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Best Buy Switch 2 pre-order details — stores open at midnight plus how to get a $100 credit
Best Buy has confirmed its Nintendo Switch 2 pre-order deal. Hot on the heels of today’s Nintendo Direct event, Best Buy has announced it’ll offer gamers up to $100 in credits for every $150 you spend on Nintendo games and gear. (You can get a max of $100 in credits). Naturally, there are a few caveats. First, the credits exclude…
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OpenAI Seeks Feedback About Open Model That Will Be Revealed ‘In the Coming Months’
Image credit: Creative Commons Developers have the opportunity to weigh in on OpenAI’s latest project. On March 31, the AI giant published applications for feedback sessions on an upcoming open language model, the second such model since OpenAI’s LLMs went private after GPT-2. It will be released “in the coming months,” according to a post on X by OpenAI CEO…
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How to Open a Mac App Package (And Why You’d Want To)
Summary Most Mac applications are neatly packaged, but you can easily peek inside using Finder or Terminal. App package contents typically include executable files, resources, configurations, and libraries. Reasons to open them include extracting icons, customizing apps, checking for malware, and resolving app issues. More often than not, Mac applications come in a neat little package, instead of a mess…
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Open source risks threaten all business users – it’s clear we must get a better understanding of open source software
Open source systems are now deeply embedded across technology stacks, from Android devices to mission-critical enterprise systems and, of course, AI. There are businesses built on open source, and organisations that have an open source first policy. And there are countless other businesses that use at least some open source, somewhere, in their operations. Other surveys show that open source…
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Open source security in the spotlight as UK gov publishes fresh guidance
The UK government has issued guidance on how organizations should manage their use of open source software (OSS) components and mitigate supply chain risks, as thousands of open source vulnerabilities leave businesses at risk. Combining guidance from international governments, industry, and academia, the report from the Department of Science, Information, and Technology (DSIT) offers advice on the usage, production, security,…
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How to open Settings in Windows 11 (17 ways)
When you want to change how Windows 11 looks and how your computer or device works, you must use the Settings app. Knowing how to open it is important, and many people prefer the easiest and/or fastest methods that allow them to be more productive, like using a keyboard shortcut, or a command they can run in the app they’re…
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Brazil tells Apple to open up; perhaps it’s time to move on? – Computerworld
If this story sounds familiar, it’s because it is. In defense of its App Store business model, Apple is defending, losing, appealing, and usually losing again in courts around the globe. It has failed to secure victory in Europe, and seems set on the same journey world-wide; so far, no court has ultimately chosen to support the company in its arguments. Failure…
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‘Awesome for the community’: DeepSeek open sourced its code repositories, and experts think it could give competitors a scare
Challenger AI startup DeepSeek has open-sourced some of its code repositories in a move that experts told ITPro puts the firm ahead of the competition on model transparency. In a post to X late last month, DeepSeek said it would be open sourcing five of its code repositories in a bid to share what it called its “small but sincere…
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Try the ‘Out in the Open’ Method to Truly Declutter
What are you doing this weekend? Don’t know? Now you do: You’re going to organize and declutter your home with the “out in the open” method. This technique is helpful whether you have a cluttered space, live in a relatively tidy home, or even are hyper-organized. Here’s what you need to do. What is the “out in the open” method?…
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Open access, digital memory, and the politics of piracy
Since its founding in 2007, the Mumbai-based collaborative studio CAMP has used surveillance, TV networks, and digital archives to examine how we move through and record the world. In addition to their film and video projects, the wildly prolific studio runs a rooftop cinema in Mumbai and maintains several online video archives, including the largest digital archive of Indian film.…
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