief Summary: “Rodney Holbrook, 75, a retired postman, captured footage of a mouse tidying up his workbench after d”

07-Jan-2024 – Cursed camera rigs – a new years special

Brief Summary: “To wrap up 2023, I decided to go with a different-than-usual post. A fun post, covering one of my fa”

07-Jan-2024 – 802.11ah Wi-Fi HaLOW: The 1 Kilometer WiFi Standard

Brief Summary: “You, too, can add long-distance WiFi to your laptop with this new not-quite dongle solution. (Credit”

02-Jan-2024 – It’s Pronounced GIF

Brief Summary: “As the holiday season is upon us and a Hackaday scribe sits protected from the incoming Atlantic sto”

02-Jan-2024 – Square Enix intends to be “aggressive in applying AI”, says CEO

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Square Enix will be “aggressive in applying AI” and other “cutting-edge technologies” to its devel”

01-Jan-2024 – How to learn a new skill this year

Brief Summary: “If you’re interested in learning a new skill this year, like speaking a new language or playing an i”

29-Dec-2023 – GitHub Copilot Chat is Now Available

Brief Summary: “Microsoft’s GitHub announced today that GitHub Copilot Chat is now available to all GitHub Copilot u”

29-Dec-2023 – Using Local AI on the Command Line To Rename Images (And More)

Brief Summary: “We all have a folder full of images whose filenames resemble line noise. How about renaming those im”

29-Dec-2023 – Use cardboard to make the $0 2-in-1 backdrop and gobo

Brief Summary: “Are you in search of festive, sparkly backdrops? And you have some cardboard lying around from a bun”

29-Dec-2023 – ‘Grief is a rational response’: the 21 US species declared extinct this year

Brief Summary: “Hawaii hardest hit by loss of eight birds, with an Ohio catfish, a Pacific fruit bat and eight fresh”

29-Dec-2023 – Generating 3D Scenes From Just One Image

Brief Summary: “The LucidDreamer project ties a variety of functions into a pipeline that can take a source image (o”