cozy fantasy books

I'd like to read a lot of the books on this list.

Cozy Fantasy

Looking for a low-stakes and comforting book? A cozy fantasy may be just what you're looking for. Featuring goodhearted characters, supportive friends, magical elements, and often even found family, cozy fantasies are a great palate cleanser between epic fantasy reads, or just when you are looking for a heart-warming book to curl up with.

Interesting articles from Techspot.com

ChatGPT achieves the pinnacle of human intelligence, laziness, and developers are baffled (2023/12/12)

This AI can pick up passwords from the sound of your keystrokes (2023/12/10)
This is something I've been slightly concerned about for some time already. From that article, it doesn't sound very advanced yet - the AI needs to be trained on each specific keyboard's sounds first. But I am sure they will get better at it over time, so as not to need that initial training in the future. And I bet some government security agencies have more advanced versions like that already.

Utah Supreme Court says suspects can refuse to hand over phone passwords to the police. Other state Supreme Courts disagree and the case would wind up before the US Supreme Court (2023/12/16)
The state Supreme Court also noted that the case raises important questions about how the Fifth Amendment extends to law enforcement efforts to unlock smartphones. The justices noted, as an example, law enforcement obtaining an order to compel a suspect to provide an unlocked device, thus circumventing the necessity of having them disclose the password.

With the Valdez case, the police asked him to verbally provide his password and did not get an order to compel him to unlock the device. ...