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Indoor Ban Shuts Down Soup Kitchen at Downtown Manhattan Church

The historic St. George's Church looks over Stuyvesant Square Park.

After more than 50 years in operation, the soup kitchen at The Parish of Calvary-St.George’s in Stuytown is shutting down due to a disagreement over allowing patrons to dine inside or use the restrooms in the church facility.  St. George’s Common Table on East 16th Street and 3rd Avenue served hot meals to an average […]

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OpenAI releases the first detailed public study on how people use ChatGPT: 73% of chats were non-work related, practical guidance was the top use case, and more (Gerrit De Vynck/Washington Post)

Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post:
OpenAI releases the first detailed public study on how people use ChatGPT: 73% of chats were non-work related, practical guidance was the top use case, and more  —  OpenAI released the first detailed public study on who uses its chatbot and what they most often ask it to do.

In a preliminary probe, China rules that Nvidia violated anti-monopoly laws by acquiring Mellanox in April 2020, as the US and China negotiate tariffs in Madrid (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
In a preliminary probe, China rules that Nvidia violated anti-monopoly laws by acquiring Mellanox in April 2020, as the US and China negotiate tariffs in Madrid  —  China ruled that Nvidia Corp. violated anti-monopoly laws with a high-profile 2020 deal, ratcheting up the pressure on Washington during sensitive trade negotiations.

The SSD version of LaCie’s iconic Rugged drive gets a speed boost

Neil Poulton succeeded in elevating the design of external drives two decades ago with the introduction of LaCie’s Rugged line, which features a bright orange bumper to protect data from drops. Today, Seagate announced an updated version of the LaCie Rugged Mini SSD with a few small design tweaks and a big boost to transfer […]

Apple’s new iPhone charger is a (second) of its kind

Alongside its new iPhone 17 lineup, Apple casually launched what looked like a world’s first charger with support for the USB PD 3.2 AVS protocol last week inside the very dull sounding “Apple 40W Dynamic Power Adapter with 60W Max.” Only it’s not: Google beat them to the punch with its equally mundane “Pixel Flex […]