Google is moving to quickly kill internet search and replace it with a closed ecosystem of LLM-generated answers. This will change the entire economics of how the internet works.
Questo complesso condominiale di Tokyo (e di che città, sennò) è così assolutamente pazzurdo… nemmeno in uno dei miei sogni iperconfusi avrei mai potuto vedere una cosa del genere. E pensare che, a quanto si vede da vari elementi sparsi nell’appartamento, è pure tipo del secolo scorso, è vecchio! Ma ha fin troppe cose particolari… […]
L’ambiente di ingresso del condominio è indescrivibile, con questa forma circolare di nudo cemento, e due diverse scale che ci girano attorno… ricorda fin troppo uno degli ambienti iniziali di Mirror’s Edge, anche se a confronto questo è più stretto.
Le due scale del condominio (non guardate sotto…) dividono gli appartamenti in standard, che comunque non sono male, e costosi, che sono fin troppo lussuriosi anche per gli standard occidentali… questi ultimi sembrano cosa sarebbe una fottuta camera di hotel se fosse sviluppata come una casa intera.
È altissimo relativamente ad altri edifici (sempre abitativi) nelle vicinanze, quindi da alcune finestre si vede un panorama di tutto il distretto di Ikebukuro e anche ben oltre…
Per l’appartamento di lusso, c’è pure una doccia sul tetto! Cosa??? (Fa paura, un po’…)
I piani bassi, invece, includono una scaletta di metallo di emergenza, che si piazza e si ripone; top per uscire di casa senza incontrare i vicini, o quando si rischia di essere in ritardo.
L’unica cosa che non capisco è, appunto… perché mai è vecchio? Non si fanno più queste cose assurde? Molto triste, ed ennesimo indicatore di recessione… eppure, secondo me, bisognerebbe costruirla in Italia sta roba… così (possibilmente, auspicabilmente…) per legge di mercato gli appartamenti normali noiosi nelle vicinanze scenderanno di prezzo, e le persone normali si potranno permettere almeno quelli. (Anche se, visto che in questo appartamento di lusso ha un valore di 90 milioni di yen, circa 531mila euro, credo sia già più economico di un appartamento seppur scrauso ma in città come Milano, Torino, Bologna… ops.)
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A 10-year global investigation into the sacrifices women make to be artists. Ticket Link Join us for a presentation and discussion with Author Stephanie Elizondo Griest. 5:45 PM: Doors open […]\n
Non ci sono prove che questa prassi fosse realmente in uso negli ambienti militari. L'idea della roulette russa è stata ripresa nel 1937 nell'omonimo romanzo dello scrittore svizzero Georges Surdez, ed è soprattutto questa versione ad avere definito l'idea moderna del gioco mortale.
Human rights organizations including Amnesty International say Israel acted in “flagrant violation of international law” when it intercepted the Freedom…
A 10-year global investigation into the sacrifices women make to be artists. Ticket Link Join us for a presentation and discussion with Author Stephanie Elizondo Griest. 5:45 PM: Doors open […]\n
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.
The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that a group of Maryland parents have a right to opt their elementary-school-aged children out of instruction that includes LGBTQ+ themes. By a vote of 6-3, the justices agreed with the parents – who are Muslim, Catholic, and Ukrainian Orthodox – that the Montgomery County school board’s refusal to provide them with that option violates their constitutional right to freely exercise their religion.
Writing for the majority, Justice Samuel Alito acknowledged that “courts are not school boards or legislatures, and are ill-equipped to determine the ‘necessity’ of discrete aspects of a State’s program of compulsory education.” But he emphasized that “what the parents seek here is not the right to micromanage the public school curriculum, but rather to have their children opt out of a particular educational requirement that burdens their well-established right ‘to direct ‘the religious upbringing’ of their children’” under the free exercise clause of the First Amendment.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented, in an opinion joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Sotomayor warned that Friday’s decision “threatens the very essence of a public education” because it “strikes at the core premise of public schools: that children may come together to learn not the teachings of a particular faith, but a range of concepts and views that reflect our entire society.”
The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that a group of Maryland parents have a right to opt their elementary-school-aged children out of instruction that includes LGBTQ+ themes. By a vote […]
Forget chatbots. Zuckerberg’s vision is much grander. He is betting that within a few years, AI will not just be answering your questions or writing your emails. It will be managing your schedule, anticipating your needs, running your home, helping you make decisions, and maybe even guiding your career. Call it Life-as-a-Service, powered by Meta.
