Month January 2023
schwit1 shares a report from NPR: A British man who planned to have a “robot lawyer” help a defendant fight a traffic ticket has dropped the effort after receiving threats of possible prosecution and jail time. […] The first-ever AI-powered… Continue Reading →
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So the publicity stunt of the robot lawyer sneaking into court is no more, as Joshua Browder, founder and CEO of the self-help legal site DoNotPay, yesterday pulled the plug on the prank, saying he had received threats from bar… Continue Reading →
An anonymous reader shares a report: More than 700 miles from Wall Street, the New York Stock Exchange’s backup data center on Cermak Road in Chicago is supposed to safeguard US markets, standing by at all hours in case disaster… Continue Reading →
Code-hosting platform GitHub has announced that 100 million developers are now using the platform. The figure represents a substantial hike on the 3 million users GitHub counted exactly 10 years ago, the 28 million it claimed when Microsoft acquired it… Continue Reading →
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The six-part documentary series expands on Nikole Hannah-Jones and the New York Times Magazine’s “The 1619 Project” and delves into slavery’s impact on such topics as capitalism, democracy, music, and race.Premieres Jan 26, 2023 Link to original post https://www.metacritic.com/tv/the-1619-project/season-1 from… Continue Reading →
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2015: In the last ten years I’ve had to pull features out of my blogging system, instead of making it better, it lost functionality. Link to original post http://scripting.com/2015/10/07/iNeedABetterBloggingSystem.html from Teknoids NewsRead the original story
Wildebeest is an ActivityPub and Mastodon-compatible server. Link to original post https://github.com/cloudflare/wildebeest from Teknoids NewsRead the original story