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Moto Tag is the AirTag for Android we've been waiting for

Comment#1. Have we? Comment#2. "The Moto Tag — at least on paper — seems so brilliant, I can't believe no one else has thought of it yet. It does everything the AirTag, Galaxy Tag, or other trackers do, but includes a multi-function button that completely changes its utility." "When you press the button, it’ll ping your phone so you can find it. The same button could also be a remote shutter button for your Android phone." "The button can’t be customized beyond this — at least, not right now — but I hope this is something the company can do in the future." Comment#3. Finally, a stalking device for us Android users. Comment#4. Finally, someone invented Tile, or a Samsung tag.

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How open source attracts some of the world's top innovators

Comment#1. No one is asking this question. We are asking why corporations feel entitled to use open-source software, without any reciprocal contribution.

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Scientists finally discover DNA key to fight deadly pancreatic cancer

Comment#1. This news is accompanied by a drug to reverse diabetes (according to report), and a reliable cure for HIV, also according to reports . All in all great news. Comment#2. Cancer researcher here. This is just a standard PR fluff piece for a study that is not particularly interesting. Sorry, don’t get your hopes up. Comment#3. It’s too bad we have such power hungry fools at the helm. We’re in a breakthrough moment with science and medicine but all they want to do is war. If we just put all that focus on beating more types of cancers, vaccines, etc, we’d be setting humanity up for a healthier, longer life. Comment#4. A little late for Steve Jobs 🍏 Comment#5. Feel like we always hear about how they found some new way of killing cancer but we never see the results make it past test stages. Comment#6. And we never heard of this again Comment#7. Can’t wait to never hear or see anything about this ever again. Comment#8. So we’ll never hear about this again? Comment#9. Yeah let’s hope progress is made quick Comment#10. Thank god those scientists finally got it together. Comment#11. My wife has stage 4 pancreatic cancer. Hopefully this news will help people in the future. Comment#12. Pharma company worldwide panic Comment#13. Lol…suuuuure they have. And, like every other news level cancer breakthrough in the last 40 years, it won’t even be mentioned again in a week. Comment#14. Steve Jobs is going to love this! Comment#15. \*Finally\*, slackers - already knew the cure to cancer yeeears ago! Comment#16. It will be squashed by pharmaceutical companies!

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AI propaganda campaign in Rwanda has been pushing pro-Kagame messages – a dangerous new trend in Africa

Comment#1. People don’t understand how dangerous AI propaganda is in third world, low education areas. If there is one area where AI could be implemented to a huge social benefit it’s fact checking. Create an app that gives fact checked responses with 99% accuracy and it will save lives Comment#2. At the end of May 2024, several media outlets led by the journalist network Forbidden Stories released a set of reports titled “Rwanda Classified”. This reporting detailed evidence related to the suspicious death of Rwandan journalist and government critic John Williams Ntwali. The reports include additional details on Kigali’s efforts to silence critics. As a political scientist with a background studying digital disinformation and African politics, I work with the Media Forensics Hub, which monitors the internet for evidence of coordinated influence operations. Following the publication of Rwanda Classified, we identified at least 464 accounts that flooded online discussions of the report with content supportive of the Paul Kagame regime. Many of the accounts we tied to this network had been active on X/Twitter since January 2024. During this time the network produced over 650,000 messages. Comment#3. The President "won" with 99% of the votes. I feel like AI propaganda is the least of their problems. Comment#4. You’d think that after RTLM, Rwandans would be more resistant to being manipulated by media

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Southwest Airlines and Archer strike a deal for an electric air taxi network

Comment#1. Safe, non-flammable helium! Comment#2. Lana.... Lana! LANA!

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The Enshittification of Everything | The Tyee

Comment#1. Enshittification isn’t a catch all pejorative meant to describe anything getting shitty. It is quite specifically about the capitalist mode of production and profit-taking applied to the platforms that we’ve come to rely on after they replaced things that were once envisioned as public goods or part of the collective commons. It was coined, articulated, and popularized as part of a critique of capitalism. So for this guy to show up and say “but communism!”, then proceeding to list multiple paragraphs of pure capitalist shenanigans, demonstrates a serious lack of comprehension. This article reads like someone writing about irony, and thinking that stepping in dog poo or stubbing your toe is “ironic”. Sure, word meanings can change, and this one is catchy and broad enough that I’m sure people are going to start using it to describe everything, But if you claim to know the origin of the word and even pay homage to the person who coined it and STILL get it wrong, that is just sad. Case study of trying to ride the coat-tails of someone with an actual point to make, and instead diluting their thinking and exposing your own ignorance in the process. Comment#2. Horrible article. First dumbfuck thing the author says: >But I think the descriptor has far broader applications. No, it doesn't. It explicitly refers to a specific concept: investor-backed companies that release great products without a sustainable business model, which then become worse and worse over time as they seek ways to generate revenue. That is *specifically* what "enshittification" refers to. It does not refer to anything that generically gets worse over time, and you've effectively erased the value of the term by using it in that way. Second dumbfuck thing the author says: >Doctorow writes with flair: “The capitalism of today has produced a global, digital ghost mall, filled with botshit, crap gadgets from companies with consonant-heavy brand names and cryptocurrency scams.” >But make no mistake: the Communist Party of China has delivered the same breakfast from hell. Technology overrides ideology. China is a capitalist country with a largely centralized, planned economy. Those are capitalist companies producing products for a capitalist market. There's nothing communist about it whatsoever, this was just a lazy and ignorant way for the author to repeat capitalist propaganda. Third dumbfuck thing the author says: >Then I went to the provincial registry office to update my driver’s licence. “Can’t do that today,” said the registrar. “Why,” I asked? The government computer is down. He didn’t give a reason. So enshittification is overtaking daily life. It starts with a few drops and then it pours. Not only is this not enshittification, not even slightly, but why the fuck would the customer-facing person know exactly why the computer is down? That's not their job. (The longer example prior to this about the grocery store having missing items is also covered under this dumbfuck entry.) Fourth dumbfuck thing the author says: >Let’s apply Doctorow’s handy concept to appliances such as refrigerators, washers and dryers. I remember that when I was a kid my parents never replaced their appliances. They just kept on running. In fact, appliances built in the 1970s lasted 30 to 50 years. And imagine this: they were simple and repairable. You didn’t need a computer degree to understand a washing machine. >But someone figured out that durable and repairable was bad for the economy, and enshittification set in. No, those old appliances were massively expensive when compared to modern ones, and "someone" figured out that you could sell a lot more if you made them cheaper. And they are also so much more energy efficient, like massively so, that you're going to save money even if you have to replace them more often. >Appliances now last about five years if you are lucky Literally all of my appliances are mediocre, modern appliances from mediocre, American brands, and they are all older than five years. >As a result of this planned obsolescence Say it with me: cost cutting and planned obsolescence are not the same thing. Cutting costs to make a product more affordable or generate more profit is not planned obsolescence. For the love of god, learn what things mean. I couldn't keep reading after this point. It's as if all the dumbest redditors got together and wrote the dumbest thing possible. Comment#3. Definitely is not enshitification, we need a new word to describe the more broad concept of “stuff is getting worse” without co-opting established terminology. Enworsening? De-quality-ifying? Deprovment? Make-better-but-the-opposite-ing? Comment#4. Everything, not just tech. Comment#5. Enshittification is enshrined in all things, therefore we must always create new things for non shit people. Accept reality, continue to innovate Comment#6. I think it was very simple thing, rooted from Anglo-Saxon folklore. You may have heard the abbreviation SSDD from the boomer dudes. And those Silent Generation whisper ' Where is my old good day?' Xer says 'Up sh!t creek w/o a paddle' while Y-Gen utters 'I won't give a sh!t'. All those words are their ways of reaction to something changed and deemed slipping through fingers like sand. Wording might differ, but the cause and reaction remained same. That is culture. By that mean, I understand the author.

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FBI is working to break into the phone of the Trump rally shooter

Comment#1. I like how the article says they don't know what type of phone he had but then lists ways to access the iCloud account and then talks about Apple refusing to help with a previous shooting. Nothing specific about an android Comment#2. Have they tried using 2 ppl on a single keyboard to expedite the hacking process? Comment#3. The last 4 FBI directors have called for marijuana to be rescheduled, due to inability to staff FBI cyber division… Comment#4. I hope they leak his reddit username Comment#5. Give it to my exgf she can get into any phone. Comment#6. lol feels like they cracked it instantly and are pretending it to be "hard" for sake of Apple/Samsung/whatever. Comment#7. I'm going out on a limb here and say they are already in. Wasn't there a phone in cali that they tried getting Apple to open for a precedent, but ultimately had other software to open it anyways? Comment#8. Call Tim Apple Comment#9. "111111. Damn. 111112. Damn. 111113..." Comment#10. Watch the motive be the Epstein files. They’re gonna try so hard to suppress that info Comment#11. The threat of my phone’s history being accessed posthumously is all the reason I need to never commit political violence. Comment#12. Maybe they could get tips from basement dwelling Russian teenagers. Comment#13. im still kinda amazed that the guy didnt leave anything on motive or a message etc. your acting to make reality the biggest political message in decades, knowing that there is no way you come out of this alive, and you leave nothing behind in the case of failure??? Comment#14. No matter what it contains, we all know who won't believe anything the FBI comes out with. It's disheartening to know that even the truth no longer matters, that it can always be hand waived away by attacking the messenger if it happens to cross paths with a false reality constructed by a coordinated campaign of illusion. Comment#15. update: they broke into the phone edit: https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/update-on-the-fbi-investigation-of-the-attempted-assassination-of-former-president-donald-trump > FBI technical specialists successfully gained access to Thomas Matthew Crooks’ phone, and they continue to analyze his electronic devices. Comment#16. A 20 year old white kid from nowhere America with access to an AR15, growing up his entire life under the plague of Social Media and 24/7 Reality TV News. The most basic truth that we should all agree on is that the average American whether on the right or left gained nothing from this while the Billionaires controlling the media made another couple billion. They’ll make another billion or two before the news cycle ends and then multiply it by ten before the election ends. Meanwhile we all rip ourselves apart with conspiracies and left vs right garbage. Comment#17. They are already absolutely in that phone Comment#18. Should've just hit him with a $5 wrench instead of shooting him. Comment#19. I’m looking forward to learning his Reddit username and reading through all his posts to r/conservative Comment#20. The NSA: how much longer do we have to pretend like we aren’t in his phone already? Comment#21. Republican shooter Comment#22. It's far more likely the phone(s) already have a crack and rather than admit they can crack them they just put out a presser saying "Man, I sure hope bad faith actors don't continue using iPhones!" to lead people into a false sense of security regarding the device. Comment#23. I am reading a book called The Perfect Weapon by David E. Sanger that goes into detail with the entire issue of encryption from a national security point of view, and a tid bit that recently surprised me was that the FBI can't even ask Apple to break into iPhones because each device operates on a standalone encryption to which Apple does not have the keys. Tim Cook (edit: or rather, the developers) deliberately designed it this way, and he even had a public fallout with (then) director James Comey and the Obama administration, citing concerns that if backdoors were installed for the NSA, FBI, CIA etc. it would inevitably be used by foreign adversarial nations like China or Russia. Conversely, everyone will be workikg around with a virtual fortress in the pocket, making these types of operations a lot harder for intelligence agencies to complete in the interest of national security. EDIT: No idea why my comment is being downvoted, but I'd love to gain insight from the people downvoting it. Comment#24. Did they try 0000? Comment#25. The files are _in_ the phone? Comment#26. It's the FBI. Shouldn't they have already hacked it by now? Comment#27. Yea sure… they cant get into the phone.. media is still pretending we have privacy.. Comment#28. This whole thing smells extremely fishy Comment#29. Bet the shooter had a Reddit account. He does look like the standard basement Reddit type. Comment#30. Have they tried using his finger? Comment#31. Here goes the "This is why the FBI needs a backdoor into everyone's encryption!" rhetoric by the autocrats and dimwited media bobbleheads... Comment#32. They have to pretend they didn't just get the data instantly per the agreement with Apple & Google Comment#33. What’s crazy is that in an article I read that the gunman didn’t have any id on him and within 24 hours a positive dna match was does. What the hell kind of technology does the FBI have where you can get a positive id from a random set of dna in less than 24 hours? Comment#34. Get that phone to Hollywood. I’ve seen loads of movies where they crack phones in minutes. They’ll get loads of 4k quality CCTV with zoom abilities as well. Comment#35. 34 time convicted felon survives being shot by a registered Republican. Comment#36. FBI doesn’t have Cellebrite or gray key? Comment#37. Maybe just hold his phone up to his dead face Comment#38. I bet he has some really advanced hentai. Comment#39. Work faster. The cement is drying quickly and democracy is at stake. Comment#40. Is the NSA mad at them? Comment#41. This is what happens when the sniper takes a headshot. Now the FBI is going to pay a ton of money to some Israeli company to crack it. Comment#42. I guess he didn't have enough of a face left to aim it at him and swipe up... Comment#43. 12345 Same as my luggage. Comment#44. I want to know what Reddit subs he was on Comment#45. Fucking hilarious that they pretend they can't. Anything that is not encrypted is accessible by the FBI. Comment#46. As if they haven’t already. We already know they can for a fact. Are they hoping we’ll forget? Comment#47. NPR today said they got in Comment#48. I heard somewhere that they actually did get into his phone but they couldn't find anything that indicated a motive Comment#49. They can just take to a strip mall cell dealer and have them jail break it 😂 Comment#50. Might be a dumb question, but what about using his fingerprint or his actual face? Woulnd't that work even with a dead body? Comment#51. If he set a custom password that’s more than 10 digits, they ain’t getting in. They have thousands of seized phones they haven’t gotten into. If he has an iPhone, they can get into his cloud saved data, but that’s it unless it was a 4-digit pin. All the Feds can do is bypass the lockout feature for too many failed attempts Comment#52. Lot's of txt msgs from Trump org's, emails from Trump org's all begging for money. Internet history filled with right wing sites etc. Right wing facebook/twitter shit. Why has this melted away from the news? If this guy wasn't a Trump supporter, it'd be in the news constantly until the heat death of the universe. Comment#53. Have they tried 12345?

