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Trevor Mogg: ChatGPT AI Chatbot Can Now Be Used Without an Account
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/chatgpt-no-longer-requires-an-account/
Zac Bowden: Microsoft reveals subscription pricing for using Windows 10 beyond October 2025, and it's not cheap
Summer Stephan: Tech Scams are Financially Devastating Senior Citizens
The author is the District Attorney for the County of San Diego.
Tekla S. Perry: Meet the PHOLED That Is Transforming Displays
Blue phosphorescent materials fix OLED display weaknesses, improving energy efficiency and longevity.
Dan Goodin: This Tiny Device is Sending Updated iPhones into a Never-ending DoS Loop
The Flipper Zero device can cause havoc on nearby electronic devices.
Emma Beddington: 50 of the Weirdest, Most Wonderful Corners of the Web
Something for everyone, including: Music from selected decades and countries, Historical maps, Marine traffic, Word pronunciation, Live air traffic control chatter, Wildlife web cams, etc.
Karandeep Singh: Use Google Search like it’s 1998 to mark its 25th birthday
Joanna Goodrich: How the Computer Graphics Industry Got Started at the University of Utah
Adobe and Pixar founders created tech that shaped modern animation
Includes a photo of 13 computer graphics pioneers, from the 1960s and 1970s. Younger generations take for granted what technology exists today, without a thought of how it came to exist.
Fernanda Lopez Halvorson: New Grant to Help More San Diegans Get Online (Free Internet Access)
The County is expanding its campaign to help more San Diegans get online.
You can "Raise You Hand" in a Zoom Meeting by waving.
If you enable one of its image analysis tools, Zoom itself can recognize when you physically raise your hand and turn that into a digital raised hand. Darn helpful, actually, and saves you having to remember where that “Raise Hand” button is located. To enable this feature, click on the tiny “^” adjacent to the Reactions button on your Zoom toolbar. A menu appears with one item:
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Scott J Shapiro: On the trail of the Dark Avenger: the most dangerous virus writer in the world
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George Musser: How AI Knows Things No One Told It
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Jennifer Korn: 50 Years Ago, He Made the First Cell Phone Call
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Madhumita Murgia: OpenAI’s Red Team: The Experts Hired to ‘break’ ChatGPT
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David Zipper: The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature
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David C. Brock: 50 Years Later, We’re Still Living in the Xerox Alto’s World
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Connie Loizos: Worldcoin, co-founded by Sam Altman, is betting the next big thing in AI is proving you are human
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Yale News: An article about the use of AI and ChatGPT in College Writing
Samantha Murphy Kelly: The Way We Work is About to Change
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This is about newer Generative AI Tools, such as the latest version of ChatGPT-4, and those planned on by Microsoft, Google and others.
An AI Revolution (Article from 3/24 Honilulu Newspaper)
Paresh Dave: ChatGPT Opened a New Era in Search. Microsoft Could Ruin It.
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This article describes competition and changes in search engines, due to chatbots and large language models. Microsoft plans to significantly increase their fees to companies who use Bing-based search results in products those companies offer.
Attila Tomaschek: Change Your LastPass Password Manager, Before It's Too Late
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/change-your-lastpass-password-manager-before-its-too-late/
Kourtnee Jackson & Ty Pendlebury: Cable vs. Streaming: Which Is Cheaper?
https://www.cnet.com/tech/home-entertainment/is-cable-really-less-expensive-than-streaming/
Scharon Harding: Reviewer Buys 16TB Portable SSD for $70, Proves it’s a Sham
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/01/64gb-microsd-cards-are-posing-as-16tb-portable-ssds-on-amazon/
Taras Buria: Top 11 apps every Windows 11 user should have
https://www.neowin.net/news/top-11-apps-every-windows-11-user-should-have/
As the beginning of the article states, "they also work perfectly fine on Windows 10."
Kevin Purdy: A realistic roundup of what today's Matter launch means for your smart home
Simon Fondrie-Teitler, Angie Waller, and Colin Lecher: Tax Filing Websites Have Been Sending Users’ Financial Information to Facebook
Sara Morrison: Holiday scam email season is here. Don’t fall for it.
https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/11/25/23473947/scam-phishing-yeti-cooler-kohls-emails
Brian Krebs: How 1-Time Passcodes Became a Corporate Liability
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/08/how-1-time-passcodes-became-a-corporate-liability
Barbara Krasnoff & Antonio G. Di Benedetto: Brand New iPhone Features that Android Already Has
https://www.theverge.com/23319739/apple-iphone-ios-16-android-features-google-apps-comparison
This article is relevant to people owning either phone, as Android users may discover features they weren't aware exist./
Mike Sorrentino: Clear Your Android Phone's Cookies, Cache to Erase Junk Files
https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/clear-your-android-phones-cookies-cache-to-erase-junk-files/
That article also contains a link for iPhone users to do the same.
Jeremy Reimer: A history of ARM, part 1: Building the first chip (Acorn RISC Machine)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/09/a-history-of-arm-part-1-building-the-first-chip/
It contains a simple description of how the CPU (Central Processing Unit) in a computer operates, and tells the story of how a ground-breaking 32-bit CPU chip (ARM - Acorn RISC Machine) was designed by only ten people, for very little money, back in the 1980s, which significantly outperformed other CPU chips of that era.
Alas (spoiler alert), it didn't have software in the way of an operating system and applications to match their competitors at the time, and so didn't triumph.