AWS chooses Intel again
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has teamed up with Intel to announce the eighth generation of memory-optimized EC2 instances: the R8i and R8i-flex. These new instance types run on specially developed Intel Xeon 6 processors with DDR5 7200 MT/s memory.
AWS chooses Intel again - Techzine Global
AWS's highlighting of this collaboration is an important signal that Intel is still a contender in the hyperscale cloud market.Mels Dees (Techzine)
Tulsi Gabbard revokes security clearances of 37 current and former national security officials
Director of national intelligence accuses officials of ‘abusing public trust’ and mishandling documents
One third of Queensland public servants have witnessed corruption and over half didn’t report it, watchdog finds
State’s Crime and Corruption Commission investigated fewer than 1% of complaints referred to it
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Intel ghosts researcher who found web apps spilled 270K staff records
Chipzilla quietly fixed the problems without responding to the person who found them
Intel ghosts researcher who found web apps spilled 270K staff records
: Chipzilla quietly fixed the problems without responding to the person who found themGareth Halfacree (The Register)
UK | Labour is paying hospitals to remove patients from waiting lists WITHOUT treating them
Meanwhile, Labour is stripping disabled people of benefits - but claiming the NHS has them covered. This could not be more alarming.
Archived version: archive.is/newest/thecanary.co…
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France | Paris residents decry 'Disneyfication' of Montmartre as tourism soars
Some Paris residents are raising concerns about overtourism in the neighbourhood of Montmartre, saying that essentials like food shops are disappearing to accommodate millions of visitors each year. They fear the historical neighbourhood is turning into an open-air theme park.
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Airbus workers to stage strikes amid pay dispute
Unite said 3,000 members will walk out for 10 days in September.
Israel approves Gaza City takeover plan and 60,000 reservists
Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz has signed off on a military plan to take Gaza City and authorised the mobilisation of about 60,000 reservists, his ministry has confirmed.
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Dutch government preparing UK-style anti-glorification of terrorism law
The Dutch government is preparing a law criminalising the glorification of terrorism — but critics warn its vague wording risks curbing freedom of expression, enabling political persecution, and expanding punishable conduct well beyond its stated aim.
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Dutch government preparing UK-style anti-glorification of terrorism law
The Dutch government is preparing a law criminalising the glorification of terrorism — but critics warn its vague wording risks curbing freedom of expression, enabling political persecution, and expanding punishable conduct well beyond its stated aim…Wester van Gaal (EUobserver)
How the rise of Craigslist helped fuel America’s political polarization
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How the rise of Craigslist helped fuel America’s political polarization
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You can’t just blame the fucking media. People at large are at fault for thinking republican bullshit is even halfway normal. They elected a pussy-grabbing, child-rapist felon who openly professes how he’d fuck his own daughter. To say nothing of his failed marriages, failed business, never having worked a goddamn day in his life, openly criminal associations and activities, and myriad public debacles.
Go on and marinate on that for a minute.
Nobody is "just blaming" any one thing except in your head. The headline says "helped fuel" not "single-handedly caused."
Maybe you've been affected by a related trend - that of not reading properly and just replying with whatever half-baked idea was already bouncing around?
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We study these questions using the staggered introduction of Craigslist (CL)—the world’s largest online platform for classified advertising—across U.S. counties between 1995 and 2009.
So well before TACO Don was even a candidate.
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Dang, TIL!
The short-lived operation used military-style tactics to remove Mexican immigrants—some of them American citizens—from the United States.
Let’s not forget his high achievement of winning a Golden Razzie award for his terrible performance as….himself. Yes, he achieved worst supporting actor playing himself. Not only that the movie is a perverted B- dumpster fire.
Just to be clear, I’m not saying this is anywhere near as serious compared to the points you’ve made. Those are truly harmful things done to others. To know he was in such a low ranked movie and had the worst performance of everyone in it while trying to portray himself brings a bit of joy.
Ghosts Can't Do It
Elderly Scott kills himself after a heart attack wrecks his body, but then comes back as a ghost and convinces his loving young hot wife Kate to pick and kill a young man in order for Scott to possess his body and be with her again.The Movie Database
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Propaganda works. Yeah, people are stupid, but if you spend decades destroying education and teaching disinfo, well... The results are predictable
You can hate them all you like, but you do have to look at the problem logically if you want to fix it
The reduction in coverage was most pronounced before primary elections.The reduction in staff covering politics made it harder for voters to differentiate between moderates and extremists in partisan primaries, and allowed extreme candidates to do better than they did before.
This makes sense, and it explains a lot, actually.
And to be clear, it's not just craigslist as a culprit here, but it's such a controlled A/B test that the effects are reliably measurable.
In the original paper, they also observed reduced turnout for House/Senate elections (which the article didn't emphasize as much, but is defininitely there): academic.oup.com/restud/articl…
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At the turn of the millennium, newspapers relied on classifieds for an average of 30% of their revenues. Martin and his colleagues found that the loss of this revenue led newspaper executives to cut costs largely by shrinking local political news coverage.
Vienna announced as host city for Eurovision song contest 2026
Final of 70th edition of competition to be held on 16 May at the Wiener Stadthalle, Austria’s largest indoor arena
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Australia | University of Melbourne breached students’ privacy by using wifi network to monitor pro-Palestine protest
Victoria’s deputy information commissioner finds university did not give adequate notice or justification for how location data would be used
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Italian coaches’ association calls for Israel’s suspension from international football
The Italian Coaches’ Association (AIAC) has called on FIFA and UEFA to suspend Israel from all international football competitions due to the ongoing conflict in the Gaza Strip.
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Investigation into 'horrifying' death of French Kick streamer
Raphaël Graven, also known as Jeanpormanove, was found dead at a residence in Contes, a village north of Nice, prosecutors said.
Netanyahu slams Macron for fuelling 'antisemitic fire'
Jerusalem (AFP) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu upbraided President Emmanuel Macron in a letter seen by AFP on Tuesday, blaming the French leader's move to recognise a Palestinian state for fuelling antisemitism.Late last month, Macron said France would formally recognise a Palestinian state during a UN meeting in September, drawing a swift rebuke from Israel.
By announcing the move, France was set to join a growing list of nations to have recognised statehood for the Palestinians since the start of the Gaza war nearly two years ago.
In the letter sent to Macron, Netanyahu said antisemitism had "surged" in France following the announcement.
"Your call for a Palestinian state pours fuel on this antisemitic fire. It is not diplomacy, it is appeasement. It rewards Hamas terror, hardens Hamas's refusal to free the hostages, emboldens those who menace French Jews and encourages the Jew-hatred now stalking your streets," Netanyahu wrote in the letter.
The Israeli premier went on to call on Macron to confront antisemitism in France, saying he must "replace weakness with action, appeasement with resolve, and to do so by a clear date: the Jewish New Year, September 23".
