Sunday, November 10
Daily News Stuff 10 November 2024
Oops All Scorpions Edition
Oops All Scorpions Edition
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- Beata Halassy had breast cancer - for the third time, despite chemotherapy and a mastectomy.
She had cancer.
She gave it measles and it died. (Nature)
Beata is a virologist so she prepared her own virus culture - a mild strain intended for vaccine production - and had a colleague administer it. She has now been cancer-free for four years.
Naturally she wanted to publish the results of her research - on herself. That's where the real problems started, because scientific journals didn't want to touch it.
On the upside - apart from the whole thing about being alive - she now has funding to repeat this research to try to cure cancer in pets.
Tech News
- You can in fact upgrade the storage in your new M4 Mac Mini. (Tom's Hardware)
All you need is a surface-mount soldering and desoldering station, a set of compatible NAND flash chips - which you can find online but will cost you more than simply buying a complete SSD, and a second set of compatible NAND flash chips for when the first ones don't work.
And a second Mac to do a forced update to the first Mac now that its storage is blank.
- Google says the enhanced protection feature in Chrome now uses AI. (Bleeping Computer)
I recommend Brave or Vivaldi.
- ChatGPT usage now rivals the Chrome browser. (Digital Trends)
No it fucking doesn't you fucking morons. You are comparing actual living human users with the number of individual requests.
- Sega is removing 60 classic games from Steam on December 6. (Sega)
And when I say classic, some of these games are older than I am, what with me being 29 and all.
If you already own them, or buy them before December 6, you keep them, but there will be no new sales.
- As Firefox turns 20, Mozilla ponders how to restore it to its former glory. (Tech Crunch)
Stop being communists.
- Elon Musk increased his net worth by more in a single day following the election than he spent to buy Twitter. (The Register)
Feel good story of the day.
Disclaimer: You thought he was buying a social network in terminal decline. He bought a solar system.
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