The move is seen as a direct challenge to competitors. “The launch of Meta Superintelligence labs isn’t just an announcement; it’s a statement: Meta won’t settle for second place in AI,” commented Alon Yamin, cofounder and CEO of the AI detection platform Copyleaks. He added, “Meta and Mark clearly see this as a make or break moment for AI leadership.”
In a sweeping new plan, the Meta CEO is assembling an AI "Avengers team" to build not just a better chatbot, but a personalized intelligence that anticipates your needs, manages your schedule, and guides your decisions. Welcome to Life-as-a-Service.
"One of the things I think that is exciting about this is, we're offering up our National Guard and other folks in Florida to be deputized to be immigration judges. We're working with the Department of Justice for the approvals. I'm sure Pam [Bondi] will approve," DeSantis said as Trump nodded his head and said, "Yep."
DeSantis didn't elaborate on who the other "folks" would be.
DeSantis continued, "But then...I'll have a National Guard judge advocate here. Someone has a notice to appear, Biden would tell them to come back in three years and appear. Now, you'll be able to appear in like a day or two. So, they're not going to be detained, hopefully, for all that long."
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) used a photo opportunity with President Donald Trump to share his plan to move undocumented migrants through Alligator Alcatraz and other Florida detention facilities as quickly as possible.
As we saw earlier this month, Samsung has developed flat robots used to park cars. This same month, China's Shanghai Construction No 2, an engineering and construction firm, also used small robots to move something larger overhead.
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In questi giorni molti media parlano di 54 °C a Siviglia, ma attenzione: si tratta della temperatura della superficie terrestre, rilevata dal satellite Sentinel-3 dell’ESA, non della temperatura dell’aria che sentiamo o leggiamo nei bollettini meteo.
Questi dati si ottengono misurando il calore emesso dal suolo, che può essere ben più elevato rispetto all’aria, specie su asfalto o terreno secco esposto al sole.
Le temperature dell’aria in Spagna, seppur molto alte, non hanno superato i 45 °C.
Un dato importante da comprendere per evitare confusione e allarmismi. Scopri di più sul nostro sito.
L’ESA (Agenzia Spaziale Europea) ha recentemente pubblicato un’impressionante immagine satellitare che mostra le temperature superficiali estreme rilevate in Europa il 29 giugno 2025, durante l’attuale ondata di caldo anomalo che
Come indica il rapporto annuale World Energy Investment dell’Agenzia internazionale dell’energia, la Cina è oggi il più grande investitore energetico al mondo, spendendo il doppio dell’Unione Europea e quasi quanto l’Ue e gli Stati Uniti messi insieme. Nell’ultimo decennio, la quota della Cina nella spesa globale per l’energia pulita è passata da un quarto a quasi un terzo
While testing a web application as part of a bug bounty program, I uncovered a critical RCE vulnerability by chaining directory traversal with a subtle CSV parsing abuse.
If your default comment sort isn’t “hot”, the when you look at the comments on a post it will be sorted by “hot”, your comment sort will only be applied to a post once you refresh that post.
C’è qualcosa di profondamente inquietante nel constatare che un videogioco che hai regolarmente comprato, pagato, installato e magari amato… possa semplicemente smettere di esistere. Non per un guasto alla tua console. Non per tua scelta.
An internal Microsoft memo has leaked. It was written by Julia Liuson, president of the Developer Division at Microsoft and GitHub. The memo tells managers to evaluate employees based on how much t…
FWIW, I work in a field that is mostly related to law and accounting. Unlike with coding, there are no simple "tests" to try out whether an AI's answer is correct or not. Of course, you could try these out in court, but this is not something I would recommend (lol).
In my experience, chatbots such as Copilot are less than useless in a context like ours. For more complex and unique questions (which is most of the questions we are dealing with everyday), it simply makes up smart-sounding BS (including a lot of nonexistent laws etc.). In the rare cases where a clear answer is already available in the legal commentaries, we want to quote it verbatim from the most reputable source, just to be on the safe side. We don't want an LLM to rephrase it, hide its sources and possibly introduce new errors. We don't need "plausible deniability" regarding plagiarism or anything like this.
