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Looks like the Handspring Visor had various expansion modules, like memory, a modem, a camera, a cellular phone and… floss. #retrocomputing

House votes to reauthorize FISA, without the warrant requirement amendment - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/12/24128600/fisa-section-702-house-votes-to-reauthorize-warrant-requirement

House votes to reauthorize FISA, without the warrant requirement amendment
A power struggle inside the GOP turned reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act into an unexpected slog. The program was set to expire on April 19th.

Rakuten Kobo announces its first color e-readers, the $220 Kobo Libra Colour and the $150 Kobo Clara Colour, available for preorder now and shipping on April 30 (Sheena Vasani/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/10/24124411/k…

Kobo announces its first color e-readers
Kobo’s first color e-readers, the Kobo Libra Colour and the Kobo Clara Colour, are available to preorder now ahead of their release date on April 30th.

Rakuten Kobo announces its first color e-readers, the $220 Kobo Libra Colour and the $150 Kobo Clara Colour, available for preorder now and shipping on April 30 (Sheena Vasani/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/10/24124411/k…

Kobo announces its first color e-readers
Kobo’s first color e-readers, the Kobo Libra Colour and the Kobo Clara Colour, are available to preorder now ahead of their release date on April 30th.

Trump’s vice presidential hopefuls fanned across the Sunday shows and made fools of themselves.
North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum spent the evening prior at a Mar-a-Lago donor event
where Trump ranted about special prosecutor Jack Smith, spread his usual lies about the 2020 election, and compared President Biden’s administration to the Gestapo.
On CNN, State of the Union host Jake Tapper asked Burgum if he was comfortable with this rhetoric
-- and the governor simply cha…

The simple reason Republican Sunday show hits are disasters
It's hard to defend the indefensible.

Las Vegas Raiders may be moving their training camp site away from Henderson and to California https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/las_vegas_raiders_may_be_moving_their_training_…

Las Vegas Raiders may be moving their training camp site away from Henderson and to California
The Las Vegas Raiders are on the verge of a significant shift in their training camp location, a move that could potentially impact their preseason preparations. In the NFL, it's not uncommon for teams to opt for different training camp locations. The Raiders, for instance, have been conducting their camps at their Henderson, Nevada headquarters, a practice that could soon change. Teams like the Dallas Cowboys, Kansas City Chiefs, and a few others do their training camps in different locations.…

(Not) Understanding Latin Poetic Style with Deep Learning
Ben Nagy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06150 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.06150<…

(Not) Understanding Latin Poetic Style with Deep Learning
This article summarizes some mostly unsuccessful attempts to understand authorial style by examining the attention of various neural networks (LSTMs and CNNs) trained on a corpus of classical Latin verse that has been encoded to include sonic and metrical features. Carefully configured neural networks are shown to be extremely strong authorship classifiers, so it is hoped that they might therefore teach `traditional' readers something about how the authors differ in style. Sadly their reasoning…

Cable news and YouTube viewers favor Trump. Newspaper site readers favor Biden.
How can Democrats—how can we all—see this and say that media doesn’t matter? That we don’t need a comprehensive media strategy from policy to politics?
It’s insane we don’t have one.

ESPN Projects Las Vegas Raiders Will Trade Up For QB https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/espn_projects_las_vegas_raiders_will_trade_up_for_qb/s1_17150_40190112

ESPN Projects Las Vegas Raiders Will Trade Up For QB
Is Michael Penix Jr. from Washington poised to be a first-round quarterback in the upcoming 2024 NFL Draft, or will he find himself selected on Day 2? There are quite a few teams who have been rumored as landing spots for Penix, with one of them being the Las Vegas Raiders. Various mock drafts have presented differing opinions on Penix’s draft projection. Some foresee him as a first-round pick, especially with quarterback-needy teams potentially trading up to secure his talents. However, in a…

The US Senate reauthorizes FISA's Section 702; some communication service providers had threatened to stop cooperating with the US government in case of a lapse (Gaby Del Valle/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/20/2413533…

Senate reauthorizes FISA spy program, but not before its midnight expiration
The Senate voted to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act on Friday, but a drawn-out fight over amendments prevented the bill from reaching the president before the midnight deadline.