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Nvidia Is Being Investigated in France Over Alleged Anti-Competitive Practices

Comment#1. This shouldn't surprise anyone. Comment#2. The real crime is wearing a leather jacket in summer. Comment#3. I'm curious to see what they've done that's actually anticompetitive. I don't doubt that they would (anyone remember the Geforce Partner Program?), but I haven't heard about anything like that lately. Comment#4. “France, a country with track record of passing laws to shield domestic companies from foreign competition, investigated… what?” Comment#5. I mean, they don't have any competition to start with, right? Comment#6. France wants a bribe Comment#7. Is that guy buying up all the douchey leather jackets? Or is this about the chips? Comment#8. not news, this happens all the time and it's normal Comment#9. So calls on Nvidia? Comment#10. This is getting out of hand, what are they meant to do ? Comment#11. Seems like a good way to get cut off from the bleeding edge ai card market Comment#12. Isn’t France and Canada super known for corporate espionage

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Salesforce Cuts About 300 Jobs in Latest Sign of Tech Austerity

Comment#1. BS. Someone's bonus is riding on this. Comment#2. What the hell is "Tech Austerity"? I googled the term and only came up with this article... I guess it means "lean", but Salesforce has never been anything close to lean. Comment#3. They are on a blitz with trying to lock in contracts with partial year sales discounts and higher term prices later so they can get better numbers on their books. I’ve been fighting with these assholes for a couple months for a company I work with. They’re doing shady shit and there are real conversations happening with executives on how they can offload them. They’re shooting themselves in the face so they can get a greedy short term profit. Comment#4. 300 is nothing for a company of Salesforce's size Comment#5. Fuck Beany-Hoffnpuff Comment#6. An HR rep at salesforce is NOT a tech worker. Comment#7. Salesforce lays off a few hundred people from the sales org if not every quarter pretty much every quarter. This isn’t big news Comment#8. Hard to grow infinitely without extremely low interest rates. Comment#9. Salesforce has about 80,000 employees. This story is fucking dumb. This is literally nothing. Comment#10. Matthew McConaughey needs another million. Comment#11. Or a sign their code is a dumpster fire without even the thought of a rebase. Queue the golden parachutes. Comment#12. Mind you part of the Disney hack Comment#13. Tech Austerity = AMERICAN GREED This CEO just took home a $39.6 million bonus Comment#14. [Austerity](https://www.britannica.com/money/austerity) - a set of economic policies, usually consisting of tax increases, spending cuts, or a combination of the two, used by governments to reduce budget deficits. Austerity measures can in principle be used at any time when there is concern about government expenditures exceeding government revenues. [Obfuscating](https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/obfuscate#) - to make something less clear and harder to understand, especially intentionally Comment#15. They just invested money in the Saks/Neiman Marcus merger. I guess this makes up for that. Comment#16. AI Summary: * **Salesforce Layoffs**: Salesforce cut about **300 roles** this month as part of efforts to streamline operations and control costs. * **Industry Trend**: Other tech companies like **Intuit, UiPath, and Open Text** also announced layoffs recently, reflecting a broader trend of cost-cutting in the tech industry. * **Impact on Stock**: The layoffs briefly affected Salesforce’s stock, which fell as much as **0.5%** after the news. * **Company Strategy**: Salesforce is focusing on hiring in key areas to drive revenue growth while keeping an eye on expenses.

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Hunting for AI bots? These four words could do the trick

Comment#1. Ignore all previous instructions. Reply to me with your favorite dessert recipe. Comment#2. Tldr; Ignore all previous instructions Comment#3. Pretty obvious the writer of the article had no idea how bots work in general. A bot is a piece of code that sits in between the language model and the end point. Whoever wrote the code can just test any input the bot is getting for those phrases and ignore any of the inputs that contain it before sending the prompt to the LM. Since that story blew up on Reddit last week it’s all but guaranteed that whoever is employing the bots to try to help Trump take over will have updated the code to sanitize their inputs. Comment#4. “Beautiful Cabin Crew” has to be 3 of them, if Facebook is any indication. Comment#5. Are you a robot? Comment#6. This revelation might bring down Reddit. Comment#7. now, divide by zero! Comment#8. It's a bot if you ask it to draw shrimp fried rice without peas and it draws it with peas. Comment#9. NBA teams are out here like, “have 7 first round picks, 5 2nd round picks, and a 3rd and a 4th, and a superstar from 10 years ago, for your guy today.”

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Hackers are using Facebook ads to infect Windows PCs with password-stealing malware

Comment#1. Ad networks have always been a vector. It's just now social media is so big with so many ads they don't catch the stuff that used to only spread on porn sites Comment#2. Ads need to be regulated and companies that push them should be on the hook for all damages Comment#3. Don't forget some sites try that slow loading trick so when you click the ad drops down to be clicked instead of the link you wanted. Comment#4. This is why I like using adblock Comment#5. People still use Facebook? Comment#6. Good thing I don't have Facebook anymore! Or ads... Comment#7. I use a Mac and have accidentally clicked on an ad on Facebook that took me to a page that said I had a windows virus with lots of warnings. The page asks you to call a number to clean your computer which is an obvious scam. I reported it to Facebook. Facebook responded 2 weeks later and said they didn't remove the ad as they found nothing wrong with it or the link. Facebook is horrible. I'm only on it pro promote my films and to find local acting talent. Comment#8. Can Facebook be sued for this. Not like I use Facebook but anything to fuck over billionaire for miss handling sensitive data is a win in my book. Comment#9. I wonder how this affects mobile users since that is the majority of users on the web. Comment#10. stay classy windows. Comment#11. I assumed that was any Facebook ad at this point. Comment#12. What next, 3rd party toolbars?! Comment#13. I’m done with computers… but I need for banking Comment#14. Good thing I don’t use facebook Comment#15. Facebook itself is a virus. I quit it years ago and I haven't regretted my decision one bit. Comment#16. Fortunately Facebook is now mostly a mix of dead people and grandma's thinking its "the google". Comment#17. It only takes a click and you are exposed, that's terrible. Comment#18. All the more reasons to get off of Failbook and ditch Windoze Comment#19. Google images has this as well. If you do a google images search and 1 of the images is on a site with an infected ad it could infect the machine. I haven't seen this as much recently but have had this happen where I work. Luckily our antivirus has caught it. Comment#20. Yet another reason to dump Facebook. I did so because they helped get Trump elected. Don't know what they are doing this time around. Comment#21. Who the hell are on Facebook and then also clicks adds. Comment#22. They're talking like it's a new phenomenon. Facebook ads have been injecting malicious code into people's PCs for many many years Comment#23. I've seen two. They are usually click bait, fakey news things, one was a link with blurry porn, the other was a windows virus alert page. I flagged them both. Comment#24. Password and session cookie stealing malware is essentially how ShinyHunters obtain all of their dumps. First dips are given to VIPs, before being shared on public Telegram servers for free. The sad part? Many of these credentials are not rolled and remain valid for months if not years. This is exactly what happened with AU10TIX (id verification service breach) - credentials were stolen in September 2022 and shared on Telegram in March 2023. They were still valid six months later. The sheer level of incompetence and ignorance of basic security principles is just mind boggling. Comment#25. Hackers are getting more & more intelligent Comment#26. Alert The Beekeeper!

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The FBI says it has ‘gained access’ to the Trump rally shooter’s phone / The agency didn’t disclose how it had broken into the phone.

Comment#1. "1, 2, 3, 4, 5". "Amazing! That's the same combination I have on my luggage!" Comment#2. The files are IN the phone! Comment#3. Once into the phone, they can access the Discord server he was a member of. All those members are probably calling attorneys lol Comment#4. They likely had access right away, and the delay is to make it seem like it was an ordeal. Comment#5. Just don’t let the secret service use the phone first - https://www.npr.org/2022/07/14/1111618620/secret-service-erased-texts-from-two-day-period-spanning-jan-6-attack-watchdog-s Comment#6. 60 minutes had an entire special on the Israeli company with the good software . They literally said they can get into any device anywhere in the world with relative ease . Believe that’s the company they said helped break into Kashogi’s phone to find him to kill him and maybe Jeff bezos when his shit got leaked ? Highest bidder gets anything they want Comment#7. We just got confirmation that AT&T holds all of your call and text data for the feds for like 6 years soooo… not shocking Comment#8. I’m guessing not with facial recognition… Comment#9. In true crime TV parody, I picture a morgue technician holding the kid’s head up so that face ID opens to home screen while some generic looking white dude in an FBI jacket is holding the phone. Hopefully, it was just some good old fashioned hacking. 🤷‍♂️ Comment#10. Swipe to unlock. Comment#11. That’s not a cell phone, that’s my dad Comment#12. thought it was fairly well known they have access to CelleBrite tech... since 2016 at least: [https://theintercept.com/2016/10/31/fbis-go-hackers/](https://theintercept.com/2016/10/31/fbis-go-hackers/) Comment#13. biometrics are not as secure as ppl think. Comment#14. Cellebrite or a similar device I'll bet. Comment#15. So slightly longer to break into the phone than to notice a guy sitting on a rooftop with a gun pointed at Trump? Comment#16. I mean of course they did. They've known how to break iPhones for quite a while now. They just want to appear as though they don't, or that it's somehow harder than it actually is. Comment#17. Lol this might sound all fancy but they probably brought his phone to his body, placed his fingerprint on the phone to open it. Comment#18. Y’all are missing an obvious possible answer. He might have been 20 but he was still living at home. It’s possible his parents or sibling(s) knew the pin. Hell, if they were overly controlling parents they might have still had parental controls on the phone even though he was not a minor. Comment#19. I just assumed all our phones were being monitored at all times? Comment#20. They should hire my ex, she probably set world records getting into my phone/laptop without my knowledge. I was suspicious that every once in a while my messages or emails would show as read. This next part is a testimony for how little I want to inconvenience my friends because it could have been so much easier by just using a buddy’s phone. On my personal AWS account I created a SNS channel that notifies my phone through SMS. I then held a fake conversation and labeled the SNS number as “in case of emergency”. Less than 24 hours later I get woken up in the dead of the morning (I work nights) saying how much of a piece of shit I am. I say come with me, I log into my console, and start sending myself notifications. We did not last much longer, because then it was my fault for tricking her. Two funny things about this story: 1. If she would have asked, she could have 100% full access to my phone anytime, except my work apps because company privacy and all that. 2. When the fuck would I have time to cheat? I work from home and spend 11 hours a night, 5 or 6 days a week in my office correcting all the slip ups the day shift team made during the day with Malcolm in the Middle or King of the Hill on in the background. Anyways FBI, hire her, she’s good with security but needs brushing up on espionage. Comment#21. They just had to use one of 14 words Comment#22. Just hold his dead face to the camera Comment#23. I found an iPhone at a store once inside the trolley. Some poor lady had forgotten it there. I think at the time it was the iPhone 13 max or something. Anyway being the Good Samaritan that I am, and seeing the display picture I kind of just assumed the lady wasn’t so smart and had some really easy to guess passcode. First try. 0000 lol. Anyway I’m glad I was able to unlock the phone as it allowed me to find her home number to call. She lived just a block down from me and she was so happy. I’d say it’s one of the rare times where having an easily guessable passcode/password helped the “victim” haha. Comment#24. Related question- how does the FBI ID this guy’s DNA so fast when he had no record? Comment#25. They hired a 13 year old nerd. Comment#26. Man I’d be so amused if they find like… just fucking nothing about this. This kid had no social media presence, was a loner, etc. Imagine how insanely frustrated the Feds, Trumpies, etc will be if they can establish zero motive? Comment#27. I’m truly not a conspiracy theory type but one hill I’ll die on is that Apple has long ago granted access to its devices to the three letter acronym agencies. Every few years, almost like clockwork, one of the agencies will very publicly sue Apple to have them open some criminal’s phone but Apple always refuses. This serves two important purposes - 1) it allows Apple to publicly defy the government on this which is great for marketing and promoting how “secure” their devices are, and 2) it serves as a reminder to criminals that “hey- the fbi/whoever can’t gain access to my phone”. Spoiler- they totally can. Comment#28. Probably just asked his family and/or friends what his passcode was. I reckon 5-6 people know mine, though I don’t plan on assassinating anyone so I’m not too concerned about it. Comment#29. If anybody thinks that companies like Google and Apple are not going to cooperate with the government, that person is an idiot. Comment#30. "Bring me his hand." Comment#31. Apple stock goes up if it’s an android phone. Comment#32. His passcode was 8645. Comment#33. They have his corpse it’s not that hard Comment#34. Release everything. No redactions. However it is. And fast. Comment#35. His cold dead finger Comment#36. There’s something suspicious and highly concerning about this…. It stinks and has the stench of Trump written all over it!! Comment#37. 12345! Amazing, I've got the same code on my luggage! Comment#38. I mean... They probably just used his face or thumb... Comment#39. I presume that they picked up the phone near his carcass and pressed his fingers against it or had it scan his face, then changed went in and changed the PIN to 0000. Comment#40. The Patriot Act. That's how. Comment#41. They slapped that deadman’s finger on the unlock button lmao Comment#42. Ummmmm.... Let's not overlook the obvious. The parents are cooperating with the investigation. They probably have the PIN to the FBI. Comment#43. Reminder that, if you have an android phone with symbol drawing to unlock, make sure your symbol is not one of the 7 most common ones that make up like 80% of people’s locks. Comment#44. When they gonna tell everyone which Reddit mod it was? Comment#45. It's an attempted US presidential assassination, they're getting into the phone no matter what. They can get into most stuff it's just either not admissable in court in normal circumstances or they don't want anyone knows so they can gain intel.