Yet, we are being pushed to "embrace AI" as well, we are being told we need to "learn to prompt" etc. This is frustrating. My biggest fear isn't to be replaced by an LLM, not even by someone who is a "prompting genius" or whatever. My biggest fear is to be replaced by a person who pretends that the AI's output is smart (rather than filled with potentially hazardous legal errors), because in some workplaces, this is what's expected, apparently.
I work in a field that is mostly related to law and accounting... My biggest fear is to be replaced by a person who pretends that the AI’s output is smart
Aaaaaah. I know this person. They're an accountant. They recently learned about AI. They're starting to use it more at work. They're not technical. I told them about hallucinations. They said the AI rarely wrong. When he's not 100% convinced, he says he asks the AI to cite the source.... 🤦 I told him it can hallucinate the source! ... And then we went back to "it's rarely wrong though."
And then we went back to “it’s rarely wrong though.”
I am often wondering whether the people who claim that LLMs are "rarely wrong" have access to an entirely different chatbot somehow. The chatbots I tried were rarely ever correct about anything except the most basic questions (to which the answers could be found everywhere on the internet).
I'm not a programmer myself, but for some reason, I got the chatbot to fail even in that area. I took a perfectly fine JSON file, removed one semicolon on purpose and then asked the chatbot to fix it. The chatbot came up with a number of things that were supposedly "wrong" with it. Not one word about the missing semicolon, though.
I wonder how many people either never ask the chatbots any tricky questions (with verifiable answers) or, alternatively, never bother to verify the chatbots' output at all.
AI fans are people who literally cannot tell good from bad. They cannot see the defects that are obvious to everyone else. They do not believe there is such a thing as quality, they think it's a scam. When you claim you can tell good from bad, they think you're lying.
The "right" pronunciation depends on what you take for reference. If you're treating the word as an English one, the woman is right - English doesn't allow this sort of initial cluster, and spelling-wise it's well-established that some initial consonants are mute (see e.g. "knife").
And, if treating the word as a Koine Greek one... odds are both are butchering the word so much that [pə] wouldn't save the day. Even the man is likely pronouncing it as [pə.'tɒl.ə.mi]; the Greek word would be more like [pto.le.'mɛ:.os], or [pto.le.'maɪ̯.os] with a really conservative pronunciation.
As it happens, "Ptolemaois" is how the name is written in at least German, Swedish and Finnish, so speakers of those languages (Swedish and Finnish myself) likely pronounce it most correctly?
Never really understood why English insists of weirdly dropping the final bits of Greek and Latin names ("Plutarch" vs "Plutarkhos", "Justinian" vs "Justinianus" etc)
If by "most correctly", you mean "the closest to what Koine Greek would do", then yes. Note however that each language will impose restrictions on the allowed sounds and sequences of; for example Finnish won't use [ä] like Ancient Greek would, simply because the sound isn't there in Finnish (it adapts it to an [ɑ]).
Also note the word itself can be pronounced multiple ways even in Koine Greek. For example the ⟨αῖ⟩ diphthong can be read as either [äɪ̯] (as in English "by") or as [ɛ:] (as in English air); as far as I'm aware this sound change happened in early Koine Greek times.
Never really understood why English insists of weirdly dropping the final bits of Greek and Latin names (“Plutarch” vs “Plutarkhos”, “Justinian” vs “Justinianus” etc)
Short explanation: English does it because it's what French does. And French does it because of its history as a Latin descendant.
Long explanation:
Since French is a Romance language, it's the result of a Latin dialect undergoing a bunch of sound changes. Those sound changes affected all words inherited from Latin. For example capus/capum¹ → chef, bonus/bonum → bon, Romanus/Romanum → Romain (yup, it applies to personal names!) ille → le, so goes on.
However, Latin is a prestige language in Europe. So even if French is a Latin descendant, it kept reborrowing words from Latin. And because of the above, French started changing those loanwords in a specific way, that kind of mimics part of its own evolution.
In other words: French developed a convention on how to handle Latin borrowings². And part of that convention is to sub/remove the endings. Other Romance languages do something similar³.
What I said applies to the Latin names. Now, the Greek names go one step deeper: Latin itself borrowed Greek words left and right, adapting them into Latin. Some would be eventually inherited by French. So the convention on how to handle Latin names in French also handles Greek names: "Latinise them first, then pretend they're Latin words."
