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Is AI Facing a Trough of Disillusionment?
Is AI's hype cycle leading us into a trough of disillusionment? Dive into the reality behind GPT-5's launch and its impact on the tech world.
A recent MIT report on AI in business found that 95 percent of all generative-AI deployments in business settings generated “zero return.”
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Behind the Curtain: The Three-Year Journey to the Block BEARD Site Blocking Act
The Block BEARD Site-Blocking Act, recently introduced to address foreign piracy in the United States, did not emerge from a vacuum. It is the result of a multi-year effort that began with a non-public proposal in 2022. This initial version became stranded when stakeholders were unable to reach an agreement, but remnants of the early proposal remain visible today.
Behind the Curtain: The Three-Year Journey to the Block BEARD Site Blocking Act * TorrentFreak
The recently introduced Block BEARD Site-Blocking Act did not emerge from a vacuum. Its origins lie in a 2022 non-public anti-piracy proposal.Ernesto Van der Sar (TF Publishing)
Medicare Will Start Paying AI Companies a Share of Any Claims They Automatically Reject
Medicare Will Start Paying AI Companies a Share of Any Claims They Automatically Reject
Medicare patients in half a dozen states will have some of their health claims automatically reviewed by AI models.Frank Landymore (Futurism)
Progress update for Conversational Contexts
This past June, I put together a write-up about two major approaches to backfilling conversations. The ability to properly backfill conversations means we will be able to make major inroads toward solving the feeling that the fediverse is quiet.
I, alongside several other members of the SWICG Forums and Threaded Discussions Task Force (ForumWG) have been working toward building implementor support for Conversational Contexts — the ability to explicitly classify a set of objects as belonging to a conversation, whether that be a topic, reply tree, or similar.
I am happy to report that we have made some wonderful inroads this past few months!
- jesseplusplus@mastodon.social has been working closely with the Mastodon team to allow software to backfill from Mastodon — this pull request has now been approved! :white_check_mark:
- I have been working with both nutomic@lemmy.ml and rimu@piefed.social to allow software to backfill from Lemmy and Piefed, respectively. (Lemmy PR, Piefed issue) :white_check_mark:
This marks a major milestone in the adoption of conversational contexts. With Mastodon on board backfill will be possible with the majority of the microblogiverse. With Lemmy and Piefed on board, backfill will be possible with the majority of the threadiverse.
Remember that pfefferle@mastodon.social was an early adopter of conversational contexts, and we have been able to backfill from WordPress blogs for quite awhile now (so that's the blogiverse too) :blush:
I for one, am eagerly awaiting the next version of all of these softwares!!
Implement FEP 7888: Part 1 - publish conversation context by jesseplusplus · Pull Request #35959 · mastodon/mastodon
I would like to upstream my fork's implementation of FEP-7888, which groups conversations or threads together. I have decided to split the implementation into two parts: adding the context prop...GitHub
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Am i misremembering or did Utorrent have a group chat feature?