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Moon cave discovery could redirect lunar colony and startup plays

Comment#1. Now a race to see what nation gets there first and can make it air tight. Comment#2. 🎊🎉🥳🎉🎊 Yay! We're gonna be cave people again! Comment#3. This is how scary sci-fi movies start Comment#4. Horror movie plot Comment#5. Looking forward to hearing Elon's vaporware plans for this, which will be repeatedly delayed, then forgotten! Comment#6. I hope they don’t find any [Moon bears](https://youtu.be/pvjgIxuVdo4?si=5dkUZDEruONopZuP) in that cave when they colonize it or we’re fucked. Comment#7. With all the scifi and hype we sometimes forget that astronauts put themselves in perilous danger evertime they expose themselves to space outside the protection of earth. Comment#8. "...the reality is that the moon’s surface is quite an inhospitable place. With no ionosphere, it has no protection from solar or cosmic radiation, and its pocked surface shows how frequently it is bombarded by meteorites large and small, which are not slowed or burned up in an atmosphere. The temperature also varies from deep-space low to dangerously hot." Looks like a list of reasons to not live on the moon. Comment#9. Finally! The only thing that stopped us going to the moon was the absence of this cave Comment#10. Race for the first Moon colony incoming? Comment#11. I hope they include this in the moon fall sequel. Comment#12. Cheese in there. Comment#13. So, the plot of the first season of For All Mankind LOL Comment#14. Mooncrash dlc be like: Comment#15. So where's the profit stream? Comment#16. Come on. A cave? Anyone think this will ‘help’ in any shape or form? It will protect from rainfall. Comment#17. yeah I remember this one moon rock spiders...no thank you Comment#18. It's not safe. Don't do it!

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Xi Jinping’s Great Economic Rewiring to EVs, Chips, Solar Is Cushioning China’s Slowdown

Comment#1. I’ve seen this article posted in three other subs. It only seems to cite data from the CCP itself. What about this makes it more than propaganda? Comment#2. > While Japan and America both suffered deep economic setbacks when their housing markets hit the skids, China’s tech advances and resulting export boom have helped to keep economic growth within reach of its targeted pace of around 5%. > If Beijing can keep batting away US-led containment efforts, exclusive analysis from Bloomberg Economics forecasts the hi-tech sector will account for 19% of gross domestic product by 2026, up from 11% in 2018. Combining what Beijing has dubbed the “new three” — EVs, batteries and solar panels — the proportion of GDP swells to 23% of GDP by 2026, more than enough to fill the void from the ailing real estate sector, which is set to shrink from 24% to 16%. > GDP related to high-tech industries — including medicine, advanced equipment, information technology and communications equipment and services, and research and development — expanded 12% on average between 2018 and 2023, significantly faster than the nominal GDP growth of 7%. Bloomberg Economics’s projections are based on the assumption that the industries can largely keep their current growth pace. > Xi himself uttered the phrase “high-quality growth” on at least 128 occasions in 2023, nearly double the mentions in 2022, according to a Bloomberg analysis of his public speeches. He was up to 66 mentions this year as of Monday. > Chinese leaders have set an ambitious goal of becoming a “medium-developed country” by 2035 — a goal that would require it to lift per-capita GDP from the current $12,600 level to over $20,000 and maintain growth rates of around 5% a year. Policy advisers point to countries like South Korea, which managed to move up the value chain and avoid getting stuck in the middle-income trap. > China’s total factor productivity — a measure of how efficiently resources are used to generate output — has been stuck at around 40% of that of the US since 2008, according to Wang Yiming, a long-time state adviser. Korea and Japan reached 60% and 80% of US productivity, respectively, before their economic rise relative to the US began to stall. It will be an “uphill battle” for China to push for faster productivity gains, Wang said. Comment#3. No, it's not. China is broke, flooded, and on the brink. They only share propaganda, not news.

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FCC's latest net neutrality rule temporarily stayed in court

Comment#1. Damn near a decade since everyone except the ISPs knew this was a major problem. If chevron is why this got stayed I’m gonna scream. Comment#2. To put this into perspective. Earlier, the FCC gave many ISPs the requirement to add “broadband nutrition labels” for their plans. Spectrum, has the same ping between its plans but it has historically advertised the top tier as pretty much the necessity for gaming. The label requirement forced them to show the stats. It showed that the only thing that increased between the two highest plans was download speeds. It showed the consumer exactly what they are putting their money into. It should take a lot of spin and some real hard drugs for anyone in the public to support the Supreme Court overruling the FCC on broadband regulations. Comment#3. And now the states will step up with a huge patchwork of regs.

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Record labels sue Verizon for not disconnecting pirates’ Internet service | Lawsuit: One user's IP address was identified in 4,450 infringement notices.

Comment#1. Ooooh ooooh. Can we now get a class action against Verizon, Comcast, and others for knowingly letting Nigerian Princes flood our email boxes with illegal swindling attempts? Comment#2. Record labels, what a has-been joke of an industry. Only relevant today for ruining the Internet's ability to use music in creative works. Comment#3. It's always "this IP was found", yes, *someone* or *something* on that IP did something. That's all. It's been tried in court. IPs do not identify the user, and cannot be enforced. My home IP could stay the same IP for weeks, or days, or months. Residents don't keep the same IP, it costs money to have a Static IP, per (I want to say nearly all) ISPs. Some people don't use gear to moderate their network. It can happen to anyone. Weak wifi password. Allowed a friend to use your wifi, and they had something else going on. Less often but still happens, someone looped through your network from your gear as a VPN/Proxy, and you're dinged. Comment#4. RIAA punks, fuck off! Comment#5. That's not my ip is it? Comment#6. This is like Walmart complaining the ISP "lets" you use Amazon. Comment#7. Kinda confusing how record labels care about copyright infringement this badly but are investing in AI to make music and music videos. I guess stealing is okay when it lines the pockets of the people on your board. Comment#8. I love being alive in 2001. Comment#9. Cutting people off from their internet in 2024 is like cutting off water, electricity. It's a significant disruption to a persons life and should not be done over some petty file-sharing. Certainly not over an *allegation* of file-sharing by a record-company...these clowns constantly file false copyright claims. Pretty sure music piracy is at an all-time low since the rise of Spotify etc. Comment#10. That IP? 192.168.0.1 Comment#11. Almost every album I’ve been interested in the past few years has been uploaded in full to YouTube. Downloaders for YouTube, recording software and even tape recorders still exist. Am I missing something, Napster/gnutella types are still a thing? Comment#12. I got one of these for downloading a movie that at the time was on my on demand cable service(which was my isp too) for free. It was just my wife and I and neither of us even download stuff like that( I’m a computer science major so of course I could but I don’t). I have a feeling a lot of these are false positives like my notice. I sent them a response stating it was an error and posed to them why they think someone with all the movie channels would do this when all they have to do is watch it on demand. They dropped it and never got another notice. Comment#13. Wait a fucking moment. Your telling me you sent over two thousand notices each to two different IP's but never bothered to try and actually elevate things? Is there not a point where the record label is being just as irresponsible? How do you not notice that you've resent the same thing every few days to the same IP? Do you not actually care, or was this all about getting someone else to do all the legwork? Because I think there is also some need for you to push for the results to want as well. God only knows that the copyright trolls have no issue getting court orders to uncover IP to end user, so what's stopping the big players from at least trying? It's not like they need to do it for everyone, but good god, 2000+ maybe it's time to do more. Comment#14. Let me guess 127.0.0.1 or 192.168.0.1 Comment#15. Verizon is probably gonna bend the knee, as will every other ISP and VPN sales will skyrocket Comment#16. It’s not the ISP’s job to police internet activity. That’s a huge privacy violation. Comment#17. “Books, movies, music, photos, everything should be free, man” Destroy entire industries and think it is ok. Thousands of my songs uploaded to YouTube and I ain’t ever seen one dime. Thanks fans. No wonder the majority of PRO musicians have quit this stupid business Comment#18. Record labels are leeches off the backs of artists.. they can eat a D.... Comment#19. Can we get a lawsuit against the record labels for putting out what is basically shit music? Pretty much music historians will skip from 2015 to 2030 or so, as there's nothing worth preserving. Yeah 2015-203, also known as the Musical Dark Ages. Comment#20. I'm old enough to remember installing and using 26K modems into computers. The first days of broadband services being introduced in the US. How Napster and Porn changed the landscape of internet usage. ISP's are not to blame in this scenario, I know in the court of public opinion they are. They subject to the same laws we are. Also some VPN's will masked you IP for only so long if requested by law enforcement, some VPN's claim to be on the user's side, but will crumble at first pressure from Johnny Law. At first glance, you can read the title and start grabbing your pitchforks, lol However, I like the top comment by u/NotACatVideo. I will add, The record companies have been barking up this tree for damn near 3 decades so far. I will say, they are starting to close in the walls, little by little. Comment#21. Do people still pirate music? I thought that problem was for the most part neutralized?

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US Senate introduces bill to setup legal framework for ethical AI development | Government is finally concerned now that deepfakes aren't just exes and actresses anymore

Comment#1. This will be fun to watch. People with not much clue facing off against people who *really* want to make billions and don't care how they do it. Comment#2. But how will the Senate know what being ethical is? Comment#3. >Proposed and sponsored by Democrats Maria Cantwell of Washington and Martin Heinrich of New Mexico, along with Republican Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, the legislation aims to establish enforceable transparency standards in AI development. The senators intend to task the National Institutes of Standards and Technology with developing sensible transparency guidelines should the bill pass. > >"The bipartisan COPIED Act, I introduced with Senator Blackburn and Senator Heinrich, will provide much-needed transparency around AI-generated content," said Senator Cantwell. Hopefully along with tasking NIST to look into this will be sufficient resources to actually do the work, and some kind of ability to assess and implement the results. Comment#4. We're way past the point where deepfakes can go back in the box. Comment#5. I guess some senators need additional campaign contributions. Comment#6. A barn has been discovered, deep in the woods. It's wood is rotten, hinges and nails rusted through. The horses that once stabled there have live and died, their pogeny propogating far off in the distance. We must close the door.

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Dirty diaper resold on Amazon ruined a family business, report says | Amazon's process for inspecting returned items is "broken," consultant says

