Does showing seconds in the Windows System Tray actually use more power?

On Windows, there's an option to show the seconds on the taskbar clock, but it comes with a warning that it might reduce battery life if you switch it on. LTT Labs decided to look into this to see just how much of a thing this really is, and they concluded that yes, it does actually affect bat

https://www.osnews.com/story/142773/does-showing-seconds-in-the-windows-system-tray-actually-use-more-power/

#Windows

Debian 13 “Trixie” arriverà ad agosto: nuova release stabile, supporto riscv64, aggiornamenti software e un’esperienza ancora più solida. #Debian #Linux #UnoLinux

https://www.linuxeasy.org/debian-13-il-rilascio-e-previsto-dal-26-luglio-al-10-agosto/

IMPORTANT: We're pre-disclosing two high severity CVEs in Matrix's federation protocol, which will require a coordinated upgrade on July 22nd of all servers running in untrusted federations. Client developers may need to make minor changes too. Please see https://matrix.org/blog/2025/07/security-predisclosure/

Governments are cracking down on emulation devices for promoting “piracy”.



Okay, but what isn’t an emulation device? Every PC, smartphone, and console is an emulation device.



But also, what about homebrew? Or systems like the TIC-80 that only exist through emulation?



https://www.androidauthority.com/once-were-nerd-youtuber-copyright-lawsuit-3577995/

#WeTransfer says user content will not be used to train #AI after backlash

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/16/wetransfer-user-content-ai-artificial-intelligence

#privacy

Investor: Your AI company sounds very impressive. Are you open to investments?

Giant man who suspiciously resembles 700 Indian engineers in a trench coat: Yes.

This is what I think of every time I see Microsoft Co-Pilot mentioned:

I find it oddly comforting that tech corporations are now straight up advertising their vision of dystopian individualism where all your friends have been replaced by their chatbot.

#AI #dystopia

has anyone else heard of this awesome streaming service? it has everything I wanna watch and at an affordable price too! 🚀

With the current news of possibly dozens of AUR packages hosting a dangerous form of malware, we should probably once again, for yet more reasons, reconsider why so many people point newcomers to Arch-based distributions.

The amount of "just do this random AUR bro" is insane.

(EDIT: This is the mailing list post - https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/aur-general@lists.archlinux.org/thread/7EZTJXLIAQLARQNTMEW2HBWZYE626IFJ/

More packages have been found since, and the story is unfolding.)

1 million to 1.4 million in 17 days! Incredible! Push for 1.5-1.6 million to have politicians pay more attention to us and to build our buffer! : https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public

Remember to dispel misinformation!: https://youtu.be/tJQtubmy7AE

And the Video FAQ, transcribed, timestamped, and translated into 3 languages!: https://youtu.be/sEVBiN5SKuA

Come on, gamers, gamer allies and relatives of gamers! Let's fight against "own nothing and be happy" and #StopKillingGames !

We have 10 days left! July 31!

EU commissioner shocked by dangers of some goods sold by Shein and Temu

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jul/20/eu-commissioner-shocked-dangerous-goods-sold-shein-temu

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44629074

#WindowsRecall is opt in -- for now. Microsoft can change that at any point. Being #ProprietarySoftware users can do nothing about it.

Disabling #MicrosoftCopilot isn't easy … and in some cases it appears not to stay disabled:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250202043906/https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/how-do-i-disable-copilot-and-all-other-ai/e74a841f-794c-48d2-9a8a-e3ccfac8ea86

#Microsoft #Windows #Windows10 #Windows11

Meta non firmerà il Codice UE sull’IA. Una scelta che rischia di inasprire i rapporti con Bruxelles, mentre OpenAI e Mistral si dichiarano pronte a firmare. Cosa cambia dal 2 agosto 2025.

https://www.franzrusso.it/condividere-comunicare/meta-non-firma-codice-ue-su-ia-generativa/

Uninstall These AUR Linux Packages Immediately #Linux #YouTube https://youtu.be/kGubIjUVM-E

Adobe is now processing all your PDFs in the cloud, by default. The setting to “Enable generative AI features in Acrobat” was on, and I didn’t know it until I opened a document and Adobe asked me if I wanted a document summary. It’s annoying to have to click “No,” so I opened settings to disable the prompt.

THE PROBLEM

I sign Non-Disclosure Agreements for many of my clients. Adobe is a potential leak of protected information. I don’t know what Adobe does with this information. I don’t know what they store, or for how long. I don’t know what country (or countries) the data is stored in. I don’t know what LLMs are trained with this data. And I don’t need to know. What I need to know is that they won’t use default opt-in as a legal excuse to wiretap my information.

I recommend that you check your Adobe settings on all devices, for all Adobe accounts.

#CallMeIfYouNeedMe #FIFONetworks

#cybersecurity