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“Claude is no longer available for minors
Link: support․claude․com/en/articles/15171100-age-assurance-on-claude
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“🐘 NEW: Scientists in ⌗Thailand tested 16 Asian elephants with a 'detour' puzzle that required them to ignore an obvious but ineffective path to ⌗fruit․The ⌗elephants learned to use a side opening instead, the…”

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What gives you hope for the future of technology?

#Tech #AskFedi

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“📺 NEW: An ⌗Auburn University grad student volunteered to enter a 7-Tesla ⌗MRI scanner 104 times over 76 weeks, watching clips from the ⌗sitcom ⌗Friends to pass the long, noisy sessions․The ⌗study tr…”

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“Is Europe winning the ‘fight’? Von der Leyen’s SOTEU, one year on politico․eu/podcast/brussels-playbook-podcast/is-europe-winning-the-fight-von-der-leyens-soteu-one-year-on/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_camp…”

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Why do the people of #Israel use #Facebook and #WhatsApp so much? Their society depends on it so much more than #USA does. It's like how China requires WeChat...

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“OpenAI claims another huge mathematical result amid fights over credit, ethics and privacy
⌗Tech ⌗OpenAI ⌗AI ⌗NavierStokes ⌗Mathematics ⌗AIResearch ⌗Science ⌗AIEthics ⌗Privacy …”

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“If you want to know where the psychotic ⌗AI tech bros are taking us, I would suggest watching Season 1, Episode 21 'The Arsenal of Freedom' from Star Trek TNG released 38 years ago․A short clip linked below: ⌗bigte…”

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“I'll be live soon ﹫8:30 AM Pacific for the office hours Q&A 😀Apple Watch recording everyone, signed photos, your privacy questions․ Come hang out and say hi!
youtube․com/live/gRb0Msub0ck”

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“Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
Link: shopify․engineering/back-to-native
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49643982”

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“⌗privacy ⌗DataProtection ⌗BigTech 🐊 🌴 politico․com/news/2026/09/09/florida-netflix-uthmeier-streaming-investigation-surveillance-01068660”

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“There are numerous other reasons, but this one probably takes the cake․'States have been scrapping tax incentives that aim to lure data-center projects to their states, which would cost the builders billions of dollars,…”

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“Here we go again…'Another researcher is challenging ⌗openai about the data driving its increasingly impressive array of mathematical discoveries․ Just days after a bitter row erupted over whether the company’s mode…”

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“Silicon Valley Is Transforming the Military-Industrial Complex costsofwar․watson․brown․edu/paper/how-big-tech-and-silicon-valley-are-transforming-military-industrial-complex Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49…”

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Have anyone used this or have even better suggestion?

I'm now in need of a dumb phone that I can travel around with - a sentence that I haven't imagined myself saying.

Ideally something that looks similar - something that people don't need half a brain to tell that it cannot install apps and only works with calls and text.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/may/28/dumb-flip-phone

#dumbphone #mobile #smartphone #tech #gadget #offline #android #ios #app #boostwelcomed #boost4help

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“🌧️ NEW: Researchers identified a ⌗climate teleconnection linking high temperatures on the Tibetan Plateau to catastrophic rainfall events in ⌗California during early 2017 and 2023․👉 livescience․com/planet-ea…”

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“talk about barriers to entry․ ⌗Google Play requires these before you upload your app for *testing*: 1․ payment (this was first, wonder why)
2․ passport/ID
3․ verified email
4․ verified phone
5․ DNS TXT record for we…”

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“🌙 NEW: New computer ⌗simulations suggest that the ⌗Moon could have begun forming within five hours of a collision between early ⌗Earth and the ⌗Mars -sized ⌗protoplanet ⌗Theia․The impact may have s…”

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“I have a theory that software drives people insane
Link: graybeard․ing/software-drives-people-insane/
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49646181”

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*Advice Needed*

I have a Macbook Pro 2017 which runs on Ventura. Because I was not using it much I missed that macOS Ventura has reached its end of life and it's not being updated anymore. The laptop is fine, a bit slower than 9 years ago, and with some light orangy patches on the screen. I really don't feel like it's time to get rid of it yet. So, dear nerds of the #fediverse, what can I do with this nice old Mac to keep using it?

#Advice #FediTips #Mac #macOS #obsolesence #tech #laptop

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“How ⌗BigTech Captured American Schools- Consumer tech giants provide the essential scaffolding that schools run on․ nytimes․com/2026/08/23/business/schools-big-tech-google-microsoft․html”

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“MIT researchers are tracking how AI chatbots answer election questions and how those answers change based on a user’s political identity, demographics and location․As AI becomes an interface for discovery, these systems…”

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“omarchy is the new x ⌗nazibar ⌗omarchy ⌗nazi ⌗fascism ⌗fascist ⌗bigtech”

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“August is declared the hottest month ever recorded․Average temperatures worldwide temporarily soared to 1․65 °C above pre-industrial levels last month, according to Copernicus, the Earth observation unit of the EU’s spa…”

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“Trump is promising every American adult $5,000 if Republicans keep Congress․ 💸Small problem: presidents can't just hand out money․ Congress controls the budget․ And the bill would run past $1․2 trillion․🐘 pixelunion…”

