Amazon Leo UItra is the new rival to Starlink. It'll be faster, too, capable of 1 GBps instead of the max 380 MBps with Starlink. It'sll probably cost more, though. Doesn't start until sometime in 2026. What will Elon do in response?
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Netgear is also rolling out a new Nighthawk MiFi modem that reached 3.6 Gbps. I'm not sure if my wireless carrier will support this. Looks like you gotta sign up with Airalo. That's too bad.
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Someone's getting fired. This is why I hesitate to get too much AI tech into healthcare.
This is a new vulnerability. It's not going to be just healthcare, but every virtual meeting where confidential matters are discussed.First, a former physician used his personal email address in a meeting group, contrary to hospital policy. Second, the meeting organizer did not remove the physician from the meeting invite following his departure in June 2023, according to the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario.
As a result, when the physician installed Otter.ai on a personal device in September 2024, the transcription tool was able to access the rounds meeting invite via the physician's personal digital calendar.
...it wasn't clear whether the physician even realized the Otter.ai bot had attended the meeting on his behalf and recorded it – or whether it had done so for other meetings as well.
“That’s a whole level of autonomy and independence that we haven’t been prepared for but need to start thinking about,”
I just thought this was a sneaky way for a Chinese app to get all sorts of personal information from you. Well, at least the developer tells you:
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Elon Musk Drove ~1/3 of Women Off Twitter. Well, I think X is much better now. It's more balanced now that conservative voices have a say and are not automatically censored, like back in the Trump 1.0 days.
Data center provider razes 55 homes to make room for Illinois campus. Sign of the times. And then, there is Oregon. "‘The precedent is Flint’: How Oregon’s data center boom is supercharging a water crisis."
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Daily coffee drinking may slow biological aging of people with major mental illness. But why just those with mental illness? Drinking up to 5 cups lengthens telomeres, and gives you "the equivalent of 5 extra biological years". I'll take it.
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The gruesome new data on tech jobs. I remember during the dotcom era, techies were SO desirable. They were millionaries. Now, they are struggling to find a job and a sense of self-worth, with feelings of doubt and perhaps betrayal.
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Southern Oregon is the canary in the coal mine. Actually many of the coastal towns in Oregon are. Sucks to be in a Blue state, when the rest of the country is doing fairly well, or at least is not hurting. Oregon had seemed like it was doing OK, but it was all due to federal subsidies. Paying for this and that. Plus illegal immigrant labor. Now that's all gone, and Oregon is suffering. It's painful, but a cleansing is overdue.
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