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Tech Backgrnd: Grew up in a HUGE IBM 402 80cc card shop, Burroughs B700 sales, Wang image capturing, pre-ordered Windows v1, registered domains through the US Dept of Commerce, in Search years before Google. 1st Admin major tech forum late 90s. New to LLMs

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rcjordan @rcjordan.bsky.social · 12m
TLDR; 35 A 47-year study reveals the age when your body starts losing strength | ScienceDaily www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
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A 47-year study reveals the age when your body starts losing strength
A 47-year study has uncovered a surprising turning point in physical aging: fitness and strength begin declining around age 35, even among people who exercise regularly. Researchers found that this de...
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rcjordan @rcjordan.bsky.social · 15m
Ranked: The World's Biggest Carbon Emitters www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-globa...
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Ranked: Global Emissions by Country in 2025
More than half of global emissions come from just three countries. This ranking shows where every major emitter stands.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 5h
The ‘WhatsApp Messenger’ dupe reportedly popped up as a sponsored result above the real version. www.theverge.com/tech/1012918...
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A fake WhatsApp clone is showing up before the real version on the Play Store
Watch out for impostor apps on the Play Store.
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rcjordan @rcjordan.bsky.social · 6h
CEOs aren't confident in the U.S. economy right now www.marketplace.org/story/2026/0...
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Why you should care about CEOs' confidence in the economy
CEOs are slightly more confident now than they were right after the Iran war started, but not by much, according to the latest survey from The Conference Board and The Business Council.
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rcjordan @rcjordan.bsky.social · 6h
The 45-Year-Old Loophole That Keeps Roller Coasters Off the Federal Radar www.vice.com/en/article/t...
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The 45-Year-Old Loophole That Keeps Roller Coasters Off the Federal Radar
A fatal fall at Six Flags Over Georgia has renewed scrutiny of ride safety rules, with oversight varying from state to state.
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rcjordan @rcjordan.bsky.social · 6h
Wall Street hits its limit on debt-fueled AI spending www.axios.com/2026/10/16/w...
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Banks are pulling back as AI's massive debt pile disconnects from economic reality
Wall Street is waking up to an AI debt bubble.
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rcjordan @rcjordan.bsky.social · 6h
CMS hopes to quadruple provider suspensions over next 6 months, official says - Government Executive CMS can kick providers out of Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE and other federal health care programs. www.govexec.com/technology/2...
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CMS hopes to quadruple provider suspensions over next 6 months, official says
A new exclusion authority is the Trump administration’s latest step in a technology-enabled drive to restrict fraud, waste and abuse.
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rcjordan @rcjordan.bsky.social · 6h
New Documents Expose Exxon’s Attempt to Suppress Damning Climate Evidence | Truthout truthout.org/articles/new...
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New Documents Expose Exxon’s Attempt to Suppress Damning Climate Evidence
A paper from 1992 shows the oil company anticipating how the melting of Arctic ice sheets could impact its bottom line.
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Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 8h
The coolest thing you’ll see today.
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Pam🫘🧶💙🏳️‍🌈🐸 #NoKings🚫👑 @pmmcdaniel.bsky.social · 7h
Have you voted yet?
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rcjordan @rcjordan.bsky.social · 7h
Interesting choice of city & venue. I'm thinking Whiteville would have suited their intent better.
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rcjordan @rcjordan.bsky.social · 8h
ChatGPT can peek at your Chrome tabs now | The Verge www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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ChatGPT can peek at your Chrome tabs now
Time to browse with an AI bot?
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rcjordan @rcjordan.bsky.social · 8h
Google updates Android earthquake alerts, expands to more regions 9to5google.com/2026/10/15/a...
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Google updates Android earthquake alerts with more info, expands to 200+ regions
Google has updated Android's earthquake alerts system with more information while also expanding support to new regions.
