‘Dear David’ Is the Final Gasp of a Dying Internet
Dear David, the 2023 film adaptation of a 2017 viral Twitter thread by a BuzzFeed cartoonist, must be seen to be believed. Or not.
Read MoreDear David, the 2023 film adaptation of a 2017 viral Twitter thread by a BuzzFeed cartoonist, must be seen to be believed. Or not.
Read MoreCurl gave us all a big warning that a severe security problem had been found in that code-base. Given the staggering number of Curl installs around the world, we held our collective breath and waited for the bombshell to drop this Wednesday. It turns out, it’s not quite as bad as feared — so long
Read MoreA promotional rendering of Franz — she’s much more cartoonish (usually) in the app. | Image: Ice-Pick Lodge On Christmas Day 2021, a man took a crossbow to Windsor Castle with plans to kill Queen Elizabeth II. (He failed.) In court, the would-be assassin claimed he’d been egged on by a virtual companion named Sarai
Read MoreReuters: India rolls back plans announced on August 3 to impose restrictions on laptop imports, saying it “only wants importers to be on close watch” — India is rolling back its earlier plan to impose restrictions on laptop imports, months after abruptly announcing such plans …
Read MoreThe Psyche probe is heading to its namesake metal-rich asteroid. Along the way, it will demonstrate a near-infrared laser system to send high-rate data hundreds of millions of miles home.
Read MoreReuters: TSMC expects to receive US permission to supply its China plant with US chipmaking tools indefinitely, in an easing of US restrictions on chipmakers in China — Taiwan’s TSMC (2330.TW) said on Friday it expects to receive permission from the United States to supply its China plant …
Read MoreJoe Biden visits the Cummins Power Generation Facility in Fridley, Minnesota, on Monday, April 3rd, 2023. Last year, Cummins announced Fridley would be the site of its first electrolyzer manufacturing facility in the US. | Photo by Elizabeth Flores / Star Tribune via Getty Images The Biden administration will funnel $7 billion into seven different
Read MoreYogita Khatri / The Block: Tether promotes long-time CTO Paolo Ardoino to CEO, starting in December, and envisions becoming a “tech-centric organization”; current CEO will be an advisor — – Stablecoin issuer Tether promoted its long-time CTO Paolo Ardoino to CEO as it envisions becoming a “tech-centric organization.”
Read MoreIllustration by William Joel / The Verge Microsoft has finalized its $68.7 billion deal to acquire Activision Blizzard, the publisher of Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and Diablo. The Verge exclusively reported last week that Microsoft was planning to close today, and now it’s official. The acquisition required 20 months of battles with regulators
Read MoreOn the morning of October 14, an annular solar eclipse will be visible to people in the Americas, creating a fiery halo of light around a darkened sun.
Read MoreGoogle’s midrange ‘Chromebook Plus’ cohort is off to an excellent start. Continue reading…
Read MoreIn her new book Extremely Online, Taylor Lorenz argues that everyone can be an influencer. The history of the internet suggests relatively few will strike it rich.
Read MoreTom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft completes Activision Blizzard acquisition after a 20-month battle with regulators in the UK and US; Bobby Kotick will remain CEO until the end of 2023 — The Verge exclusively reported last week that Microsoft was planning to close today, and now it’s official.
Read MoreThe Pixel Watch 2 made better use of Fitbit’s expertise this year, but it’s not great that the app had yet another major outage the day the devices shipped. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Change is hard to do well — a lesson Google’s been learning all too well when it
Read MoreImage: CD Projekt Red Cyberpunk 2077’s recently released DLC Phantom Liberty uses an AI-edited voice to emulate the performance of a deceased actor, the studio has confirmed. The actor in question is Miłogost “Miłek” Reczek, who provided the Polish-language voice of doctor Viktor Vektor in a localized version of the original game. He passed away
Read MoreIt might not be repairable, but this beautiful smartwatch does pretty much everything I want, and does it well.
Read MoreUS President Joe Biden arrives for a ceremony at the groundbreaking of the new Intel semiconductor manufacturing facility near New Albany, Ohio, on Friday, September 9th, 2022. | Image: Gaelen Morse / Bloomberg via Getty Images Lawmakers’ push to revive US chip manufacturing has triggered new concerns about pollution regulation, inadvertently subjecting semiconductor factories to
Read MoreJason Schreier / Bloomberg: CD Projekt used AI to recreate the voice of Miłogost Reczek, a Polish voice actor who died in 2021, for Cyberpunk 2077’s new Polish DLC, after asking his family — Gamemaker says it consulted with family of the late Miłogost Reczek — Polish video game developer CD Projekt SA …
Read MoreThe annular solar eclipse will render more than a third of US solar energy capacity unavailable at some point tomorrow—enough to power about 20 million homes. Grid operators have backup plans.
Read MoreDubbed “HTTP/2 Rapid Reset,” the flaw requires issuing patches to virtually every web server around the world before the problem can be eradicated.
Read MoreIt must have been a busy week for the PR department at Raspberry Pi, with the launch of their latest single-board computer, the Pi 5. Alongside the new board comes something else, an updated Raspberry Pi OS version. This is built from Debian 12 “Bookworm”, and supplants the previous “Bullseye” version. As well as the
Read MoreOnePlus 12 – Leaked render Credit: MySmartPrice The OnePlus 12 is set to be more expensive than the OnePlus 11, according to a leaker. It’s believed a new screen, bigger battery, and upgraded cameras are behind an apparent hike. The phone screen might not suffer from green line problems, though. We’re expecting OnePlus to launch
Read MoreSarah Fielding / Engadget: Meta responds to EU misinformation concerns regarding the Israel-Hamas war, saying it has created a new operations center, restricted some hashtags, and more — The company has created a new operations center with experts fluent in Hebrew and Arabic. — Meta has shared an updated content …
Read MoreGoogle announced on Thursday that it will protect its generative AI customers against any intellectual property claims made on the data used or output served by Google-hosted AI models. By extending protection in its cloud and workspace environments, Google joins the list of technology firms that have recently announced IP support for using their own generative AI
Read MoreVisual Studio Code 1.83, the latest monthly release of the Microsoft-built code editor, improves command discovery, via enhanced command palette searching. With more than 2,000 commands in Visual Studio Code and with popular extensions driving the number even higher, finding the appropriate command can be a challenge, Microsoft explained in a bulletin on October 4.
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