Stocks Rise on US-China Truce, Consumer Spending Preview, More
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You think #ransomware is bad now? Wait until it infects CPUs
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You think ransomware is bad now? Wait until it infects CPUs
RSAC: Rapid7 threat hunter wrote a PoC. No, he's not releasing itJessica Lyons (The Register)
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Black Mesa is 90% off on Steam!
And if youβre unaware of what Black Mesa is, it is a modern remake of the original Half-Life. It has a 95% positive too.
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That's... Not how that works, at all.
According to VPNSecureβs owners, their acquisition netted them βthe tech, the brand, and the infrastructure/technologyβbut none of the company, contracts, payments, or obligations from the previous owners.β
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VPN firm says it didnβt know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them
βWe acknowledge that notifying users after the deactivation was a poor experience β¦ββ¦Scharon Harding (Ars Technica)
Thank you so much to my 4/13/25 PX Perch / Fine Art America client from McKinney, TX. for their purchase of a 1,000 piece jigsaw puzzle of "The Ritz Carlton Bachelors Gulch." I hope you enjoy it very much!
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Shockingly (or maybe not so shockingly) 78% of Americans travel with their pets in tow. This includes visiting family and friends with fur β¦tailwagwisdom.com - Terri Rodefer
Morgen!
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I donβt think this supposed imminent total capture of all labor is actually true. But understanding that people β’believeβ’ itβs true β that the entirety of labor is about to be replaced by Mr. Data β is key to understanding this horrifying incarnation of investor capitalism in which weβre currently living.
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For Silicon Valley, AI isnβt just about replacing some jobs. Itβs about replacing all of them"...I recently found myself at a dinner in an upstairs room at a restaurant in San Francisco hosted by a venture capital firm. The after-dinner speaker was a tech veteran who, having sold his AI company for hundreds of millions of dollars, has now turned his hand to investing. He had a simple message for the assembled startup founders: the money you can make in AI isnβt limited to the paltry market sizes of previous technology waves. You can replace the worldβs workers β which means you can capture their salaries. All of them...."
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For Silicon Valley, AI isnβt just about replacing some jobs. Itβs about replacing all of them
AI will do the thinking, robots will do the doing. What place do humans have in this arrangement β and do tech CEOs care? says Ed Newton-Rex, founder of Fairly TrainedEd Newton-Rex (The Guardian)
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Of course! But profit just means you get out before the suckers, not that the company youβre investing in is ever profitable.
The mystery of disappearing iPhone audio messages
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Gui Rambo chases down odd audio message bug on the iPhone - 9to5Mac
After hearing about it on the Search Engine podcast, Gui Rambo figured out exactly why iPhones can't receive audio messages with ampersands.Marcus Mendes (9to5Mac)
I'm working on a fourth part in my series about open social web / fediverse business models. This one's from the perspective of funders: what would I do if I was *funding* the open social web?
Which leads me to this question: how do *you* think the open social web should be funded?
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U.S. Secretary of Commerce says the βnew modelβ is factory jobs for lifeβfor you, your kids, and your grandkids
So slavery as indentured servitude is the American future. Way to "new model" the old model.
U.S. Secretary of Commerce says the βnew modelβ is factory jobs for lifeβfor you, your kids, and your grandkids
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick says factory gigs are the βgreat jobs of the futureβ that Gen Z could work in for the "rest" of their life.Emma Burleigh (Fortune)
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The USSR didn't have any limits to choosing an employment since shortly after WW2, what are you talking about? By the late 70s, around 10% of positions in the economy were vacant and there was full employment, and people weren't forced to work anywhere. The average unemployment duration was 15 days.
Please, what's your source on your claim?
The USSR didnβt have any limits to choosing an employment
You were distributed to a place by the state after finishing your education. If you left that place too soon, you'd be frowned upon and that'd be mirrored in your labor book (USSR had such a document, basically a dossier documenting your whole history of employment with characteristics, you could get such a "flattering" characteristic by a superior not liking you that you'd never be accepted to a good place after, and you couldn't refuse or lose a record in your labor book).
and people werenβt forced to work anywhere.
Being unemployed for too long was literally, seriously, illegal in the USSR. Google for "ΡΡΠ½Π΅ΡΠ΄ΡΡΠ²ΠΎ".
People with something really bad in their labor books (say, dissidents) or some other necessary documents (being German after the war, being Jewish in a wrong period of time) had problems finding a place that would accept them, and would sometimes be prosecuted for being unemployed (that was usually informal employment, because you still had to eat something).
But in general yes, some kind of employment was always possible. Dying from hunger or being homeless was almost ruled out. Most of the population lived in some sort of "acceptable poverty" - conditions very bad by US measure, but with the previous correction. That's sort of one good thing that most people from ex-USSR agree on.
Newark Airport chaos: As few as THREE air traffic controllers guided planes Monday nightβfar below the target of 14. Result? Delays stretching up to SEVEN hours. Whereβs the oversight?
Meta Unveils New Ad Innovations Focused on Short Videos and AI-Driven Tools at IAB NewFronts 2025
#advertisinginnovations #digitalmarketing #Meta #socialmediaadvertising #TechnologyAdvancements
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Meta Unveils New Ad Innovations Focused on Short Videos and AI-Driven Tools at IAB NewFronts 2025
Meta is rolling out new ad features at the IAB NewFronts 2025 event, targeting short-form video content created by influencers and using AI to boost brandDavid James (Blaze Trends)
#MiteMonday: this weekend I got out to my sumo mite (_Allothrombium_) tree to catch some wrestling bouts!
