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“If you want to eat hippopatomus, you’ve got to pay the freight.” — attributed to an IBM guy, about why IBM software uses so much memory
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FCC Proposals Require Phone Companies To Help Domestic Violence Survivors
Now that the Safe Connections Act (SCA) has become law, the Federal Communications Commission is taking steps to help domestic violence survivors leave their partners’ phone plans. The agency has proposed rules that would require carriers separate the line for a survivor within two business days of a request. Another Read more…
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First Trailer For Tetris Movie Released
Apple has released the first trailer for its movie Tetris, which tells the extraordinary true story of the struggle between Western publishers, Nintendo, and the Soviet Union itself for the rights to Alexey Pajitnov’s classic puzzle game. Taron Egerton plays Henk Rogers, the gaming entrepreneur who was instrumental in discovering Read more…
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DocuSign To Lay Off 10% of Its Workforce
E-signature software company DocuSign on Thursday announced plans to cut around 10% of its workforce. DocuSign had 7,461 employees in January 2022 before it announced an earlier round of layoffs last September that impacted 9% of its workforce. The company said the latest cuts will impact about 700 employees. DocuSign Read more…
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City of Oakland Declares State of Emergency After Ransomware Attack
Oakland has declared a local state of emergency because of the impact of a ransomware attack that forced the City to take all its IT systems offline on February 8th. Interim City Administrator G. Harold Duffey declared (PDF) a state of emergency to allow the City of Oakland to expedite Read more…
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Microsoft’s Bing is an Emotionally Manipulative Liar, and People Love It
Microsoft’s Bing chatbot is being rolled out to the masses and people are discovering that Bing’s AI personality is not as poised or polished as you might expect. In conversations with the chatbot shared on Reddit and Twitter, Bing can be seen insulting users, lying to them, sulking, gaslighting and Read more…
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Tesla To Open US Charging Network To Rivals In $7.5 Billion Federal Program
Tesla will open part of its U.S. charging network to electric vehicles (EVs) made by rivals as part of a $7.5 billion federal program to expand the use of EVs to cut carbon emissions, the Biden administration said on Wednesday. Such a move could help turn Tesla into the universal Read more…