OTR Backup 10/08/2026

• Bagley Cartoon: The Bans Played On - The Salt Lake Tribune

  Check out Pat Bagley's latest cartoon: The Bans Played On

• How AI data centers are killing off the $100 smartphone - Rest of World

  As Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron divert memory chips to AI data centers, global smartphone prices are surging and threatening to widen the digital divide for 800 million people.

• ChatGPT's 'Teen Mode' Is Unsafe for Students, Report Concludes

  The chatbot failed to report unsafe interactions to parents in a timely manner, researchers found.

• Why you should avoid holding down your PC's power button Read More: https://www.engadget.com/2267392/why-important-reboot-pc-menu-not-power-button/

• 7 open-source apps worth paying for in 2026 - ZDNET

  Can you imagine if open-source apps had an associated price? I wouldn't blame my favorites if they did.

• Microsoft cutting off two products millions of PCs still run

• How a Soviet physicist’s 1960 idea led to the birth of neutrino astronomy and this year’s Nobel Prize in physics

  The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Belgian physicist Francis Halzen for his “decisive contribution to the IceCube neutrino observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.” Neutrinos were long considered almost impossible to detect, especially those arriving from deep space. Tracing them to their cosmic sources is even harder here on Earth because the vast majority come from the Sun or are produced in the planet’s magnetic field. Yet scientists managed to detect them with a project of astonishing scale, first proposed by Soviet physicist Moisey Markov in the 1960s and built through Halzen’s efforts in recent decades: IceCube, an observatory buried deep in the Antarctic ice. What should we know about the project’s history? How does a cosmic neutrino detector work? And what can studying these particles tell us?

• The 5 Most Romantic Duets Of The '70s

• Claude just stepped into Google Workspace with in-file editing, automated Sheets work, and smarter Slides

• Microsoft’s MacBook Pro Rival Is Looking Even More Ridiculous

  We thought Microsoft was preparing a wild laptop. Turns out it's preparing two.

• Studies reveal the 2 phases of life when parents are happiest, but not everyone agrees - Upworthy

  When are parents happiest? Recent studies have highlighted two specific stages of life that bring parents the most joy.

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