hey you know what nobody has ever said I want less Zilla there's too much Zilla
around here the Mozilla
Foundation the parent organization of the Mozilla company purveyors of the
world's fifth most popular web browser is eliminating its Global programs and
advocacy divisions that advocacy was centered on fighting for a free and open
internet something that hasn't really gotten less important recently while the
foundation says that this is a fight that remains core to their mission they
are revisiting how they pursue that work
this restructuring comes with layoffs for 30% of mozilla's roughly 120
employees that's a lot which is actually the second round of layoffs this year
following 60 job losses on the company side in February all in all it's a
significant loss in capacity and there isn't an obvious successor to take up
the advocacy slack Chrome's too busy wag
a war against ad block extensions and Edge acknowledges neither the law of God
nor Man Edge just going to Edge not all hope is lost however as the
internet archive is once again archiving web pages following a month-long Hiatus
due to a Cyber attack users will once again be able to capture important but
ephemeral web pages using the archives save page now feature the internet
archive also says that the backlog of pages requested by users while the
archive was down are now being processed it's not entirely clear why the internet
archive has become such a target for hackers given that it's not affiliated
with any government and it doesn't have a lot of spare cash this is like getting
mad at the global world order so you set
fire to a community center Lawn Bowling had it coming reviews are in for AMD's
ryzen 79800 x3d and so far it sounds
like Dr Lisa Sue has a chart topping new single on her hands ring up the 9800 X3
3D blows Intel's new top-of-the-line chips out of the water and by new
top-of-the-line chips I mean the one from last genom all right pretty much
every review is singing this Chip's Praises but Hardware unboxed saw it get
up to 26 and half% better than the core
I9 14900 K and 33% better than the core
Ultra 9 285k see how that works it's not just
gaming though there are also some pretty significant productivity improvements
you're going to be able to run so many instances of bonsai buddy of course the
big change that has allowed for this showstopping performance is the addition
of that 3D vcash even more so than AMD's
first gen 3D vcash which was placed on top of the die causing potential cooling
issues now the cach is under the processor meaning you can even overclock
this thing which they already said if that's not enough you might be
interested to know that Jang Jong ha a
reliable source of Hardware leak says that they're Supply chain contacts
confirm that AMD is working on an x3d version of a Zen 5 Threadripper further
the Next Generation stricks Halo apus will likely see 3D vcash upgrade as well
on the more high-end AMD laptops
honestly this would be a completely happy story if it wasn't for Pat
gelsinger standing at the back of this room manfully refusing to cry and Woman
fly and children fly any any F you want Jarvis Google red AI agent that could
use your computer for you has been officially confirmed thanks to Reliable
leaker Google who accidentally published an internal preview on the Chrome web
browser extension store it's been taken down but you didn't miss out on much the
current build doesn't have the right access permissions yet so users who
downloaded it weren't able to get it to work Google planned to publicly reveal
Jarvis in December alongside its next big llm release but you know how it is
it's it's only the first week of November but you're already hearing Mariah Carey Jarvis whose name is almost
certainly inspired by Tony Stark's AI Butler is intended to be a helpful
online assistant that can collect information do your shopping or book
travel tickets that being said if you've ever had an instacart Shopper replace
your crini mushrooms with a big bag of jumbo marshmallows you can probably
guess that these kinds of simple tasks can turn out to be quite a bit more
complex in practice it's also notable that literally every big company with
skin in the AI game is doing doing the exact same thing right now anthropic AI
agent open ai ai agent Microsoft first
party spyware that takes picture every 3 seconds for your own good but it's cool
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on upgrading your macbook's SSD is
possible once again thanks to repair YouTuber ibof RCC who created a custom
PCB add-on and swappable SSD modules to
replace soldered on storage in MacBooks with M series processors the module
design isn't completely finalized yet and once installed you need a second Mac
to run Apple configurator to complete the setup but that might not be a
problem for Apple Fans especially any who might have just bought a second Mac
Mini when they discovered doing that cost the same as upgrading the RAM and
storage but come on Apple's got to pay their Engineers to do their job worse
than some random guy on YouTube meta says they have found a way to keep teens
from lying about their age on Instagram it's an AI powered tool the company
calls an adult classifier which sounds
less like a tool for finding teens and more like a BuzzFeed quiz which Stanley
Cup represents you Instagram introduced teen accounts in September which have
stronger default privacy settings the adult classifier will apparently sort
users into one of two groups older or younger than 18 based on those users own
account data like their profile and what content they interact with unfortunately
after being exposed to thousands of 30-year-old Transformers enthusiasts the
classifier exploded you're welcome steam's game recording feature is now
out of beta meaning it's available to all sigmas like me the feature allows
users to record gameplay without leaving the app even non- Steam games can be
recorded as long as they allow steam overlay to run in more good news the
steam deck will finally be available in Australia on November 19th finally young
impressionable Australians won't be participating in Shady back alley deals
where they purchase smuggled steam decks with their hard-earned demies and
chicken Salt now they can send their demies and chicken Salt to me instead
please going to send them some soy sauce it's been I just since I had some demies
got the rumblies a YouTuber made an ebike battery using 130 used disposable
Vapes to make a point about ew Chris Dole took the individual batteries out
of the Vapes and converted them into to a 48v 1500 WT battery that powered an
ebike for more than 20 M with almost no pedaling of course it wasn't that easy
to get his hands on 130 discarded Vapes he had to collect them at places like a
music festival just a single Music Festival
had hundreds of littered batteries that could explode if damaged was getting rid
of cigarettes a bad idea we're saving
the kids' lungs but at what cost are we and the FD has sued
Dave sorry not the guy in your fantasy football league although that son of a
has it coming Dave the banking app specializing in cash advances the FDC
says Dave misled customers charged hidden fees and made cancelling
memberships unreasonably difficult in an official response Dave said the lawsuit
was regulatory overreach possibly in between swigs of P's Blue Ribbon if you
let it get warm it tastes like piss this is stupid man Dave thinks the government
should leave him and his friends alone including banking apps with normal guy
names and these are real Marcus Frank Finn and Mr Cooper you leave Koop alone
you leave Coop out of this I'm picturing these as kids in like an 80s Adventure
movie and Mr Cooper is like the older role model for the little gaggle of
young guys we got to get cop out of jail so close now how about you be a role
model for the rest of the audience and come back on Friday for more Tech news
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