Ars Technica: Certain names make ChatGPT grind to a halt, and we know why
Filter resulting from subject of settled defamation lawsuit could cause trouble down the road.
Ars Technica: Company claims 1,000 percent price hike drove it from VMware to open source rival
Companies have been discussing migrating off of VMware since Broadcom’s takeover a year ago led to higher costs and other controversial changes. Now we have an inside look at one of the larger customers that recently made the move.
According to a report from The Register today, Beeks Group, a cloud operator headquartered in the United Kingdom, has moved most of its 20,000-plus virtual machines (VMs) off VMware and to OpenNebula, an open source cloud and edge computing platform. Beeks Group sells virtual private servers and bare metal servers to financial service providers. It still has some VMware VMs, but “the majority” of its machines are currently on OpenNebula, The Register reported.
NPR: People who take obesity drugs lose the taste for alcohol, new study finds
Many social drinkers who take obesity medications, such as Wegovy or Mounjaro, say they don’t enjoy alcohol as much.
A new study of WeightWatchers members who take obesity drugs â and were in the habit of drinking â finds about half of them cut back after they started the medication.
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Hall’s experience fits with the results of the new study published in the journal JAMA Network Open. The study included survey data from about 14,000 WeightWatchers members, mostly women, all of whom were taking medication including Wegovy and Mounjaro. Some were taking older medications such as metformin.
Daring Fireball: Google Search Is Already in Decline
The accompanying chart (“Estimated share of U.S. search advertising revenue”) suggests Google’s decline has been Amazon’s gain. Basically, Google may still dominate the market for general web search, but people more and more are searching using apps and services that aren’t (or aren’t only) general web search engines. And the reason why is that Google web search has gotten worse.
Ars Technica: Flour, water, salt, GitHub: The Bread Code is a sourdough baking framework
One year ago, I didnât know how to bake bread. I just knew how to follow a recipe.
If everything went perfectly, I could turn out something plain but palatable. But should anything changeâtemperature, timing, flour, Mercury being in ScorpioâIâd turn out a partly poofy pancake. I presented my partly poofy pancakes to people, and they were polite, but those platters were not particularly palatable.
NYT: How Amazon Delivers Packages Within A Day
Walmart, which last year started offering customers deliveries in as little as 30 minutes, says it can now offer same-day delivery to 86 percent of all U.S. households from its 4,600 stores. In November, Walmart’s chief financial officer said deliveries from stores were up nearly 50 percent from a year earlier and accounted for $2.5 billion in sales in each of the previous 12 consecutive months. Sales on delivered items grew faster than sales in stores.
CBC: Convoy organizer Steeve Charland found guilty of mischief
Steeve Charland was found guilty by an Ontario Superior Court judge on Tuesday for his role in the Freedom Convoy protest in downtown Ottawa in early 2022.
Over the course of the trial, the defence argued the convoy demonstration was being “managed” by the City of Ottawa and that the Crown had not established beyond a reasonable doubt that the protest was illegal.
The judge said in French it was unreasonable to believe the city approved of the demonstration. He listed 10 consequences of the protest including street congestion, noise from horns and engines, the closure of some businesses and the disproportionate use of police resources to maintain public order.
The Street: McDonaldâs is facing the brutal aftermath of price increases
The average price of a McDonald’s menu item has increased by roughly 40% since 2019, so it is no surprise that consumers are pursuing other options for quick meals.
CBC: Excavation begins at Winnipeg-area landfill for remains of women, victims of serial killer
The search for the remains of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran has officially started at Prairie Green landfill, north of Winnipeg.
The dig began Monday morning, Premier Wab Kinew announced at a noon news conference.
“At 10:01 a.m., the first truck carrying landfill material drove down this mountain that is Prairie Green and delivered that first load of landfill material into the search facility,” he said.
Inside Climate News: Droughts in Brazil and Vietnam Are Driving up Global Coffee Prices
Climate change is projected to drastically reduce suitable coffee-growing regions by 2050.
Your morning caffeine fix could soon become a luxury in the face of climate change. Last week, coffee prices surged to a 47-year high as global growers struggle to recover from extreme weather.
Last Updated: 03.Dec.2024 23:40 EST