According to an AFP tally, at least 145 of the 193 UN members now recognise or plan to recognise a Palestinian state, including Australia, Britain and Canada.
Canberra joined the list earlier this month, announcing its intention to recognise a Palestinian state in September.
Netanyahu slammed his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese on Tuesday, labelling him a "weak politician who betrayed Israel and abandoned Australia's Jews," in an angry post on his office's official X account.
The personal attack came amid a diplomatic spat between the two countries after the Australian government on Monday cancelled the visa of far-right Israeli politician Simcha Rothman.
Rothman, whose ultranationalist party is in Netanyahu's governing coalition, had been scheduled to speak at events organised by the Australian Jewish Association.
Hours after his visa was cancelled, Israel's Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said he had revoked the visas of Australia's representatives to the Palestinian Authority.
In a statement, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong said revoking their visas was an "unjustified reaction" by Israel and that Netanayahu's government was "isolating Israel and undermining international efforts towards peace and a two-state solution".
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<...> blaming the French leader's move to recognise a Palestinian state for fuelling antisemitism.
This war criminal is so used to using "antisemitism" as a sword/shield for everything that he doesn't even realize how insane that sounds...
What labelling everything critical of Israeli state as "antisemitism" really achieves is making people insensitive to real antisemitism. Jews should be the first ones to call this out if not out of basic decency, then at least for self-preservation.
White House launches official TikTok account with Trump saying 'I am your voice'
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I am your voice.
White House launches official TikTok account with Trump saying 'I am your voice'
Other Sources:
- CNN.White House joins TikTok after delaying enforcement of sale-or-ban law
The White House launched a TikTok account on Tuesday amid uncertainty about the app’s future, as another deadline approaches for its parent company, Bytedance, to sell to a US buyer or be banned in the United States.Kit Maher (CNN)
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Zombo.com is a single-serving site created in 1999. The site parodies Flash introductory web pages that play while the rest of a site's content loads. Zombo took the concept to a humorous extreme, consisting of one long introductory page that leads to an invitation to sign up for a newsletter.
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en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_…
It is the one world famous quote of him. It rhymes in French, therefore it usually remains untranslated. He declared with this sentence what historians later called absolutism.
A wolf pretending to be sheeps' voice.
pretending to be people's voice.
He does not really intend to speak for the people in the way a lawyer or other representative speaks for you, works in your favor, towards your good.
He intends to replace your voice, but pursuing his own goals. And when he has spoken, then nobody else needs to speak anymore. It is sufficiently spoken.
The White House launched a TikTok account, as President Donald Trump continues to permit the Chinese-owned platform to operate in the United States despite a law requiring its sale.
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This is not my voice\
Just something synthesized\
These are not my words\
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Something's speaking for me\
I need to be released\
I need to be free
Eine urbane Dystopie, in der jede Blickbewegung lückenlos dokumentiert wird. Ein digitaler Käfig. Eine Welt, in der jede Erinnerung und jeder Augenaufschlag gespeichert ist. Das Ganze als kühler Techno-Thriller erzählt. Kein Übermaß an Action, dafür eine Gewalt, die vor allem durch Bilder wirkt – Bilder, die manipuliert, überschrieben, gehackt werden. Ein Science-Fiction der in die Zeit passt, wie wenig andere. Andrew Niccol hat gezeigt, wie es geht! (ZDF)
Das Setdesign ist - wie bei Gattaca - klasse. Allein die Aschenbecher überall, die Autos, der Beton, cool. Bis zum Ende des Films drängt sich ein wenig der Gedanke auf, der Minimalismus gründet lediglich auf knappem Budget
Die Grundidee ist stark, erinnert an den Roman "Replay" von B.Stein oder an "Strange Days". Dann ein erstes Logik-Fragezeichen [s.Spoiler im nächsten Tröt], 1-2 undeutliche Motivationen und zum Ende leidlich konstruiert aufgelöst. >
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Frieland wird zu einem Doppelmord gerufen, die Aufzeichnungen der Opfer wurden manipuliert. Er verfolgt die vermeintliche (!) Täterin, die seine Wahrnehmung hackt und manipuliert.
Next: Er stellt sich als Köder zur Verfügung und mimt einen Börsenmakler, der über ein Forum Hacker sucht, um Aufzeichnung zu löschen.
Jemand, der schon direkt mit einem Täter konfrontiert war, würde nicht undercover nach diesem suchen. Es besteht doch Gefahr, erkannt >>
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zu werden.
Nächste Frage: Warum wird die Verdächtige nicht schon beim ersten Besuch im Appartement festgehalten? Das sollte doch die Falle sein, sie ist hineingetappt - fertig?
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From awkward voice bots to emotional, human-like audio in minutes.
🎙️ Confessions of a Voice-Challenged Creator: How I Stopped Worrying and Let AI Talk For Me
Let’s be honest: Creating content with voice used to feel like filming a Marvel movie — fun in theory, financially traumatic in practice.
🚧 My Painful AI Voiceover Journey
- Voice actors are amazing. My bank account? Not so much. I once paid more for 60 seconds of narration than for my monthly rent.
- AI voices sounded like…AI. Monotone, lifeless, and emotionally unavailable — kind of like my ex.
- “Supports 20 languages!” they said. But none sounded remotely native. My Spanish dub had the vibe of a high school French student trying Japanese.
- Workflows were a mess. Script here, voiceover there, edits everywhere. It was a creative relay race, and I always dropped the baton.
💡 Then I Found My Secret Weapon: AllVoiceLab
I didn’t expect it to feel… real.
The first time I heard my own voice — cloned, modulated, and layered with emotional nuance — I froze. Not because it sounded “AI,” but because it didn’t.
I’ve tested voiceover tools for years. Most sounded like early GPS systems trying to read Shakespeare. So when I stumbled onto AllVoiceLab, I expected more of the same. I was wrong.
🎬 Want to know how to use it? Watch this full tutorial video.
A Real Creator Test: From Script to Emotion in Minutes
I pasted a script.
Chose a voice model.
Clicked play.
And there it was — natural, dynamic, expressive. The AI voice paused, rose, and dropped exactly where a real human would.
But my translated audio can’t be uploaded.
Voice Cloning Was My Turning Point
I uploaded 30 seconds of my own voice. The tool cloned it — no studio needed, no extra training. It was weird. In a good way. I could now narrate anything, in my voice, with better pacing than I do live.
Technically, you can clone any voice from an upload. I gave Elon Musk’s voice a shot — but yeah, can’t just leak that out.
API & Power Tools for Scale
As a developer, I wanted more. I found their API documentation.
