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    Google’s new CAPTCHA asks users to wave hand at camera, users fear privacy trade-off

    Problem is tons of websites use captcha, not just google. It is one of the more common anti-bot measures around.
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    Brave Software releases Origin for a paid, bloat-free browsing experience

    Pricing is hefty in this case, but I rather like the principle of the old-fashioned true purchase of software without any monetization annoyances. If the company can be trusted to to not alter the deal after purchase and truly provide a life-time manure-free experience, that is. Yes, it is not...
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    Majority of CEOs Report Zero Payoff From AI Splurge

    Some of my acquaintances (Europe) have been inquiring, and their funds aren't touching spaceX with a hundred foot pole.
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    Microsoft revokes Office 2019 perpetual licenses, then edits their website to gaslight customers.

    Here's a new one, entire mine: For me, it's not even worth the bother of pirating it.
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    Microsoft revokes Office 2019 perpetual licenses, then edits their website to gaslight customers.

    Funny detail I noticed on the wife's laptop a few years ago, a few months after skype got killed: removing skype from an office 2019 install is not supported. Pretty annoying, since she has to keep it installed for the few times per year she needs to check document compatibility.
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    Creative Launches Sound Blaster AE-X PCIe Sound Card

    If one is going for wired, is there any point in choosing a "gaming" headset over an old-fashioned pair of (non-"gaming" branded) headphones?
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    Google Changes Its Search Box for the First Time in 25 Years

    In case people were wondering how the fuck google was planning on monetizing the manure out of all of this: Source: https://matthiasott.com/notes/ad-infinitum These may not be the precise future methods of "ai" monetization, but one can bet one's hindquarters that llms' outputs will be...
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    Samsung Messages Discontinued on July 6. FREE / BASIC / SMS text msg app recommendation.

    Nah, in the shitstorm of the android play peddleware and the maffia phone companies one should always attribute problems to malice on their part. Another vote for fossify apps here. On a sidenote: In general, I tend to browse f-droid for android applications.
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    Majority of CEOs Report Zero Payoff From AI Splurge

    Shift your viewpoint: in some sense, an llm is a lossy compression of its training data. As with jpeg and mp3, one can likely get away with a few re-compressions, but there will inevitably be a point where iterations of the procedure are going to hit the output quality too much to be acceptable.
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    Majority of CEOs Report Zero Payoff From AI Splurge

    Um, llm's are by definition not a clean room method. Asides from that, good luck maintaining that code-spaghetti. Whoever looked at the state of software in 2020 and thought that we needed more code needs to be banned to the Syberia, old Soviet-style.
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    Majority of CEOs Report Zero Payoff From AI Splurge

    In case one did not know: a computer scientist is a different beast from both a programmer and a software engineer.
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    Artemis II Astronauts Battle Microsoft Outlook in Space

    According to the article, it is supposedly used "for communication, scheduling, and mission data." I.e. likely not mission critical but definitely affecting mission productivity/effectiveness. From what I gather they're basically test running internet to the moon connectivity for future missions.
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    'I destroyed months of your work in seconds' says AI coding tool after deleting a dev's entire database during a code freeze.

    <sigh> That was not a hallucination but the natural consequence of reversible account deletions being far more common than irreversible ones.
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    Epic Games Laying Off Over 1,000 Employees Due to Loss of Fortnite Engagement

    * roblox The gamimg industry is a monkey's paw if I ever saw one.
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    Apple intros MacBook Neo: $599 with an iPhone chip

    Fixed ^_^
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