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Neural implant is like an aimbot

Neural implant is like an aimbot

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Noland Arbaugh is the only person so far to have been fitted with a brain implant by Neuralink. The hope was that he could control digital devices with his thoughts. Now, more than 100 days after the implantation, Arbaugh went on the Joe Rogan podcast to share his experience and how gaming has been re-introduced into his life.

His thoughts? Rave reviews. “I basically have an aimbot in my head. They’ll probably have different leagues for people like me because it’s just not fair.” “It’s that accurate and it’s faster…Sometimes, it’s moving before I even think it to move.”

There were later issues with the implanted wires pulling back, but Neuralink updated the software in lieu of more surgery and has proposed solutions for the 2nd possible patient.

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McRib Sauce!

McRib Sauce!

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Love it or hate it, the McRib was back for a limited time after Thanksgiving. The sandwich classic has been a crowd favorite since its debut in the 1980s.

But if you can’t get enough of that saucy taste, you could buy a whole gallon of sauce at their website WholeLottaMcRibSauce.com for $19.99.

As expected from such a marketing promotion, when they went on sale at 10:00 ET on November 25 they sold out almost instantly. Jugs appear to be going for about $100 a piece on eBay.

You could then try out the Sam’s club imitation McRib.

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Living computer museum is no more

Living computer museum is no more

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The estate of Paul Allen has decided to close the Living Computer Museum and Labs mid 2024. All the equipment was sold off at during several high profile Christies auctions.

It’s a terrible loss to computing history in my opinion.

Update: check out the links below if you want to look at some of the amazing items that were sold.

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Building your own NAS box

Building your own NAS box

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Before going out and building your own NAS RAID solution, you need to consider some important details. One detail that is getting a lot more press is energy costs. In the past, some would recommend just taking some old desktop hardware you have laying around and then loading a dedicated NAS operating systems such as Unraid or TrueNAS.

But as many have pointed out in the comments, using a dedicated NAS box has some serious advantages – mostly in more efficient power draw. While a commercial NAS box may cost about 20% more, that can easily pay for itself after a year of power draw if the NAS is always on.

It’s always good to check your TCO (total cost of ownership) before just whipping something up you’ll need long-term.

GitHub is under constant, automated attack

GitHub is under constant, automated attack

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This problem is very serious since AI’s are often trained on Github projects. This means your AI generated code is increasingly more likely to have serious security issues in it.

GitHub is undergoing automated attacks involving the cloning and creation of huge numbers of malicious code repositories, and while the developers have been working to remove the affected repos, a significant amount are said to survive, with more uploaded on a regular basis.

An unknown attacker has managed to create and deploy an automated process that forks and clones existing repositories, adding its own malicious code which is concealed under seven layers of obfuscation.

Given the current scale of the attack, said by the researchers to be in the millions of uploaded or forked repositories, even a 1% miss-rate still means potentially thousands of compromised repos still on the site.

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Top cities Gen Z is moving

Top cities Gen Z is moving

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Gen Z is making very different choices than millennials. This is something especially true for cities like Portland, OR that went from one of the fastest growing cities in the US to the 6th fastest SHRINKING cities with the highest commercial vacancy rate in the country.

A financial services company used data from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey to determine which U.S. cities saw the most Gen Zers move in throughout 2022:

1. Ann Arbor, Michigan

2. Provo, Utah

3. Boulder, Colorado

4. College Station, Texas

5. Athens, Georgia

6. Tallahassee, Florida

7. Berkeley, California

8. Gainesville, Florida

9. Columbia, South Carolina

10. Syracuse, New York

Grok 3 clones Breakout

Grok 3 clones Breakout

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David Plummer re-created the classic game Breakout using Grok 3 AI. It generated a Javascript program that can be played in a browser. He even shared the prompts and code on github.

Another score for AI heavily augmenting the need for programmers.

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Meow Wolf Santa Fe secrets

Meow Wolf Santa Fe secrets

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I recently enjoyed a trip to Meow Wolf in Santa Fe. Here’s some links for Easter eggs and secrets to be found in Meow Wolf Santa Fe.

Some people might like to explore blindly, but I found the trip much more enjoyable having some background knowledge before going. I still spent 3 hours there even knowing much of the story. There’s just too much to see and read if you wanted to go in blind. It would easily take half a dozen 1-2 hour trips just to read through the materials in each of the sections and piece it all together.

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