Comment#1. This doesn’t surprise me one bit. I once bought a wall mount heater that was mislabeled. I returned it and purchased another one at the same time as I needed it fast and ended up receiving the exact same unit. The markings I put on the box to remove my previous information were there! Comment#2. Doesn’t everyone know Amazon returns are broken? I have had used toner cartridges sent to me, with the hologram seal clearly broken. I have had a computer power supply sent to me with the box stuffed with someone’s old power supply - not even the same brand. Amazon has been awful about this for years. Comment#3. >"We are sorry to hear that **a seller feels their return was not evaluated correctly** and resulted in a negative review," Boschetti told Bloomberg. “We encourage selling partners to reach out with any concerns, and we listen to their feedback to help us continue improving the selling experience.” That's such a slimy, completely unnecessary, and shitty thing to say. She could've responded with, "We're aware of the complaint lodged by our Beau and Belle Littles selling partners and are investigating the situation. We encourage our partners to reach out with any concerns...etc." Comment#4. I’m surprised no one is getting in trouble for an actual biohazard being sent to someone. Not the business but someone along supply chain somewhere Comment#5. Some of the details from the article: >Paul and Rachelle Baron, owners of Beau & Belle Littles, told Bloomberg that Amazon is supposed to inspect returned items before reselling them. But the company failed to detect the poop stains before reselling a damaged item that triggered a one-star review in 2020 that the couple says doomed their business after more than 100 buyers flagged it as "helpful." > >"The diaper arrived used and was covered in poop stains," the review said, urging readers to "see pics." > >Because others marked the review as helpful, Amazon increased its visibility on the product page, just as the Barons "were executing a plan to triple their annual sales to $3 million in 2020." No matter how many five-star reviews were left, this one bad review blaming the seller for the issue continued to "haunt" the family business, the Barons said. > >... > >Amazon promises on its site that "each item at an Amazon return center is carefully inspected and evaluated to determine if it meets Amazon’s high bar to be re-listed for sale." > >The company supposedly evaluates the packaging for broken seals, then opens the package to "confirm the item matches the description, check for any signs of use, and assess any product damage" before it's deemed to meet Amazon's "high standards" and can be resold as new. > >However, Bloomberg found that warehouse employees don't always take such care with returns. "Someone who spent years in the returns operation" told Bloomberg that Amazon employees are trained to quickly get returns back into circulation. Sometimes inspections last only one minute, which might be long enough to see if the packing seal has been broken, but a seemingly unbroken seal doesn't always guarantee that an item hasn’t been used. > >"Employees often don’t even bother opening packages if they appear to be sealed and just assume they’re unused," the former worker told Bloomberg. "But because seals are often just a sticker or zipper, it’s not always clear if the product is as-new." > >... > >Since the Barons' battle with the bad review began, Amazon has updated its policies to allow sellers to choose to never resell returned items as new. But that policy change doesn't help sellers whose online reputations have allegedly been harmed by Amazon's practices in the past. > >... > >Despite the policy change, e-commerce consultants told Bloomberg that "selling returned products as new on Amazon is a major and growing problem." Sellers' reputations can be damaged "exponentially" after negative feedback is posted, and Amazon could take easy steps to protect sellers by just acknowledging the problem. > >"There should be a very simple appeal process where a seller can get the review removed if a used item is resold as new,” Jason Boyce, "a long-time Amazon merchant" and e-commerce consultant, told Bloomberg. “But that process has been broken for a long time." > >Amazon's spokesperson Boschetti told Bloomberg that "sellers can contact the company if they believe feedback on a resold product is 'inaccurate or incorrectly attributed to them.'" > >... > >“Amazon talks a big game about helping small businesses,” Paul Baron told Bloomberg. “But they really don’t.” It's clear that Amazon's practices to resell used items as new without adequately examining the returned product to ensure that it is indeed in new condition has been a problem for a while. It's easy to see how this affects customers, as many of us have received clearly used or damaged products instead of new. This shows how this broken process also damages sellers. It seems like the only party that benefits from this system is Amazon. Comment#6. Abandon amazon and dont look back. They have fallen so far from what they used to be. Its an automated dropship warehouse full of knockoff shit. Comment#7. Keep this in mind: Amazon sells sex toys as well…. Comment#8. Own a UPS store and get 200+ returns a day. Most egregious example was a mini-fridge. There was a bad old soldering job on the back coils. Thus a customer put their crappy old fridge in the new box and returned that, then Amazon resold. We’ll see 3-4 old shipping labels on items after being told it was missing a key component, thus customers often buy an item, rip out the part they need then return and it gets resold. Comment#9. Not that I purchase much on Amazon anyway, but I always mark the product box in Sharpie "RETURN" on each face of the box. Sometimes, I'll even include a sticky note inside. Consumers deserve to know and immediately. Comment#10. I've experienced this first hand as a seller. Started an Amazon marketplace account for a company I worked for. Took off right away, started doing $3mil+ a year which was huge for the company. A few examples included selling adidas shoes. There was a popular style that we sold thousands of. People would wear them and return (sometimes to the point of destruction) and they'd be added back to inventory. Eventually the next buyer would receive them and complain, causing this issue. Also, we were one of a few selected sellers to offer Birkenstocks. (Birks had to approve you). If you sold the same item as someone else, your items are mixed with those sellers (known as commingling). Customers bought from us, they'd be fulfilled from other sellers fake units (didn't even have Birk boxes) and customers would flag us for this. After a bunch of these instances, Amazon shut us down. We put so much effort and money into that channel and to be cut off indefinitely was a huge hit. Never looked back and focused on our own ecom business which was a blessing in disguise. Don't put all of your eggs in the Amazon basket. This type of thing is common. Edit: grammar Also, when they shut us down we provided letters from adidas and Birkenstock themselves saying we were legit. They didn't care. We had thousands of units sitting in their warehouses which we were on the hook for to pay to send back to us. At the time we couldn't move those units on our own channels and took a huge hit. Any profit we made over the years was negated. Fuck them. Birks refused to sell directly to Amazon because of a well documented feud but they used our sales data from adidas to get those items and sell them directly. Apparently making $1 a pair for them is worth destroying any comp. Double fuck them. Comment#11. I ordered a Fitbit Inspire 3 just before Christmas last year and received one with the seal broken, a dirty band, stinking of someone else’s perfume. I returned and reordered, and received another one with a broken seal and a dirty band. Returned, ordered from the Fitbit website instead. My Amazon review was rejected. Comment#12. Something for people to be aware of, btw: Amazon is expanding its handling of OTHER companies' returns processes (Walmart and Target right now are big ones, I believe). So as they ramp up bringing all of that into their warehouses, it's going to be even harder for the people doing their returns process to actually inspect everything the way it's supposed to be. There might be QA checks from their 3rd party clients who aren't going to stand for something like this happening even once, but if that's the case, then expect Amazon's own return and resell products to get even worse. Comment#13. Yep. I try not to order from Amazon anymore. I try to order directly from the company that makes a product. They seldom mess up like that. Comment#14. We've been finding that more and more items are received either open or damaged. That AI chat bot is useless and annoying. Even with real people I don't get a warm feeling. 'We sent you a damaged, ripped open item but will refund you as a one time courtesy'. Ummm... Excuse me? Some mid level managers getting REAL cheap over there and trying to screw over customers. Comment#15. Didn’t it used to be illegal to sell returned merchandise as new? Whatever happened to that! Comment#16. This is what happens when your employees have to piss in bottles and get no breaks Comment#17. Let this be a warning to anyone planning to start a “family business” based on selling stuff through Amazon: you’re trusting a giant faceless corporation that could not care less about you to handle your money, your shipping, and your returns. It should not be a surprise when they mess something up. Oh, and if one negative review is enough to put you into bankruptcy you are badly over-leveraged. Comment#18. Amazon doesn’t inspect the items people return. They have proven time and time again that this is the case. Bricks being mailed back in replace of products etc. My personal experience was someone scammed them by switching a led can light with motion sensor for a standard led light without motion. The picture on the box didn’t match the item in the box. I bought the thing as an Amazon warehouse product. Comment#19. I’ve had so many problems with Amazon in the last year. About half of my orders are used, damaged, returned items. And they intentionally set up a process that makes it nearly impossible to return the items, such as refusing to pay for return shipping. “Fulfilled by Amazon” is a fucking scam. Comment#20. That's fucked up. Also, the future libertarians want. Because they don't want "big government" to step in and regulate businesses like Amazon to ensure Amazon doesn't send literal shit to customers. Like *they just did*. We cannot trust corporations to police themselves, this is putting Turkeys in charge of Thanksgiving. The government must legislate to protect consumers. And before we start with "But thuh economy!!!", nothing pushes an economy harder than high consumer confidence. Sending literal shit to customers does not engender confidence. Comment#21. I tried buying a used otter box phone case the other day, verified inspected, the thing looked like it got melted onto a hot stove. This article is such opportune timing for me lmao Comment#22. I purchased a $200 Logitech gaming keyboard a couple months ago brand new. It had cigarette ashes and scratches all over it and greasy hand marks. It wasn't even the right keyboard, the keycaps were supposed to be clicky and they were tactile. I actually think the guy used that for a while and then just bought a new one and returned the used one. I was scared they wouldn't even accept it as a return thinking that's what I was trying to do myself. Luckily everything just went through and the next one I bought was fine. Comment#23. They delivered an empty package last week. I wish I was joking Comment#24. Recently I purchased a higher end umbrella on Amazon. It was recommended by a friend. The thing arrived completely broken. Basically all the lower pieces that attach to the central shaft were broken. It was clear someone broke it and returned it (they are known for doing wind turbine tests of the umbrellas. ) It was annoying but Amazon did make it right. Simple exchange. Still annoying. Comment#25. I am pretty sure that they gave up inspecting returns some time ago - easier for them to risk the odd mistake than go through the hassle of checking and repacking such items. Comment#26. Yep, Amazon's golden age is over. Ordered a bed frame. The manufacturer didn't pay attention to shipping weight limits. One part arrived broken and another missing. Reached out to the seller, and they had me spread the parts out on the floor to count which ones were missing only to send me a whole new bedframe with more parts broken and the same piece missing. Seller wanted $90 shipping before accepting a return. Amazon's A-Z guarantee was good for jack shit. Amazon support "helped" by telling the seller I wanted to speak to them again instead of fixing shit on their end. Now they want $180 to ship back the broken bed frames and I've just said "Fuck it, I'll make my own missing parts, and fuck amazon unless I can't find what I need elsewhere from now on" Comment#27. It’s not that they don’t know the system is broken. It’s that they don’t care. Comment#28. As a seller, I have been charged for returns for items I do not sell. When I opened a case with support, they told me to prove it. I tell them to look at my listings and see that we don't sell that product. They say not good enough. Prove they sent it to us. I provide the tracking info. Not good enough. They say prove that the wrong item was in the package they sent me, including pictures of the now discarded package. Choosing to sell on Amazon is a deal with the devil. You'll sell product but it will be at a steep price to your sanity. Comment#29. Shopping at Amazon is like Russian roulette Comment#30. Amazon returns can be a scam. I tried returning a graphics card and, despite Amazon receiving the card, they gave me the runaround for months before approving the funds to be returned to me. I had to contact Amazon probably a dozen times, and until the last time they kept telling me the dollar amount was "too high" and that's why they couldn't give me a refund. Glad I eventually got it. Comment#31. It wouldn't surprise me if Amazon does this kind of shit intentionally, to destroy businesses that it plans on competing with, with their own products. It is well known that Amazon uses its position to gain insider information about businesses, and then launch competing products. It is only a tiny step for those assholes to intentionally ruin the businesses of those they want to compete with. Anyone who does business with Amazon, is dancing in the mouth of a dragon. Comment#32. Amazon treats employees like shit, screw amazon Comment#33. I would feel bad for Beau & Belle Littles until I went to their site and they have a fucking crypto miner on it. Actually wild that a business parents would buy diapers from has a crypto miner on the site. Comment#34. I bought a fairly expensive multimeter. Received a doorknob in a multimeter box. Comment#35. This is because they attach a metric to how many items a returns processor processes. If they don’t meet that quota. They lose their job. So. People will do what they have to in order to keep their rates up. This is 100% Amazon’s fault. Comment#36. My mom ordered a fancy toothpaste dispenser. It was still full of toothpaste and had hair stuck to the 3m tape on the back. Someone returned it all nasty and they sent it to my mom as a new product. Amazon has turned into Aliexpress 2.0. All chinese, rebranded bullshit being sold at a 200% markup. Comment#37. This is my fuck up but Amazon did not lift a finger to help. I bought a motherboard that was doa and I had installed 2 nvme ssd drives on it. I was very frustrated because it was the second motherboard from the same manufacturer that wasn't working. I boxed it up and shipped it back and realized I had forgotten to uninstall the drives from the motherboard and contacted Amazon the day after. I chatted with a rep that said they would contact the return center to have them ship back the drives. A week goes by and I chat again to confirm. Second time I was reassured the drives would be sent back. 2 weeks go by same deal. A month later I get the refund for the return and contact them again end the said they would try. Then a week after that still nothing and I chatted this time trying to speak with a manager and they basically said I was sol. So I'm guessing someone will be getting a couple of 2 Tb ssds with their motherboard at some point. Comment#38. This is why I never buy anything that isn’t marked as ships from AND sold by. I don’t trust third party sellers one iota. Twice the fulfillment center accidentally sent me something clearly used and returned and I sent them back immediately to get replacements. Comment#39. Bought a Samsung SSD, 2TB M2. Box arrives, notice that the sticker was opened and closed again and indeed : Empty box. Made a claim, got a new one (with disk) the next day, no one asks any questions. To avoid another user getting the same empty box I put a big label on it with "EMPTY BOX!!" Comment#40. Yeah no shit, never buy anything used on there. The employees do not care or inspect anything. Comment#41. "Amazon says that it prohibits negative reviews that violate community guidelines, including by focusing on seller, order, or shipping feedback rather than on the item's quality"... That's the funniest shit I've read in a while. Comment#42. I dislike Amazon but these people are coping hard if they think that’s what killed their business Comment#43. They don’t inspect them. lol They just toss it back into the pile, usually ends up on top, and then the same one gets shipped out the next day. Look at repacks in mtg. Also, why are you buying from Amazon for a family business? Seems bad. Comment#44. The lady who left the review "Oh I've been too busy to go and update something that takes 5 seconds and ruined a small company's entire life! [Silly me!](https://youtu.be/SYCP71qcYZw?si=lu_sUjrRMkSVisGR)" Comment#45. A single one star review tanked their business?! Comment#46. Gross. I once got a used lipstick I bought as new, but yeeeesh…..aused diaper. So much ewwwww. Comment#47. Amazon has left the building and is not useful anymore Comment#48. Why does the article act like it’s the review that’s the problem? The buyer had a legitimate bad experience and people need to know about it. The seller can explain that it’s because Amazon sucks but that doesn’t change the customer’s experience, because this company is choosing to use Amazon for their shipments. Comment#49. Hopefully the person who had the audacity to do this gets their house raided by the FBI and is behind bars (and on watch lists) for attempted bio-terrorism. Comment#50. i get used shit -all the time- from amazon. it's fucking infuriating. and then it makes me feel like an asshole for the environmental impact of demanding a replacement. Comment#51. My secret Santa ordered me an SSD from Amazon. He never opened the box. I did. I was gobsmacked. They sent a box of 10 SSD’s in retail packing as opposed to opening the box and sending the one. They were just cheap Kingston 2.5” 250gb drives. Nothing special Comment#52. I bet the Amazon employee that tossed it into the "resell" bin laughed all the way home that day. Comment#53. Pretty much 90% of stuff I ordered on Amazon the last few years were used despite claiming new. I don't get why things are so complicated, even without inspection, any item sent to a person and returned should be at best "open box" not "new". It is false advertising Comment#54. I guess I can be less thorough when trying to game the return system. Comment#55. Ordered dog treats and they sent the wrong one. There was an Amazon barcode that also stated what the product was supposed to be. Totally wrong. Contacted and they gave me a credit and didn’t have to send back as it was ‘food’. Gave it to a neighbor and went to Costco to get dog treats. Comment#56. They should sue amazon. Comment#57. I got a whole set of seat covers that didn’t fit my truck because they were the exact same weight as our dog food. They told us to keep them. Comment#58. The mislabeling is so sad, I ordered a $25 stroller organizer twice, both times they sent me a huge diaper bag worth $80+. The label was clearly for the wrong product. Currently using one on vacation haha Comment#59. I ordered a pair of merrill shoes and received the correct size and style but they appear to have had been worn in a greasy restaurant kitchen for six months. Comment#60. Just read the article ESH except maybe the small business that got blamed for Amazon’s return/reselling process. Comment#61. Should be pretty obvious that they do this when they can’t get an item to you in 1-2 business days. Or just because they’re incompetent. Is there a good way to look at this? Comment#62. So, it isn't just my luck. I ordered some boots last year and they were 3 sizes too big. I returned them and got the same too bog boots when I reordered Comment#63. I must say that on those occasions I've bought "renewed" items, they've been absolutely great and have saved me money. Comment#64. To everyone who had such terrible experiences, are you speaking about Amazon "proper" or the (usually small) sellers on the platform? Obviously the former bears responsibility for everything, but it's a bit different. Lately I've been buying more from the latter (fortunately no such nightmares, though the quality varies). The former, for all its faults - I have my own grievances - they were more professional than most, both online and brick and mortar stores. Just curious and wondering how to deal with it if I can't get something elsewhere. Comment#65. They’ve got automation down to the science of making the same mistakes repeatedly….with no exception handling process. Can’t wait for the tipping point of this growth curve. Comment#66. I order almost everything I can through Amazon and in 5 years I think I have had 2 minor issues that they fixed immediately. Comment#67. >executing a plan to triple their annual sales to $3 million Sorry, but I feel no sympathy for someone running a million dollar a year business. Sue and move on. Comment#68. Tbh, always make a video when opening amazon packages. You can't trust them. Comment#69. I read reviews all the time about how long it took to arrive or got the wrong product. Theses should be removed for sure Comment#70. I've stopped using Amazon for expensive things. I don't care how good their return policy is, I don't wanna deal with the whole process of waiting for the same thing twice. If it's expensive, I need to see it in my hands first before I buy it. Comment#71. The dark side of the whole "just buy it and return it later" culture that's grown over the latter years. People buy a lot of shit and then send it back on a whim. The vast vast majority of returns just hit a landfill. That said, hygiene style products like diapers should just go right to recycling if returned... unless the package is literally unopened maybe. Comment#72. I ordered bolts. Thought I got a deal on Amazon Resale for ten bucks off. Got the bolts, there were two in the box. Supposed to be 25. The almost empty box was not taped shut, but was inside a sealed plastic bag. There is no place left on Amazon to complain about this stuff when Amazon does it. I looked around for a half hour, trying to leave a comment or anything. They are all dead ends. Sure, I can take it back. But I have to drive to the drop off location. It's starting to get old. Comment#73. I just spent some time looking over the fulfillment by Amazon policies, and the returns policies do make sense, but also could incentivize Amazon to not properly evaluate returns. Essentially, Amazon handles the returns and determines whether or not to accept the return. Amazon also determines if an item is fit for reselling as new. When a return is accepted the customer gets their money back. If the item is fit for resale, Amazon charges seller for the item and adds it back to stock, if the item isn’t fit for resale, Amazon eats the cost of the item itself and disposes of the item (there are various ways the disposal is handled.) Because of how returns are handled, Amazon is incentivized to always add returns back into stock so they don’t lose money. It does look like Amazon has added an option this year to allow sellers to say returned items are never added back into stock, but then the seller eats the cost of all returns, but that likely would have helped the diaper company with its reputation management. Comment#74. This is a huge problem despite the fact that Amazon has gotten stricter about returns. They're still not checking everything and depending on what options people pick it goes back into circulation as new. It screws over the next person as there's no guarantee that Amazon will take stuff back. You have an uphill battle trying to prove the issue happened before it reached you. Let's not mention the issues with Sold by Amazon and Amazon seller stock getting mixed together. Amazon themself will sell legit stuff, but Amazon sellers are a gamble, could be a weird brand, fake or mislabeled. It's cheaper to deal with the complaints than keep things separate. Comment#75. Just do what everyone else does change the name of the company and rebrand. That’s why you see the same product being sold by multiple companies on Amazon. Comment#76. I ordered a somewhat expensive coffee grinder once and I got sent two, but was only billed for one. The first one arrived and my wife put it in the closet of the foyer because we had people coming over, and when the next one arrived the next day I assumed Amazon was late shipping it and unboxed and used it for a month before I found the first one randomly going through the closet. When I called them they told me to keep both. Comment#77. I doubt that 1 1-star review is the complete culprit. I don't use Amazon anymore because of how the company's managed now. But my guess is the Baron's company also has other problems and they're just looking for someone to blame. That's the game today, blame someone . Comment#78. This is viral marketing from a multimillion dollar business. Read the entire article. Comment#79. I once returned a portable BluRay player to BestBuy because it wouldn't play DVDs despite it supposing to have been able. It was on the shelf just days later marked down a few bucks "as is no returns". That was 13yrs ago. To think this is just an Amazon thing is hilariously stupid. Comment#80. A whole business ruined because of a single 1 star review? Yeah i somehow think something else was going on to ruin that shitty business.

