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Last month I reported on what looked to be the sad demise of humanity’s first interstellar space probe, Voyager-1, which is now over 15 billion miles distant from its planet of origin, and still moving away from us at a speed of 38,000 mph. An apparent...
by Irontortoise
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on Fri Mar 15, 2024 at 01:14 AM PDT
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Came across this sad news today from ARS Technica about one of NASA/JPL’s pioneering deep space probes, Voyager-1, that may now be effectively incommunicado, roughly 15 billion miles from Earth — well beyond our Sun’s heliopause that marks the true...
by Irontortoise
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on Thu Feb 08, 2024 at 07:50 PM PST
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Meta, the megacorporation that owns Facebook, wants the government to pass new legislation regulating the Internet. They say that they want this to protect your kids and your privacy. Folks, common sense will tell you that Internet companies care about...
by RobertEnders
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on Mon Feb 05, 2024 at 12:26 PM PST
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Computer forensics expert Craig Ball was recently hit with a Registration Bomb attack, and writes about it on his blog. I had never heard of this before, but it sounds like something that could be used against anyone: they serve to mask attacks on...
by AChris
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on Sun Feb 04, 2024 at 11:59 AM PST
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Computer security researchers from Binarly have identified a widespread set of vulnerabilities that affect most Windows and Linux computers due to bugs in the boot-loader that starts the computer (before the operating system starts). The attack—dubbed...
by AChris
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on Thu Dec 07, 2023 at 03:17 AM PST
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Google introduced an updated version of Bard (now called Gemini), its competitor to ChatGPT and other imitative AI systems. �It is apparently a solid step forward — Google claims that is beats ...
by angryea
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on Thu Dec 07, 2023 at 05:00 AM PST
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Good morning everyone and welcome to Tuesday’s Morning Open Thread.
Morning Open Thread is a daily, � copyrighted � post from a host of editors and guest writers. We support our community, ...
by P Carey
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on Tue Sep 05, 2023 at 03:31 AM PDT
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I know that most of you HATE Florida. I hate it too, most of the time. Our governor is deeply, deeply evil — a thin-skinned, little penis in a suit. There are Trump-loving, walking dead everywhere. We have hurricanes and floods and sinkholes, also...
by katepez
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on Thu Jul 27, 2023 at 10:14 AM PDT
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I'll begin this blog with a warning: this isn't connected with any of the typical threads on Dailykos. It's not really political... I'm not sure it has a point. I'm merely curious if anyone feels the same: It sometimes feels like there's nobody on the...
by Daniel Dream
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on Thu Jul 13, 2023 at 01:45 AM PDT
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[UPDATE 2/6/23 - in communication with AEROSPACE - Col Hamilton admits he "mis-spoke" in his presentation at the Royal Aeronautical Society FCAS Summit and the 'rogue AI drone simulation' was a hypothetical "thought experiment" from outside the...
by Not Taken
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on Thu Jun 01, 2023 at 05:11 PM PDT
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On Thursday, a document reportedly written by a senior engineer at Google was leaked on the site Semianalysis . That document shows an increasing concern that, as artificial intelligence tools ...
by Mark Sumner
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on Fri May 05, 2023 at 11:50 AM PDT
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The Altair�8800 computer is generally considered to be the first commercially-viable home computer. "Museum Pieces" is a diary series that explores the history behind some of the most ...
by Lenny Flank
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on Tue Aug 01, 2023 at 01:07 PM PDT
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My current PC has been having issues for a while now. It’s long past time to replace it, but I’m even more outdated than it is, so I’m looking for advice on several things. In the mid- to late 90’s I built a few PCs from components for myself, and a...
by Damon Griffin
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on Tue Mar 21, 2023 at 06:38 PM PDT
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A little while ago, I did a diary here about some time I spent trying out various things on the Chat GPT Artificial Intelligence software. For those who have not yet heard of it, Chat GPT is an “...
by Lenny Flank
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on Sun Mar 05, 2023 at 06:50 AM PST
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So, we have all heard�about Chat GPT, the computer AI software that is supposed to produce original compositions about topics that you prompt it for. The US Copyright Office has recently issued its ...
by Lenny Flank
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on Wed Mar 01, 2023 at 12:20 PM PST
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How many downloaded pics have I got on here, anyway?
darn, crumbs in the ...
by strawbale
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on Mon Feb 13, 2023 at 07:00 PM PST
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Welcome to Street Prophets Coffee Hour! Thermal for the warmth of a good cup of coffee or your preferred beverage, as well as the warmth of a more progressive religion and community. Feel free to ...
by elenacarlena
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on Thu Jan 26, 2023 at 01:06 PM PST
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UPDATE: Wednesday, Dec 21, 2022 · 9:07:18 PM +00:00 · boblite I am using the latest release of Adobe Reader 2022.003.20282 64 bit. It will not allow me to search or excerpt from this particular State of New Jersey government document. I have been able...
by boblite
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on Wed Dec 21, 2022 at 11:47 AM PST
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Microsoft is now saying that support for Windows 10 will cease on October 14 2025, meaning that If you continue to use Windows 10 your PC will still work, but it will become more vulnerable to security risks and viruses. Your PC will continue to start...
by boblite
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on Thu Nov 17, 2022 at 07:24 PM PST
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You never know what you might be able to buy or sell online.
Maybe I can buy a whole team online?
by strawbale
35 comments
on Mon Nov 28, 2022 at 07:00 PM PST
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