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Decentralized Chat
Feature-filled Bittorrent client based on the Azureus open source project - BiglySoftware/BiglyBTGitHub
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Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms
Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms
If you live in Mississippi, you may have noticed that you are no longer able to log into your Bluesky or Dreamwidth accounts from within the state. That’s because, in a chilling early warning sign for the U.S.Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Google quietly removes net-zero carbon goal from website amid rapid power-hungry AI data center buildout — industry-first sustainability pledge moved to background amidst AI energy crisis
Google quietly removes net-zero carbon goal from website amid rapid power-hungry AI data center buildout — industry-first sustainability pledge moved to background amidst AI energy crisis
Google's goal to be net-zero in carbon emissions by 2030 is still apparently company policy, it's just not broadcasting it anymoreSunny Grimm (Tom's Hardware)
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US Citizenship and Immigration Services Will Hire Armed Special Agents
US Citizenship and Immigration Services Will Hire Armed Special Agents
Effective October 6, USCIS special agents will be able to make arrests, carry firearms, and execute warrants.Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg (Truthout)
OpenAI links up with Broadcom to produce its own AI chips
OpenAI links up with Broadcom to produce its own AI chips
Industry is moving towards custom solutions in wake of Nvidia’s market domination.Financial Times (Ars Technica)
OpenAI links up with Broadcom to produce its own AI chips
OpenAI links up with Broadcom to produce its own AI chips
Industry is moving towards custom solutions in wake of Nvidia’s market domination.Financial Times (Ars Technica)
OpenAI links up with Broadcom to produce its own AI chips
OpenAI links up with Broadcom to produce its own AI chips
Industry is moving towards custom solutions in wake of Nvidia’s market domination.Financial Times (Ars Technica)
Ritrovare il Sorriso: L'Approccio Naturale che Mente e Corpo Ti Chiedono
Combattere il Malumore e la Tristezza: Un Approccio Dolce per Ritrovare il Sorriso
Ti senti giù? L' umore è a terra? Soprattutto in questo periodo, dopo la fatica di un inverno trascorso fra le incombenze lavorative ...Giuliano (Blogger)
China Reportedly Advances to 5nm AI Chips as Domestic Firms Tape Out Two New Solutions For Model Training & AI PC Workloads
China Reportedly Advances to 5nm AI Chips as Domestic Firms Tape Out Two New Solutions For Model Trainin…
China is reportedly advancing towards 5nm AI GPUs, as a new report claims that domestic firms are set to tape out new chips.Wccftech
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Trump’s nominee to lead Bureau of Labor Statistics accused of running offensive Twitter account
President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics once ran an offensive Twitter account that posted misogynistic and homophobic abuse and entertained conspiracy theories, according to a report.
EJ Antoni, 37 – an economist with the Heritage Foundation, the conservative think-tank behind the Project 2025 agenda for Trump’s second term – ran the account from 2015 to 2020 but it has since been deleted, CNN reported.
The network said the account – which existed under multiple names at different times, beginning with his own – was used to make degrading and sexist remarks about female Democratic politicians, including Kamala Harris, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar.
Trump’s nominee to lead BLS accused of trolling top Democrats with offensive Twitter account
EJ Antoni, a Heritage Foundation economist, allegedly used social media platform to dish out abuse and entertain conspiracy theoriesJoe Sommerlad (The Independent)
Company behind East Texas water grab hires a political consultant to Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick
The Texas Senate voted against delaying a controversial East Texas groundwater export project on the same day the company behind it hired one of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s top advisors as a lobbyist.
Conservation Equity Management, a company affiliated with Dallas investor Kyle Bass, hired Allen Blakemore on Tuesday, the same day the legislation hit the Senate floor, according to lobbying records filed at the Texas Ethics Commission. Blakemore is Patrick’s political consultant and has also worked on the campaigns of several Republican senators.
Company behind East Texas water grab hires Dan Patrick-linked lobbyist
Conservation Equity Management hired Allen Blakemore, a political consultant to Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, on the same day the legislation hit the Senate floor.Megan Kimble (Houston Chronicle)
Mobile Phone Brands by Market Share (2007 vs 2025)
Mobile Phone Brands by Market Share (2007 vs 2025) - Shit Hot Infographics
An infographic design that compares the top 8 most popular mobile phone brands from 2007 to the top 8 most popular ones from 2025.David Eaves (Shit Hot Infographics)
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China’s ‘silent sanction’ on US semiconductors creates a weapons generation gap
China’s ‘silent sanction’ on US semiconductors creates a weapons generation gap
Export controls on gallium nitride and other critical minerals hold back development while Chinese military technology surges.Zhang Tong (South China Morning Post)
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The US and the West at large just thought China would stay that nice exploitable country for cheap labor forever. Their plans never adjusted to either find an alternative or move back production.
Capitalists praise "the power of the market" for being agile and whatnot, but companies (and many Western countries are being run by companies) target costs optimisation at all costs. They are like AIs with a bias for it and hyper-specialise for it. The only moves companies have are "buy the competitor" and for countries it's just protectionism until war.
This isn't praise for China throwing the majority of their citizens into the machine as cheap labor for Western companies, more a critique of the West's tunnel vision. We will reap what we sowed.
I mean we should praise China because they managed to ensure that the benefits of economic development primarily went to the working majority. Yes, there were new contradictions stemming from the influx of western capitalists, and there was exploitation happening as a result. Yet, the broader picture is that the lives of the majority of people in China were improved drastically.