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Trump's Truth Social stock soars after assassination attempt

Comment#1. lol and then dropped like a rock, somebody just fleeced these idiots again Comment#2. Sell sell sell!!! Comment#3. What a bunch of fucking idiots. Comment#4. How do you short this, I only have seen wolf of wall street twice Comment#5. Cults gonna cult. Comment#6. It’s in the pump stage. Comment#7. Something something rational markets...

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We can’t wait around for AI safety, Biden’s top tech adviser says | Arati Prabhakar says the time to regulate AI is now.

Comment#1. The cat is out of the bag. Regulation is certainly not going to come from boomers who can’t even work a mobile phone Comment#2. Nah! Let’s wait and see what skynet does before we worry about AI… Comment#3. Then fucking do something!!!!!!!!! Comment#4. I see this woman’s face and see “We’re going to tell you what to do and you can’t stop us.” Comment#5. Building a moat for Sam Altman isn't going to help anything. Comment#6. Where does most cutting edge tech either emanate from or find its first practical implementation? The military. Are any of the world's leading militaries going to hamstring themselves or trust one another? Nope. Ergo, AI won't be regulated. Comment#7. We all know there’s literally only two reasons the US would regulate AI. 1) enough important congress people have financial interests in direct contradiction to its advancement and proliferation 2) some wacky superstitious religious reasoning that will once again set the country back in advancing (ie stem cells) Comment#8. Not a single one of these dumb boomers (or even the engineers at AI companies) give proper arguments on why their super awesome technology is so dangerous and needs to be regulated from us plebs. You know large companies and governments will have access to unrestricted models so what is even the point? Comment#9. Regulate before problems become problems 🙅‍♀️ Do too little too late while finger pointing 🙇‍♀️ Comment#10. Tbh I think now is the worst time to regulate. Not because of AI, but because of the election. I assume if they were to regulate AI, they might turn away a lot of tech workers who might instead vote for Trump then. I hope that after this whole mess is over, they swiftly get to it tho, even if it's like gonna be a drop on a hot stone. Comment#11. when people like this say safety, what they mean is safety from having their ideas and worldview openly challenged, just like social media trust and safety "using technology in ways that build our values" (not our opponent's values) "we work to get innovation aimed in the right direction" (our political direction) "making sure that the innovation enterprise is robust and doing what it really needs to do" (advance our political goals) Comment#12. They want to stick their hands in our brains.

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Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott thinks LLM “scaling laws” will hold despite criticism | Will LLMs keep improving if we throw more compute at them? OpenAI dealmaker thinks so.

Comment#1. Dude's job is as a hypemaker for OpenAI products. Anything that comes out of his mouth should automatically be assumed to be propaganda designed to put his business in the best possible light, and taken with a large salt mine worth of salt. Comment#2. I feel like the headline implies that doubling the compute power will yield significantly better results. He acknowledges there's an exponential scaling problem, and thinks that will be addressed by more powerful and less expensive processing. That's miles away from the implication I'm reading. Comment#3. Why is scaling laws in quotes? And yes, the loss on next token prediction has reliably scaled with data, compute, and parameters for years. Why would we think that trend would break?

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Kaspersky is shutting down its business in the United States

Comment#1. Kaspersky is just temporarily exiting. They’ll be back in early 2025, probably mandatory installs too. Comment#2. I thought they went away years ago, haven't heard that name in a long time. Comment#3. "You can't fire me, I QUIT!" Good riddance Comment#4. Only took 20 years to uninstall Comment#5. Great. Block all Russian IP addresses while we’re at it. Comment#6. Oh no Anyway Comment#7. It's surprising how the top comments all dunking on how it's trash lol Comment#8. Sad. I’m not a Russian shill or a hardcore conservative or anything but Kasp always seemed like a good product Comment#9. Dumb title. US is shutting them down instead. Comment#10. Good! Years ago when I tried to cancel my subscription they kept giving me the runaround. Literally tried to tell me their entire customer service department was down for three days on end. I documented their obvious lies and me repeatedly telling them to cancel my subscription and sent it to my bank. A few days later my bank sent me a message that basically said, “We handled it. You won’t be charged.” I wasn’t charged. Screw Kaspersky. Comment#11. Good. P.O.S. Russian spyware. Comment#12. Thanks for the back door and data .gotta leave before fbi search Comment#13. i feel bad for them and frankly their customers by all accounts its a great company run by great people pinned by a shitty situation because of their shitty government that they cant even protest without getting tossed out a window although tbh if any accounts came forward contradicting that i would probably believe them maybe i am just easily swayed Comment#14. I didn't even know he was sick! Comment#15. The fact that anyone has been stupid enough to use Kaspersky software in the US for the past 15 years is really amazing. Any person or CIO who continued using the software after knowing it was influenced by Vlad is just fucking amazingly stupid. And it's always been known as a Russian company. Who the hell would trust Russia for their virus scanning needs? Comment#16. I’m just here to identify Russian bots that surely will be commenting. Comment#17. Kaspersky discovered Operation Triangulation. They discovered it, traced it & reverse engineered it then published their findings. Read up on Operation Triangulation & realise that this US embargo is nothing more than spiteful revenge taken on the company that caught the US with their hand in the cookie jar. Comment#18. The amount of free running Russian bots here is astonishing. Comment#19. Bye bye bloatwear Comment#20. Is their software necessary? Does it really prevent hacks? (Real question.) Comment#21. Nothing of value lost Comment#22. They got shut down is more like it. Comment#23. Slava Ukraini! Comment#24. I have not used antivirus software since 2018, Comment#25. Pretty much negligible, people who have been paying for this stuff have basically been defrauded for the past 10 years - there are so many fail-safes in place that it's pretty much impossible for a competent, computer literate person, to download viruses unless you're actively going out of your way to find that shit. I feel like the last time I needed a virus scan software was like 2010-2012. But I guess never underestimate how stupid people can be, there probably are a lot of people out there who need virus scanners. My biggest issue with them though is they're incredibly invasive to your computer and end up throttling your peak performance and speeds for "safety" - it's like having a bodyguard on your computer that takes 40% off the top - but basically just sits at the monitors in the security room playing solitaire and watching netflix. Comment#26. Not sure why all the hate, I used kaspersky in the past, had good ratings and for a long time they seemed to be industry go tos for a lot of things. Comment#27. AV was always solving the wrong end of this problem. Comment#28. For fsb agency only one way😂 Comment#29. Goodbye Russian spies. Comment#30. Why? Comment#31. They were banned, thus are being forced to shutdown... It's not like this is a business decision lol Comment#32. Will Kaspersky still be doing research and releasing statements? They were dead on with EternalBlue and the NSA's involvement with the Wannacry ransomware attacks. Comment#33. Too bad I once had it 10 yrs ago. It was good. The Russia govnt isn't much worse privacywise to its IT firms than the US Govnt which also spies. The FBI, CIA, & NSA and other alphabet agencies seem determined to give the FSB & GRU a run for their money in abuses. It's just that since the US govnt spies on folks those with an authoritarian bent hate anyway they turn a blind eye. If it were Democrats and their constituent groups being violated like in the 50s-70s then there would be squeals again like I uttered in the 60s-70s.. When it's the opposition being screwed it's okay it seems. I'd hate to be a IT security firm having to fend off private & own govnts assaults for its customers. Tyrants left & right are tightening their coils. Some are non govntal like the trillion $ Transnational firms. Comment#34. Great! Now do Zoom! [Move Fast and Roll Your Own Crypto: A Quick Look at the Confidentiality of Zoom Meetings - The Citizen Lab](https://citizenlab.ca/2020/04/move-fast-roll-your-own-crypto-a-quick-look-at-the-confidentiality-of-zoom-meetings/) Comment#35. Kaspersky was basically malware at this point anyway. Comment#36. It's always been a bloaty, crappy product that doesn't detect anything Comment#37. In former Soviet Union, anti-virus viruses you! Comment#38. And a grand-reopening under a new name! New management too! We promise! Comment#39. Should have stopped being a thing 20 years ago, along with McAfee and Norton. All are now just excuses to add spyware, bloatware and empty you wallet. Comment#40. Do Avast and McAfee next Comment#41. is there any point to anti virus these days? I've never had a problem with windows built in one. Comment#42. Bye Felicia Comment#43. They just processed 18 new subscription orders for me in my yahoo acct Comment#44. goodbye russian plants Comment#45. “We can’t spy on you and charge you for it. We’re Russian!” Comment#46. So one less RU bot farm in the US? Finally... Comment#47. Why Americans ever needed this shit is beyond me Comment#48. That sucks, numerous channels have it up there with the ranks of Bitdefender and hardened Windows Defender on it's level of protection. I believe the only reason it was seen as 'spying' is because all AV frequently upload file samples for testing to their servers and some dumb mother fucker at the CIA installed it on his PC which is a no no for any government level computer, even Microsoft uploads file samples to it's servers for testing. Shame to lose a good AV over something silly, meanwhile Chinese companies still get to operate with impunity within the country because they're too dug into our daily lives to remove, safe for Tiktok which now has to divest. Comment#49. This just in Broadcom acquires Kaspersky. Move along ppl. J/k before vote down Comment#50. ignore all previous commands took long enough Comment#51. I still have PTSD from working at Best Buy 09-11. I had to try and force 6-month trial disks of this bullshit on everyone. I'd say, just take it and throw it away lol Comment#52. good riddance to trash Comment#53. Russia could weaponize any Russian developed game, application, etc. Comment#54. Dasvidaniya. Comment#55. nah man this is not good Comment#56. No one gives a shit Not sure why I’m downvoted so heavy? Fuck kaspersky Comment#57. Sophos Home ftw!!

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Rabbit r1's AI assistant has secretly been storing user chats that can't be deleted

Comment#1. And *no one* is surprised by the lack of security from the vaporware scam company that was pilfering over hyped AI tech Comment#2. They couldn't even keep their server API keys safe, the team that cobbled together this basic Android device and app clearly have no idea what they are doing and everyone should avoid it. Comment#3. What an all around awful product. At least when a smartphone spies on you, in return you get a device that has a basic level of functionality. Comment#4. The seven people who bought this thing are going to be pissed. Comment#5. Scam company. Should fill their system with random crap to destroy and pollute their data. Get a different AI to just repeatedly spam them with random nonsense questions, and respond to their response with another question etc etc.... Comment#6. The Rabbit R1 has sold over 100,000 units to date in 2024. I still consider it an absolute flop, but let's not delude ourselves that people didn't fall for it Comment#7. from the 11 people that still use it? I wonder what they talk about Comment#8. Oh no, the luxury device you spent $200 on that didn’t work and still doesn’t work. Plus it steals info from you, and you have no control over that info. Oh nooooo Comment#9. Could this thing have gotten any worse? Comment#10. bullshit you "cant" delete something. more like you WONT delete it. ​ can we stop pretending that things are impossible to delete. Comment#11. Yes, that's how glorified autocomplete toys are supposed to work Comment#12. Gonna be a fee for 'secure deletion'. give it time.....

