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To add on: a 3% stock shift means that the search-engine deal was worth >=3% of the stock. That is massive free cashflow. In 2022, Google paid Apple $20B (full profit bec negligibl…

Apple stock is up 3%, strongly implying that this ruling is good for Apple as well. That is in contradiction to a lot of folks saying that this ruling means Google won't have to pa…

Off-topic to the comments here, I am impressed by how the poster has described their issue so eloquently! They mentioned 6 reasons for why they have an issue with the banner : each…

I followed this case when it happened. It was $16M at the time, not sure how it became $65M now. I suppose it doesn't matter - any number above $100k probably grants the same punis…

Incredible coincidence. I was making a new tab extension for myself today. Well, more accurately, I was making ChatGPT and Claude to make a new tab extension for me. Wonder if this…

> Oh right, it's the year of the fully autonomous car! Or was it last year? Or 2016? Just because CEOs have been hyping this tech up to raise valuations doesn't mean it will never …

> Uber or Lyft are more convenient for the customer Gross understatement! 1) You can find a cab wherever (almost) and whenever (24x7) - you don't have to hail a cab for minutes/hou…

I have faced this exact problem with Canadian govt forms. Evince doesn't support them. They are so specific about only adobe acrobat to fill out the forms. I can open them in firef…

I see a bunch of comments about whether gambling should be banned or not. But what about enforcement : can you ban it? Nowadays, gambling is on 2 fronts : in-person and online. I a…

A text-to-speech (TTS) model. Most good TTS models are closed-source. I intend on making this one open-source. All the decent open-source ones are fairly basic with limited fine tu…

I have often wondered : Why don't they attach a transponder on each athlete's center-of-chest (using some objective definition) and use that to time each athlete? That can be much …

> those able to decode the still-military-only encrypted signals How? I was under the impression that military-only signal was encrypted. And if someone breaks that encrpytion, bla…

I never really thought of that. That's a pretty interesting restriction. Although any party with access to warheads that can fly 1000+ mph probably can bypass the GPS restriction, …

Can you explain what you mean by that? The only thing I can think of is that GPS has 2 modes : one civilian and other military use. But military use-case uses encryption so civilia…

Nice reverse engineering! As a hacky way for the non-tech-savvy, couldn't you use a temp account to create ticketmaster account and then buy the ticket and then sell the temp accou…

The article and comments debating best practices in notebooks remind me of the time I hosted a website from a jupyter notebook. Technically, I was using gradio to create a localhos…

"Interestingly, the only thing stopping civilians from using the P code is the knowledge of the value of its chipping sequence. If the formula to generate the P code was publicly k…

"Interestingly, the only thing stopping civilians from using the P code is the knowledge of the value of its chipping sequence. If the formula to generate the P code was publicly k…

>On the other hand if my country was invaded I would probably watch those videos with popcorn We don't even know which country the soldier belonged to. And realistically, if your c…

I understand I am making assumptions bec of lack of information in the article. Re shooting them down, if you can't shoot them down, whats the point of detecting them? And a drone …

Does anyone have a comparison of Airtag vs "Bluetooth tracker tags from Chipolo and Pebblebee"? I imagine Airtag is superior due to non-reliance on Bluetooth? Can Chipolo/Pebblebee…

What if you cover the drone with non-reflective material? Or does it care about the reflective nature of the core of the object rather than just the surface?

I read the article but couldn't find any mention of how a radar detects drones? A drone is much smaller than an aircraft, can be confused with birds and can have 0 communication wi…

> I really don't care if you were running around dealing drugs, robbing banks, stealing cars or whatever two decades ago. If I found out one of my coworkers was a career bank robbe…

Is there any progress on identifying the attacker? This would make it much easier to find out it this was really a state-sponsored attack. If this backdoor can be classified as a c…