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[09:23] schestowitz[09:23] schestowitzIf youre in the market for a new Linux business laptop that has an ultra-lightweight magnesium enclosure and a huge battery, you can check out the 8th Gen TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 14, which features a 99 Wh battery promising runtimes of around 10 hours in typical work scenarios or up to 16 hours in idle.
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[09:29] schestowitz[09:29] schestowitzCisco informed customers this week that its working on a patch for a vulnerability found in the companys Prime Collaboration Deployment product by a member of NATOs Cyber Security Centre (NCSC).
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[09:29] schestowitz[09:29] schestowitzWhen it comes to operating systems, Im a floater. I may use an Android phone full-time these days, but Im a Mac user who flirts with both Linux and Windows throughout the day. And while you wont catch me dead with a phone with a Lightning port, I have found room for a five-year-old iPad Pro in my life, particularly when cooking or cleaning. But it has problems, particularly in the form [09:29] schestowitz of lock-in it encourages. So, Ive been known to look for alternatives in weird spots. Todays Tedium, with all that in mind, is a review of the OnePlus Pad, a new entrant into the tablet realm that knows a thing or two about fast charging. Can it make me float between operating systems a little less? Ernie @ Tedium
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[09:39] schestowitz[09:39] schestowitzLyft, one of the largest ride-sharing companies in the US, plans to lay off 26% of its staff, or 1,072 employees. The downsizing, detailed in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, is part of a larger cost-cutting strategy announced by CEO David Risher earlier this month, just as he joined the company.
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[09:56] schestowitz[09:56] schestowitzIranian women are turning to social media to share their before and after photos online with the caption, I was born in a religious family, but then I tore the family's virtue apart." Many of them are young girls who were brought up religiously under the influence of their families. But they say theyve now found their own way, although sometimes in spite of psychological or even physical vi [09:56] schestowitz olence.
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[09:56] schestowitz[09:56] schestowitzAt the end of March, Kneschke decided to send out a cease-and-desist request, which Motherboard viewed, that asked the LAION team to take his images out of the training dataset and provide information on the extent to which the works were used, how long they were used, and where they got the images from.
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