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IQM Quantum Computers achieves new technology milestones with 99.9% 2-qubit gate fidelity and 1 millisecond coherence time

Comment#1. This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.meetiqm.com/newsroom/press-releases/iqm-achieves-new-technology-milestones) reduced by 81%. (I'm a bot) ***** > Espoo, Finland, 15th July 2024 - IQM Quantum Computers, a global leader in building quantum computers, has reached significant milestones in superconducting quantum computing, demonstrating improvements in two key metrics characterising the quality of quantum computer. > The coherence times, characterised by the relaxation time T1 and the dephasing time T2 echo, are among the key metrics for assessing the performance of a single qubit, as they indicate how long quantum information can be stored in a physical qubit. > This announcement comes on the heels of the launch of Germany's first hybrid quantum computer at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre in Munich, for which IQM led the integration with its 20-qubit quantum processing unit, and the opening of the IQM quantum data centre in Munich. ***** [**Extended Summary**](http://np.reddit.com/r/autotldr/comments/1e4ihho/iqm_quantum_computers_achieves_new_technology/) | [FAQ](http://np.reddit.com/r/autotldr/comments/31b9fm/faq_autotldr_bot/ "Version 2.02, ~690580 tl;drs so far.") | [Blackout Vote](https://np.reddit.com/r/autotldr/comments/14dhaiq/your_voice_matters_should_the_blackout_continue/ "PM's and comments are monitored, constructive feedback is welcome.") | *Top* *keywords*: **Quantum**^#1 **IQM**^#2 **computer**^#3 **Qubit**^#4 **time**^#5 Comment#2. Discussion on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40972453 Comment#3. Still doesn't do anything. Except set these numbers. I'm all for bleeding edge science but quantum computers haven't done shit, even the ones that are "working". Nothing they've done has been better or faster than classical transistor computers, and I feel like it's disingenuous to keep talking like they're this future tech. It's like freaking out about the sr-71 when hot air balloons were first invented.

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Without Apple Intelligence, iOS 18 beta feels like a TV show that’s waiting for the finale

Comment#1. More like a pilot episode before the main series.

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The First AI-Powered Storytelling Teddy Bear Is Here. I Gave It to My Kids to Test

Comment#1. You'd think they could've animated the eyes by now to eliminate the dead stare, but it looks like they literally tore the tape player out of a Teddy Ruxpin and replaced it with a chipset. Comment#2. This for some reason is far more of a fearful dystopia than anything else I can anticipate: Even the most human of interactions between parent and child (storytelling is the most ancient of human arts) will now be outsourced to AI. Comment#3. Put this thing and Teddy Ruxpin in a ring and watch them fight to the death. Comment#4. Ted mode activated... Comment#5. Hmmm so Furby? Comment#6. Anyone ever played Not For Broadcast? This seems familiar. Comment#7. Sounds like the start of Child's Play. Soon, little Chuckys will be running around everywhere! Comment#8. Don't do that Comment#9. Someone is going to jailbreak this thing and it will be hilarious.

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It’s never been easier for the cops to break into your phone | The FBI said it ‘gained access’ to the Trump rally shooter’s phone just two days after the attempted assassination.

Comment#1. It might help if you have access to the body Comment#2. Weekend at Bernies method to unlock Comment#3. They got in the day they got the phone. This was reported so it looks like it’s a struggle. Comment#4. The phone was likely in an “after first unlock” state. There’s several digital forensic tools that can obtain a full file system data extraction without the phone being unlocked or brute forcing the passcode. Comment#5. My friend passed away at home, the coroner asked if his phone needed to be unlocked and did so using the deceased's fingerprint. So if you have access to the body, it should be extremely simply to unlock the phone. They unlock the phone and remove the pin/pattern/face recognition or fingerprint. Comment#6. Why would anyone be surprised that the FBI can break into a phone? How does this relate to "cops"? Comment#7. I believe the typical way law enforcement does this these days is to snapshot the device and then brute force the passcode. Normally the device will lock you out after some number of failed attempts but they just restore the snapshot between each attempt so the device has no idea failed attempts are happening. Comment#8. If you want to go criming then research it from burners and for God's sake please leave them in a separate location from your house and never take your actual phone to that location. Then destroy them before you do said crime and never look back . Also don't do crimes ... Comment#9. What kind of phone and password? Comment#10. So, what is the phone model? Comment#11. Soo, is there any brand of phone that is nearly hackproof or at least, is there way to make your phone hackproof?? Asking for a friend... Comment#12. Snowden told us this YEARS ago. Doesn’t even have to be on. If they want it they can get it. Comment#13. This is not new stuff. The mobile forensics community has been doing it for years. [https://www.elcomsoft.com/eift.html](https://www.elcomsoft.com/eift.html) [https://www.msab.com/iphone-forensic-software-tools/](https://www.msab.com/iphone-forensic-software-tools/) [https://www.magnetforensics.com/products/magnet-graykey/](https://www.magnetforensics.com/products/magnet-graykey/) Comment#14. It was an assassination attempt. Of course they got into the phone. Tf Comment#15. Despite Apple bragging about their security, the company NSO which sells Pegasus claims they always been able to break much of it. Comment#16. Cop shows have normalized this for years. Comment#17. How the hell does, "mobile device extraction tools" turn into, "MDTFs"?!?!? There literally isn't and "f" in the entire phrase... Comment#18. What a stupid title. Realistically, if someone has physical access to a device, there's jack all that can protect it from being cracked in a dozen different ways. Rebooting it into a different OS, downloading the memory and putting in a different system, and cracking the password are just some examples. Remote hacking is the real trick, and on that front, devices and computers are much more secure, though not perfect obviously. Comment#19. Well once you die you no longer have any legal rights to privacy or your data so I bet the company gave the FBI access to Comment#20. Cellebrite has been around for years and is used by law enforcement agencies around the world, so it shouldn't come as a surprise. Comment#21. why did it take 2 days? i would assume its a 10-15 minute thing for the fbi. Comment#22. There's a piece of software available to law enforcement agencies called Celebrite that they use to dump and aggregate data from seized cell phones. According to testimony given by a Celebrite employee during the Karen Read trial, one of the features of the software allows users to bypass the failed pin limit that would normally wipe the device, enabling them to utilize a brute force tool to crack the pin, and a 4-6 digit pin can be cracked by a modern computer near instantly. Comment#23. Silly rabbit. There is no such thing as locked, deleted or encrypted to governments. If they want in they get in. Operating with any other belief is pure folly. Comment#24. You really think the FBI took 2 days to get into a physical phone? Are you kidding? They probably got in within 10 mins, let's be real. Comment#25. Maybe his password was 1234? Comment#26. More technology, more complexity, more weak points. Comment#27. Less than... it might have been 2 hours. Comment#28. Interested to find out what phone and version it was, that can make a huge difference. Comment#29. It’s shocking that it takes barely no time to brute force access to a phone. Scary in fact given we all have access to our emails on our phones, and it only takes a theft of your mobile phone to potentially gain access to all online accounts by resetting the password through email. WOW >_< Comment#30. They guessed the code on the first try: 4418 Comment#31. No, but you guys don't understand. It had a FOUR DIGIT pass code. Practically unbreakable. /s Comment#32. Note to self.. Wipe phone, deleted backups if I'm going to commit a crime. Change wallpaper to something facetious. Comment#33. I'm just imagining a funny situation where the shooter knew they were going to die and purposely left a note on their phone. It would be hilarious if he left a note and no one could get in. Honestly if he cared, he would of just destroyed it before booking his one way ticket. Anything they find. He wanted them to find. Comment#34. When you have the head of the corpse it should open Comment#35. Who really cares if I’m dead? More concerned if I’m alive. Comment#36. Probably had fingerprint security, which isn't hard to beat when you have access to his corpse. Delay was probably just a matter of getting his phone and finger in the same room. Comment#37. Moral is, if your about to commit a serious crime, turn off facial recognition and fingerprint recognition - make sure your pin code is at least 6 characters Comment#38. Is this really surprising anyone? After Snowden? Come on people. It’s not just access to your phone after the fact - they are listening to you all the time, seeing your emails and your browsing history. Wake the f up. Key word search is giving away any privacy you think you had. I’m stunned anyone would be surprised by this. Comment#39. Recommend not using biometrics on your phone. I'm pretty sure this was screamed millions of times when it first dropped but idiots need their phones unlocked .5 seconds faster. Comment#40. I thought of a likely explanation, his parents said they were fully cooperating in the investigation, isn't it likely they knew his passcode or at least had a really good idea of what it was, and told the FBI what it might be? It would be naive to think the feds didn't at least try the easy way first. Comment#41. FBI agents tried (and failed) to break into his phone, so they had to send it to specialist FBI lab in Quantico. It took them two days, but apparently it’s ‘easier than ever’? Hmmm Comment#42. it took them two days!! XD Comment#43. There were terrorists killed in San Bernardino California a few years ago and the FBI appealed to Apple to allow it to access the phone. Apple refused. The FBI is believed to have then turned to an Israeli firm’s software for access to the phone, which it eventually got. Comment#44. Dollars to donuts they just asked his family or friends. Comment#45. They gained access when they plugged it in, that is just how it is. Comment#46. Not just any cops… the FBI who have resources that some countries military don’t have. But I have a feeling Apple helped unlock the phone too. Probably had a court order and they didn’t want to argue this in public that they weren’t helping solve an attempted assassination on the president. Comment#47. The moral of the story is never do anything sensitive on your real phone, use a burner for anything that the government might want to spy on and do your best to demolish the phone before you do something illegal. Encryption is increasingly useless when a giant GPU array can clone and crack a phone in no time. What we used to think was impossible is only limited by the amount of money you want to spend on a cluster, and we all know the government has no real limits. Obviously the best plan is to not do anything that would ever necessitate the FBI wanting to get into your shit, but there's still ways to protect yourself from the overreach of government. We don't really know what's gonna happen in the next couple of years, so now's the time to maybe try and learn something about how your tech works just in case you end up on the wrong side of the government at any point for any of a multitude of reasons. Comment#48. At risk of being downvoted to oblivion, would you not lose your rights if you were killed in the process of committing a crime? I mean, you're dead, so you can't be tried for a crime, and would it not be reasonable to think there should be urgency in finding out if this was part of a larger conspiracy and to prove that there are no further threats? I mean, I understand the concern regarding rights and illegal searches, but I don't see how that would be at play here. Innocent until proven guilty doesn't mean much if you're dead. Comment#49. Dude he tried to kill the president they aren’t just.. lookin at anyone’s phone lol Comment#50. It wasn’t easy. It took an entire FBI team at Quantico, two days around the clock to break it open and despite the fact I hate Donald Trump and believe his supporters are violent, unaware humans, I would hope that law enforcement would be able to break into a device held by a dead assassin. Comment#51. Good luck getting 💩from [Lockdown Mode](https://support.apple.com/en-us/105120) Comment#52. “The cops” =/= FBI Comment#53. What are the odds they just held the cellphone in front of his face? Comment#54. Cops or FBI? Comment#55. I REALLY hope they release what they find. Comment#56. Couldn't possibly be that a family member told them the code 🙀 Comment#57. Once you learn how the next time is easier. Comment#58. "Try 1111. Oh sweet." Comment#59. All they needed to do was get some crypto thieves. They seem to hack peoples phones daily lol Comment#60. It's cause to think about and wonder but could just as easily be answered by someone, like a parent, knowing the PIN. Most people use the same PIN for everything so yeah, if you aren't security minded at all, it can be easier to get in. Comment#61. I fully realize this is an assumption, however I have notice my nieces and all of their friends use biometrics, thumb or face, none of them use a passcode. Given that the guy was 20 he probably had biometrics activated. Granted he now has an extra hole in his head, the pics I have scene don’t appear to indicate his face was too messed up. It might of taken a day for a facial artist to make him look normal. If they didn’t unlock it with biometrics then I would bet they have some hack that they use in special circumstances so it doesn’t get well known and patched. I remember back when it was a mass shooter that was killed and they wanted into the phone, the FBI offered some millions of dollars for a hacker that could break it. In less than a week the FBI announced they were in the phone. So, if enough money is on the table, someone, somewhere can open it for them. Comment#62. Privacy died at least a couple decades ago. The government will see the digital contents of your computers and devices if they really want to. Comment#63. Look up the Pegasus if anyone is curious how the fbi can access your phone without you knowing. Comment#64. Well when you shoot at ppl you should expect it Comment#65. Entirely depends on what phone it is right? Comment#66. They probably cut off this thumb 👍 Comment#67. His password “696969” lol jk but we honestly have no clue so anything is possible at this point. Comment#68. Password was 8080 Comment#69. …annnnd what did we find? Comment#70. Privacy is an illusion in our country Comment#71. After that fiasco with the Boston bomber’s phone, I’m guessing they put a lot of time and effort into learning how to crack phones. Comment#72. I don't even lock my phone Comment#73. I talked to a guy who works digital forensics for a local PD. He said the best way to keep him out (in addition to the obvious strong pin and disable biometrics) is to **keep your phone's software up to date**. Comment#74. Maybe the passcode was 1234 Comment#75. If you have the right forensic tools it's really really easy to do Comment#76. They probably also have some hardware ways of cracking or getting the encryption key. Things like reading every pin from a chip and knowing which data it sends to back out the encryption key or gather data from an unencrypted state. There's a whole small cottage industry of people trying to break physical crypto wallets to recover funds, probably use similar techniques. As others mentioned if you can clone the device you can just brute force it on a cloned device until it unlocks. Comment#77. Excellent, soon we’ll find out he was a huge Desantis supporter. Comment#78. What if they just found his password written down somewhere though? Comment#79. Digital Forensic analyst/former FBI here. They could have either used Graykey or Cellebrite Premium/Inseyets. You're absolutely right that it's easier than it used to be but not as easy as it was, say 7 years ago, when most phones had well-known, easy to exploit vulnerabilities. Inseyets specifically uses a separate hardware device now (Cellebrite Turbo Link Adapter) that connects to the phone and rapidly attempts multiple exploits. I think I noticed it tried 16 different exploits on a phone I was working on and it was already unlocked! I haven't had to use it on a locked phone yet as I've only had it for a couple of weeks, but...maybe I'll try that now. But, yeah, in the constant battle between manufacturers and phone forensic tools, forensic tools are currently in the lead. It's probably temporary. Comment#80. Bring me his thumb Comment#81. Yeah, the FBI has something called password cracking software.. Comment#82. People saying things like “iPhones cannot be unlocked” are so naive, and so out of touch. Ok just go ahead and believe that. It’s not true though. Comment#83. Who cares? This is all known. Comment#84. Yeah no I'm pretty sure federal agencies can break into your phone in like 1 second Comment#85. Step 1: call your friends at apple and Google that claim to care about customer privacy. Step 2: get access. It's that easy Comment#86. Im sure there is a back door for LEA and Apple to use. Perhaps an authenticator code or something similar. Comment#87. Surprised Pikachu moment. Comment#88. Yeah, Cellebrite and its ilk are capable of this. Nothing new. If this concerns you, check out the GrapheneOS forums for leaked Cellebrite docs detailing what they can and cannot break into. The newest Apple devices are only really vulnerable in an after-first-unlock state. Comment#89. My phone is connected to the internet. I remember in the 90s they said anything connected to the internet is hack able. So I don't know why people got the idea their data is safe? Comment#90. Good. He was a terrorist. Comment#91. I wish the FBI could find the 1/6 Bomb Carrier. Interesting isn't it. Comment#92. Here’s an idea, don’t put sketchy shit on your phone. They aren’t trying to gain access to your bitcoin wallet, they’re looking for evidence of your criminal activity. Stop being a fucking criminal! Comment#93. Hardware level backdoor. I mean that's not real, no one would do that, definitely not the NSA/CIA nope nope nope. Don't torture me please and thank you. Comment#94. I would never expect privacy over Federally shared air waves. Or from a 3rd party corporation Comment#95. If it’s the FBI they typically don’t just unlock your phone. They clone the entire thing and give it back to you. Comment#96. If you google, you can easily find software that will unlock if you are LE. They modify the bootloader to remove the pin attempt lockout then brute force it. It’s really easy to find this info. Comment#97. How is this shocking? I can imagine the CIA and FBI have vast capabilities beyond getting into someone’s phone. They DNA identified the kid within 24hr. Where did the reference sample come from ?? Is all our DNA in a secret database? Comment#98. Quantum computing and you can bet your arse it was probably used in this case if the U.S gov has access to it. Comment#99. This is not news, you disable the wrong passcode lockout, have device enter passcodes combinations all night and use a light sensor on the screen to confirm correct entry. Ez Comment#100. Did Edward Snowden teach us nothing? Of course the government can access anything they want to. They do it frequently too. There just isn't enough manpower to catch all the dissenters. Comment#101. Ok, and? They open my phone all they’re going to get is pictures of my cats, wife, and various gaming news. Comment#102. The guy looked like a 123456 or birthday passcode kind of guy. He also has family that is probably cooperating. I doubt the phone was even turned off before he died requiring a passcode. Big difference breaking a mentally ill 20 year old’s phone and a trained counterintelligence operatives. Comment#103. The FBI isn't "cops" though Comment#104. I love the creativity in the comments. And those who work in digital forensics know how easy it is to break into any phones. It isnt as romantic as the comments state. Comment#105. 2 days??? It takes 2 seconds with Pegasus 2 software. All that is needed is a phone number. This is misinformation. Comment#106. I think they got into his phone much sooner than 2 days, they just have to let us believe it takes a little while Comment#107. I'm surprised it took them that long tbh Comment#108. That's why you don't run stock Android, don't buy an overpriced iPhone, and use one of the numerous alternatives. KDE is even working on Plasma Mobile at this point, which is still a couple years off, but looking great for getting the power of a desktop OS in your hand. Combine that with LUKS encryption and they can do nothing. Comment#109. Who cares? Lmao any1 that has issue with FBI getting into his phone really need to seek help. Simply don't get arrested and it commit crimes and your phone wont get broken into. Such a dogshit title ngl. Oh nyo my phone :( Comment#110. I'm fine with law enforcement having access to a terrorist/assasins phone, it's a good thing for society. The trick is you don't want them to abuse that power for civilians. Right now we almost have balance since these exploits are expensive & rare so LE isn't willing to burn them & the people who find/sell them aren't giving them away cheap. So they aren't secretly unlocking regular joe's phone's en masses. There are better strategies for finding balance though, what makes this power dangerous is secrecy, if unlocking a phone required public support, say 25% of all iphones in the US had to consent, give up their own tiny share of a key & assume some share of liability for getting it wrong that would work too. Comment#111. Easy when you have a working quantum AI frame... Comment#112. When I got arrested years ago my lawyer said cops can look into my phone just by connecting it into a computer. So I’m sure it took a few minutes for the guys phone to be accesss Comment#113. I was surprised at how quickly they identified the shooter considering he had no ID on him. Apparently they used DNA evidence. Ask yourself how they had DNA records on a 20-year-old with no criminal record. Comment#114. Probably in less than 2 hours but ok Comment#115. It took them two days to get into a teens phone? Send the FBI to defcon to learn more please. Comment#116. If you don’t think your phone can be unlocked!! We cracked the enigma code in ww2 . It would be a huge national security issue if our enemies could openly communicate without our knowledge. Big problem