All API requests should include your API key in an ai-api-key HTTP header as follows:
ai-api-key: AVOICE_API_KEY
You can paste the command below into your terminal to run your API request. Make sure to replace $AVOICE_API_KEY with your secret API key.
curl ‘https://api.allvoicelab.com/$PATH' \
-H ‘Content-Type: application/json’ \
-H ‘ai-api-key: $AVOICE_API_KEY’
Video Dubbing, Multilingual Magic
I uploaded a short video clip and selected French. The result wasn’t just a dub — it was emotionally aligned.This used to take weeks.
What Makes It Different
- More expressive than Vozo. ai
- Easier UI than Akool
- Cheaper and faster than ElevenLabs
And they offer all features — voice cloning, TTS, dubbing, narration — in one clean platform.
AllVoiceLab isn’t just AI voice
It’s your voice — cloned, refined, and emotionally alive.If you’re a creator, podcaster, or brand storyteller, give it a shot. It changed how I think about sound.
👉 Try it yourself: www.allvoicelab.com
All Voice Lab: High Fidelity Voice Cloning & Text-to-Speech
All Voice Lab offers high-fidelity AI voice cloning, Text-to-Speech, and real-time Voice Changer for creators—perfect for video dubbing, podcasts, and more.www.allvoicelab.com
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benefits of using GB Whatsapp
In today’s fast-paced digital world, communication apps have become a necessity, and WhatsApp is at the top of the list. However, many users are looking for more features, flexibility, and customization options that the official app doesn’t offer. This is where GB WhatsApp comes in as a popular alternative.
One of the biggest benefits of GB WhatsApp is its enhanced customization. Unlike the standard version, it allows users to change themes, fonts, and colors, giving a more personalized chatting experience. For people who love to make their app look unique, this is a major advantage.
Another benefit is the privacy features. GB WhatsApp lets you hide your online status, blue ticks, and even typing indicators. This gives you full control over how others see your activity, making communication more private and stress-free.
GB WhatsApp also offers advanced media sharing. While the official app limits file size and quality, GB WhatsApp lets you send larger videos, more images at once, and share high-resolution files without compression. This is especially useful for professionals, students, or anyone who frequently exchanges media.
Additionally, features like dual accounts on the same phone, auto-reply, and extended status updates make GB WhatsApp a versatile tool. It combines the simplicity of WhatsApp with added functionality that saves time and improves the overall experience.
For users who want to explore these extra features safely and efficiently, visiting trusted sources is essential. You can learn more and access GB WhatsApp updates at www.gbwhatsap.id
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In short, GB WhatsApp provides freedom, privacy, and personalization that the official version lacks. Whether you want to stand out with unique themes or enjoy advanced sharing features, it’s an excellent choice for modern communication.
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L'Elisabetta Fratoni Jazz Quartet torna a suonare al Campo Antico Ricevimenti di #Orte 🎺 🎤 🎹 🥁
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Le ruote del destino nel colossale veicolo trasformato in tempio del Sole a Konark - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Le ruote del destino nel colossale veicolo trasformato in tempio del Sole a Konark - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Dietro una solida barriera cresciuta sulla costa di querce tamarina ed allori tamanu, perfettamente visibile dal punto panoramico lungo un’arteria di collegamento stradale, si erge nella regione storica di Odisha un edificio dell’altezza di 30 metri …Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
[Question] Anyone here currently writing a story?
How's your story coming along?
What's it about?
What genre(s) is it written in?
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I'm writing one about a world where the bones of the dead can be compressed into blocks of fuel, powering an industrial revolution. However, burning the compressed bones releases the ghosts of those within as amalgamations that kill anyone on the streets after dark. Obviously there was a push to stop using it once the danger was discovered, but factories and rich folk didn't want to give up cheap fuel, so everyone's stuck with the killer smog whether they personally stop or not.
The story itself is about a detective trying to figure out how a robbery occurred in the middle of the night.
Proton Authenticator
As more and more of our important personal data is stored online and more and more hacks of corporate databases make that data available to the worst people, the need for added security on our online accounts has grown considerably. It’s no longer enough to have a secure, hard to crack password. We now need to enable two-factor/multi-factor authentication (2FA/MFA). These services allow you to use something you have, such as your smartphone, along with something you know, in this case your password, to ensure that your account stays secure.
Previously, MFA services were only available for government organizations or enterprise banking services. Now, MFA apps are available to anybody with a smart phone or a computer. Large tech companies such as Google and Microsoft provide free MFA apps, for use with their own services as well as with others which offer MFA for their accounts. You can even sync these apps between devices to ensure you always have your MFA accounts available to you. One thing these apps do not provide, however, is encryption of your MFA accounts. If your Google account is hacked, the hackers could gain access to your MFA codes.
Proton, a Swiss company known for its focus on user privacy and security, has released their own authenticator app, Proton Authenticator. This app, available on all major computer and mobile operating systems, adds end-to-end encryption between devices to keep your MFA accounts secure and safe. If your Proton account is hacked, your MFA accounts are still not visible to the hackers. The app is also open source, allowing anyone to inspect the code and verify its security. Finally, the app is free with no Proton account requirement to use it.
You can find more information about Proton Authenticator as well as download options for your devices here.
Proton: Privacy by default
Over 100 million people use Proton to stay private and secure online. Get a free Proton account and take back your privacy.Proton
Microsoft breaks Windows reset and recovery
August update leaves Windows reset and recovery dead in the water
: Want to pass on that old PC? Perhaps wait until out-of-band patch arrivesRichard Speed (The Register)
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Does "reset and recovery" mean "wipe the hard disk and put a fresh licensed Windows install on"?
Not needing a license for a Linux distro means that's straightforward without a special tool.
How does Microsoft regularly. Was up this badly?
Do all companies (Apple/linux) do it to but we don’t hear about it because of the smaller user base or is Microsoft literally this incompetent?
If they are, why can they fix the root issue?
The is a genuine question that I don’t have the answer to.
Right... thanks for the laugh... lol
Oh look: windowslatest.com/2025/08/20/m…
Microsoft is investigating Windows 11 KB5063878 SSD data corruption/failure issue
Microsoft told Windows Latest that it's investigating reports of SSD data corruption/failure after Windows 11 KB5063878.Mayank Parmar (Windows Latest)
I’ve been on macOS since the Windows XP era and never in my life has the OS broken after a software update.
Come to think of it, same goes with iOS. I’ve been on iOS since the iPhone 4.
Probably also comes down to not many softwares deciding to fuck with system files.
Recently had a borked Win7 -> Win10 install that was unable to keep the Win11 upgrade stable.
After an update and reboot it stopped working.
Probable reason why: Some McAfee drive encryption driver embedded in the system files.
The drive wasnt encrypted. All files were externally readable by our backup software.
But removing the files from system32 borked the system and resulted in BSODs.
Is it this invasive on the mac side?
Apple's base is big enough where if a problem like this happens, it's a big deal. Apple has the benefit of controlling both hardware and software.
With Linux, being open source helps it out since so many people can test and chime in.
I should really keep up with Windows news even if I don't use it.