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“PH4NTXM's Windows mode․What it is, how does it work, and proof of concept․Check how it fools p0f, and browserleaks․com swears we're Windows․ youtube․com/watch?v=TMALytriW_k ⌗ph4ntxm ⌗linux ⌗debian ⌗os …”

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“Live Q&A tomorrow ﹫8:30 AM Pacific 🙌Apple just announced a feature that transcribes everyone around you․ We're getting into Live Rewind, unalterable signed photos, the fingerprinting paradox + whatever you bring․Set a …”

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“List of references on Sony websites to players 'owning' their digital games
Link: consumerrights․wiki/w/Sony_PlayStation_digital_game_ownership_lawsuit
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49642531”

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“New ⌗Paper published in Quantum: Sparse quantum state preparation with improved Toffoli cost quantum-journal․org/papers/q-2026-09-10-2208/ ⌗OpenScience ⌗Quantum ⌗Research”

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“After ⌗PervertGlasses from Meta, here's the « all on tape » by ⌗Apple․ I know that ⌗BigTech are not capable of progress … but even in this perspective of 'innovation', there's a lot of thing to propose before …”

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“⌗tech ⌗technology ⌗privacy ⌗meme ⌗memes ⌗humor ⌗humour ⌗funny ⌗bigtech”

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“New ⌗Paper published in Quantum: Streaming Belief Propagation on Mixed-Alphabet Tanner Graphs for Practical Quantum Memory quantum-journal․org/papers/q-2026-09-10-2207/ ⌗OpenScience ⌗Quantum ⌗Research”

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“Scientists identify a bone-building switch that could offer a new treatment path for osteoporosis
sciencedaily․com/releases/2026/09/260909005305․htm
An experimental compound called AP503 significantly strengthened b…”

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“Rock band Muse lose social media handles to Meta’s new AI toolFans on social media noted the irony of the band’s handle being taken by an AI tool, given frontman Matt Bellamy’s songs about fears and anxieties surroundin…”

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“Version Control Second Coming
Link: psantosl․github․io/posts/version-control-second-coming/
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49603265”

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“📰 ⌗blog ⌗ethics ⌗bioethics ⌗research ⌗sciencecommunication ⌗science
⌗psychology ⌗society ⌗transparency is often treated as a tool for building public trust - Bryn Williams-Jones arg…”

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I'm looking for well-reasoned, well-written exemplars of good RFC and ADR writing. Do you have any favourites? Any examples of excellent, or even beautiful, technical writing?

I'm running a session at work to help us improve our writing culture in the face of the seductions of LLMs, and am compiling examples.

#tech #programming #software #opensource #noAI

This...do you feel seen? 👋

"The advantage is that they tend to notice when something feels structurally wrong before everyone else has caught up

In a world increasingly shaped by algorithms and AI-generated information, that ability is going to matter a lot more

*That means the hunters have purpose again."
#Tech #neurodivergent
#Society #Psychology

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“🦠 Large-Language Models as a Cognitive Virus arxiv․org/abs/2609․03344v1 ⌗AI ⌗llm ⌗science ⌗research”

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“﹫mason Maybe it's just the same history as with ⌗Linux?
⌗FreeBSD has its own foundation but, as with Linux, both are US based․ These foundations have their sponsors․ Some of them are US ⌗bigtech․ And they are …”

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“How to add a custom search engine to your browser:In the Search Engines section of your browser's settings, find the area to 'Add custom search', and paste in the search engine's URL with:/search?q=%son the end․ So for …”

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“Anthropic researcher resigns amid AI safety concerns npr․org/2026/09/09/nx-s1-5962889/anthropic-researcher-resigns-amid-ai-safety-concerns ⌗AI ⌗Ethics ⌗Research”

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“Apple Watch Series 12
Link: apple․com/newsroom/2026/09/introducing-apple-watch-series-12-with-the-all-new-health-sensing-system/
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49630566”

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“⌗Endhittification
⌗ClimateChange
⌗AI
⌗Privacy
⌗AgeVerification
⌗BigTech
⌗Plutocracy
⌗Despotism Looks like I chose the wrong century to give up sniffing glue․”

https://lingo.lol/@Wintergr33n/117244659638376763

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“Colorado Sun: New evidence shows Boulder climate lab was dismantled in act of political reprisal, lawsuit alleges․ 'New evidence shows overt political retaliation against Colorado is behind the Trump administration’s di…”

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🎬 New YouTube-Videos video!

Claude AI Builds & Tests Linux VMs: Home Lab Breakthrough! #shorts

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#Linux #HomeLab #AI #Virtualization #Tech

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“🧑‍⚖️ Love how they are going after ⌗Meta in 'Alvarez v․ Meta' for their use of ⌗Instagram user biometrics to train ⌗AI (EMU) plus their Smart Glasses and MetaAI facial recognition software (NAMETAG) 🥸This …”

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“'Alex J․ Wood research focuses on the implications of digital technology for power relations, working conditions, and the transformation of capitalism․ He is currently researching how digital platforms reshape power rel…”

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“Anthropic Researchers Raise Alarm Over A․I․ Acceleration, Warning of Threat to Humanity nytimes․com/2026/09/09/technology/anthropic-researchers-raise-alarm․html ⌗AI ⌗Technology ⌗Research”

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“No Man's Sky Cosmos
Link: nomanssky․com/cosmos-update/
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49628493”

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