Month: March 2023
This $399 AMD-based one-eyed PC is one of the wackiest designs I’ve seen in 25 years
Those of us who work from home can sometimes feel lonely, and video conferencing is often the only time when remote workers will see and interact with fellow employees: that’s where a webcam comes into play. Now, a hitherto unknown computer vendor, Coolfun (which seems to be a sister company…
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TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew Appeared Before Congress And Now The Fan Edits Are Rolling In
Video collages and thirsty comments dedicated to TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew have begun to pop up on the platform following the CEO’s testimony to Congress yesterday, when he spent five hours defending the platform in front of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. On TikTok, fan edits dedicated to…
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Gordon Moore, Intel co-founder and creator of Moore’s Law, has died
Gordon Moore, one of Intel’s co-founders and a Silicon Valley titan, died today at 94 years old, according to a press release from the company. He was part of the “traitorous eight” who founded Fairchild Semiconductor, which became an incubator for many other Silicon Valley companies — including AMD. Moore…
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The Internet Archive has lost its first fight to scan and lend e-books like a library
A federal judge has ruled against the Internet Archive in Hachette v. Internet Archive, a lawsuit brought against it by four book publishers, deciding that the website does not have the right to scan books and lend them out like a library. Judge John G. Koeltl decided that the Internet…
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ChatGPT’s history bug may have also exposed payment info, says OpenAI
OpenAI has announced new details about why it took ChatGPT offline on Monday, and it’s now saying that some users’ payment information may have been exposed during the incident. According to a post from the company, a bug in an open source library called redis-py created a caching issue that…
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I nearly bought a Framework Laptop, but logistical realities got in the way
Hi Sean, we kept the 55Wh in the Base configurations for 1[3]th Gen and for Ryzen 7040 Series in order to keep the price low. Despite massive inflation over the last year and increases in costs for just about all materials and components aside from memory and storage over the last…
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