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France orders Apple to pull iPhone 12 off shelves for high radiation levels | CNN Business
Apple is fighting France’s claims that the iPhone 12 surpasses European radiation exposure limits after French regulators on Tuesday ordered a pause on sales and a fix to phones already sold to customers.
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TikTok has quietly been inserting Wikipedia snippets into search results
The company says the feature has been live for months.
I don’t know if I’m pleased that TikTok is doing this or horrified that the portal to the entire internet beyond TikTok for a lot of young people is TikTok search.
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LOLOLOLOL @ Gen Z
I will never look at a donut the same way.
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@Tazz said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
LOLOLOLOL @ Gen Z
I will never look at a donut the same way.
Is that really a new trend?
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@Gators1. That and three inch eye lashes. I’m sure TikTok will show how to do it at home.
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Kind of illuminating read on the forces that inevitably lead to enshittification.
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My favourite weather website just changed their already super functional interface to some disgusting steaming pile of shit instead.
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@Lob12 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
My favourite weather website just changed their already super functional interface to some disgusting steaming pile of shit instead.
Tell them to hire the expert UI programmers that did this award winning forum!
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@Blanks I think she botoxed her tits after she left Newsom for a Trump
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@Tazz said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Blanks I think she botoxed her tits after she left Newsom for a Trump
Last time I saw a clip of her she looked like a coked up blowfish.
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An open source, non-profit, search engine with beautifully minimalist search results that returned exactly the only 6 links that exist on the obscure topic I just tested it with.
When I saw it I almost wept (figuratively) after wrestling with Bing all day where it insists on shoe horning, massive and useless AI responses (and ads for the useless AI responses) into the first page results.
It’s a pity that “mwmbl” is going to die on the vine because its creator idioticly gave it a name you can’t pronounce and won’t remember how to spell.
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
An open source, non-profit, search engine with beautifully minimalist search results that returned exactly the only 6 links that exist on the obscure topic I just tested it with.
When I saw it I almost wept (figuratively) after wrestling with Bing all day where it insists on shoe horning, massive and useless AI responses (and ads for the useless AI responses) into the first page results.
It’s a pity that “mwmbl” is going to die on the vine because its creator idioticly gave it a name you can’t pronounce and won’t remember how to spell.
It looks like the word mumble said while mumbling.
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This popped up in Edge on Android just now:
I read up on it and it apparently blocks YouTube ads. A bit cheeky from a company who is putting their own ads in every spare inch of screen real-estate on Bing and Windows.
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Sounds like the old Microsoft is back. The EU will be a bit richer soon.
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I guess this is good but I have no idea what it is.
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@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Oops…
https://www.polygon.com/23880760/microsoft-xbox-leak-court-documents-oops
I read a couple of days ago Microsoft had a link to 38 terabytes of private data up on GitHub for three years.
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Oops…
https://www.polygon.com/23880760/microsoft-xbox-leak-court-documents-oops
I read a couple of days ago Microsoft had a link to 38 terabytes of private data up on GitHub for three years.
Yeah, I saw that one. I think the data they used to train their LLM or something? Wonder how many times you can find data that says “all obey your master Bill Gates!” in there?
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Tazz said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
I guess this is good but I have no idea what it is.
Instead of your GPU initially generating everything in whatever your screen resolution is, it does it at a lower resolution and then they use some AI tool to fill in the missing pixels.
It’s faster / less demanding and probably almost necessary for some situations where you have a 4K+ display and are running a AAA game with the highest graphics settings.
Yeah but it doesn’t render so good yet, especially with games with fast moving objects. Things leave a “trail” behind them as they move fast and as the AI struggles to fill the missing pixels.
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@Lob12 yeah right. I’ve only read casually about it and won’t get to try it until my next laptop upgrade. Since I’m a tight arse, that will be a few years away unfortunately.
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