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Random Interesting Posts and Some News (1 Comments) (link)
 Thursday, 3-April-2025  17:41:43 (GMT +10) - by MUTMAN

eva2000 has made a game. Who's on top of the High Score list? I asked Google Gemini 2.5 Pro to re-create one of my fav games, Atari XE Missile Command and put my own spin on the game with in-game store with additional upgradeable weapons.

Current sent this news in. Artificial hearts are now real, and an Aussie invention. Biomedical engineer Dr Daniel Timms spoke about the Bunnings trips that helped the invention come to life.

IntelInside sent these articles in. Apple pulls iCloud end-to-end encryption feature & Apple is removing iCloud end-to-encryption features. Rather than comply and compromise Advanced Data Protection, Apple is left with no choice but to remove the feature altogether. In a statement to 9to5Mac, Apple said that current users of ADP in the UK will eventually need to disable the security feature in order to keep using their iCloud account.

Reddit will lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says. I wonder when OCAU will move to this model? A critical aspect of any potential plan to make Reddit users pay to access subreddit content is determining how related Reddit users will be compensated. Reddit may have a harder time getting volunteer moderators to wrangle discussions on paid-for subreddits—if it uses volunteer mods at all.

Wondering why your search is taking so long? It might be the AI crawlers to blame. Iaso's story highlights a broader crisis rapidly spreading across the open source community, as what appear to be aggressive AI crawlers increasingly overload community-maintained infrastructure, causing what amounts to persistent distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on vital public resources. Some open source projects now see as much as 97 percent of their traffic originating from AI companies' bots.



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