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tangible controls for cars to earn a five-star safety rating so drivers don't have to take their eyes off the road to fiddle with a touchcreen which who thought of this in the first place even more upsetting Europe will require car makers to stop giving drivers complimentary sleep masks and Xanax prescriptions what are they supposed to do reality's hard Oregon has passed a right to repair bill so competent Apple won't stop bitching about it Senate Bill 1596 requires manufacturers to make any documentation tool part or other device they provide to authorized service providers available to device owners and independent repair shops while apple is mostly in favor of the bill mostly dead the company claims the wording May force them to allow third-party biometric sensors to work in their devices that could lead to unauthorized access of users personal data and that does sound scary but Apple also expects me to trust some guy just because he has a blue shirt on and I feel like that might undercut their point in fact I trust them until I notice that their shirts blue wait a second where am I I went shopping for groceries Google says that it's adjusting its search ranking system to downgrade the position of content that exists primarily to summarize other content a category that includes SEO spam but also an absolute Avalanche of machine generated content Google of course has been in a NeverEnding arms race against spam and lowquality content since the dawn of time by which I mean 1998 however Google Now seems to be tacitly acknowledging growing criticism that its search results are getting worse in no small part due to the increasing availability and cheapness of relatively highquality AI Tools in particular Google says it will Target large content Mills and reputation abuse which is where otherwise respectable sites allow themselves to be used to raise the profile of certain kinds of spam like a fine dining restaurant that also sells TVs that fell off the back of a truck if you want it chicken pom only comes with spaghetti but this one LCD it's got 56 channels and Linux that's an operating system has hit an all-time high market share of 4.03% of worldwide desktop os's according to research firm stat counter that's a respectable bump up from the 1.58% of desktops and laptops that ran Linux 5 years ago in February 2019 while by the Numbers the open source OS is still Small Potatoes Windows dominant market share has been falling for the past decade and even macOS seems to have more or less plateaued at around 20% the trend lines are looking good for Linux long term so we wish a happy 4% day and a godspeed to the Linux lovers dorkiest of the Nerds I'm sorry for not calling it gnu Linux the CrossFit of the nerd community and if you're dorky enough come back on Friday for more Tech news we're going to make so many references to sub routines and logic gates and stuff it's going to be awesome CD more like CD's nuts speaking of hitting now it's time for 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