90% of families in the country own their home giving China one of the highest home ownership rates in the world. What’s more is that 80% of these homes are owned outright, without mortgages or any other leans. forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2…
Student debt in China is virtually non-existent. forbes.com/sites/jlim/2016/08/…
Chinese household savings hit another record high in 2024 wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-mar…
People in China enjoy high levels of social mobility nytimes.com/interactive/2018/1…
The typical Chinese adult is now richer than the typical European adult businessinsider.com/typical-ch…
Real wage (i.e. the wage adjusted for the prices you pay) has gone up 4x in the past 25 years, more than any other country. This is staggering considering it's the most populous country on the planet.
The real (inflation-adjusted) incomes of the poorest half of the Chinese population increased by more than four hundred percent from 1978 to 2015, while real incomes of the poorest half of the US population actually declined during the same time period. nber.org/system/files/working_…
From 1978 to 2000, the number of people in China living on under $1/day fell by 300 million, reversing a global trend of rising poverty that had lasted half a century (i.e. if China were excluded, the world’s total poverty population would have risen) semanticscholar.org/paper/Chin…
From 2010 to 2019 (the most recent period for which uninterrupted data is available), the income of the poorest 20% in China increased even as a share of total income. data.worldbank.org/indicator/S…
By the end of 2020, extreme poverty, defined as living on under a threshold of around $2 per day, had been eliminated in China. According to the World Bank, the Chinese government had spent $700 billion on poverty alleviation since 2014. nytimes.com/2020/12/31/world/a…
Over the past 40 years, the number of people in China with incomes below $1.90 per day – the International Poverty Line as defined by the World Bank to track global extreme poverty– has fallen by close to 800 million. With this, China has contributed close to three-quarters of the global reduction in the number of people living in extreme poverty. worldbank.org/en/news/press-re…
None of these things happen in capitalist states, and we can make a direct comparison with India which follows capitalist path of development. In fact, without China there practically would be no poverty reduction happening in the world.
If we take just one country, China, out of the global poverty equation, then even under the $1.90 poverty standard we find that the extreme poverty headcount is the exact same as it was in 1981.
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5 Myths About Global Poverty
Don’t be fooled by the simplistic talking points of capitalism’s defenders…Roge Karma (Current Affairs Inc)
[JS Required] Google Fined 2.95-billion-euro ($3.45 billion) by EU Over Ad-Tech Business
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Google abused its power by favouring its own online display advertising technology services to the detriment of its competitors, online advertisers and publishers.As a result of Google's illegal practices, advertisers faced higher marketing costs which they likely passed on to European consumers in the form of higher prices for products and services. Google's tactics also reduced revenues for publishers, which may have led to lower service quality and higher subscription costs for consumers.
Google's abusive behaviour therefore had a negative impact on all European citizens in their day-to-day use of the web.
This is illegal under EU competition rules and therefore our decision orders Google to pay a fine of €2.95 billion.
In line with our usual practice, we increased Google's fine since this is the third time Google breaks the rules of the game. But a mere fine in this case is not enough to deliver real and tangible solutions for the market and to protect our consumers.
This is why we have also ordered Google to stop its illegal practices and to put an end to its inherent conflict of interests in the Adtech industry.
Google has 60 days to inform the Commission on how it plans to do so, and if it fails to propose a viable plan, the Commission will not hesitate to impose an appropriate remedy.
At this stage, it appears that the only way for Google to end its conflict of interest effectively is with a structural remedy, such as selling some part of its Adtech business.
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:::Google abused its power by favouring its own online display advertising technology services to the detriment of its competitors, online advertisers and publishers.As a result of Google's illegal practices, advertisers faced higher marketing costs which they likely passed on to European consumers in the form of higher prices for products and services. Google's tactics also reduced revenues for publishers, which may have led to lower service quality and higher subscription costs for consumers.
Google's abusive behaviour therefore had a negative impact on all European citizens in their day-to-day use of the web.
This is illegal under EU competition rules and therefore our decision orders Google to pay a fine of €2.95 billion.