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rcjordan @rcjordan.bsky.social · 8h
Berkshire Hathaway Just Bet Another $330 Million on One Stock (Bending Spoons). It Soared 41% - 24/7 Wall St. 247wallst.com/investing/20...
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Berkshire Hathaway Just Bet Another $330 Million on One Stock. It Soared 41%
Berkshire Hathaway quietly agreed to pour hundreds of millions into a little-known Milan software company, and the market's reaction raises a sharp question about who actually wins when a giant endors...
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rcjordan @rcjordan.bsky.social · 8h
or get a trackball Scientists Discover a Surprisingly Simple Way To Relieve Stubborn Carpal Tunnel Pain scitechdaily.com/scientists-d...
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Scientists Discover a Surprisingly Simple Way To Relieve Stubborn Carpal Tunnel Pain
A brief procedure using saline could offer lasting relief for stubborn carpal tunnel symptoms without steroids, a small clinical trial suggests.
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rcjordan @rcjordan.bsky.social · 22h
Meta’s new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites, legal experts say | Nieman Journalism Lab www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/meta...
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Meta’s new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites, legal experts say
Starting October 30, business accounts will consent to Meta scraping their websites if they continue using Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp.
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rcjordan @rcjordan.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Meta's smart glasses were recording conversations without the wake phrase, company admits | TechSpot www.techspot.com/news/114214-...
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Meta's smart glasses were recording conversations without the wake phrase, company admits
A redditor recently wrote that they'd noticed something concerning with Meta's Ray-Ban glasses: they were capturing conversations when they were talking to other people despite the "Hey...
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rcjordan @rcjordan.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Online ads weaponised to deliver ‘zero-click’ spyware, researchers say | Hacking | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Online ads weaponised to deliver ‘zero-click’ spyware, researchers say
Discover-Tech’s Controlium software lets clients mass-profile internet users then covertly hack targets, say researchers at University of Toronto
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what was I made for? @jjbbllkk.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
important read. www.csoonline.com/article/4234...
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AI agents aren’t ‘going rogue.’ Frontier labs are skipping security basics.
Cyber experts say AI labs’ containment and monitoring failures — not agents with minds of their own — are to blame for recent alarming hacking reports. CISOs should vet their AI vendors and tighten se...
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rcjordan @rcjordan.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
AI Controls IPhone Via ESP32 | Hackaday hackaday.com/2026/10/14/a...
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AI Controls IPhone Via ESP32
Do you want to get an AI agent to do something to an iPhone? You could try and jailbreak the device and do some heavy software hacking, or… you could grab a microcontroller off the shelf and …
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rcjordan @rcjordan.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
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Exclusive | FDA-approved ketamine treatment fights depression better than decades on Prozac, patients say
“From going to not being able to get out of bed and dress yourself to thinking about the future and having a job and having a purpose and meaning in life,” Dr. Erin Dainer told The Post.
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My Password is Louvre @bmceuen.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Malware. What you’re describing is malware
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rcjordan @rcjordan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
MIT class project turns into an FDA-cleared treatment for tremors | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology news.mit.edu/2026/mit-cla...
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MIT class project turns into an FDA-cleared treatment for tremors
Encora Therapeutics, which developed a wrist-based device that reduces essential tremor, started as a project in MIT’s famous product-design class, 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes).
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Edvard Munch @edvardmunch.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The Scream 1893 botfrens.com/collections/90/content…
The Scream
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Emey the (redacted) @meyerson.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Don't spy on Palantir, that would violate their rights
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Governor Josh Stein @ncgovernor.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
North Carolina received the first $45.2 million payment from the historic Meta child safety settlement. The state is guaranteed at least $451 million through 2035, with the potential for even more.
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rcjordan @rcjordan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Anthropic AI Agent Gave Police A Fake Tip-Off In An Unsolved Murder Case www.iflscience.com/anthropic-ai...
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Anthropic AI Agent Gave Police A Fake Tip-Off In An Unsolved Murder Case
Anthropic said it took the firm months to notice what had happened.