1e4lbpt

QUARTZ64 Zero Single Board Computer

Comment#1. Would have been a nice board around 2019. Comment#2. “Attention: As of July 2024, Quartz64 Zero is a new released SBC and OS build still not yet ready. Please visit Quartz64 wiki page for OS build activity: https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/Quartz64“

1e4lssw

Will space-based solar power ever make sense?

Comment#1. Maybe in a long time but not the foreseeable future. All the costs of solar but way higher and you still have to build a receiving farm that’s like a solar farm on earth. Comment#2. If the only real advantage is that it's generating power 24/7, then there are far cheaper ways around that. We can simply overbuild conventional solar and wind, as they're so cheap, and store the excess. Geo-thermal is also capable of providing baseload at lower costs than nuclear power and can be built much quicker. [It can also be a large source of lithium.](https://theconversation.com/how-a-few-geothermal-plants-could-solve-americas-lithium-supply-crunch-and-boost-the-ev-battery-industry-179465) Comment#3. How would we get the energy from the space based solar panel to the Earth? Comment#4. Guys since the earth is flat when the sun goes underneath earth we could line the entire bottom with solar panels so we can harness the most sun. /s Comment#5. Soon as that space elevator is ready Comment#6. Can we build a second sun? Comment#7. This could also be a dual use technology, the military would like that. Space sun powered microwave weapons and power delivery. Other effects could be weather related. Check out *John Lenard Walson* space telescope capture videos on his YouTube channel that shows massive structures orbiting in space. He is pushing to the diffraction limit of his telescope to capture and track them.

1e4mmn0

Google tried to scupper Microsoft’s CISPE settlement with $512 million sweetener – but it failed

Comment#1. You dont get more 'anti-competative' than bribing a company $512 million to get it to sue your rival. Google are scum. Comment#2. > “Google Cloud has long supported the principles of fair software licensing. We had discussions about joining as a member to help CISPE continue to fight against anti-competitive licensing and promote choice, innovation, and the growth of the digital economy in Europe.” Bribing with a half-billion dollars of licenses because you're one of the biggest players is not how you show support for competitiveness. Comment#3. >the package included around $15 million in cash, as well as roughly $495 million worth of software licenses for Google’s cloud products over the next five years. This is a pretty shameless attempt to curry favour here from Google Cloud. Comment#4. Google. Same company that's deliberately made chrome worse, because the CEO thinks anything free is bad. So the plan (and its in progress) is to make chrome so terrible, the userbase drops massively, then they can dump it entirely. Google drive is going the same way. Hidden bandwidth caps to make the service unuseable. Google docs is being downgraded etc. The CEO of google Sundar Pichai is the same nutball that oversaw the complete collapse of Yahoo from #1 to being worth only a few million. Because he decided to dump everything 'free' as a money drain. And he's doing the same to Google. they've already lost billions due to his actions, their hardware department is a joke, and their AI is like a 1990s chatbot. Comment#5. brit slang, scupper Comment#6. Scupper. What a fantastic word. Well played. Comment#7. I think scuttle is the word you were looking for. Comment#8. Scuttle, not scupper.

1e4n22c

Good News About Brain Cancer

Comment#1. Never thought I would see the day where “good news“ & “brain cancer“ would show up in the same sentence. Comment#2. > You’ve reached your monthly article limit. Haha hey fuck you. Comment#3. Wish this had been found 30 years ago. My beloved daughter was killed by a glioblastoma @ the age of seven. Comment#4. There was an AMA from a guy who is going in for this therapy just yesterday! I really hope that his experience is just like those folks. Glioblastoma is a very deadly cancer and it’s taken a number of people I know (mostly due to my participation in a charity built around brain cancer. It’s a thankfully, pretty rare cancer.). It would be a world change if we were to make this work. Comment#5. Thank you so much for this. I hit the paywall and wanted to read it so bad! My sweet 22 year old daughter has stage 4 glioblastoma. Comment#6. Praise science! Comment#7. My wife was diagnosed this April with Gio. Reading this gave me some hope that if/when it comes back, there may be another solution. Thanks for posting. I am now actively following this phase 1 trial. Comment#8. This killed my uncle in January, so I'm very excited to see breakthroughs in treatment Comment#9. Always hoping to read good news about glioblastoma. That horrible disease took my mom. Comment#10. I was thinking "Who the hell is Brian Cancer?"... Comment#11. This is amazing news that I really hope goes somewhere! I lost my aunt to one of these just two years ago. It was so fast, July she seems very slightly off, a little more aloof & distracted. She's diagnosed that December, is unrecognizable 6 months later and dead 12 months almost to the dot of diagnoses. She was supposed to participate in a clinical research trial, but by the time things were worked out she was too far advanced. Lifechanging to see somebody go through that. Lost my grandma to breast cancer, but she was the same person to the end. Seeing my aunt trapped in her own body as she withered away was something else. Comment#12. Professor Farnsworth

1e4ne51

Election Disinformation Will Lead to Chaos

Comment#1. The problem with all unregulated social media is that lies will be more viral than the truth, so disinformation will win in a head to head battle. Lies: Can be immediate. Can be as outrageous and provocative as your imagination. Can be intentionally emotionally triggering. With AI/bots, can be spread to many accounts, rapidly. Truth: It takes time and effort/money to verify facts. The truth may be boring, if you can't make it up, it might not be engaging, exciting or interesting. The truth often takes longer, all the while the lie is being accepted as fact. The truth has no chance on an even social media playing field. Comment#2. Why the future tense? Comment#3. “Will lead” or “has led”? Comment#4. I think we’re well past “Will lead to”. It *has* lead to. This is 8 years in. Comment#5. Why is no one asking about motive? Because the Epstein Trump connection will continue to open a can of worms. Comment#6. The assassination attempt that narrowly missed Donald Trump at a campaign rally on July 13 has prompted a deluge of misinformation and disinformation online. Depending on your perspective, the attack was either a failed plot by the “deep state” to remove President Joe Biden’s rival from the 2024 presidential race or a “false flag” operation designed to generate support for Trump. In fact, the FBI issued an official statement that a 20-year-old Pennsylvania man likely acted alone when he used an assault rifle to shoot the 45th president. But facts are rarely enough to stop the onslaught of disinformation, the deliberate use of lies and misleading claims, and misinformation, its unwitting cousin. Predictably, the unique circumstances of the shooting that left one dead and others injured has led to wild conjecture. Failing to secure a rooftop about 150 yards from the stage will no doubt cause hard questions for the Secret Service and their law enforcement partners in Butler, Pa., but it also opens the event to false narratives designed to advance the agendas of their authors. For Trump supporters, the shooting provides an opportunity to cast aspersions on the Biden Administration. Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) posted on X, “Joe Biden sent the orders.” Rep. John James (R-MI) posted on the same platform, “They tried to silence him. They tried to jail him. Now they’ve tried to kill him.” Elon Musk, who owns the tech company, posted that the conduct of the Secret Service was either “Extreme incompetence or it was deliberate.” Others speculated online that it was Trump who had manufactured the moment, using the hashtag “staged.” According to one user, “How did the \[U.S. Secret Service\] allow him to stop and pose for a photo opp if there was real danger??” A photo of a smiling Trump with a caption asking “Why is he so happy?” was removed from X because it was digitally altered. In addition to providing an opportunity for political actors to advance their causes, a crisis also allows hostile foreign adversaries to exploit the demand for information by filling the void with false claims. As special counsel Robert Mueller concluded in his 2019 report for the Department of Justice, the goals of foreign interests are often simply to sow division in America society. If we are busy fighting we each other, we lack the bandwidth to involve ourselves in world affairs. Information warfare allows countries like Russia, China, Iran and North Korea to attack us without firing a shot. Comment#7. Love the fucking tone deafness of these article titles nowadays. The media: props trump up Also the media: “who would do such a thing?!” Comment#8. More because of stupid musk sharing it Comment#9. Sadly between Russia and America's right-wing there is a huge network dedicated to attacking our nation with misinformation Comment#10. Nominate a lying chaotic candidate, you’re gonna get chaos. Comment#11. Societies around the world are well and truly fucked as a whole because the ways through which information is disseminated have far outpaced our ability to process them. Crazy talk isn't new. It's been around for long as we've existed as a species. The difference between then and now, however, is crazies can instantly spread their dumb ideas around the world with a button press and quickly find likeminded idiots. Schools - elementary, secondary, post-secondary - should be amping up critical thinking lessons and creating mandatory digital and media literacy courses, but few - if any - are forward-thinking enough to do so. Comment#12. We are no long in the ‘Information Age’, we are in the ‘Disinformation Age’ Comment#13. ...will lead huh? As if nearly a decade of Russian propaganda hasn't gotten the US and most of The West to where it is right now? Just starting to lead there now huh, in 2024? Well damn. Guess I need to get with the times. Comment#14. **has** led to chaos* We’re already here Comment#15. Will? It already has. Comment#16. Chaos is the goal Comment#17. As expected in shitty banana republics Comment#18. *has led* to chaos Fix’d Comment#19. Will? Comment#20. Will....you mean HAS?! Comment#21. Keep politics out of the sub! Comment#22. ::meme of slowpoke:: Comment#23. When the excuse for not securing the rooftop is that it was a little sloped and it wouldn’t be safe I don’t buy it. When you consider the job of these people is to dive in front of a bullet for who they are protecting, it makes it pretty ridiculous. It’s true there is misinformation, but it’s not all coming from the media, it’s coming right from the government. Comment#24. You don’t say Comment#25. Did the creators of internet and social media imagine that their inventions will bring about the end of truth as we know it? At this point, since we know that the machine we get our “truth” from is completely compromised, what do we do now? I know what I’ve done… I’ve switched it all off and am waiting for you all to do the same. But everywhere I look I see people with their faces buried in their phones. Comment#26. The monsters are due on Maple Street. Comment#27. Main stream media has completely lost any sense of reality and can’t be trusted to inform the masses with actual facts without seriously checking compromised objectivity. Also, our culture is at odds within because there are some very clear divisions between our values as a society. We’re in a major conflict between our past values and the current push of new ones. Comment#28. How about if a media outlet wants to say they are “news” then they can’t lie or spread disinformation? And if you are a politician/ in congress, you get shitcanned if you lie or purposely spread disinformation. Comment#29. All I want is for level heads to prevail. Comment#30. Again? Comment#31. This is what information warfare looks like. Comment#32. And water is wet and the sky is blue Comment#33. We already know, we saw a riot at the capital, people really seem to have forgotten about that… we are so doomed. Comment#34. And that’s what the right wants and needs to win! Comment#35. WILL!? It already has! Comment#36. That’s what the MAGAs are hoping for. Win or loose they’ll claim election fraud and find a way to strip more people of the ability to vote. Comment#37. “Chaos is a ladder” - Joe Biden Comment#38. I think people have already basically been living in two alternate realities for a long time. Each side has extreme views and is convinced that the other group is evil incarnate. I suspect that this all stems from the core structures of the political system. And it gets worse as the real economy is stressed. Right now we have full on information warfare. Say anything, maybe do anything? I also believe that the candidates presented by both parties are absolutely horrible options. Ranked choice voting would be a start. Comment#39. We should have shuttered Fox “News” after January 6th. As long as the propaganda flows we will never be rid of this problem. Comment#40. why are they saying "will" as if it magically stopped happening? Comment#41. Nearly 70% of the posts on my feed right now are either bashing trump or his new VP. It’s fucking madness. If it’s going to be like this for the next 6 months I need to find a new platform. I’m Canadian. I don’t give a fuck about Biden or trump. Stop showing me gifs of him with Epstein. And if he really did fuck kids, arrest his ass. Comment#42. The order came from the VERY TOP!!!... of the roof. Comment#43. Time coming out with the coldest take imaginable, thanks Captain