In line with our usual practice, we increased Google's fine since this is the third time Google breaks the rules of the game. But a mere fine in this case is not enough to deliver real and tangible solutions for the market and to protect our consumers.
This is why we have also ordered Google to stop its illegal practices and to put an end to its inherent conflict of interests in the Adtech industry.
Google has 60 days to inform the Commission on how it plans to do so, and if it fails to propose a viable plan, the Commission will not hesitate to impose an appropriate remedy.
At this stage, it appears that the only way for Google to end its conflict of interest effectively is with a structural remedy, such as selling some part of its Adtech business.
Commission fines Google €2.95 billion over abusive practices in online advertising technology
The European Commission has fined Google €2.95 billion for breaching EU antitrust rules by distorting competition in the advertising technology industry (‘adtech\'). It did so by favouring its own onliEuropean Commission - European Commission
[JS Required] Google Fined 2.95-billion-euro ($3.45 billion) by EU Over Ad-Tech Business
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Google abused its power by favouring its own online display advertising technology services to the detriment of its competitors, online advertisers and publishers.As a result of Google's illegal practices, advertisers faced higher marketing costs which they likely passed on to European consumers in the form of higher prices for products and services. Google's tactics also reduced revenues for publishers, which may have led to lower service quality and higher subscription costs for consumers.
Google's abusive behaviour therefore had a negative impact on all European citizens in their day-to-day use of the web.
This is illegal under EU competition rules and therefore our decision orders Google to pay a fine of €2.95 billion.
In line with our usual practice, we increased Google's fine since this is the third time Google breaks the rules of the game. But a mere fine in this case is not enough to deliver real and tangible solutions for the market and to protect our consumers.
This is why we have also ordered Google to stop its illegal practices and to put an end to its inherent conflict of interests in the Adtech industry.
Google has 60 days to inform the Commission on how it plans to do so, and if it fails to propose a viable plan, the Commission will not hesitate to impose an appropriate remedy.
At this stage, it appears that the only way for Google to end its conflict of interest effectively is with a structural remedy, such as selling some part of its Adtech business.
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:::Google abused its power by favouring its own online display advertising technology services to the detriment of its competitors, online advertisers and publishers.As a result of Google's illegal practices, advertisers faced higher marketing costs which they likely passed on to European consumers in the form of higher prices for products and services. Google's tactics also reduced revenues for publishers, which may have led to lower service quality and higher subscription costs for consumers.
Google's abusive behaviour therefore had a negative impact on all European citizens in their day-to-day use of the web.
This is illegal under EU competition rules and therefore our decision orders Google to pay a fine of €2.95 billion.
In line with our usual practice, we increased Google's fine since this is the third time Google breaks the rules of the game. But a mere fine in this case is not enough to deliver real and tangible solutions for the market and to protect our consumers.
This is why we have also ordered Google to stop its illegal practices and to put an end to its inherent conflict of interests in the Adtech industry.
Google has 60 days to inform the Commission on how it plans to do so, and if it fails to propose a viable plan, the Commission will not hesitate to impose an appropriate remedy.
At this stage, it appears that the only way for Google to end its conflict of interest effectively is with a structural remedy, such as selling some part of its Adtech business.
Commission fines Google €2.95 billion over abusive practices in online advertising technology
The European Commission has fined Google €2.95 billion for breaching EU antitrust rules by distorting competition in the advertising technology industry (‘adtech\'). It did so by favouring its own onliEuropean Commission - European Commission
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[JS Required] Google Fined $3.5 Billion by EU Over Ad-Tech Business
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[JS] Google Fined 2.95-billion-euro ($3.45 billion) by EU Over Ad-Tech Business
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:::Google abused its power by favouring its own online display advertising technology services to the detriment of its competitors, online advertisers and publishers.As a result of Google's illegal practices, advertisers faced higher marketing costs which they likely passed on to European consumers in the form of higher prices for products and services. Google's tactics also reduced revenues for publishers, which may have led to lower service quality and higher subscription costs for consumers.
Google's abusive behaviour therefore had a negative impact on all European citizens in their day-to-day use of the web.
This is illegal under EU competition rules and therefore our decision orders Google to pay a fine of €2.95 billion.
