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    UK fines Reddit for not checking user ages aggressively enough

    More companies are going to draw the conclusion the UK is more trouble than its worth.
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    “I’m not for sale”: Farmers refuse to take millions in data center deals

    If you've worked at them then you should know that two-phase immersion cooling uses PFAS. As far as I'm aware this is the preferred method to cool GPUs.
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    Discord and Persona end partnership after shady UK age test sparks outcry

    Getting the UK parliament, particularly the government which has enacted legislation like the Online Safety Bill to walk it back is nearly unthinkable. The government which enacted any legislation would sooner fall on their own sword than admit mistakes. The last time this happened to any...
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    Trump FTC denies being “speech police” but says Apple News is too liberal

    America -- the land of private property where the government wants to tell a private company what news sources to carry. It's a country more paralyzed by its own contradictions than even the USSR managed.
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    Alphabet selling very rare 100-year bunds to help fund AI investment

    The fact they want investors to pay for a speculative bubble rather than use the sackloads of cash they have should tell anyone to run a mile from this. At a minimum Alphabet has something like $100 billion cash in hand. If they won't risk their own money, why should you? As a Brit I'd also say...
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    Just look at Ayaneo’s absolute unit of a Windows gaming “handheld”

    When you start with Windows as your OS you can't not get here. You need an OS you can completely refactor for the hardware you have in mind. Trying to shoehorn a hefty Windows desktop into a small form is just ridiculous.
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    Google hints at big AirDrop expansion for Android “very soon”

    How long has AirDrop been around? 14 years? It's took this long for some basic interoperability? A pox on all of these companies. It's a good job the designers of TCP, HTTP or even SMS weren't such assholes or we'd still be living by candlelight.
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    Why Darren Aronofsky thought an AI-generated historical docudrama was a good idea

    As if the time taken to get a wrong answer dredged up from a ten year old Reddit post wasn't indicative enough.
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    China bans all retractable car door handles, starting next year

    Who designs anything that can fail-deadly?
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    Seven things to know about how Apple’s Creator Studio subscriptions work

    People need to make a hard pass on subscriptions as you'll be shaken down for money permanently.
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    2025 sees Tesla’s annual revenue fall for the first time

    At what point does Tesla actually run out of money?
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    TikTok claimed bugs blocked anti-ICE videos, Epstein mentions; experts call BS

    For a country founded on the concept of freedom it seems ironic that America is effectively building a sovereign Internet.
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    Apple introduces new AirTag with better range and a louder speaker

    I must have bought and/or carried these things for 5-6 years and never found them the least bit useful. I think when the batteries eventually die in the ones I do have I'll be disposing of them.
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    Apple patches ancient iOS versions to keep iMessage, FaceTime, other services working

    I suspect this wasn't done out of benevolence and I don't believe that expiration of the certificate was the reason this was done. Decade old devices are landfill candidates and it seems unlikely Apple would update obsolete devices unless it had a real reason for doing so.
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    Telly’s “free” ad-based TVs make notable revenue—when they’re actually delivered

    What a fucking joke. All Telly will ever do is chase endless bad debtors, lost devices and hobbyists who root and/or reverse engineer them. It's just another variant of coin operated TVs from decades ago where you got 4 or 5 hours TV for £1. Except this time you're the product to be delivered in...
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    Report: Apple plans to launch AI-powered wearable pin device as soon as 2027

    What they mean is they can't sell anymore phones or watches so they need a new offering.
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    OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions

    Superb. Hopefully it'll mirror the ad strategies of Facebook and YouTube which is what has made them so beloved by users 👍/s
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    Meta’s layoffs leave Supernatural fitness users in mourning

    Just how welded are people to sucking at the teat of consumerism they can't do a workout without an app? Pathetic.
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    Rackspace raises email hosting prices by as much as 706 percent

    This seems really dear for email - $120 for a 25GB mailbox. You would expect some economies of scale at a provider like Rackspace. 25GB sits at an awkward price point, many with decades' worth of mail will not find this enough and yet many business and personal customers will simultaneously...
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    No, Grok can’t really “apologize” for posting non-consensual sexual images

    Is this where we find out the UK's Online Safety Bill is not worth the paper it's written on? incredible.