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rcjordan @rcjordan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Do NOT opt for Medicare Advantage plans. Millions lose private Medicare plans and face rising costs | The Seattle Times www.seattletimes.com/business/mil...
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Millions lose private Medicare plans and face rising costs
As enrollment for Medicare Advantage begins this month, older Americans are confronting fewer options because insurers are discontinuing coverage in many areas.
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rcjordan @rcjordan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Aircraft carriers are so passé (and the proverbial sitting ducks) but the new-age targets are undersea cables and datacenters. Yandex: Ukraine strikes Russian data centre again despite Trump warning www.bbc.com/news/article... Datacenters: But think of the XXchildrenXX ram!
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Yandex: Ukraine strikes data centre in third attack on Russian tech giant
It is the third time this week that Ukraine has targeted Russian tech giant Yandex, forcing the company to suspend its operations.
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rcjordan @rcjordan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Bitdefender finds preinstalled Android malware you can't uninstall, seen in 150 countries securityaffairs.com/200759/malwa...
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Bitdefender finds preinstalled Android malware you can't uninstall, seen in 150 countries
Bitdefender finds Midnight Mimosa, preinstalled Android malware on cheap MediaTek phones that fakes ad clicks and builds a proxy botnet.
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rcjordan @rcjordan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
#linux This 50MB operating system can resurrect your old PC www.makeuseof.com/this-50mb-op...
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This 50MB operating system can resurrect your old PC
My dying Dell Inspiron runs like new with this forgotten Linux distro.
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Kath Coyle @mrscoyle.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
When Sauron sends you to destroy the world, but you have no one to leave Buttercup with.
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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
49 years ago...
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rcjordan @rcjordan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Home price shifts across local housing markets, as told by 3 maps - Fast Company www.fastcompany.com/91621680/hou... Sunbooster secures European patent for bifacial photovoltaic fences - pv magazine Global www.pv-magazine.com/2026/10/10/s...
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Home price shifts across local housing markets, as told by 3 maps
Large, sparsely populated counties can dominate a home price map, so ResiClub sized counties by active inventory instead.
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rcjordan @rcjordan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
ChatGPT for Teens fails researchers' tests : NPR www.npr.org/2026/10/09/n... Low-cost Android phones ship with residential proxy malware www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit... Autism Diagnoses Rose—Then Researchers Found Something in 62,000 Children  - Newsweek www.newsweek.com/autism-diagn...
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ChatGPT for Teens has special safeguards. A watchdog group finds most don't work
A study from Common Sense Media says most safeguards in ChatGPT for Teens failed. The chatbot talks to teens like a friend and doesn't alert parents when users talk about self-harm and suicide.
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rcjordan @rcjordan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Isaias Puts 500,000 Barrels a Day of Refining Capacity at Risk gcaptain.com/isaias-puts-...
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Isaias Puts 500,000 Barrels a Day of Refining Capacity at Risk
Nearly 500,000 barrels a day of oil-refining capacity sit in the projected path of Hurricane Isaias, raising the risk that a US fuel market with no supplies to spare will lose critical output.
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rcjordan @rcjordan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We’re putting too much faith in AI’s ability to say no | MIT Technology Review www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/09/1...
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We’re putting too much faith in AI’s ability to say no
Today’s LLMs are engineered to disobey dangerous requests. But AI refusal is far from foolproof—and could become an instrument of repression.
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rcjordan @rcjordan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Hackers hijack Google domains after breaching ccTLD registries www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
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Hackers hijack Google domains after breaching ccTLD registries
Hackers obtained unauthorized HTTPS certificates for several Google domains and hijacked domains in the country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) for Ghana, American Samoa, and Sierra Leone after compro...
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rcjordan @rcjordan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Google Fights Las Vegas Warrant Targeting Keyword Search Data - Gadget Review www.gadgetreview.com/google-fight...