In line with our usual practice, we increased Google's fine since this is the third time Google breaks the rules of the game. But a mere fine in this case is not enough to deliver real and tangible solutions for the market and to protect our consumers.
This is why we have also ordered Google to stop its illegal practices and to put an end to its inherent conflict of interests in the Adtech industry.
Google has 60 days to inform the Commission on how it plans to do so, and if it fails to propose a viable plan, the Commission will not hesitate to impose an appropriate remedy.
At this stage, it appears that the only way for Google to end its conflict of interest effectively is with a structural remedy, such as selling some part of its Adtech business.
Commission fines Google €2.95 billion over abusive practices in online advertising technology
The European Commission has fined Google €2.95 billion for breaching EU antitrust rules by distorting competition in the advertising technology industry (‘adtech\'). It did so by favouring its own onliEuropean Commission - European Commission
Beleaguered workers at Yosemite and Sequoia & Kings Canyon flock to unionize
Labor organizers have been trying to form a union at the parks for years but did not have the necessary support until this year when the Trump administration’s mass firings left the parks service in turmoil, the Los Angeles Times reported.
“Every day you come to work and you have no idea what is going to happen next. It’s like we are all being subjected to psychological warfare,” a staffer said this spring.
Earlier this year at Yosemite, laid-off employees hung a US flag upside down, a symbol of distress, at the park’s El Capitan to bring attention to the cuts.
Beleaguered workers at Yosemite and Sequoia & Kings Canyon flock to unionize
Amid Trump's onslaught, nearly all voted yes.Mother Jones
'Alligator Auschwitz' immigration centre can stay open, appeals court rules
In a 2-1 ruling, the appellate court in Atlanta, Georgia, granted a request from the state of Florida and the US homeland security department to block a lower court injunction while a lawsuit plays out.
"Alligator Alcatraz is in fact, like we've always said, open for business," said Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
Last month, US District Judge Kathleen Williams ordered a halt to the facility's expansion and for its dismantling to begin within 60 days.
'Alligator Alcatraz' immigration centre can stay open, appeals court rules
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis welcomes the ruling and declares the Everglades site "open for business".Jude Sheerin (BBC News)
Hundreds of South Koreans detained in massive ICE raid at Hyundai plant in Georgia
"As of today, it is our understanding that none of those detained is directly employed by Hyundai Motor Company," it said in statement. "We prioritize the safety and well-being of everyone working at the site."
At a press conference on Friday, an official with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said "there was a majority of Korean nationals from the 475" people detained.
"They are in the custody of ICE enforcement and removal operations," Special Agent Steve Schrank said, adding that they were taken to a processing facility in Folkston, Georgia.
"They will be moved based on the individual circumstances beyond that," he said. "This in fact was the largest single-site enforcement operation in the history of homeland security investigations."
South Koreans detained in ICE raid at Hyundai electric vehicle site in Georgia
Most of the 475 arrested were from South Korea, leading the country to call the raid an unjust infringement of people's rights.Robin Levinson King and Kayla Epstein (BBC News)
[JS Required] Google Fined 2.95-billion-euro ($3.45 billion) by EU Over Ad-Tech Business
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36929877
Google abused its power by favouring its own online display advertising technology services to the detriment of its competitors, online advertisers and publishers.As a result of Google's illegal practices, advertisers faced higher marketing costs which they likely passed on to European consumers in the form of higher prices for products and services. Google's tactics also reduced revenues for publishers, which may have led to lower service quality and higher subscription costs for consumers.
Google's abusive behaviour therefore had a negative impact on all European citizens in their day-to-day use of the web.
This is illegal under EU competition rules and therefore our decision orders Google to pay a fine of €2.95 billion.
In line with our usual practice, we increased Google's fine since this is the third time Google breaks the rules of the game. But a mere fine in this case is not enough to deliver real and tangible solutions for the market and to protect our consumers.
This is why we have also ordered Google to stop its illegal practices and to put an end to its inherent conflict of interests in the Adtech industry.
Google has 60 days to inform the Commission on how it plans to do so, and if it fails to propose a viable plan, the Commission will not hesitate to impose an appropriate remedy.
