The $50 million settlement over Apple’s poor butterfly keyboard design was finally approved by a California federal judge. Reuters reported yesterday. U.S. District Court Judge Edward Davila denied an attempt to change the agreement, writing in his ruling that 86,000 people had filed claims. That finally gives a figure on the number of affected people … Read more
Lawyers suing Colombian airline Avianca filed summary judgment with previous cases held to be just invented by ChatGPT, The New York Times reported today. After opposing counsel pointed out the non-existent cases, U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel affirmed, “Six of the cases filed appear to be false court decisions with false citations and false internal … Read more
The 2023 edition of Summer Games Done Quick (SGDQ), the annual week-long running marathon for charity, kicks off on Sunday and I can’t wait. For a week, SGDQ offers hit after hit from speedrunners beating video games extremely fast or breaking them in unfathomable ways, and it’s a delightful way to learn about some of … Read more
Despite its age, Apple’s M1-equipped remains one of our go-to recs for anyone who can’t afford the latest MacBook Air but wants something lightweight and relatively fast. We’ve ever heralded it as one of the best laptops you can get, because of its long battery life, solid keyboard, and the strength of Apple’s M1 silicon, … Read more
Incredibly, the activation algorithm for Windows XP has finally been completely cracked, allowing full offline activation, according to The register (through Ars Technica). A blog post on tinyapps covered a Reddit post discussing it, but the program that makes it possible has apparently been around for at least several months, possibly floating in the ether … Read more
Computex, one of the biggest trade shows of the year for laptops and PCs, starts in a few days. A number of companies will be making big announcements, but the most anticipated event of the week is Nvidia’s keynote opening the show on Monday morning. The keynote speaker is Nvidia’s founder and CEO Jensen Huang, … Read more
Google has finally started rolling out the beta of Magic Compose, its new Messages feature that uses AI to help you write text messages. However, as stated by android policethe feature comes with a pretty big caveat: it will send up to “20 past messages” to Google’s servers to generate suggestions – even if you’re … Read more
Google must pay Sonos $32.5 million for violating the company’s smart speaker patent. A jury ruled Friday in a San Francisco courtroom that Google’s smart speakers and media players infringed one of the two Sonos patents involved. Image: United States District Court for the Northern District of California “This is a narrow discussion about some … Read more
One of Bluesky’s potentially biggest features is here: custom algorithms, or what it calls “custom feeds”. The idea is that you can subscribe to feeds with algorithms tuned to show different kinds of posts than what you might see in Bluesky’s main “What’s Hot” feed. In practice, the custom feeds work much like Twitter lists. … Read more
While fans wait for season 3 of The witcherNetflix has already set its sights on season 5. In an interview with deadlineSophie Holland, the show’s casting director, explained, “We’re about to start filming for season four with Liam Hemsworth and there’s going to be a little hiatus and then we’ll go straight into season five.”