Liam @ GamingOnLinux đ§đŽ @gamingonlinux@mastodon.social Google AI is a hot sticky mess. Now they're telling people to add glue to pizza, as it took a shitpost from Reddit.
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9:57 AM ⢠May 23, 2024 (UTC)
Peter Cohen @flargh@mastodon.social There's a "late capitalism is awful" point to be made about Scarlett Johansson being the actual spokesperson for Feeding America, a legit non-profit focused on food insecurity in the United States. Contrasting with OpenAI - a business that pivoted from being a non-profit to the absolute worst example of sociopathic Silicon Valley tech bro overreach.
I'm not clever enough and far too burned out these days to put the pieces together into a coherent narrative beyond, "Burn it all."
JP @daedalus@eigenmagic.net The fact that Microsoft's new Recall thing won't capture DRM content means the engineers do understand the risk of logging everything.
They just chose to preference the interests of corporates and money over people, deliberately.
8:50 PM ⢠May 21, 2024 (UTC)
HighlandLawyer @HighlandLawyer@mastodon.social @tob @pluralistic
3:46 PM ⢠May 21, 2024 (UTC)
Tom Warren writing for The Verge
Over the past two years, Microsoft has worked in secret with all of its top laptop partners to ready a selection of Arm-powered Windows machines that will hit the market this summer. Known as Copilot Plus PCs, theyâre meant to kick-start a generation of powerful, battery-efficient Windows laptops and lay the groundwork for an AI-powered future.
These sound like they might be competitive with Apple’s M series chips. It’ll be interesting to see the reviews once they’re out.
Mark Hachman writing for PC World
Put simply: If youâve seen it, so has Recall â it takes periodic screenshots of your desktop every few seconds, which it uses to hunt down details. […] But the images it saves can be interpreted via AI. So if you saved a document, that document image can be âreadâ via AI, and it will extract the text.
There’s an app for MacOS called Rewind that does something similar to this. It’s a third party app though, whereas Recall is from the OS vendor meaning it may have certain advantages or capabilities a third party wouldn’t.
nixCraft đ§ @nixCraft@mastodon.social I asked Google "who ruined Google" and they replied honestly using their AI, which is now forced on all of us. It's too funny not to share!
11:36 AM ⢠May 20, 2024 (UTC)
Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid@mastodon.social Iâm so glad public libraries already exist. Could you I magine trying to sell the idea of libraries to politicians in 2024?
âYou want to build a large public complex on prime real estate that gives away free books & education & community eventsâpaid for by our tax dollars? Are you crazy??â
2:56 AM ⢠May 19, 2024 (UTC)
For the first time I used Safariâs âListen to pageâ feature to listen to an article while I cleaned up the kitchen. It was pretty great!
I expect to see a bunch of âthe iPhone is powerful enoughâ takes in September when the new iPhone is launched.
Great write up from Ed Zitron on how and why Google’s search has gotten worse.
The thread is a dark window into the world of growth-focused tech, where Thakur listed the multiple points of disconnection between the ads and search teams, discussing how the search team wasnât able to finely optimize engagement on Google without âhacking engagement,â a term that means effectively tricking users into spending more time on a site, and that doing so would lead them to âabandon work on efficient journeys.â In one email, Fox adds that there was a âpretty big disconnect between what finance and ads wantâ and what search was doing.
Remember before the Vision Pro was released there were rumours about using Siri to develop apps for VisionOS. Given how well generative AI can be at programming and all the chatter about Appleâs AI efforts this year, I wonder if weâll see something around that at this yearâs #WWDC.
Iâve been wondering why everyone seems so interested in what Apple is going to do with regards to AI, or why thereâs so much reporting about how Apple needs to âcatch upâ to others in the industry. Are Apple users unable to do AI things on their iPhones? No, because the majority of AI right now is a cloud service, accessed through apps or websites just as usable on an iPhone as on Googleâs Android or Microsoftâs Windows. So why all pressure for Apple to âcatch upâ?
This is the first video I’ve seen that explains how these things actually work. Like Marques, I’m excited for the future of this tech.
For all those enjoying the new X-Men ‘97 cartoon I liked this article from Gizmodo.
Since almost the very beginning, the X-Men and their people have been hunted by the Sentinel Programâand now X-Men ‘97 is playing with that legacy too.
The sentinels have always been my favourite X-Men villains. Probably because I grew up watching the original X-Men cartoon and they were featured pretty heavily in that.
This whole YouTube, AppleTV, screensaver thing really pisses me off. Why the fuck does Google think I want to see some random bullshit from YouTube rather than my photos on the screen as a screensaver!?
Joe Rosensteel writing for Six Colors
Last week, YouTube rolled out a new version of its app for Apple TV. It overrides the screensaver by starting a slideshow just before the Apple TVâs screensaver is supposed to come on. If youâre watching a video, itâll be an endless loop zooming into the videoâs thumbnail and fading to black. If you were just paused somewhere in the appâs interface, itâll be stills taken from a random assortment of YouTube videos on nature, or stills from drone footage.
Laura Stone and Marieke Walsh writing for The Globe and Mail (Apple News+ Link)
âIâve been getting more messages from doctors than ever before this morning,â Mr. Ford said at an unrelated news conference in Oakville, Ont., west of Toronto.
Don’t tell me Ford is all of a sudden concerned about doctors. He’s concerned for his coporate donors and developer buddies who are going to be impacted by this.
Jon Brodkin writing for Ars Technica
Security reporter Brian Krebs called the move “a gift to phishers” in an article yesterday. It was a phishing risk because scammers could register a domain name like “netflitwitter.com,” which would appear as “netflix.com” in posts on X, but clicking the link would take a user to netflitwitter.com.
This is something you’d expect from a high school computer science assignment, not a company that’s supposed to be worth $44 billion.
I have Facebook notifications set to deliver in the scheduled summary. Itâs worked fine for a long time, but now all of a sudden Iâm getting these notifications each day. These are not time sensitive Facebook.
Needless to say Iâve disabled Facebookâs ability to send me âtime sensitiveâ notifications.
Ryan Gilliam writing at Polygon:
The star of the trailer is the new Prismatic subclass, which allows players to combine all of the other gameâs subclasses into one. Bungie calls this an âadvancedâ subclass, and it looks like itâll offer an entirely new way to play. Prismatic Guardians even gain the ability to use a super-powered grenade that combines darkness and light together. Other subclasses will be getting grenades as well that combine elements: stasis and void for Warlocks; strand and arc for Titans; and solar and statis for Hunters.
The #eclipse was pretty amazing. Completely overcast, but when totality happened, everything went dark, like all of a sudden it was the middle of the night. At the horizon it looked like sunset.
Sarah Fielding writing for Engadget
Now, YouTube’s CEO Neal Mohan has responded with a clear warning to OpenAI that using its videos to teach Sora would be a “clear violation” of the platform’s terms of use.
That’s pretty rich coming from Google.
