Shawn Collins

A Cloudflare outage is taking down large parts of the internet - X, ChatGPT and more affected, here's what we know Cloudflare issues are affecting many websites

[Internet Disruption Alert]

Cloud flare, a major internet service is experiencing issues!

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Some timelapse photography of last night’s stellar aurora global light-show, taken in Cornwall, England!

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Wow! Good going Finland! We need to see such energy designs all over the world, especially now with the AI race to build AI mega-server facilities!
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iOS 26.1 lets you tweak Liquid Glass, and it’s out now A transparency update that lets you see clearly.

New updates to the newest iOS 26, to provide more security and the ability to play with/configure the liquid glass interface!

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Apple TV’s new name now comes with a new sound A new intro for Apple TV shows.

Apple TV has a new look, new sound:

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Sora 2: the moment when Hollywood moves into our pocket and everyone becomes an actor in their own movie Sora 2 is not just another TikTok filter, but a system that can create moving images, sound, and even a sense of reality from text. The question is no longer whether we will watch AI movies, but wheth...

The ever increasing problem (yet promise too!) of the quality of generative (graphic) AI. Sora 2 promises very realistic video, something that is causing real ripples among the Hollywood industry:

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Which Apple Watch should you buy in 2025? I recommend these models to different users From the Ultra to the SE 3, here's my buying advice for new users, fitness fans, health-focused shoppers, and everyone in between.

A brief concise, easy to follow review on all the latest in Apple Watch:

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macOS 26 Tahoe is coming soon, here's everything you need to know about it Latest Tahoe beta news, new features in macOS Tahoe, which Macs are compatible, and when it will be released.

The latest greatest macOS 26 Tahoe comes Monday (9/15/25):

www.macworld.com/article/2644....

iOS 26 arrives on Monday — here are the 5 things you need to do to prepare Get your iPhone ready for this year's software update

New operating system for Apple iPhones coming Monday (9/15/25):

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Meta urged to ban child-like chatbots amid Brazil’s safety concerns | Digital Watch Observatory Concerned about the eroticisation of minors, Brazil’s authorities have ordered Meta to deactivate generative AI bots that appear and behave like children.

Bravo to Brazil!

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UltraRAM scaled for volume production — memory that promises DRAM-like speeds, 4,000x the durability of NAND, and data retention for up to a thousand years, is now ready for manufacturing At the heart of the breakthrough is an advanced industrial process using gallium antimonide and aluminum antimonide epitaxy.

UltraRAM, the next fast, much more permanent technology for data storage??

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Fastly warns AI bots can hit sites 39K times per minute Updated: One fetcher bot seen smacking a website with 39,000 requests per minute

AI processes (especially those involving web searches) can totally swamp some sites:

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OpenAI claims new GPT-5 model boosts ChatGPT to ‘PhD level’ GPT-5's release comes as tech firms continue to compete in an effort to claim the world's most advanced AI.

And now the most recent incarnation of #ChatGPT or ChatGPT-5, supposedly at PhD level of reasoning (whatever that means 🙄): www.bbc.com/news/article...

AI Can Do a Lot—but Still Seems Totally Stumped by Sudoku Researchers from the University of Colorado tested the trustworthiness of several AI models with games of Sudoku. It didn't go so well.

AI's seem amazingly brilliant and fast, but apparently totally fail a lot of the time, when tested with Sudoku puzzles 🙄 😬

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US passes Genius Act, first major national crypto legislation It marks a milestone for the once fringe industry, as it expands its power in Washington.

#Cryptocurrency #StableCoins about to get even more stable with some actual regulations !!?! (though still not a safe, in most expert opinions, as banking regs!)

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Jack Dorsey made an encrypted Bluetooth messaging app Just don’t abbreviate it.

A new, very private, chat app coming from Jack Dorsey (man who also invented Twitter):

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AI in the classroom takes off with no guardrails

A good posting re #AI and young people in school:

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Tesla's first robotaxi rides are already running into a few bumps A video of a Tesla Robotaxi ride that shows the car briefly driving on the wrong side of the road suggests there are still serious kinks to work out.

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1.6M views · 22K reactions | Get it now? 😬 #bitcoin | Jamie Kester Get it now? 😬 #bitcoin.

[Digital Humor Alert]
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Apple's ChatGPT Rival Moves Forward, But Siri's Future Still Uncertain More details have emerged regarding Apple's plans to dramatically improve Siri by leveraging large language models (LLMs) that will make it more...

News on Apple's ongoing attempts to really get AI working with it's devices and OS platforms:

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YouTube video by Star Wars Happy Star Wars Day 2025

May the fourth be with you 👍

An official, exciting, cinematic video to celebrate this important day in the Star Wars Universe!

(with familiar old scenes and faces and also clips from the newest TV series spinoffs now being created by the ever creative Disney imagineers!)

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#springclouds for #springshowers 👍⛅️🌧️

Some really fun AI animation! This being a series of famous historical personages, as if they had smartphones:

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A new kind of phishing attack is fooling Gmail’s security. Here’s how it works Be wary of strange emails, even if they say it's from Google.

Tricky phishing attempt, that looks to be a bonafide Google request 🙄 Beware!

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People are now asking ChatGPT to humanize their pets, and the results are chaotic Ever wondered what your pet would look like as a person?

[Digital Oddities Alert]
Ah.....OK.....having AI turn your pet graphically into a human !!?!

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[Digital Humor Alert]
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New times, new saints:

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A memorable #Springsunset, from a few days ago!!

It's *World*Backup*Day*, do you know where your data backup(s) are and whether they are up-to-date !!?!

[AI Humor Alert]
The infamous talking wall fish is now intelligent (?)

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Apple launches a new iPad Air with M3 chip | TechCrunch Apple has introduced new 11-inch and 13-inch iPad Air models with the M3 chip.

Apple releasing a fairly in-expensive new iPad Air with then M3 chip to support amazingg speed and AI:

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