Then you get English. Most of that Classical knowledge entered English through French, so English borrowed that convention of adapting Latin words too. Eventually developing its own convention on how to do it, that looks kind of similar to the one French used back then. And some names were subjected to local sound changes, and just like the Romance languages English messes a fair bit with word endings. And the vowels, too (Great Vowel Shift).
In contrast, German also treats Latin as a prestige language. But since it's neither a Romance language nor borrowing the convention from one, it's getting the names straight from Latin, and modifying them a bit less⁴. That includes keeping the nominative endings of the words.
NOTES:
I'm listing words by their Latin nominative and accusative. The nominative is the form likely to be borrowed; however, French and the other Romance languages inherited the accusative.
This can be seen by the Modern French renditions of those names: Ptolémée, Justinien, Plutarque.
For reference, look at the Italian versions of those names: Tolomeo, Giustiniano, Plutarco. Parts of the ending are still there, unlike in French, but the ending -s/-m is gone.
It still does change them, mind you. After a word is borrowed into a language, it's subjected to the sound changes of that language; plus spelling plays a huge role, and even in non-Romance languages there are minor conventions on how you're "supposed" to handle Latin names. Cue to German spelling "Justinianus" instead of "IVSTINIANVS" or "Iustinianus".
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I think the 17 year old sees them because they've got their age range at like 18-20, loads of underage people make Tinder accounts and put their real age in the bio. And the 29 year old would then see a lot fewer men. That's what I'm guessing the comment you replied to was about.
but that would be a crime! instead, we'll just ask the companies to do the right thing, surely the only reason they're not already doing that is because they're unaware
I assume game studios are currently extremely well secured on par with film production considering how much money goes into it. Back in the day, maybe not so much. But then you might also be limited by the capabilities of portable data storage. Kind of harder to smuggle out a dozen floppy disks than one thumb drive. Plus, they literally get the FBI to investigate if they notice something gets stolen, so it's really not a simple thing to just walk out of work one day with the source code of the game you've been working on for years.
2 guys looking out at hell and one says 'it is even worse than I imagined' there are people all over the place saying things like "must be nice staying home all day", "yoga cured my cousin", "you don't look sick", "just be positive", "we are all tired" Artist is Glenn McCoy
Divulgazione e social: quando la competenza diventa un bersaglio
Non sono un frequentatore abituale di X (ex Twitter), non è il mio habitat naturale. Preferisco di gran lunga il fediverso, e in particolare Mastodon, dove il dialogo è più disteso, senza algoritmi e più rispettoso delle competenze. Continuo però a mantenere un account su X, principalmente per seguire voci che considero autorevoli e preziose.
Tra queste c’è un geologo, divulgatore scientifico e saggista italiano, noto anche per la sua presenza televisiva, che non si limita a spiegare: provoca, stimola, prende posizione. Lo seguo da anni, e apprezzo il suo coraggio nel dire cose scomode, specie quando si tratta di ambiente, pseudoscienza o gestione del territorio.
È proprio questa chiarezza che divide: c’è chi lo apprezza per la capacità di semplificare temi complessi e chi, al contrario, lo accusa di essere arrogante o ideologico.
Sui social tradizionali non esiste più un ambito di competenza: tutto si riduce a opinioni. Un geologo e divulgatore scientifico con trent’anni di esperienza viene contestato da profili “qualunque” che, senza alcuna preparazione, si sentono legittimati a correggerlo o ridicolizzarlo.
Sotto ogni suo post si accumulano commenti sprezzanti, battute, meme e accuse. C’è chi nega il cambiamento climatico, chi lo accusa di essere al servizio di qualche lobby o di voler fare solo propaganda. Il punto non è confutare con dati certi, ma sminuire, ironizzare, creare rumore. Sarebbe interessante vedere quegli stessi, così baldanzosi dietro la tastiera, trovarsi davanti alla lavagna a confutare i loro commenti, a voce alta, penna in mano.
Le piattaforme come X premiano la viralità, non l’autorevolezza. Più un contenuto genera reazioni, anche negative, più viene spinto in alto nei feed.
Il risvolto della medaglia? L’esperto, suo malgrado, può diventare una figura popolare proprio grazie alle polemiche. L’algoritmo trasforma il conflitto in visibilità, e in certi casi fa conoscere il divulgatore anche a chi altrimenti non l’avrebbe mai incontrato. Ma si tratta di una notorietà probabilmente distorta, basata più sull’arroganza e la cattiveria gratuita di chi attacca che sull’interesse reale per i contenuti.