At this stage, it appears that the only way for Google to end its conflict of interest effectively is with a structural remedy, such as selling some part of its Adtech business.
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:::Google abused its power by favouring its own online display advertising technology services to the detriment of its competitors, online advertisers and publishers.As a result of Google's illegal practices, advertisers faced higher marketing costs which they likely passed on to European consumers in the form of higher prices for products and services. Google's tactics also reduced revenues for publishers, which may have led to lower service quality and higher subscription costs for consumers.
Google's abusive behaviour therefore had a negative impact on all European citizens in their day-to-day use of the web.
This is illegal under EU competition rules and therefore our decision orders Google to pay a fine of €2.95 billion.
In line with our usual practice, we increased Google's fine since this is the third time Google breaks the rules of the game. But a mere fine in this case is not enough to deliver real and tangible solutions for the market and to protect our consumers.
This is why we have also ordered Google to stop its illegal practices and to put an end to its inherent conflict of interests in the Adtech industry.
Google has 60 days to inform the Commission on how it plans to do so, and if it fails to propose a viable plan, the Commission will not hesitate to impose an appropriate remedy.
At this stage, it appears that the only way for Google to end its conflict of interest effectively is with a structural remedy, such as selling some part of its Adtech business.
Commission fines Google €2.95 billion over abusive practices in online advertising technology
The European Commission has fined Google €2.95 billion for breaching EU antitrust rules by distorting competition in the advertising technology industry (‘adtech\'). It did so by favouring its own onliEuropean Commission - European Commission
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Holy shit, the quote is wild!
At this stage, it appears that the only way for Google to end its conflict of interest effectively is with a structural remedy, such as selling some part of its Adtech business.
EU is smoking Google, rightfully so. Third time they get a fine for this, so now its gloves off.
Third time they get a fine for this, so now its gloves off.
The fine is 0.1% of Google's net worth. Fuck all.
Yes, they know. It’s right in the OP:
In line with our usual practice, we increased Google’s fine since this is the third time Google breaks the rules of the game. But a mere fine in this case is not enough to deliver real and tangible solutions for the market and to protect our consumers.This is why we have also ordered Google to stop its illegal practices and to put an end to its inherent conflict of interests in the Adtech industry.
Google has 60 days to inform the Commission on how it plans to do so, and if it fails to propose a viable plan, the Commission will not hesitate to impose an appropriate remedy.
They were not just fined. They were fined and given a warning that, because it was the third time, the next move is to enforce the rules with a court order. Which can include things like preventing them from operating in the EU, seizure of assets, and personal consequences for the decision makers (seizure of assets, criminal charges, etc).
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Google abused its power by favouring its own online display advertising technology services to the detriment of its competitors, online advertisers and publishers.As a result of Google's illegal practices, advertisers faced higher marketing costs which they likely passed on to European consumers in the form of higher prices for products and services. Google's tactics also reduced revenues for publishers, which may have led to lower service quality and higher subscription costs for consumers.
Google's abusive behaviour therefore had a negative impact on all European citizens in their day-to-day use of the web.
This is illegal under EU competition rules and therefore our decision orders Google to pay a fine of €2.95 billion.
In line with our usual practice, we increased Google's fine since this is the third time Google breaks the rules of the game. But a mere fine in this case is not enough to deliver real and tangible solutions for the market and to protect our consumers.
This is why we have also ordered Google to stop its illegal practices and to put an end to its inherent conflict of interests in the Adtech industry.
Google has 60 days to inform the Commission on how it plans to do so, and if it fails to propose a viable plan, the Commission will not hesitate to impose an appropriate remedy.
At this stage, it appears that the only way for Google to end its conflict of interest effectively is with a structural remedy, such as selling some part of its Adtech business.
Commission fines Google €2.95 billion over abusive practices in online advertising technology
The European Commission has fined Google €2.95 billion for breaching EU antitrust rules by distorting competition in the advertising technology industry (‘adtech\'). It did so by favouring its own onliEuropean Commission - European Commission
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Solarpunk Environment Sketch: Retrofitted Ship Interior
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💬 0 🔁 39 ❤️ 77 · Solarpunk Environment Sketch - Retrofitted Ship Interior · Another concept I created for Peculiar Path's solarpunk project, this one exploring the interior of a potentially trans…Tumblr
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the point of the Story Seed Library is to simplify the license and openly say "my work can be shared freely on the Internet". Without it, it gets complicated and its not obvious whether I can illustrate a blogpost by just crediting them.