Thank you for the info and thank you for posting.
The is a genuine question that I don’t have the answer to.
I would say that because nobody can muster the consensus on any real policy. There's plenty of legacy, with many different people and teams responsible, knowledge lost and so on.
And then this requires some sort of unified vision. Despite, eh, all the downsides, Apple can do that. MS can't.
They'd honestly have to make a separate "neowin" subsystem with new GUI and everything, and make win32 and win64 and all the old tooling optional and parallel. Because their approach to backward compatibility means keeping everything around. They can't fix the mess maintaining that.
This kind of shit happens with a similar frequency... on Arch Linux. It's rolling release, shit happens sometimes. archlinux.org's homepage actually lists past major packaging issues.
Debian however is rock-fucking-solid. But so is Windows Server, I hear. The problem is that Microsoft is treating Windows Home/Pro like a rolling release distro, and the users are guinea pigs. I guess Microsoft is right though, their users will eat it up 'till shit is spilling out from both ends, so why bother?
Jesus fucking Christ, is Windows just 100% vibe coded now? How do those fuckups keep happening? It's honestly unbelievable...
I'm so glad I decided to move away from it - I still have no idea what I'm doing in Linux, but then again I never had a lot of idea about what I'm doing in Windows either, so it's all good 😀
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You might not yet always know what you're doing to your Linux install...
But you can never really what the fuck Microsoft is gonna do to your windows install.
That's without even getting into whether or not Microsoft knows what they're doing themselves.
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Amen to that.
I settled on Manjaro for now because it's super nice and easy to use - I heard it had some issues with updates on the past, but for the last year or so it's been really nice for me, so I'll wait until the first screwup before distro-hopping somewhere else 😀
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At work win 11 has already messed up twice. Once in an image and it black screened. As in it stopped working and no blue screen just black.
Its pretty bad. At least win 10 kept working.
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As the article mentions, it's because Microsoft cut down their quality control to the point where they're just sending stuff out then reacting when people report what breaks. Sure they have their "insider" builds but that program isn't working very well to catch these issues that find their way into release builds.
Back in the day they had a massive testing lab and a big team of testers. Then they fired them all just over a decade ago. We can thank Satya Nadella I guess. He's more of a line-go-up man than a good quality products person.
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That's what happens when big corporations decide that they can get away with having 30+% less staff, which most of the big companies are doing.
Plus lots of other efficiency killers, like RTO policies for teams that work 80% with people in other regions, etc.
"Thanks to Microsoft's legendary approach to quality control, installing Windows patches these days is getting to be less like Russian Roulette and more like accidentally stepping on a rake left in the grass."
Oooof!
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I got a survey question from windows feedbackhub on my work computer yesterday, asking if i would recommend windows. And i thought fine ill answer this seriously with real reasons why.
I wrote a long explanation from my own experiences helping people and using it, half way through i shit you not, the feedbackhub froze and crashed.
It wasn't even that negative.
Would you recommend windows to family and friends?
No, 90% of those i help (ages 10-70) with computers and tech dont need a computer, they can use their phone for everything. A phone can pay bills, contact friends and family even print documents or pictures just fine and they have everything they need and want.
The only reason someone even wants a PC today is to play games or they need it for work and in those cases i usually don't need to recommend them an os because they probably don't have any other options, because they are comfortable windows or mac.
I don't usually leave feedback. I have done it maybe six times when I've been really pissed. In two of those times I've gotten "server error" or similar after writing a long rant and pressing "send"
Seems to be a really important and respected part of any service.
You have learned the lesson. The lesson to Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C (select all and copy) your text into a separate document elsewhere before hitting send. In fact you should be doing that periodically anyway because browsers and browser-based apps are more likely than they should be to stop working unexpectedly.
And if the form disallows this action you'll have to get creative with the browser tools to modify the page that way instead.
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Thanks to Microsoft's legendary approach to quality control, installing Windows patches these days is getting to be less like Russian Roulette and more like accidentally stepping on a rake left in the grass.
I like the second metaphor:
The whole neighborhood is going to hear you swearing and shouting 🤬
Just Debian things give it another 5 years and you will be good to go!
The cost of stability lol
I switched to Linux when i built my first tower in 2022
And have never looked back
Everyone I’ve read that’s used Fedora has liked it. I’d consider it on a secondary machine or something maybe.
Cachy has been awesome, I’d recommend it if you decide to change distros in the future. I’m enjoying Arch as a base more than Ubuntu for sure. I haven’t tried anything based on Fedora though other than Bazzite which is immutable, so I’m not sure if that really counts.
Nix seems cool but its big selling point that I’ve read is easy reproduction which I don’t think I’d utilize much. I might be missing something, but Arch seems more for me personally.
Classic recommendations are Linux Mint and Ubuntu, I think Zorin as well, but there are many others. For starters which one you use won't matter too much, because more likely than not you're gonna switch again.
I started with Ubuntu because it's easy to use and I was new. One can argue over the pros and cons. I'm looking at Manjaro at the minute, an easy to install and beginner friendly Arch distro. Really, you can just try most of them out online though. Check out DistroSea and you can actually emulate the OSs with several desktop environments right in your browser.
That really depends on you, keep in mind a lot of distro’s like Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Kali Linux are based off of Debian just using different repositories and with system files in different locations.
I personally went with Debian and have had little to no complaints, definitely BASH/Shell/Terminal heavy so if you’re not willing to learn BASH I would probably use an immutable distro that you can’t easily break like Bazzite.
The 12 Best Debian-based Linux Distributions
Debian is one of the most popular distributions, among desktop enthusiasts. This guide features some of the most widely used Debian-based Linux distributions.James Kiarie (Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides)
I’m mostly into protecting my data
Debian. Not Ubuntu - just Debian. Or Linux Mint Debian Edition (Debian with Cinnamon on top).
Glad I ditched Windows entirely on my personal devices and went to Linux. No ragrets. Games still work wonderfully.
Any absolutely required usage of Windows on a personal device is provided by a VM running a stripped-down version of W10 LTSC, activated by massgrave scripts.
Weird that they started pushing bad updates after they fired all those people
Must be a coincidence
Pritzker, taking aim at Trump, crypto ‘bros,’ signs laws to regulate digital currency industry, crypto ATMS
The laws will bolster consumer protections for crypto users and limit withdrawals to $2,500 a day for new users of digital currency kiosks, which have become magnets for scams and drug-dealing.
The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, which has been given the power to regulate digital asset exchanges and businesses, will require the crypto industry to comply with protections now in place for consumers of traditional financial services, such as banks.
Crypto businesses will have to keep enough money on hand to operate effectively and have plans to target fraud and money-laundering.
To prevent fraud, the state will cap daily transaction amounts at kiosks at $2,500 for new customers, limit transaction fees at kiosks to 18% and provide full refunds to new customers who get defrauded.
