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The engraving was found in a Pictish stone in PerthMcDiarmid Park, and depicts a male warrior carrying a spear

The update will launch tomorrow, and while Epic Games is yet to announce the exact time of the update, rumours suggest it will drop at around 09:00 GMT

Thankfully for Alexa users, therean easy way to listen to the recordings of your conversations, and then to delete them for good

Remember the warning about watching how sausage is made? This is an electronic sausage-making story with lots of dirty little bits.

First, the chronology. On FebruaryPatch Tuesday, Microsoft released a bizarre standalone security patch, KB 4524244, which was then called &Security update for Windows 10, version 1607, 1703, 1709, 1803, 1809, and 1903: Feb. 11, 2020.& The name has changed, but bear with me.

The original problems with KB 4524244

That patch had all sorts of weird hallmarks as I discussed at the time:

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Vince Reffet, widely known as ‘Jetman&, took to the skies over Dubai wearing his Jetwing jetpack on February 14

&You cannot reduce the complexity of a given task beyond a certain point. Once you&ve reached that point you can only shift the burden around.& ~Larry Tesler

One of the people who helped create the current age of personal computing passed away this week: Larry Tesler (74), the computer scientist who invented copy---paste while at Xerox PARC.

Entwined with Applestory

Long ago, when Xerox wanted to invest in Apple before its IPO, Apple demanded and got the right to visit the fabled Palo Alto Research Center. The first such visit took place in 1980 (though some claim it took place in 1979).

Larry Tesler, then the director of PARC, acted as Appletour guide.

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