Vitamin K deficient hemorrhagic disease of the newborn is one of the puzzling quirks of nature. Why did nature allow this to happen? Babies are born with reduced levels of intrinsic vitamin K and while they have enough for a few days, it's decreases to very low levels without supplementation. And mother's milk, even with colostrum, is insufficient to correct the deficiency. Infants need vitamin K supplementation, but misinformed parents, scared of allopathic medications, are refusing it, with serious consequences. Mistrust in the medical system can have major consequences.
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Peter Girnus' X feed highlights a creepy technology developed by Telus International. You can be talking to customer support in the Philippines or India, and the voice accent sounds American. I've had experiences that were frustrating, but somehow this still feels disingenuous. Life in modern times, I guess.
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Taphouse provides GUI support for Homebrew. I'll have to give this a try. Homebrew is a necessity, but like other Terminal apps, it can be cumbersome to use. I especially like the one-touch install and uninstall and the no-quarantine features.
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I can't believe RFK Jr facilitated teenagers getting access to tanning booths. So much for making America healthy.
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Researcher Finds Microsoft Edge Stored Passwords Load in Plaintext. What does Microsoft say?
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Microsoft indicates that its current approach to loading stored passwords in Edge can improve the user experience.What? And when pressed, MSFT says it will only happen if a hacker gets direct control of the computer, which they think would hardly ever happen. Seriously MSFT?
Before Update
Chrome v147.0.7727.138 says
Chrome v147.0.7727.138 says
"Chrome can use Al models that run directly on your device without sending your data to Google servers."
Now after update, they removed that claim so the data will most likely be sent to google.
After Update
Chrome v148.0.7778.97 removes that claim.
Now after update, they removed that claim so the data will most likely be sent to google.
After Update
Chrome v148.0.7778.97 removes that claim.
"To power features like scam detection, Chrome can use Al models that run directly on your device. When this is off, these features might not work."
Hoping you wouldn't notice.
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Ugh. A Security Researcher Decompiled The White House App, & What They Found Is Pretty Alarming. Why would you download this anyway?
A security researcher decompiled the White House’s new official app and found some alarming stuff buried in the code, including a hidden GPS tracking pipeline, JavaScript loaded from a random GitHub account, no SSL certificate pinning, and an in-app browser that silently strips cookie consent dialogs and paywalls from every page you visit.
I don't put apps on my phone except ones that I absolutely need.
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I've noticed some of my techie friends have a dot in their Gmail address. I wasn't aware of the Gmail.com email address dot trick. It's apparently a simple way of generating multiple email addresses that go to your mail inbox.
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Social media is becoming less fun and less useful now that AI bots are crappifying the forums. Now you know how us geeks felt when AOL invaders crappified Usenet.
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Why Are Software Developers Still In Demand? Well not all software developers. Just the senior ones. This is a look ahead, and it's not pretty. The software world will have a reckoning in the next several years.
California leaders report four to six weeks worth of gasoline and diesel in supply. Still?? Always 4 to 6 weeks away.
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Woman covertly filmed for 'humiliating' social media content - then told to pay. Some tech, like Meta glasses, needs to be kept away from the general public for reasons like this. The potential for mischief is too great.
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Leaker: This Is Why Apple Is Delaying the iPhone 18. They don't want to cannibalize sales of the iPhone 17? And Apple is intentionally downgrading the iPhone 18? Not good.
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Well this ain't right. Money from the FireAid concert given to help the Palisades fire victims, just went to fund race-based NGOs and illegal immigrants. 💩
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Homelessness likely to increase in Portland area through 2027, Multnomah County officials say. Of course, we wouldn't expect otherwise.
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150,000 Oregonians will have in-network access to Legacy Health services again. Somebody blinked. Who was it?
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He had really defined himself as being the pro-tax guy in the Legislature. But I think he shifted pretty quickly when he realized that just being pro-tax wasn't really getting him anywhere, and it wasn't really gaining traction.
In his telling, he says, "It's not that I'm necessarily anti-tax anymore, but my ideas for what that tax should buy and how effective it should be have been shaped and shifted by the time that I've spent in the Legislature.” Now, he sounds a little bit more like the kind of standard Democrat of the Seattle area, which is, "We can stomach taxes when we believe they are worthwhile." But the chamber, and Nguyen by extension, now believes a lot of the taxes that are being discussed and proposed are not worthwhile.
"Standard Democrat"? No way! He sounds more like a Republican to me.
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