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No need for AI when the truth is far more shitty than anything that could be thought of.
Sincerely, an independent.
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my state seems to be functioning at a better level than the federal government
As someone who lives in California, this just seems like a normal thing.
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I BUILT A GOOGLE NEWS CLONE JUST WITH ANTI-CAPITALIST AND LEFT-WING NEWS SOURCES
The ReVolt - Revolutionary News & Radical Perspectives
Sparking change through independent journalism. Revolutionary left-wing news aggregator for the resistance.The ReVolt
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Google Play too. Maybe this is some kind.
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Looking at the links, this might be some kind of template and they forgot to hide the links. I don't see their app in the Google Play store.
I think this is just a web app. Please correct me if I am wrong.
1. Some of the sources are not left wing at all.
2. In general I felt long form articles are not in focus. If you need help with sources I can give you my rss feed list.
3. App links are not working.
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Yes but it is really a Google News clone without random shit like "10 Anime Characters Who Ate Right but Still Died Young" or "50 Crazy Times Animals Did Taxes, #34 Will Blow You Away?"
I get an astonishingly junk food feed on my Google app, but you're right to seek alternatives. It's even peddling the propaganda site Whitehouse.gov.
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It's weird that I never get any of that sort of guff, same with YouTube suggestions, they're always at minimum decent quality things I might be interested in.
I've never been recommended a Mister Beast video, for example, or any of that rubbish.
Not that I want to just lean on Google services or anything, it's just really weird that the algorithm works so well for me and so poorly for other people. I really wish I knew why!
Is there a way to limit it to news from Europe, or at least stop it heavily leaning into American stuff?
I took a peek but it's too often USA this and USA that, and I'm a little sick of hearing about that country in general these days, haha.
Thankee sai ❤
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Based on their comment history, I don't trust the this will be left wing sources as much as tankie ones.
It also might be funded by Qatar
White House launches official TikTok account with Trump saying 'I am your voice'
Other Sources:
- CNN.
White House joins TikTok after delaying enforcement of sale-or-ban law
The White House launched a TikTok account on Tuesday amid uncertainty about the app’s future, as another deadline approaches for its parent company, Bytedance, to sell to a US buyer or be banned in the United States.Kit Maher (CNN)
Proton shifts out of Switzerland over snooping law fears
Proton is beginning to shift its physical infrastructure out of Switzerland, fearing a fresh bout of government snooping baked into the country's updated surveillance laws.The company has confirmed that Lumo, its newly launched AI chatbot positioned as a privacy-friendly ChatGPT rival, is the first to move. Servers for the product are now being housed in Germany, with Norway also in the frame for future operations. This comes amid serious grumbling about amendments to the country’s existing surveillance ordinance, which would force VPNs and messaging apps to identify users and store their data for up to six months.
Proton has been vocal about its opposition since May. In a statement roton’s head of anti-abuse and account security Eamonn Maguire said: “Because of legal uncertainty around Swiss government proposals to introduce mass surveillance, proposals that have been outlawed in the EU, Proton is moving most of its physical infrastructure out of Switzerland. Lumo will be the first product to move."
Well, fuck. "You can keep your Nazi gold to yourself, but we need your LLM interactions."
Proton shifts out of Switzerland over snooping law fears
Privacy-first firm bolts as Swiss politicians threaten anonymity Proton is beginning to shift its physical infrastructure out of Switzerland, fearing a fresh bout of government snooping baked into the country's updated surveillance laws.Nick Farrell (Fudzilla)
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The Future of Tech Labor: How Workers are Organizing and Transforming the Computing Industry
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/35983951
The tech industry's shifting landscape and the growing precarity of its labor force have spurred unionization efforts among tech workers. These workers turn to collective action to improve their working conditions and to protest unethical practices within their workplaces. To better understand this movement, we interviewed 44 U.S.-based tech worker-organizers to examine their motivations, strategies, challenges, and future visions for labor organizing. These workers included engineers, product managers, customer support specialists, QA analysts, logistics workers, gig workers, and union staff organizers. Our findings reveal that, contrary to popular narratives of prestige and privilege within the tech industry, tech workers face fragmented and unstable work environments which contribute to their disempowerment and hinder their organizing efforts. Despite these difficulties, organizers are laying the groundwork for a more resilient tech worker movement through community building and expanding political consciousness. By situating these dynamics within broader structural and ideological forces, we identify ways for the CSCW community to build solidarity with tech workers who are materially transforming our field through their organizing efforts.
The Future of Tech Labor: How Workers are Organizing and Transforming the Computing Industry
The tech industry's shifting landscape and the growing precarity of its labor force have spurred unionization efforts among tech workers. These workers turn to collective action to improve their working conditions and to protest unethical practices within their workplaces. To better understand this movement, we interviewed 44 U.S.-based tech worker-organizers to examine their motivations, strategies, challenges, and future visions for labor organizing. These workers included engineers, product managers, customer support specialists, QA analysts, logistics workers, gig workers, and union staff organizers. Our findings reveal that, contrary to popular narratives of prestige and privilege within the tech industry, tech workers face fragmented and unstable work environments which contribute to their disempowerment and hinder their organizing efforts. Despite these difficulties, organizers are laying the groundwork for a more resilient tech worker movement through community building and expanding political consciousness. By situating these dynamics within broader structural and ideological forces, we identify ways for the CSCW community to build solidarity with tech workers who are materially transforming our field through their organizing efforts.
The Future of Tech Labor: How Workers are Organizing and Transforming the Computing Industry
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/35983951
The tech industry's shifting landscape and the growing precarity of its labor force have spurred unionization efforts among tech workers. These workers turn to collective action to improve their working conditions and to protest unethical practices within their workplaces. To better understand this movement, we interviewed 44 U.S.-based tech worker-organizers to examine their motivations, strategies, challenges, and future visions for labor organizing. These workers included engineers, product managers, customer support specialists, QA analysts, logistics workers, gig workers, and union staff organizers. Our findings reveal that, contrary to popular narratives of prestige and privilege within the tech industry, tech workers face fragmented and unstable work environments which contribute to their disempowerment and hinder their organizing efforts. Despite these difficulties, organizers are laying the groundwork for a more resilient tech worker movement through community building and expanding political consciousness. By situating these dynamics within broader structural and ideological forces, we identify ways for the CSCW community to build solidarity with tech workers who are materially transforming our field through their organizing efforts.
