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After 'Copilot Price Hike' for Microsoft 365, It's Ending Its Free VPN(2025-02-02 09:00:03)

In 2023, Microsoft began including a free VPN feature in its "Microsoft Defender" security app for all Microsoft 365 subscribers ("Personal" and "Family"). Originally Microsoft had "called it a privacy protection feature," writes the blog Windows Central, "designed to let you access sensitive data o...
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Could Earthquake Sensors Help Detect Falling Space Junk?(2025-02-02 06:00:06)

An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post: Scientists have found that using seismometers is a new and inexpensive method to detect falling space junk, which can cause damage on impact and carry toxic materials — and may someday turn deadly... It's not an easy task to ...
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OpenAI Tests Its AI's Persuasiveness By Comparing It to Reddit Posts (2025-02-02 03:00:03)

Friday TechCrunch reported that OpenAI "used the subreddit, r/ChangeMyView to create a test for measuring the persuasive abilities of its AI reasoning models." The company revealed this in a system card — a document outlining how an AI system works — that was released along with its new...
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Slashdot Asks: Do You Remember Your High School's 'Computer Room'?(2025-02-02 00:00:06)

Bill Gates' blog has been updated with short videos about his upcoming book, including one about how his school ended up with an ASR-33 teletype that could connect their Seattle classroom to a computer in California. "The teachers faded away pretty quickly," Gates adds, "But about six of us stayed h...
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One Blogger Helped Spark NVIDIA's $600B Stock Collapse(2025-02-01 21:00:03)

On January 24th Brooklyn blogger Jeffrey Emanuel made the case for shorting NVIDIA, remembers MarketWatch, "due to a number of shifting tides in the AI world, including the emergence of a China-based company called DeepSeek." He published his 12,000-word post "on his personal blog and then shared ...
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