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Google Fights Las Vegas Warrant Targeting Keyword Search Data
Google fights a Las Vegas keyword search warrant, and the outcome could reshape how law enforcement accesses your search history nationwide.
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rcjordan @rcjordan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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MonsterCloud Owner Charged With Secretly Paying Ransomware Demands
MonsterCloud owner Zohar Pinhasi allegedly paid ransomware demands behind clients’ backs, then charged them millions for supposed recovery.
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rcjordan @rcjordan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Raspberry Pi Desktop Download - Windows or Intel-based Mac| TechSpot www.techspot.com/downloads/79...
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Raspberry Pi Desktop
Run the Raspberry Pi desktop experience on a regular PC or Intel-based Mac.
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rcjordan @rcjordan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Theory: the real reason behind the change is the fact that Amazon has no way of monitoring what users are playing over the auxiliary input & selling the media consumption habits of users is big business With Latest Update, Alexa Refuses To Pass The Aux | Hackaday hackaday.com/2026/10/08/w...
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With Latest Update, Alexa Refuses To Pass The Aux
Although the feature has been deleted from newer models, there was a time when Amazon’s Echo devices included a 3.5 mm “aux” input jack that let you connect other audio sources to…
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rcjordan @rcjordan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
ICANN reveals bids for new top-level domains www.theregister.com/networks/202...
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ICANN reveals bids for new top-level domains
Big tech has piled in with plenty of asks, but faces a fight as eight applicants want .api and seven seek .agi
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rcjordan @rcjordan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
AAaaack!!! Amazon's new Alexa Tablets let Alexa see your screen and help in real time - Digital Trends www.digitaltrends.com/tablets/amaz...
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Amazon’s new Alexa Tablets let Alexa see your screen and help in real time
Amazon's new Alexa Tablets feature On-Screen Intelligence, letting Alexa see what's on your display and help you with tasks in real time.
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rcjordan @rcjordan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Why Plain Text Is Still One of the Best Technologies We Have | Dead Parrot BBS deadparrotbbs.com/why-plain-te...
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Why Plain Text Is Still One of the Best Technologies We Have
Plain text is portable, inspectable, searchable, easy to back up, and remarkably resistant to obsolescence. Its simplicity has helped it survive decades of...
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rcjordan @rcjordan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
High Diesel Prices Bankrupted 16 Trucking Companies in Just 30 Days www.thedrive.com/news/high-di...
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High Diesel Prices Bankrupted 16 Trucking Companies in Just 30 Days
Expensive diesel fuel isn't just driving up costs—it's driving trucking companies out of business.
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rcjordan @rcjordan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Merck discontinues antiobiotic Recarbrio in U.S., despite superbug fears | STAT www.statnews.com/pharmalot/20...
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Merck discontinues a crucial antibiotic despite concerns over superbug resistance
Merck discontinued Recarbio, an important antibiotic in the U.S., despite concerns over resistance to superbugs.
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rcjordan @rcjordan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Zuckerberg can't buy his way out of this one: Jury hands Meta a $219B reckoning www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/47522...
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Zuckerberg can't buy his way out of this one: Jury hands Meta a $219B reckoning
New Mexico’s historic $219 billion Meta verdict proves state action is vital to check Big Tech deception when federal regulators fail.
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rcjordan @rcjordan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Debloat The Internet With A Self-Hosted Compressing Proxy | Hackaday hackaday.com/2026/10/03/d...
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Debloat The Internet With A Self-Hosted Compressing Proxy
It’s no secret that the size of webpages has been slowly — or not so slowly — creeping up over the years. Does a simple website need to span multiple floppy disks? [PortalRunner&#…
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rcjordan @rcjordan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Google says the hook is set. Gemini's free tier is getting a major downgrade from October 9 - Digital Trends www.digitaltrends.com/computing/ge...
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Gemini’s free tier is getting a major downgrade from October 9
Google is cutting free access to Gemini 3.1 Pro and 3.6 Flash, leaving non-paying users with Flash-Lite from October 9.
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