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Q&A with scientists Charley Kline and Bill Duvall, who sent the first Arpanet message in 1969, on what the internet has become, lessons from Arpanet, and more (Scott Nover/BBC)

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'We were just trying to get it to work': The failure that started the internet

On 29 October 1969, two scientists established a connection between computers some 350 miles away and started typing a message. Halfway through, it crashed.
Scott Nover (BBC)

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Sources: Chinese hackers targeted phones used by Trump family members and Biden admin and State Dept. officials; audio communications may have been captured (New York Times)

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Sources: Chinese hackers targeted phones used by Trump family members and Biden admin and State Dept. officials; audio communications may have been captured

From New York Times. View the full context on Techmeme.
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[Blog Post] Apple Introduces Redesigned Mac Mini, Updates iMac and Mac Accessories applevis.com/blog/apple-introd…

Apple Introduces Redesigned Mac Mini, Updates iMac and Mac Accessories | AppleVis

Apple this week updated several of its Mac product lines, as well as the Magic Keyboard, Magic Mouse, and Magic Trackpad accessories. These Macs have been updated with variants of the M4 chip, the same chip that was introduced with the 2024 iPad Pro.
www.applevis.com

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Apple unveils a Mac mini with a much smaller design, M4 and M4 Pro options, two front-facing USB-C ports, up to 64GB of RAM, and more, shipping Nov. 8 for $599+ (Chris Welch/The Verge)

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Apple announces redesigned Mac Mini with M4 chip — and it’s so damn small

Apple’s new Mac Mini is unbelievably small, yet it packs more power than ever thanks to the included M4 processor.
Chris Welch (The Verge)

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[Blog Post] Apple Releases macOS Sequoia 15.1; Bringing both Improvements and New Bugs for VoiceOver Users applevis.com/blog/apple-releas…

Apple Releases macOS Sequoia 15.1; Bringing both Improvements and New Bugs for VoiceOver Users | AppleVis

Apple has today released macOS Sequoia 15.1, bringing the first set of Apple Intelligence features to Macs with Apple Silicon outside of Mainland China and the European Union.
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[Forum Topic] muting speech without the track pad applevis.com/forum/macos-mac-a…

muting speech without the track pad | AppleVis

Hi all, I'm hoping someone has an answer to this, if there is one. On the track pad on the mac, you can use a lot of the same gestures as you can on the phone, such as the three finger double tap for speech and three finger tripple tap for screen cur…
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One cannot have too many MiniDebConfs, watch out for the Brazilian Online MiniDebConf happening this week at mdcobr2024.mini.debconf.org (talks will be in Portuguese) #debconf #miniDebConfOnlineBrasil #debian

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MiniDebConf Brasil Online 2024 é um encontro da comunidade Debian brasileira que acontece online entre 21 e 25 de outubro de 2024
MiniDebConf Online Brasil 2024
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Amazon-owned Eero unveils the $350 Eero Outdoor 7, a dual-band 2.4 and 5Ghz Wi-Fi 7 access point that covers up to 15,000 square feet with speeds up to 2.1Gbps (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)

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Eero’s newest device lets you take your Wi-Fi outdoors

The new $350 Eero Outdoor 7 is an IP66-rated access point that can extend your Wi-Fi network beyond your home.
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy (The Verge)
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Pitermach

Re last boosted link, this allows you to play with the audio generation code of the Defender arcade game which, if you read the help page was way ahead of the time. Might as well also throw in this page, which is a similar concept but for the generation of Pokemon cries in gen 1 which also worked in a really interesting way. There's a video to go with this one that goes into more detail linked on the page ardean.github.io/pokemon-gen1-…

Pokemon Generation 1 Cry Synthesizer

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No, The Chinese Have Not Broken Modern Encryption Systems with a Quantum Computer

The headline is pretty scary: “China’s Quantum Computer Scientists Crack Military-Grade Encryption.”
No, ... schneier.com/blog/archives/202…

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No, The Chinese Have Not Broken Modern Encryption Systems with a Quantum Computer - Schneier on Security

www.schneier.com
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Ada Lovelace Day was celebrated on October 8 in 2024, and on this occasion, to celebrate and raise awareness of the contributions of women to the STEM fields we interviewed some of the women in Debian.

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Ada Lovelace Day 2024 - Interview with some Women in Debian

Ada Lovelace Day was celebrated on October 8 in 2024, and on this occasion, to celebrate and raise awareness of the contributions of women to the STEM fields we interviewed some of the women in Debian. Here we share their thoughts, comments, and...
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