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Secrets of the Octopus takes us inside the world of these “aliens on Earth” Dr. Alex Schell on the surprising things we're learning about these amazing creatures
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Boston Dynamics debuts humanoid robot destined for commercialization All-electric, 360-degree joints give the new Atlas plenty of inhuman movements.
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Mister Mustard
@arstechnica Gimme one with greater speed, greater strength, greater precision, and yeah, a weirdly much greater range of movement.
AustralianHistoriesPodcast
@arstechnica Oh excellent!
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Oregon governor signs nation’s first right-to-repair bill that bans parts pairing Starting in 2025, devices can't block repair parts with software pairing checks.
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Hackers can extract secret encryption keys from Apple’s Mac chips Fixing newly discovered side channel will likely take a major toll on performance.
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mhoye
@arstechnica c'mon, though. "Readers should remember that whatever penalties result will only be felt when affected software is performing specific cryptographic operations. For browsers and many other types of apps, the performance cost may not be noticeable."
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Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85 Dave Mills created NTP, the protocol that holds the temporal Internet together, in 1985.
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Fujitsu bugs that sent innocent people to prison were known “from the start” Software bugs were hidden from lawyers of wrongly convicted postal workers.
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LyleDAL
@arstechnica Do they have class action lawsuits in the UK? Because, I see a HUGE lawsuit against Fujitsu and the Post Office here.
Greengordon
These lawyers should be in jail and bankrupt. "the Post Office's lawyers had rewritten Fujitsu witness statements."
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Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024 The "Manifest V3" rollout is back after letting tensions cool for a year.
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Michael Darweesh ☑️
@arstechnica "The Electronic Frontier Foundation called Google's description of Manifest V3 "Deceitful and Threatening""
Brandon
@arstechnica Firefox about to become the number 1 browser. No coincidence this is announced after their last month of unsuccessfully attempting to outwit uBlock on Youtube. Now they are back to block uBlock without admitting that's the whole purpose.
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Google kills “Web Integrity” DRM for the web, still wants an Android version Web Integrity pivots to Android, could permanently kill YouTube Vanced-style apps.
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Meowki
@arstechnica I don’t get it. How exactly will they stop android users from accessing youtube without their DRM when dekstop browsers can? Let me guess, by suing people for ‘breaching effective copyright’ lol?
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Fall COVID shot uptake is an “abysmal” 7%; wastewater testing impaired Meanwhile, a quarter of the country's wastewater testing sites are offline.
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FTC files “the big one,” a lawsuit alleging Amazon illegally maintains monopoly FTC: Amazon "extracts enormous monopoly rents from everyone within its reach."
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argv minus one
@arstechnica Just in time for the mouth-breathing voting public to elect Trump or DeSantis in 2024. Prove me wrong, America. F***ing prove me wrong.
Jeff ♨️ Darcy
@arstechnica About fucking time. Enshittification needs to stop, and *all* of the Big Five are guilty of it.
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Developer rewrites original Wipeout from “abysmal” leaked Windows source "Either let it be, or shut this thing down and get a real remaster going."
Manuel Recount
@arstechnica The music, at that time, was out-of-this-world futuristic for 15-year old me. Loved that game!
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@arstechnica The version on PS4 is pretty awesome, but for PC you cannot beat BallisticNG https://store.steampowered.com/app/473770/BallisticNG/
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Microsoft, Adobe, and others have dropped support for old PostScript fonts PostScript Type 1 fonts are decades old, but apps supported them until recently.
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Chancerubbage
@arstechnica I had so many type 1 fonts in the 90s. When OS X came around, there wasn’t even a way to knowingly manage them. It stole my mojo. It wasn’t just the move from press to web that threw a spanner in the works of many graphic design careers; it was eradication of habit.
gnaegi
@arstechnica Cool, I had exactly this combo in the picture with the Apple Laser Printer and the Plus. It weighted a ton and it took ages to print a „complex“ PS file. But when it worked it was awesome… I used PageMaker
Thorsted
“Adobe also says that PDF and EPS files with Type 1 fonts will continue to render properly, as long as those fonts are "placed for display or printing as graphic elements." That text will not be editable, however.”
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Linux surpasses the Mac among Steam gamers It's not the year of Linux on desktop; it's the year of Linux on a handheld.
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Cybarbie
@arstechnica Ars: "It's not the year of Linux on desktop; it's the year of Linux on a handheld." Why are you like this?
komikymi
@arstechnica i tried my coworker's steamdeck and it was too big for comfort for my girlhands 🥲
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PSA: Google is deleting some old Hangouts photos this week It's hard to say exactly what is getting deleted, but it's easy to download.
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Twitch bans stream sponsor overlays, and “I’ve never seen creators so pissed” Twitch tries to walk back "overly broad" new policy following instant creator furor.
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deepfake horizon
@arstechnica I don’t stream, watch any streams, or have an account on any streaming service and even I think this is dumb. The people you’re targeting stream as a job and you’re trying to tell them how they’re allowed to make money? I don’t think so, Mr. Bezos. No one goes to twitch because it’s twitch, they go to see the people they enjoy.
Tom Bellin :picardfacepalm:
@arstechnica We are quickly entering the canibalization phase of "advertising funded services." The VC funding that kept these services afloat is gone. They need cash, and there's not enough revenue in the entire system to generate the returns they want. Twitter, Meta, YouTube, Reddit, Twitch, etc. will all inevitably end up sucking every one of their "creators" dry, Jul their platform, and still never even get close to their ludicrous targets.
Nimble Lexicon Pioneer
@arstechnica Was debating on doing like sewing for charity on a live stream... so like I couldn't promote my own charity fuuuuuu
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Luke’s Awakening fan art merges Star Wars with Zelda to delightful 8-bit effect Game Boy Color pixel art mashes up Star Wars and Zelda into a faux game we wish was real.
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Beeks
@arstechnica is this a test to see if Disney or Nintendo sues him quicker? My money is on Nintendo. |