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    In-car AI assistant coming to Fords and Lincolns in 2027

    Followed up with: "We're only going a mile down the road, it'll be fine." :biggreen:
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    Breach of F5 requires “emergency action” from BIG-IP users, feds warn

    Ok so this is a lot bigger than it sounds. F5's BigIPs are one of the big dogs in load balancing with the GTM and LTM modules. That's a big base but even more important is that those customers are also almost CERTAINLY using the WAF (Web Application Firewall) module to inspect for all kinds of...
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    Microsoft’s Entra ID vulnerabilities could have been catastrophic

    LOL, I read the title as "Microsoft Encarta ID" and was momentarily shocked it existed and confused why it was a big security risk.
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    How weak passwords and other failings led to catastrophic breach of Ascension

    I assume you're talking about user level password managers? Virtually all Financial sector entities (and plenty in Healthcare that I've seen) that have any level of mandated audits will have an ERPM absolutely required for accounts that have any level of elevated access. I personally use a...
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    Tuesday Telescope: Lighting, sprites, and airglow over Central America

    I prefer to believe that bright spot is a reflection off Great A'Tuin's left flipper, thank you very much! :)
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    Chicago Sun-Times prints summer reading list full of fake books

    After having had to sit through an 8 hour AI presentation yesterday, I can tell you that they're busy selling the dream of what AI could do, maybe. The realistic AI projects have 9-18 month timelines to get a single business process properly set up. Just like "cloud", between hype and FOMO...
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    Big brands are spending small sums on X to stay out of Musk’s crosshairs

    Very much so - Corporations don't have principles because they're not a person. As a hive mind of Shareholders + Board, they can simulate or mimic the choices that an individual would make but they're ultimately just machines that exist only to generate profits. Amongst humans, those who have...
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    With the Heybike Ranger S, the S stands for scooter

    I can see the differentiation if viewed from a shared use perspective by government operators. Being a pedestrian or on a tandem bike on a path and having a class 3 bike able to accelerate from a stop to 25mph or more in a couple hundred feet would be shocking. Without some broad categories...
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    With the Heybike Ranger S, the S stands for scooter

    Being in FL, we have atrocious bike infrastructure and aggressive drivers who think that "sharing" the road means trying to sideswipe bikers with their mirrors at 45-55mph. Yielding to pedestrians on the shared sidewalks/paths is my only way to safely bike and even then, I've been near missed...
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    Inactive Google account deletions start December 1

    So I've been using a gmail account for receiving tripwire alerts from my security cameras as a log repository. I checked and it had the inactive notice in the mailbox. No notice was sent to the recovery email address (I even checked gmail spam in case they'd flagged themselves as spam.) I...
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    This electric school bus has a range of up to 300 miles

    I had to google map the bus route I remembered as a teenager. The direct route is 7.3 miles (Google says 15 minutes). The bus route would be a little over 19.8 miles (The roads have changed slightly) and due to 3 sections of that route being dirt roads, it was 80-90 minutes on the bus for me...
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    Researchers break security guarantees of TTE networking used in spacecraft

    Because this attack requires packet malformation at the physical layer by EM induction AFTER the switch has accepted the packets, it sure seems like the best answer is proper physical isolation so that a malicious "black box" research experiment can't induce EM outside its own envelope. I admit...
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    Texas to get 100 3D-printed homes as builders seek to solve worker shortages

    While I can't speak to Norway, I was in Denmark and Sweden 2 weeks ago and they're often painted with the same brush. In a trendy coffee shop, we got 2 sandwiches, 2 bottles of water and a latte for $16.99. Later that day, we shopped at a Maxi ICA (supermarket) and the prices for most things...
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    Pixel 5 renders suggest Google is scrapping Face ID clone, Soli air gestures

    The 765G SOC already has a BUILT IN DAC but since they're dropping digital out to the USBC port, we have to buy a (often) dodgy external DAC to push analog out to our headphones. https://www.qualcomm.com/products/wcd9385 It doesn't help that the adapters are a complete dice roll on quality...
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    The iconic Arecibo Telescope goes quiet after major damage

    If it helps with anyone's perspective, here's a link to a couple "sphere" photos from my visit in 2013. When the photo loads, hit the circular arrow icon to make it so you can pan/zoom. https://photos.app.goo.gl/443AoRhhnbTKfLVS7 The towers look small because of the size of the dish...
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    No, Senator, science can’t do away with models

    The terrible truth of the matter is that a significant portion of our population has been indoctrinated since they were children to believe that science is evil and full of liars because it advises everyone to insert a shim of logical questioning before decision making. These folks experience...
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    Valorant makes you watch before you play—that’ll change online games forever

    Most of the closed beta tests that I've been in had some sort of NDA associated with it because it was NOT ready for release. This sounds more like a curated stress test and/or marketing swipe to me.
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    How hospital IT challenges are holding back COVID-19 testing efforts

    You're forgetting "New" code that's actually a rebranded wrapper to make it a visually similar module to the rest of the EMR. It was written by the dev team at the company that they bought 8 months ago and uses an entirely different structure. It's faster and better at everything than the...
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    LG V60 ThinQ has a Snapdragon 865, second screen attachment

    As the unhappy owner of a LG G8 ThinQ, I recommend staying away from their devices my experience with issues with both the software and hardware. Compass randomly goes insane while using Maps - decides that I'm spinning in place or travelling 200 degrees off from correct. Have to perform a...
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    Child porn purveyor learns the hard way that bitcoin is traceable

    The best possible outcome of a horrific situation. Here's hoping that the social services in the assorted countries doesn't continue to fail these incredibly mistreated children. No great loss.