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Amazon and Microsoft vet launches fitness and meditation chatbot powered by GPT

GeekWire

(Fit Hub Image) As a busy tech manager and father, Gopi Prashanth had only about 30 minutes a day for workouts and meditation — and he spent around half that time researching exercises on Google. The idea is to help the user develop healthy habits and for the app to learn more and more about them.

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What Is Patch Management and Why Is It Important?

SecureWorld News

Patch management, much like other cyber defense strategies such as vulnerability scanning, incident response, risk assessments, or penetration testing (pen-testing) , mustn't be viewed as a siloed exercise. IT teams have extensive stacks of hardware and software to maintain. Why is effective patch management essential?

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Starfish tests satellite rendezvous system — and wins a $37.5M Space Force contract

GeekWire

Nevertheless, Starfish Space co-founder Trevor Bennett said the exercise brought Otter Pup’s troubled mission to a successful close. million Space Force contract will support the development of an Otter demonstration spacecraft over the course of the next four years. The newly announced $37.5 ”

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DMA cheats cast shadow over fair competition

Dataconomy

Unlike typical cheats that mess with software, DMA cheats use special hardware to mess with the game’s memory sneakily. Here’s how DMA cheats work: Direct Memory Access (DMA) : This is a fancy term for hardware accessing the computer’s memory without bothering the main processor. The good part for the cheaters?

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Apple is reportedly going to make more of its own chips

The Verge

As iFixit’ s iPhone 13 pro teardown documents, Skyworks and Broadcom supply a significant portion of the iPhone’s third-party circuitry — parts that Apple, it seems, would prefer to design on its own to create more bespoke solutions for its hardware. Apple wants to rely less on third-party suppliers.

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Peloton is suing its rivals over its on-demand classes

The Verge

In its case against iFit, Peloton says that before it came along, iFit “only allowed subscribers to follow along with pre-recorded exercise classes on their machines, without any sort of community engagement.” Echelon also claimed to have developed a $500 Prime Bike for Amazon, but Amazon later denied the partnership.

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Facebook is now Meta, but it’s not quite a metamorphosis

Vox

From now on, we’re going to be metaverse first, not Facebook first,” Zuckerberg said at Facebook Connect, the company’s virtual and augmented reality developer conference. “As While developing the metaverse over the past few years, Facebook leaders insisted that the company would be a lot more cautious.