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4K or 8K TVs Offer No Distinguishable Benefit Over Similarly Sized 2K Screen in Average Living Room, Scientists Say - Slashdot
4K or 8K TVs Offer No Distinguishable Benefit Over Similarly Sized 2K Screen in Average Living Room, Scientists SayWed Oct 29 10:28:05 2025 - permalink -- https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/25/10/27/1821210/4k-or-8k-tvs-offer-no-distinguishable-benefit-over-similarly-sized-2k-screen-in-average-living-room-scientists-say
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Study Finds Growing Social Circles May Fuel Polarization - Slashdot
study from the Complexity Science Hub Vienna finds that as people's close social circles expanded from two to five friends around the rise of social media (2008-2010), polarization in society spikedWed Oct 29 10:21:19 2025 - permalink -- https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/10/27/2325201/study-finds-growing-social-circles-may-fuel-polarization
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The 'Great CEO-checklist' - The Dutch Investors
What makes a great CEO? What should you avoid? Find out!Tue Oct 28 09:48:34 2025 - permalink -
- https://thedutchinvestors.substack.com/p/the-great-ceo-checklist?publication_id=2349701&post_id=175726249&isFreemail=true&r=6ik3s&triedRedirect=true
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The Day My Smart Vacuum Turned Against Me
My robot vacuum was constantly communicating with its manufacturer, transmitting logs and telemetry that I had never consented to shareMon Oct 27 09:54:27 2025 - permalink -- https://codetiger.github.io/blog/the-day-my-smart-vacuum-turned-against-me/
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Dungeons & Dragons Brings Purpose and Fulfillment - and Maybe Structure and Connection for Retirees? - Slashdot
Dungeons & Dragons Brings Purpose and Fulfillment - and Maybe Structure and Connection for RetireesMon Oct 27 09:46:31 2025 - permalink -- https://games.slashdot.org/story/25/10/26/034248/dungeons-dragons-brings-purpose-and-fulfillment---and-maybe-structure-and-connection-for-retirees
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Can YouTube Replace 'Traditional' TV? - Slashdot
It's come a long way since the 19-second "me at the zoo" video was uploaded in April 2005. Now, per a KPMG report released Sept. 23, YouTube is second only to Comcast in terms of annual content spend, inclusive of payments to creators and media companies, paying out as much as Netflix and Paramount combined, $32 billion...Mon Oct 27 09:42:18 2025 - permalink -- https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/25/10/26/1657219/can-youtube-replace-traditional-tv
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Smartphones manipulate our emotions and trigger our reflexes — no wonder we’re addicted
Smartphones manipulate our emotions and trigger our reflexes — no wonder we’re addictedSun Oct 26 22:41:11 2025 - permalink -- https://theconversation.com/smartphones-manipulate-our-emotions-and-trigger-our-reflexes-no-wonder-were-addicted-265014
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But What is the Internet Layer? - by Lakshya Mittal
Everyone knows what the Internet is. But do you know how it actually works?Sun Oct 26 08:55:27 2025 - permalink -- https://lakshyamittal.substack.com/p/but-what-is-the-internet-layer
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LLMs Can Get "Brain Rot"!
LLMs Can Get "Brain Rot"Fri Oct 24 11:15:28 2025 - permalink -- https://llm-brain-rot.github.io/
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What Happened to Apple's Legendary Attention to Detail? - Fragments & Reflections
In my mind, "Apple" as a brand used to be synonymous with "attention to detail" but sadly, over the course of the last 8 - 10 years, their choices have become anything but detail oriented.Fri Oct 24 07:50:38 2025 - permalink -
This year, things have gotten so bad that I'm starting to think they've stopped caring about user experience, accessibility, and detailed QA tests altogether.- https://blog.johnozbay.com/what-happened-to-apples-attention-to-detail.html
"Apple" "attention 10 8 a about accessibility altogether. and anything as bad be become brand but caring choices course detail detail" detailed experience gotten have I'm In last mind my of oriented. over QA sadly so starting stopped synonymous tests that the their they've things think This to used user with year years -
A single DNS race condition brought AWS to its knees • The Register
A single DNS race condition brought Amazon's cloud empire to its kneesFri Oct 24 07:47:07 2025 - permalink -
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Fault in DynamoDB system cascaded through AWS services, knocking major sites offline for hours- https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/23/amazon_outage_postmortem/
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Tesla profit falls short despite record sales, hit by higher costs and fading credits
double strike by captain obvious and captain karmaThu Oct 23 09:21:44 2025 - permalink -- https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-profit-falls-short-despite-002850222.html
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Jaguar Land Rover Hack Cost UK Economy an Estimated $2.5 Billion - Slashdot
"This incident appears to be the most economically damaging cyber event to hit the UK"Thu Oct 23 07:02:46 2025 - permalink -- https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/10/22/1952245/jaguar-land-rover-hack-cost-uk-economy-an-estimated-25-billion
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AI Assistants Misrepresent News Content 45% of the Time - Slashdot
AI Assistants Misrepresent News Content 45% of the TimeThu Oct 23 06:53:02 2025 - permalink -- https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/10/22/2011239/ai-assistants-misrepresent-news-content-45-of-the-time
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A SiriusXM Update Sent Some Audi Screens Into a Forced-Reboot Loop For Months - Slashdot
it illustrates a serious pain point in modern cars -- myriad apps interacting with a diverse population of in-car software systemsThu Oct 23 06:46:40 2025 - permalink -- https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/10/23/003245/a-siriusxm-update-sent-some-audi-screens-into-a-forced-reboot-loop-for-months
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Amazon's DNS Problem Knocked Out Half the Web, Likely Costing Billions - Slashdot
Ultimately, more than 28 AWS services were disrupted, causing perhaps billions in damages, one analyst estimated for CNNWed Oct 22 08:41:14 2025 - permalink -- https://slashdot.org/story/25/10/21/1942240/amazons-dns-problem-knocked-out-half-the-web-likely-costing-billions
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Internet Archive Celebrates 1 Trillion Web Pages Archived - Slashdot
Wayback Machine is projected to hit a once-in-a-generation milestone: 1 trillion web pages archived. That's one trillion memories, moments, and movements -- preserved for the public and available to accessWed Oct 22 08:37:50 2025 - permalink -- https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/10/21/2324239/internet-archive-celebrates-1-trillion-web-pages-archived