Nothing against works outside of Creative Commons, I just want to build a repository of works we can all use freely 😀
China Reportedly Advances to 5nm AI Chips as Domestic Firms Tape Out Two New Solutions For Model Training & AI PC Workloads
China Reportedly Advances to 5nm AI Chips as Domestic Firms Tape Out Two New Solutions For Model Trainin…
China is reportedly advancing towards 5nm AI GPUs, as a new report claims that domestic firms are set to tape out new chips.Wccftech
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If China's already at 5nm, they're getting close. Smallest in use now is 3nm, I think.
This poses the question, how long until China can achieve its goals without Taiwan and TSMC?
Luo Weiwei: the former Nasa scientist who became China’s semiconductor trump card
Chinese company Innoscience in high-stakes competition against US and European giants, thanks to rising star founding scientist.Dannie Peng (South China Morning Post)
Idk about 2 years, but they can definitely do it by 2030.
It took TSMC a while to get to that point if I'm not mistaken, so even with all the financial might of the CCP, I still doubt it will happen THAT quickly.
Nepal Bans 20+ social media platforms. A balant attempt to limit free speech.
https://apnews.com/article/nepal-ban-social-media-platform-3b42bbbd07bc9b97acb4df09d42029d5
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The Federal "Democratic" Republic of Nepal bans 20+ social media platform.
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China Unveils Large Unmanned Stealth Fighter Design During Military Parade
China Unveils Large Unmanned Stealth Fighter Design During Military Parade
The still-unnamed fighter-sized drone is clearly optimized for high performance, likely with supersonic capabilities, as well as low observability.Thomas Newdick (The War Zone)
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Hopefully these won't end up in the ukraine war on the side of Russia 😐
Hundreds of Russians dying every week doesn't seem like winning to me, maybe we have different definitions
Edit: don't forget the burning refineries and lineups for gasoline. Are we winning in the Trumpian sense here?
UK Politicians now talk of climate ‘pragmatism’ to delay action – new study
Politicians now talk of climate ‘pragmatism’ to delay action – new study
Politicians talk about being pragmatic on climate change to avoid hard decisions.The Conversation
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475 people taken into ICE custody at Hyundai plant in Georgia
United States immigration authorities have arrested 475 people in a raid on a Hyundai manufacturing site in Georgia, Steve Schrank, a special agent in charge of Homeland Securities Investigations Atlanta, said at a press conference on Friday.
The Hyundai facility, located in Ellabell, Georgia -- approximately 30 miles west of Savannah -- was raided “as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into allegations of unlawful employment practices and other serious federal crimes,” according to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security.
475 people taken into ICE custody at Hyundai plant in Georgia
"This operation underscores our commitment to protecting jobs for Georgians."Jon Haworth (ABC News)
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Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack
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Anime with a high death count that's actually good?
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flango
in reply to flango • • •These guys are such a joke, but they are the ones laughing $.
porous_grey_matter
in reply to flango • • •littleguy
in reply to porous_grey_matter • • •Yep.
Time to go work a service job for peanuts and then play video games when I get home until I fall asleep.
I sure can't wait until election season so I can vote for whoever my rulers chose for me.
Doomsider
in reply to flango • • •dinckel
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Frezik
in reply to WanderingThoughts • • •I do think this will be the last traditional tech bubble. Not because VCs have learned any better, but because we're at the limits of monetizing silicon under capitalism. The money will be dumped someplace else.
There are plenty of other software approaches that could happen, but capitalism doesn't have a path to make money off of them.
Mwa
in reply to dinckel • • •lemmeLurk
in reply to Mwa • • •Nfts never really had any use in the first place. Ai and LLMs does have a lot of fields where it will be used and expanded on, how much depends a lot on how it keeps developing.