It is some kind of sexual competition thing: certain males seem to stake out a little patch and aggressively defend it against all comers. The females, I think, are the larger ones who take little notice of the fights and mostly wedge themselves into crevices in bark? Courtship rituals seem to involve leg-tapping and walking around each other in circles. I am wildly curious about what's actually going on.
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Attorney General Bonta: Trump Administration Continues to Put Communities at Risk and Threaten Public Safety by Slashing Community Violence Intervention Program Funding
SACRAMENTO β In response to devastating public safety funding cuts by the Trump Administration, California Attorney General Rob Bonta, GIFFORDS Center for Violence Intervention, Assemblymember Mike Gipson, and Senator Jesse ArreguΓn today came togethβ¦State of California - Department of Justice - Office of the Attorney General
Indian Tech Stocks May Get a Lift From US-China Trade Truce
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Marubeni CEO on Tariffs Impact, Business Strategy
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Jayson Tatum carried off floor with right leg injury late in Celtics' loss in Game 4 to Knicks
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Knicks take a 3-1 lead over the Celtics with a 121-113 victory as Tatum is injured in final minutes
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Bloomberg Law: Controversial Immigration Cases
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'During a press conference on Monday with the organization, she condemned the lack of freedoms in Russia, saying there's no longer any such thing as a Russian journalist. "There is no culture in Russia, there is no politics. It's only war," she said, decrying state censorship. "Journalism cannot exist under totalitarianism."'
Not hard to picture the day journalists have to leave America this way.
But where to go?
cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/ekateβ¦
#media #journalism #fascism #escape
Ello sweet (and sporty) Friendos 
The scale wasn't too unkind tonight...
Arwen wanted a short walkies, so we did just that. But... Shorter walkies means less steps and exercise for me as well.
So I do need to get something done.
I was thinking of the treadmill, but my right leg is annoying me some. So, I'm thinking it will be safer to go back upstairs and ride the bike a bit. π
My whole body is sore from the stress and anxiety of all that happened last Sunday. 
which is understandable, but also annoying. It's draining my spoons, causing more pain and heart palpitations. As I still have moments where the adrenaline is rushing through me when my brain does some sort of flashback... π
It will take time. And I can't imagine how it must be for my parents, as they were in the crash, and they have to deal with the insecurity of the bikers health, needing a new car somehow, and recovering from the bruises and huge shock... 
But I need to keep caring for myself. I need to be in a decent shape for my surgery in 31 days. I need to be good enough to support my parents... So... Let's get my ass off the couch and head back upstairs for a bike ride. πͺπΌ
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Capitals pushed to the brink as Hurricanes take Game 4
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Deadly blood clots, risky treatments: The high-stakes battle against deep vein thrombosis in sports and beyond
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Deadly blood clots, risky treatments: The high-stakes battle against deep vein thrombosis in sports and beyond
Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) β a condition caused by blood clots that has affected NBA all-star Damian Lillard and tennis star Serena Williams β is treated with blood thinners.The Conversation
Feeling anxious before surgery? Anxiety can harm healing but innovative mental health support could help
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Feeling anxious before surgery? Anxiety can harm healing but innovative mental health support could help
Preoperative anxiety is a problem for patients and linked to worse surgical outcomes. The Canadian system needs innovative solutions to address this.The Conversation
How AI could help safeguard Indigenous languages
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How AI could help safeguard Indigenous languages
Many of the worldβs languages are at risk of extinction. However, researchers are developing AI tools they hope can safeguard languages for future generations.The Conversation
New recommendations for regulating neurotechnology in Canada include protecting Indigenous rights
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New recommendations for regulating neurotechnology in Canada include protecting Indigenous rights
UNESCOβs approach to regulating neurotechnology considers future applications and current privacy and consent concerns.The Conversation
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I had enough of losing at Go, so I decided to brush off my #badukProgramming project and see if I can't beat my own bot.
I had forgotten I never made an "end state" for this engine.
Also my bot is just. . .randomly passing its turn. I forget what the scoring function I used was.
Ohhhhh
It's not taking moves with a "score" of 0.
I still don't know what the scoring function it's using is. This code is atrocious
I wish I had any idea at all how to make a bot for Go.
Maybe I should start a new one and not have it be a gimmick, but actually try to figure out what might make a good scoring function.
And before anyone says it, _yes I know_, the play space of Go is waaaaaaaaay too big for a traditional minimax algorithm to be worthwhile, you _need_ to have a neural network or else there's not even a chance at beating even weak players.
I get it.
I'm a very weak player.
I also wish I could just, like, get paid to write bots for abstract strategy games all day.
Is that a job? Can someone pay me to do that?
@HopelessDemigod Hahah, yep, I'm familiar with online-go: hachyderm.io/@b4ux1t3/11449791β¦
In fact, my little engine here is _supposed_ to connect to online-go, I just. ..haven't gotten that part working yet. π
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Bond Traders Eye Inflation for Rate Clues as Recession Odds Fade
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