La visibilità diventa così un’arma a doppio taglio: porta l’informazione a un pubblico maggiore, ma lo fa in un contesto saturo di ostilità.
Negli ultimi anni si è diffusa una retorica secondo cui ogni opinione ha lo stesso valore, a prescindere da chi la esprime. L’idea che “uno vale uno” si è trasformata, sui social, in un attacco sistematico verso chi possiede conoscenze reali, lavora con dati verificati o applica il metodo scientifico. L’idea che “uno vale uno” sui social tradizionali si è trasformata. L’espressione “uno vale uno” è spesso usata per affermare che ogni persona ha lo stesso diritto di parola. Questo è sacrosanto in una democrazia. Il problema nasce quando questo principio viene frainteso e usato per sostenere che tutte le opinioni si equivalgano, anche quando una è supportata da anni di studio e dati verificati e l’altra è solo un’impressione personale o una teoria campata in aria.
Chi rappresenta competenza viene spesso percepito come arrogante o distante, e non di rado diventa bersaglio di sfiducia o rabbia. Non serve argomentare, basta insinuare dubbi, sbeffeggiare, trasformare ogni affermazione in un’occasione per una battuta a effetto.
Esiste un’alternativa?
In ambienti come il Fediverso, ad esempio Mastodon, dove la conversazione si sviluppa senza intervento degli algoritmi i toni sono meno tossici, la comunicazione meno aggressiva, il rispetto per la competenza più presente e la visibilità non dipende da quanto rumore si riesce a fare.
Questo non significa che tutti siano d’accordo, ma il dissenso tende a manifestarsi in modo più civile e costruttivo. Per chi, come l’esperto che seguo, cerca un dialogo autentico potrebbe valere la pena esplorare questi spazi nel Fediverso.
I social tradizionali ormai non sono più solo luoghi di conversazione ma ambienti tossici dove il dibattito diventa scontro.
Forse è il momento di chiederci: vogliamo davvero continuare ad affidare la qualità del dibattito pubblico a piattaforme che premiano il rumore anziché il merito?
Three years [ago], the governor of St. Petersburg signed a sister-city agreement with the occupying authorities of Mariupol, the Ukrainian port city that was razed to the ground in a devastating Russian siege just weeks beforehand.
“Since then, St. Petersburg has hosted children from Mariupol for every camp session — both in summer and winter,” said Governor Alexander Beglov.
This summer, Russian authorities are organizing five three-week camp sessions for children from the occupied city. Each session is led by child psychologists, St. Petersburg schoolteachers and camp counselors who recently graduated from teacher training college.
More than 2,000 schoolchildren from Mariupol in total are expected to attend camps in St. Petersburg this year.
Initially, Russian authorities billed these summer programs as health and wellness retreats for children who had lived under Russian shelling.
But from the very first sessions, children were also taught to develop respect and love for the country that seized their home city.
[...]
Today Ukraine has confirmed the deportation of 19,546 children from occupied Ukrainian territories to Russia, though experts say the real number is likely much higher.
In March 2023, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for President Vladimir Putin and his children’s rights commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova in connection with these deportations.
Ukrainian experts say Russia is deliberately stripping these children of their Ukrainian identity and raising them to become Russians, turning minors into a new generation loyal to the Kremlin.
The educational program at Camp Druzhnykh lists goals that include fostering a national — that is, Russian — identity among the children.
[...]
The camp also organizes a career fair where children can learn about the job market in Russia. In June, it featured a police college that accepts students as early as ninth grade. Students from the college spoke to the children about the ceremonial police oath and showed them how to take fingerprints.
[...]
Now in high school, Masha [a girl form Mariupol, not her real name] quietly dreams of moving to St. Petersburg for university. But when she talks about the future, there is a sadness in her voice [...] “I used to think living in Russia was easy. But then my mom tried to get a job at Pyaterochka [a discount supermarket chain], and the salary was under 20,000 rubles (less than $253) — while the country’s minimum subsistence level is 17,000 ($215). That’s when I realized life in Russia is hard. You don’t live — you survive.”
RSS feeds are the way to go to keep in touch with events, but only when you want to and in a not addictive manner. Also, my philosophy is that some news is really really important only if somebody from my inner circle personally tells me something about it. Otherwise is just noise from media
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