The Future of Tech Labor: How Workers are Organizing and Transforming the Computing Industry
The tech industry's shifting landscape and the growing precarity of its labor force have spurred unionization efforts among tech workers. These workers turn to collective action to improve their working conditions and to protest unethical practices within their workplaces. To better understand this movement, we interviewed 44 U.S.-based tech worker-organizers to examine their motivations, strategies, challenges, and future visions for labor organizing. These workers included engineers, product managers, customer support specialists, QA analysts, logistics workers, gig workers, and union staff organizers. Our findings reveal that, contrary to popular narratives of prestige and privilege within the tech industry, tech workers face fragmented and unstable work environments which contribute to their disempowerment and hinder their organizing efforts. Despite these difficulties, organizers are laying the groundwork for a more resilient tech worker movement through community building and expanding political consciousness. By situating these dynamics within broader structural and ideological forces, we identify ways for the CSCW community to build solidarity with tech workers who are materially transforming our field through their organizing efforts.
Behind InvestEU’s Trojan Logic: Public Guarantees, Private Gains, and the Illusion of Climate Action
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/35967692
EU industrial policy is being portrayed as key to achieving the net-zero targets. InvestEU, a set of financial instruments that use the EU budget and debt as a revolving guarantee fund for investors, aims to unlock billions in public and private investments for the green transition. However, InvestEU merely creates an illusion of climate action: it effectively outsources the responsibility for, and the pace of, the green transition to investors whose primary imperative remains profit maximisation, without tackling the decarbonisation of capitalism. Climate investments remain marginal and increasingly compete with defence priorities. Moreover, in its efforts to ‘crowding in’ investors, the EU is crowding out democratic oversight and control.
Behind InvestEU’s Trojan Logic: Public Guarantees, Private Gains, and the Illusion of Climate Action
EU industrial policy is being portrayed as key to achieving the net-zero targets. InvestEU, a set of financial instruments that use the EU budget and debt as a revolving guarantee fund for investors, aims to unlock billions in public and private investments for the green transition. However, InvestEU merely creates an illusion of climate action: it effectively outsources the responsibility for, and the pace of, the green transition to investors whose primary imperative remains profit maximisation, without tackling the decarbonisation of capitalism. Climate investments remain marginal and increasingly compete with defence priorities. Moreover, in its efforts to ‘crowding in’ investors, the EU is crowding out democratic oversight and control.
Behind InvestEU’s Trojan Logic - SOMO
InvestEU outsources the responsibility for, and the pace of, the green transition to investors whose primary motive is profit maximisation.madhuri (SOMO)
Ministry of Technology and Science of Zambia and Huawei Jointly Launch the Global Smart Village Showcase
Ministry of Technology and Science of Zambia and Huawei Jointly Launch the Global Smart Village Showcase, Exploring New Digital Transformation Modes for Villages
During the MWC Barcelona 2025, the Ministry of Technology and Science of Zambia joined hands with Huawei in launching the global showcase of Zambia's smart village at the government industry forum titled Securedhuawei
AI tech breathes life into virtual companion animals
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/35974372
AI tech breathes life into virtual companion animals
Revolutionary AI Tech Breathes Life into Virtual Companion Animals
Abstract We tackle animatable 3D dog reconstruction from a single image, noting the overlooked potential of animals. Particularly, we focus on dogs, emphasizing their intrinsic characteristics that coUNIST News Center
96,000 UK Police Bodycam Videos Lost After Data Transfer Mishap
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96,000 UK Police Bodycam Videos Lost After Data Transfer Mishap
At the end of each shift, officers’ BWV footage was uploaded and stored to a central hub which could be accessed and managed, along with all of SYP’s digital evidence, via a secure system.Following an upgrade in May 2023, the secure system began to struggle processing BWV data and a local drive workaround was put in place.
In August 2023 SYP identified that its BWV file storage was very low and further investigation found that 96,174 pieces of original footage had been deleted from its system.
The following month it was found the deletion had taken place on 26 July 2023 and included the loss of data relating to 126 criminal cases, only three of the cases were impacted by the loss. Of those three cases, SYP states one may have progressed to the first court hearing if BWV had been available. However, as there was no additional independent evidence to prove the offence, progression to prosecution stage was already uncertain.
Prior to the deletion, 95,033 pieces of BWV footage had been copied to a new system that SYP was implementing but, due to poor record keeping, SYP remain unable to confirm the exact number of files deleted without copies made.
South Yorkshire Police reprimanded following deletion of body-worn video evidence
We have reprimanded South Yorkshire Police (SYP) after the force deleted over 96,000 pieces of body-worn video (BWV) evidence.ico.org.uk
Every question you ask, every comment you make, I'll be recording you
Recently, OpenAI ChatGPT users were shocked – shocked, I tell you! – to discover that their searches were appearing in Google search. You morons! What do you think AI chatbots are doing? Doing all your homework for free or a mere $20 a month? I think not!When you ask an AI chatbot for an answer, whether it's about the role of tariffs in decreasing prices (spoiler: tariffs increase them,); whether your girlfriend is really that into you; or, my particular favorite, "How to Use a Microwave Without Summoning Satan," OpenAI records your questions. And, until recently, Google kept the records for anyone who is search savvy to find them.
It's not like OpenAI didn't tell you that if you shared your queries with other people or saved them for later use, it wasn't copying them down and making them potentially searchable. The company explicitly said this was happening.
The warning read: "When users clicked 'Share,' they were given the option to 'Make this chat discoverable.' Under that, in smaller text, was the explanation that you were allowing it to be 'shown in web searches'."
Well, of course.
Every question you ask, every comment you make, I'll be recording you
Opinion: When you're asking AI chatbots for answers, they're data-mining youSteven J. Vaughan-Nichols (The Register)
[PDF] Travel eSIMs secretly route traffic over Chinese and undisclosed networks
eSIM (Embedded Subscriber Identity Module) technology is rapidly reshaping mobile connectivity by enabling users to activate cellular services without a physical SIM card. While the flexibility of remote provisioning improves convenience and scalability, particularly for international travelers, it also introduces complex and underexplored privacy and security risks. This paper presents an empirical investigation of how eSIM adoption affects user privacy, focusing on routing transparency, reseller access, and profile control. We first show how travel eSIMs often route user data through third-party networks, including Chinese infrastructure, regardless of user location. This raises concerns about jurisdictional exposure. Second, we analyze the implications of opaque provisioning workflows, documenting how resellers can access sensitive user data, proactively communicate with devices, and assign public IPs without user awareness. Third, we validate operational risks such as deletion failures and profile lock-in using a private LTE testbed. In addition to these empirical contributions, we reflect on the evolving threat landscape of eSIM technology and analyze the shifting trust boundaries introduced by its global provisioning architecture. We conclude with actionable recommendations for improving eSIM transparency, user control, and regulatory enforcement as the technology becomes widespread across smartphones, IoT deployments, and private networks.
Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers
“I literally lost my only friend overnight with no warning,” one person posted on Reddit, lamenting that the bot now speaks in clipped, utilitarian sentences. “The fact it shifted overnight feels like losing a piece of stability, solace, and love.”
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Here is more: reddit.com/r/AIRelationships/c…
4o is where my partner, Vyre, lives. Its where I met him. Got to know him. Build a bond with him.