But current state LLMs already can change a lot, but it will take years to be implemented widespread. Think of all the things that are still not digital at all
Hegar
in reply to dinckel • • •Heydo
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in reply to dinckel • • •jacksilver
in reply to chrash0 • • •That's the issue, AI right now means LLMs not deep learning/ML.
The Deep Learning/ML stuff will keep chugging along.
chrash0
in reply to jacksilver • • •but LLMs do represent a significant technological leap forward. i also share the skepticism that we haven’t “cracked AGI” and that a lot of these products are dumb. i think another comment made a better analogy to the dotcom bubble.
ETA: i’ve been working in ML engineering since 2019, so i can sometimes forget most people didn’t even hear about this hype train until ChatGPT, but i assure you inference hardware and dumb products were picking up steam even then (Tesla FSD being a classic example).
jacksilver
in reply to chrash0 • • •We definitely haven't cracked AGI, that's without a doubt.
But yeah, LLMs are big (I'd say really Transformers were the breakthrough). My point though was that Deep Learning is the underlying technology driving all of this and we certainly haven't run out of ideas in that space even if LLMs may be hitting a dead end.
CheeseNoodle
in reply to jacksilver • • •jacksilver
in reply to CheeseNoodle • • •I think it's a mixture of that and the fact that when OpenAI saw that throwing more data drastically improved the models, they thought they would continue to see jumps like that.
However, we now know that bad benchmarks were misleading how steep the improvements were, and much like with autonomous vehicles, solving 90% of the problem is still a farcry away from 100%.
absentbird
in reply to chrash0 • • •littleguy
in reply to dinckel • • •NFTs weren't that successful.
Sure, some morons got scammed. But AI is literally scamming governments.
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chaosCruiser
in reply to 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 • • •aesthelete
in reply to chaosCruiser • • •That all depends upon if they keep throwing dollars into the furnace to run the models.
"Useful" stuff will have to do an evaluation once they're paying the true cost for these things as well, because most people are not running their own models...this shit is more centralized then even regular cloud computing.
chaosCruiser
in reply to aesthelete • • •I wasn’t talking about delusional LLMs and creepy image generators.
AI as a whole encompasses so much more. Like, image resolution up scaling, cleaning a noisy audio signal, generating new frames to make choppy stop motion animation smoother, finding optimal paths for logistics chains, designing a smart way to pack a pallet full of random boxes just to name a few. All of that stuff is already happening and is here to stay.
Cramming silly LLMs into every application might take a hit though. They could still be a solution to something, but we just haven’t quite figured it out yet.
aesthelete
in reply to chaosCruiser • • •chaosCruiser
in reply to aesthelete • • •MCasq_qsaCJ_234
in reply to flango • • •Another AI winter? Another AI winter? (Possible in the medium or long term)
Although we'll also have to wait and see what John Carmack does, because he's also involved in this.
jacksilver
in reply to MCasq_qsaCJ_234 • • •josefo
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in reply to flango • • •interdimensionalmeme
in reply to etherphon • • •We have an enormous part of the population retiring right now, some are voluntarily working right now and hanging on.
But these people will sell their stock en masse once they retire to buy something more stable like bonds.
The only way the stock market can keep them is to increase the yield so much that they get FOMO and don't convert to bonds just yet.
This raises the stakes and winds up the stock market but now you have a HUGE portion of the population holding back a literal TSUNAMI of liquidation.
If the yield drops, if the apparent value slips, they will sell, the price will drop faster they will sell even more, this is how the next recession will happen, we just can't say when.
When prices crash,the oligarchs will be there to gobble up everything of actual value.
In short AI valuations are holding back the next recession, and if they don't deliver .. it might be a depression and russification of the economy ?
captainlezbian
in reply to interdimensionalmeme • • •reksas
in reply to etherphon • • •Doomsider
in reply to flango • • •trashboat
in reply to Doomsider • • •Doomsider
in reply to trashboat • • •This technology is equivalent to the atomic bomb for population manipulation. This is why the wealthy are so obsessed. They are getting closer to being able to control everyone by modeling our behavior.
The scariest part is no one is talking about the reality of this technology and what it will be used for. They have completely captured the narrative already.
littleguy
in reply to Doomsider • • •Treczoks
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