NASA: NASA’s Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth
The Register: Microsoft is a national security threat, says ex-White House cyber policy director
Tutanota: Google Search Is A Problem: How Google Is Crushing Tuta.
The Ezra Klein Show: What if Dario Amodei Is Right About A.I.
Escaping Flatland: After AI beat them, professional Go players got better and more creative
And it wasn’t simply that they imitated the AI, in a mechanical way. They got more creative, too. There was an uptick in historically novel moves and sequences.
Ken Shirriff's blog: Iconic consoles of the IBM System/360 mainframes, 55 years old
LibreOffice: German state moving 30,000 PCs to LibreOffice
Following a successful pilot project, the northern German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein has decided to move from Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office to Linux and LibreOffice (and other free and open source software) on the 30,000 PCs used in the local government.
Ars Technica: Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy: Lawsuit
RxDB: WebSockets vs Server-Sent-Events vs Long-Polling vs WebRTC vs WebTransport
Ars Technica: Finally, engineers have a clue that could help them save Voyager 1
AlexandreHTRB: HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 explained
Futurism: MIT Claims Superconducting Breakthrough Means Fusion Power Can Be Practical
"Overnight, it basically changed the cost per watt of a fusion reactor by a factor of almost 40 in one day," Dennis Whyte, former director of MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center and a professor of engineering, said in a release. "Now fusion has a chance."
Computers Are Bad: a history of the tty
Reddit signs content licensing deal with AI company ahead of IPO, Bloomberg reports
Reddit has signed a contract allowing an Artificial Intelligence (AI) company to train its models on the social media platform's content, Bloomberg News reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
Reddit, which is eyeing an initial public offering (IPO) launch, has told prospective investors that it signed the deal, worth $60 million on an annualized basis, earlier this year, the report said.
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Reddit declined to comment.
The Register: Forgetting the history of Unix is coding us into a corner
The Guardian: ‘They lied’: plastics producers deceived public about recycling, report reveals
The authors say the evidence demonstrates that oil and petrochemical companies, as well as their trade associations, may have broken laws designed to protect the public from misleading marketing and pollution.