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”Gemini Advanced is clearly a GPT-4 class model. The statistics show this, but so does a month of our informal testing. And this is a big deal … …it is roughly equivalent, though it has its own strengths and weaknesses. GPT-4 is much more sophisticated about using code and…

”Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) have been demoted from standalone apps that use the whole screen to shortcuts that open within the default browser… This appears to solely affect users in the European Union, though your mileage may vary. …the breakage of PWAs is deliberate. The Register understands Apple's

”A Russian disinformation campaign is deploying everything from high-ranking lawmakers and government officials to lifestyle influencers, bloggers, and powerful state-run media outlets to stoke divisions in the United States around the Texas border crisis.”…

”Bluesky has gained almost 800,000 new users (or, “newskies“). Now, the platform is slated to break 4 million total signups later today, whereas it hit 3 million only last week.”…

You can cross-post to Mastodon, Bluesky and Nostr simultaneously. If you add to the mix it can auto-post your Nostr posts to X.…

”They have prioritized graphics fidelity and responsiveness, and taken the hit on battery life, weight, and heat. Given how important the experience is to Apple’s AR experience, this is probably the right choice for a first generation device.”…

”The platform has about 3 million sign-ups. Now that anyone can join, the young platform faces a challenge: how can it meaningfully stand up to Threads’ 130 million monthly active users, or even Mastodon’s 1.8 million?”…

Wherever you get your Nostr “being able to say, "wherever you get your podcasts" is a radical statement. Because what it represents is the triumph of exactly the kind of technology that's supposed to be impossible: open, empowering tech that's not owned by any

”Throughout 2023, some 5.2 million barrels of refined petroleum products that had been produced from Russian crude oil were imported to the UK. Most of the fuel imported - 4.6 million barrels - was jet fuel, which the group's researchers suggested was used in one in 20 UK

The US builds and, the EU regulates ”The Gemini app…will be available in Japanese, Korean, and English globally except for the UK, Switzerland, European Economic Area countries, and associated territories.”…

“Rather than painstakingly crafting a fake ID by hand—a highly skilled criminal profession that can take years to master—or waiting for a purchased one to arrive in the mail with the risk of interception, OnlyFake lets essentially anyone generate fake IDs in minutes that may seem real enough…

“Google will no longer be keeping a backup of the entire Internet. Google Search's "cached" links have long been an alternative way to load a website that was down or had changed, but now the company is killing them off.”…

”Yang’s blog was critical of Beijing and promoted ’practising law, fairness and justice, social justice, freedom, and democracy’”…

This is bad If you have a Spoutible acccount change your password, 2FA etc immediately.…

”Of the 19,500 cases for which Ukrainian authorities have names and data… …the authorities believe the real number is probably 10 times that, while Russian officials have even boasted of moving 700,000 Ukrainian children to Russia.”…

Prime Video's X-ray is a feature that Netflix should consider adopting. Prime should have the playback speed option. Perhaps they could explore a potential trade?…