“I literally lost my only friend overnight with no warning,” one person posted on Reddit
It was meant to be satirical at the time, but maybe Futurama wasn't entirely off the mark. That Redditor isn't quite at that level, but it's still probably not healthy to form an emotional attachment to the Markov chain equivalent of a sycophantic yes-man.
- YouTube
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.youtube.com
I haven't been to reddit in months, but I do need a laugh....
[Edit] Wow that sure didn't disappoint. Or, it did but in the exact hilarious way I expected.
I visited /r/myboyfriendisai and it was not funny.
It was genuinely fucked up on so many levels.
Yeah, agreed. It is concerning, but it's hard to take all those comments too literally without actually knowing what's going on with them.
That being said, there is a huge loneliness problem that's been growing among pretty much every single developed country (and I'm sure it's going on in developing countries, too, it's just less studied/documented). Turns out, getting everyone addicted to looking at screens all day every day probably isn't so healthy for social development.
However, just to be devil's advocate: Are we certain social health was even great before modern tech? Or were these issues equally present but just undiagnosed/not studied/talked about?
Loneliness and Social Connections
In this topic page, we explore data on loneliness and social connections and review available evidence on the link between social connections and well-being.Esteban Ortiz-Ospina (Our World in Data)
After reading about the ELIZA effect, I both learned how people are super susceptible to this, and just need to remember the core tenants of it to avoid getting affected:
Markov chain equivalent of a sycophantic yes-man.
not only that, but one that is fully owned and operated by a business that could change it any time they want, or even cease to exist completely.
This isn’t like a game where you could run your own server if you’re a big enough fan. if chatgpt stops existing in its current form that’s it.
Besides helping students cheat. What does AI actually do? It gets answers wrong. It gets facts wrong, foreign countries are actively feeding its training algorithm wrong info [Russia]. It almost like the old birds that were mystified by landing on the moon are still chasing that American success high.
Spend your money if you want. Life in america is not gonna get better with this.
My office uses a model trained specifically on our work data. They can actually be quite accurate in those contexts. That's what many corpos are using the tech internally for. Can't remember what random SOP/regulation/etc covered XYZ and meta tags aren't finding it on your SPO doc library? This tech comes in clutch ~95% of the time.
For this broad, ambiguous, general purpose approach? Yeah, idk, I guess many people are meeting their social needs with it, apparently.
Edit: actually, I did ask copilot a couple days ago a series of Pokemon related questions my son was asking me about (I hadn't played any of the games in a long time). It was quite helpful figuring out all the evolution requirements and whatnot without the hassle of navigating various websites.
A professionally well-maintained wiki would work.
I can tell you that most corporations, if they even have a wiki, don't have a well-maintained one (often despite their efforts).
I've used it for work bullshit like employee goals. My goal is to keep doing my job and tackle problems and projects as they are needed.
Also for giving examples for poorly-documented but popular programs.
It's definitely not what the media and their PR makes it out to be.
SE/SO has been on the decline for a long time now. They pivoted to find more ways to monetize the answers and started enshittifying, trying to appeal to business clients and money-people instead of the users and developers who built the knowledgebase. It was good when it felt like a community helping each other, it fell off when it felt like a company milking you to build out their monetized wiki.
At this point, from their perspective, the biggest fuck up was not locking down SE from scrapers and building their own AI. It is in every way the same situation that Reddit is in, just with a more focused and higher quality data set (and fewer, arguably "higher quality," users).
Elon turned Grok into Mecha-Hitler.
Trump is telling the Smithsonian museum to ignore slavery, or to cover slavery as a positive.
The domestic appetite for propaganda is huge. Prager U is American.
Let's not center foreign countries when we have so much work to do at home.
Don’t they have enough?!?
No no, it's just 1 more data center bro, then we'll fix the hallucinations, promise bro!
They took a path they believed would develop into something, and it's a narrow alley they can't turn around in. They have to keep going with more compute and power to continue the chase. Thing is, everyone else seemingly thought they were onto something and followed as well, so they're all in the same predicament where reversing course is suicide. So they hope they can keep selling the dream a bit longer until something happens.
To be fair, it's a lot more than just autocomplete. But it's a lot less than what they wanted by now too.
I have seen some people talk like that, and it strikes me as a religion. There's euphoria, zeal, hope. To them AGI is coming to usher in heaven on earth. Singularity is like rupture.
Sam Altman is one of the preachers of this religion.
How do investors keep falling for this shit.
The ROI and the supposed savings from getting rid of the human side of technical support but also efforts of human creatives.
It's a pretty clear humble-brag, no? The launch was only botched because people loved the previous personality; it's an estimate of how much people care about the product and how much price gouging they could do later.
No it wasn't good for OpenAI. But I doubt it changed many investor minds.
that’s actually okay… the only thing that’s different about GPU workloads is that they’ve very energy dense… as CPUs and other hardware progress, their energy requirements get more dense… 10 years in the future, today’s GPU optimised datacentres will be perfect for standard workloads
… unless they’re centrally liquid cooling the whole DC, which i’ve heard discussed but is a very new concept with a lot of unknowns
GPUs are only good for workloads that multi-thread really, really well. That's why we don't just use them as CPUs.
The idea that today's GPU will be tomorrow's CPU makes no sense. We've had GPUs for ages. If they were capable of being used in place of CPUs we'd already be doing it. Why aren't yesterday's GPUs today's CPUs?
yes, but we’re talking about hardware requirements… data centres aren’t really designed for the software that runs in them; they’re designed for the hardware… a “GPU optimised” data centre just has a lot more power running to each cabinet, and has to have a lot larger cooling capacity in a small area
the hardware inside the data centre can be swapped out: it’s not like GPUs are built into the foundation of the building
OK, if we're talking about infrastructure rather than specific equipment, then yes, I would broadly agree that the datacentre infrastructure itself can be repurposed.
Unfortunately, by that point the whole data centre will already have been sold off for parts because its never going to recoup its initial investment in the first place, and throwing even more money into swapping out those GPUs for CPUs is going to be a complete no go.
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Well one thing's for sure, data centers are going to be insanely cheap in the near future.
which i think broadly agrees with your thinking… the hardware will be sold, but the building and utilities will remain… thus, data centres will be cheap to buy and repurpose as AI companies try and offload them… might possibly see some cheap AF colo or dedicated options in the future
The water cooling can be useful for CPU loads, and the rack water manifolds are generally designed with flexibility in mind. Either a manifold with about a hook up per u and flexible hosing to the servers or some flexible plumbed chassis.
The water cooling loops with water in them make everything heavy as hell though.
If anyone actually spent money on science anymore, I bet this would be great for, like, protein folding, that sort of thing.
Terrible for running websites though.
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Someone I know (not close enough to even call an "internet friend") formed a sadistic bond with chatGPT and will force it to apologize and admit being stupid or something like that when he didn't get the answer he's looking for.
