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PCS other than do not date co-pilot she will break your heart there is at least one definite win to award Microsoft's newest surface devices though I fix it has given both the surface laptop 7 and Surface Pro 11 an 8 out of 10 for repairability after giving both of their original incarnations a zero and a one respectively just like a binary joke to make there but not right now unlike Samsung which iix it recently broke up with Microsoft seems to have actually taken repairability to Heart adding nice touches like a QR code visible as soon as you remove the bottom plate that links to Microsoft's service manuals don't give Microsoft too many Kudos though because if anything their attitude about Windows 11's Enthusiast friendliness seems to be getting worse they just removed instructions for how to sign into a local account on Windows from a support page while leaving up the instructions for how to convert a local account to a Microsoft account and the Windows 11 setup process reportedly 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currently in Partnership talks with meta are actually old news according to the herald of germed Mark German apparently meta pitched their AI services to Apple who rejected them can you blame them I mean meta's llama AI models are kind of Open Source but a lot of Apple's own models are too then there's the fact that Facebook has been tagging real life photos as made with AI it would never work work Apple's kind of the Privacy company and meta is kind of the feed three billion users data into Zuckerberg's gaping ma nom nom nom company so every time I look out my bedroom window I never see Tim Cook Mark get out of there I want the other guy a Florida family has filed a formal request that NASA compensate them for $80,000 in Damages following an incident in March where a 1.6 lb metal part from a battery pallet jettison from the ISS embarrassingly using the canadarm to robotic ARM we're so sorry failed to burn up in the atmosphere and instead blew a hole straight through their two-story home had the ISS instead committed an accidental DIY air strike against a home in a different country they would be clearly obligated to provide compensation under the terms of the 1972 space liability convention US law however is less clear the recording industry Association of America has filed lawsuits against two AI music generators sunno and udio for alleged copyright infringement the Raa claims that sunno and udio have used massive amounts of unlicensed music to train their models and that that is wrong while neither music generator will specify what songs they used some of their outputs seem rather telling including one song from udio that copies the entire first verse of Green Day's American Idiot followed by a chorus of the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog which is how I wish that song Went the first time but I mean we fixed it prancing Queen Laura prancing queen and the internet has responded to Luma lab's freeo try Dream Machine video generator by using it to turn 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