From Ars Technica
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The spam came from inside the house: How a smart TV can choke a Windows PC
The curious case of a living room screen making Windows' Settings app disappear.
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Why canned wine can smell like rotten eggs while beer and Coke are fine
Sulfur dioxide in the wine reacts with the aluminum to make hydrogen sulfide.
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Nestlé baby foods loaded with unhealthy sugars—but only in poorer countries
Health experts say children under age 2 should have zero added sugars in their diets.
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You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000
Thermonator, the first "flamethrower-wielding robot dog," is completely legal in 48 US states.
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FTC bans noncompete clauses, declares vast majority unenforceable
Chamber of Commerce vows to sue FTC, will try to block ban on noncompetes.
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Hackers infect users of antivirus service that delivered updates over HTTP
eScan AV updates were delivered over HTTP for five years.
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Microsoft’s Phi-3 shows the surprising power of small, locally run AI language models
Microsoft’s 3.8B parameter Phi-3 may rival GPT-3.5, signaling a new era of “small language models."
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Grindr users seek payouts after dating app shared HIV status with vendors
Grindr admitted sharing HIV status with software firms in 2018, said it stopped.
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iPadOS 18 could ship with built-in Calculator app, after 14 Calculator-less years
Every single iPhone and Mac has come with a calculator app, but not the iPad.
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Concern grows as bird flu spreads further in US cows: 32 herds in 8 states
Experts say the US is not sharing as much data on the outbreak as it should.
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Meta debuts Horizon OS, with Asus, Lenovo, and Microsoft on board
Rivalry with Apple now mirrors the Android/iOS competition more than ever.
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Windows vulnerability reported by the NSA exploited to install Russian malware
Microsoft didn't disclose the in-the-wild exploits by Kremlin-backed group until now.