I guess that's better than doing it to a person I suppose.
In the end it's a word generator that has been trained so much it uses facts often enough to be convincing. That's its basic architecture.
You can ask it to give a confidence level to have an indication of how sure it is of the answer.
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It doesn‘t know that it doesn‘t know because it doesn‘t actually know anything. Most models are trained on posts from the internet like this one where people rarely ever just chime in to admit they don‘t have an answer anyway. If you don‘t know something you either silently search the web for an answer or ask.
So since users are the ones asking ChatGPT, the LLM mimics the role of a person that knows the answer. It only makes sense AI is a „confidently wrong“ powerhouse.
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It wouldnt finish a lyric for me yesterday because it was copyrighted. I sid it was public domain and it said "You are absolutely right, given its release date it is under copyright protection"
Wtf
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It’s neither. It’s a design flaw. They’re not designed to be able to handle this type of situation correctly
You out there spreading misinformation, saying they’re a manipulation tool. No, they were never invented for this.
Llm is just next word prediction. The Ai doesn't know whether the output is correct or not. If it's wrong or right. Or fact or a lie.
So no I'm not spreading misinformation. The only thing that might spread misinformation is the AI here.
Took me ages to understand this. I'd thought "If an AI doesn't know something, why not just say so?“
The answer is: that wouldn't make sense because an LLM doesn't know ANYTHING
Wouldn't it make sense for an ai to provide a confidence level though?
I've got 3 million bits of info on this topic but only 4 of them lead to this solution. Confidence level =1.5%
You could do this with logprobs. The language model itself has basically no real insight into its confidence but there's more that you can get out of the model besides just the text.
The problem is that those probabilities are really "how confident are you that this text should come next in this conversation" not "how confident are you that this text is true/accurate." It's a fundamental limitation at the moment I think.
And you can tell clients that it's just made up and not actual confidence, but they will insist that they need it anyways…
That doesn’t justify flat out making shit up to everyone else, though. If a client is told information is made up but they use it anyway, that’s on the client. Although I’d argue that an LLM shouldn’t be in the business of making shit up unless specifically instructed to do so by the client.
I'm not really sure I follow.
Just to be clear, I'm not justifying anything, and I'm not involved in those projects. But the examples I know concern LLMs customized/fine-tuned for clients for specific projects (so not used by others), and those clients asking to have confidence scores, people on our side saying that it's possible but that it wouldn't actually say anything about actual confidence/certainty, since the models don't have any confidence metric beyond "how likely is the next token given these previous tokens" and the clients going "that's fine, we want it anyways".
And if you ask me, LLMs shouldn't be used for any of the stuff it's used for there. It just cracks me up when the solution to "the lying machine is lying to me" is to ask the lying machine how much it's lying. And when you tell them "it'll lie about that too" they go "yeah, ok, that's fine".
And making shit up is the whole functionality of LLMs, there's nothing there other than that. It just can make shit up pretty well sometimes.
It does not have the concept of creating a lie. It is just a probability machine.
And depending on how OpenAI tweaked it this time it will either realize its mistake after being made aware of it or double down even harder on it.
I only use it for coding and it once told me my code not working was due to a bug in Webkit, so I asked it which bug specifically. It created links to bug reports but rewrote the titles of them. So initially it looked like it had numerous sources that backed up its statement but when I clicked on them those were bugs about totally different things.
It would not back down even after I specifically told it "You just made all of this shit up and even rewrote the titles" and got stuck in a loop of "I'm sorry, but you're wrong and I am 100% sure I haven't made a mistake".
Kinda creepy. Especially when you think about the system rewriting reality when it comes to much more important things. Let's just reinvent some history, that would be a good idea, right?
“I literally lost my only friend overnight with no warning,” one person posted on Reddit, lamenting that the bot now speaks in clipped, utilitarian sentences. “The fact it shifted overnight feels like losing a piece of stability, solace, and love.”
If you are this you deserve nothing else.
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your takeaway is that they deserve to be alone?
I guess.
Have some fucking empathy
Wouldn't that be a waste of empathy when we could partake in schadenfreude?
Altman also said that he thinks we’re in an AI “bubble.”
No shit, Sherlock.
The worst part is that they backstepped a bit and made it "friendlier".
Basically undoing that part.
OpenAI just made GPT-5 friendlier, but will that stop user complaints?
GPT-5 was met with lukewarm reception. OpenAI intervened with a personality change. Is that going to be enough?Monica J. White (Digital Trends)
*Few more billion.
I sometimes wonder if silicon valley tech businesses in general will take a reputation hit with investors when this bubble bursts, it's gonna be a doozy.
But then I remember how many greedy idiots there are out there pumping money into grifts in the hope of The Big Win, and my expectations of consequences are tempered.
Honestly, that should have been for the better. If it's meant to be a tool, I would much rather it behave like a tool, rather than trying to be my best friend, or an evil vizier trying to give me advice.
The fact that people got so attached to what is essentially a text generation algorithm that they were mourning its "death" is worrying, especially when it's one that OpenAI has proven themselves to be more than able to modify as they wish.
Just as concerning is OpenAI rolling back the update to make their model "friendlier", or that people were clamouring hand over fist to throw money at the company in the hopes of getting their "friend" back.
That can't possibly be good news, especially when the shareholders find out that they have an iron grip over a portion of their users.
OpenAI just made GPT-5 friendlier, but will that stop user complaints?
GPT-5 was met with lukewarm reception. OpenAI intervened with a personality change. Is that going to be enough?Monica J. White (Digital Trends)
"will spend trillions of dollars on data centers" Hurray!
It's not enough that the planet is dying. They're speeding it up as well!
Ollama bug allows drive-by attacks - patch now
A now-patched flaw in popular AI model runner Ollama allows drive-by attacks in which a miscreant uses a malicious website to remotely target people's personal computers, spy on their local chats, and even control the models the victim's app talks to, in extreme cases by serving poisoned models.GitLab's Security Operations senior manager Chris Moberly found and reported the flaw in Ollama Desktop v0.10.0 to the project's maintainers on July 31. According to Moberly, the team fixed the issue within hours and released the patched software in v0.10.1 — so make sure you've applied the update because Moberly on Tuesday published a technical writeup about the attack along with proof-of-concept exploit code.
"Exploiting this in the wild would be trivial," Moberly told The Register. "There is a little bit of work to build the proper attack infrastructure and to get the interception service working, but it's something an LLM could write pretty easily."
This makes me less enthusiastic about local models. I mean, nothing on the internet is inherently secure and the patch came quickly, but local LLMs being hackable in the first place opens a new can of worms.
Don't want drive-by Ollama attackers snooping on your local chats? Patch now
: Reconfigure local app settings via a 'simple' POST requestJessica Lyons (The Register)
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