Open-source software is a bit of a modern miracle. Here are some of the excellent reasons why open-source software is better than the commercial alternative.
https://www.xda-developers.com/5-ways-open-source-software-is-better/
In a new study, scientists with MIT, Harvard and Cornell found that the large language models (LLMs), like GPT-4 or Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus, fail to produce underlying models that accurately represent the real world.
Coinbase's long-term commitment to evangelizing Bitcoin is well represented here. Build an arena, move an NBA team into it, and then fill it to the rafters with sitters and watchers just to market Bitcoin to them in $5 increments. This is some Elonia-level shit.
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On Windows 11, if you have multiple hard drives, you can combine them into a single large volume to avoid fragmenting your data manually across those drives.
Apple is facing a nearly $4B lawsuit after a British consumer group alleged that the company breached competition law by locking millions of its customers out of its iCloud service and charging them "rip-off prices."
Isn't rip-off pricing Apple's entire model?
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/11/14/apple-uk-lawsuit-trapping-icloud-customers/
Recently, some of that AI "scaling law" optimism has been replaced by fears that we may already be hitting a plateau in the capabilities of large language models trained with standard methods.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/11/what-if-ai-doesnt-just-keep-getting-better-forever/
Here's a way to get rid of Microsoft Edge browser for good and replace its functions with your browser of choice.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/microsoft-edge-redirect-app/
A strangely named browser called Horse claims it can banish tab hoarding and offer a much better way to peruse the internet.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/horse-web-browser-fix-tab-overload/
There is an apparently new iOS 18 security feature that reboots iPhones that haven’t been unlocked in a few days, frustrating police by making it harder to break into suspects’ iPhones.
Firefox 1.0 launched on November 9, 2004, exactly 20 years ago today. Firefox has always done a few things better than rivals like Chrome and Safari – things that those web browsers are unlikely to ever match.
Learn how to parse an app's privacy policy and data collection reports for keywords that signal a company's intentions when collecting, storing, and using your private information.
https://www.pcmag.com/explainers/take-these-steps-to-stop-apps-from-collecting-your-data-now
Google left Android users puzzled after the most recent Google mobile app update prepended links shared from the app with a mysterious "search . app" domain.
NotebookLM is Google’s latest attempt at a note organization app that allows you to pool information from various sources into one central “notebook.” But it's the Audio Overviews feature that will blow you away.
https://www.androidauthority.com/google-notebooklm-audio-overview-3497591/
Opera Ads – the online ad platform Opera released in 2019 – doesn’t use third-party cookies for targeting. Opera monetizes its browser using other signals, including search intent and context.
Proton continues to build out its Drive suite of productivity tools for its privacy-focused alternative to Google Docs & Word. The latest update is to the Docs app, which now has a "suggesting mode."
If you're looking for a programming job, knowing or learning any programming language is good. But only one language is essential in 2024.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/your-dream-programming-job-demands-this-language-every-site-agrees/
Google fixed two actively exploited Android zero-day flaws as part of its November security updates, addressing a total of 51 vulnerabilities.
Nine years after launching an official touchscreen display accessory for Raspberry Pi, the Raspberry Pi team is back with a new model -- the new Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2.
https://liliputing.com/raspberry-pi-touch-display-2-launches-for-60/