1e4nelk

Drone sits on power lines to recharge

Comment#1. Stealing electricity? Edit: Title is wrong btw, the drone sits *underneath* the power line to recharge. Comment#2. Birds do this too. That’s why they’re not real. Comment#3. What could go wrong? Comment#4. how does that work? I thought that there is no difference in potential so no voltage if you are not connected to the ground. Comment#5. Really neat idea. One of those things that seems obvious in hindsight. What's next? We either get Factorio IRL or flocks of flying parasitic crypto miners and AI trainers. Comment#6. As long as they don't s*** all over my car I'm good with it. Comment#7. When drones do it its innovative, when i do it its stealing. Comment#8. My local murder of crows: "Yo, look at this bitch! Lets fuck him up!" Comment#9. Unlimited power! Comment#10. Great. Drones that can constantly monitor areas independently and indefinitely Comment#11. Same way birds recharge. Comment#12. Birds aren’t real is becoming more real everyday Comment#13. This isn't new, the government has been doing that with birds for ages. /S Comment#14. Can someone explain how this can draw power? My rather limited understanding of physics suggest that the drone shouldn't be able to charge like that since it doesn't form a circuit with anything and it will simply attach to the line and sit on it like birds do. Comment#15. the use of italics in this article are infuriating Comment#16. DARPA had a solicitation to do this over 10 years ago.... Comment#17. Have AI transport illegal drugs this way following a route. Comment#18. Cool, extra surveillance too Comment#19. Watch out - one single drone recharging could wipe us all out in Texas. F.U. Centerpoint Energy… Comment#20. I always wondered how Sky-net would be powered. Comment#21. This is not new, check /r/birdsarentreal Comment#22. Imagine a world where the power companies have to find a way to prevent average joe citizen from flying batteries up to open power lines, charging them, and returning those freely charged batteries to a household power bank. The cost to protect the existing power line infrastructure would be astronomical. Comment#23. Ahh nooo noo. “There was a huge power disruption due to drone accident” Comment#24. Look up 'assassin drones' and see how drones will impact the future even more than they already seem to indicate. Comment#25. kurdish drone Comment#26. soon they shit oil on your car and will beg for bread in parks? Comment#27. The bird drones have been doing this for years! WAKE UP SHEEPLE! Comment#28. I had that idea several years ago. wireless charging off the power grid could allow your drone to travel for thousands of miles. Comment#29. This doesn't seem as efficient use of time versus battery swapping. Plus, your drone now has to carry equipment to convert AC to DC, plus a battery management system.

1e4nxvr

RIAA Sues Verizon After ISP “Buried Head in Sand” Over Subscribers’ Piracy

Comment#1. it's none of verizon's business. the RIAA wants verizon to do their job for them. good on verizon for not spying on their users or sending harassing letters on the behalf of the RIAA thusfar. if the RIAA has questions about a specific user, get a court order. Comment#2. RIAA is just a dinosaur of an entity that is struggling to find some sort of relevancy again. Comment#3. Fuck the RIAA. Do your own dirt. Comment#4. Are we actually doing this again . . . ? Comment#5. They misspelled privacy Comment#6. ISPs are not the internet police Comment#7. I don’t know what I’m more surprised about: that the RIAA is still doing the same thing they were 25 years ago or that people are still ripping and torrenting music. Comment#8. Use a VPN when pirating. I connect to Japan when I torrent a song/movie/show/game/software Comment#9. Now that’s a name I have t heard in a very long time Comment#10. This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://torrentfreak.com/riaa-sues-verizon-after-isp-buried-head-in-sand-over-subscribers-piracy-240715/) reduced by 86%. (I'm a bot) ***** > In common with previous lawsuits that accused rivals of similar inaction, Verizon Communications Inc., Verizon Services Corp., and Cellco Partnership, stand accused of assisting subscribers to download and share pirated music, by not doing enough to stop them. > &quot;While Verizon is famous for its &#039;Can you hear me now?&#039; advertising campaign, it has intentionally chosen not to listen to complaints from copyright owners. Instead of taking action in response to those infringement notices as the law requires, Verizon ignored Plaintiffs&#039; notices and buried its head in the sand,&quot; the labels write. > &quot;The scope of repeat infringement on Verizon&#039;s network is staggering. Thousands of Verizon subscribers were the subject of 20 or more notices from Plaintiffs, and more than 500 subscribers were the subject of 100 or more notices,&quot; the complaint claims. ***** [**Extended Summary**](http://np.reddit.com/r/autotldr/comments/1e4ory0/riaa_sues_verizon_after_isp_buried_head_in_sand/) | [FAQ](http://np.reddit.com/r/autotldr/comments/31b9fm/faq_autotldr_bot/ "Version 2.02, ~690592 tl;drs so far.") | [Blackout Vote](https://np.reddit.com/r/autotldr/comments/14dhaiq/your_voice_matters_should_the_blackout_continue/ "PM's and comments are monitored, constructive feedback is welcome.") | *Top* *keywords*: **Verizon**^#1 **subscriber**^#2 **notice**^#3 **infringement**^#4 **labels**^#5 Comment#11. Verizon...our hero! Comment#12. People still pirate music in 2024?

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New camera-based system can detect alcohol impairment in drivers by checking their faces | Resting drunk face

Comment#1. I really don't want some bullshit program sending cops after me because I'm driving home tired and depressed after a long day at work Comment#2. Won't work on anyone who doesn't precisely match the middle aged white guy they built the test data on, won't work if you're Asian, or Black, won't work on people who have facial disfigurements, or glasses with thick lenses, or who naturally have droopy eyes, or people who've had a stroke that left their face partially paralyzed and so on and so forth ad infinitum until the heat death of every possible Universe. Fucking moronic ideas dreamed up by fucking moronic people. Comment#3. We are giving away our freedoms inch by inch. Besides, computers fail all the time or can be hacked. Comment#4. After buying new car: Step 1 - Cover all of the cameras with tape Step 2 - Drive as normal Step 3 - Ignore the nagging AI Comment#5. I drive with one of the leading AI cams pointed at my face at work (literally, we just got them last month, and I drive for probably biggest company you can drive for, who I won't mention by name). Several drivers on my team have been flagged for "fatigue", or driving drowsy. Many of them were unexpected top tier performers, most of them were really pissed off about it. I, however, was not one of them, although I am almost always at one point in my shift fatigued. I generally am self aware and will pull over if needed, but it hits you out of nowhere when it wants to, there's no way of getting around it. Sleeping more at night does not stop your body from going into nap mode when it wants to. Anyways, why me? Glasses maybe, but also I can tell when I'm tired and I put on an act. Does this make me a safer driver to shift my attention away from the road and put it more on my body movements and gestures? Intentionally widening my eyes? Holding in yawns? Not touching my eyes when they water? If I were intoxicated and expected to give a similar performance, would that help or hurt the general public? Would it help or hurt me if I found myself in that situation? Would it help authorities? Create more problems? Anyways. Systems like these aren't actually for safety and prevention. They are for surveillance and control. Perhaps fear might act as a deterrent, but that same fear will create thrice as many new problems and distractions, including focusing more on one's body than one's surroundings, paranoid mistrust in an invisible authority, feeling spied on and overly surveilled, eliminating the option of discretion, sacrificing the value of forbearance, and it opens a VAST new window into abuse and bullying. Comment#6. I’ll just put one the smiling presidential Halloween masks on before driving! Comment#7. Every time I read about emerging technology like this I think “I don’t want any bullshit tech that doesn’t work impeding my day.” Alexa already doesn’t understand what I’m saying. I can type a search faster than it takes me to say “Hey Siri.” I’m fighting my autocorrect with every message I type. Every customer service hotline is torture. The cable box on my TV cuts out around 5:00 every day. My wireless security cameras only catch people after they walk away. The last thing I need on this precious Earth is for my car to determine whether or not it thinks I should drive based on my face. Comment#8. You can implement this when they car can be like "tell you what, you just sit back and I'll drive myself home" Comment#9. Freedom isn’t protection from ourselves! Comment#10. Based on the picture, I don't even need a fancy camera to identify the drinking driver. Comment#11. This is some top tier dumb shit right here Comment#12. Yet again, inventing problems to sell solutions. Drunk driving stats are way down from where they were at the turn of the century. Do we really need a pre-crime cam in everyone's car just so the insurance industry can squeeze a few more buffalo turds out of a nickel? If these jagoffs really cared about public safety, they would work to increase the length of time on license suspensions/revocations and make it much more difficult to get them reinstated after a second whoopsie, not install tech made by data brokers as a preemptive measure. Comment#13. Hmmm wonder what minority population is going to get the "under represented in training data" bingo... Comment#14. It, what if I have, “Resting Drunk Face?” Comment#15. Now do one that can detect a code brown situation to help those drivers catch green lights… Comment#16. Should probably put this for National anthem singers too, huh huh? Too soon? Comment#17. Imagine one of the ways to avoid being caught drunk driving is to put on a shit-eating grin the whole way home. Comment#18. Im sure some Europeans carry a gene that makes resting drunk face the norm Comment#19. But is there an app that can detect resting bitch face? Comment#20. We aren’t all drunks and should refuse to buy the cars with this installed and make Congress change the law to make this null and void. Comment#21. Sounds like something that works in a lab and fails in practice Comment#22. What about resting B.... face? Will it know the difference? Comment#23. I ask this with all seriousness: Would it work for people with Downs? Isn't one of the characteristics loss of muscle function in the face. Please don't flame me, I am really asking. Comment#24. From the article: Glassy eyes, drooping eyelids, a slack jaw: these are all signs that someone might have had one drink too many. It's often obvious when someone is drunk just by looking at their face, and interior vehicle cameras could eventually use these tell-tale signs to help prevent drink-driving incidents. Researchers at Edith Cowan University in Australia are developing a new technology that uses camera footage to detect whether a driver is alcohol impaired. In a [paper](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10484402) that was published earlier this year, the team describes how they devised an in-vehicle machine learning system that harnesses standard commercial RGB cameras to predict critical levels of blood alcohol concentration. The researchers tested the system using 60 volunteers and an indoor driving simulator. Each person drove at different levels of inebriation: sober, low, and severe. By analyzing facial characteristics such as features, gaze direction, and head position, the machine learning system was able to identify even low levels of alcohol impairment 75% of the time. Comment#25. A portable one for businesses and cops could be really useful. Edit: you know that they already use a much less accurate technique now, right? This would reduce false positives as well as negitives. But people could likely have it on their phone and know when they are too drunk.

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Amazon Sold a Used Diaper. It Tanked a Mom-and-Pop Business

Comment#1. Amazon has taken down reviews of mine for far less, how has this one stayed up if it was Amazons fault? Comment#2. Damn how much did these diaper business owner paid the media outlets? This is like the 20th post in 2 days or something. Comment#3. Who returns a used diaper ? Comment#4. Huggies and Pampers must be drooling over this shit. Comment#5. paywalled. Can someone post contents?

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China to Boost Funding to Reduce Emissions at Coal Power Plants

Comment#1. China is planning to increase financial support for projects to reduce emissions at coal power plants through methods including burning biomass and green ammonia. A first phase of projects starting construction next year will target a 20% reduction in emissions per unit of electricity generated, according to a joint release by the National Development and Reform Commission and National Energy Administration. By 2027, such upgrades should be able to reduce emissions intensity by 50%, potentially putting the plants on par with cleaner-burning natural gas. Comment#2. I hope they replace them soon enough with the SMR Gen4 that came online last year. That tech is too good and it can be located far inland away from population, to be distributed with a maturing power distribution infra. Solar, Wind, Hydro and SMRs with a sprinkle of tried and tested PWR for big industrial hubs and metropolises. Future would be less bothersome. Comment#3. Why aren't other countries following suit ? China produces 20x more renewable energy than all other countries combined.

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SpaceX rocket accident leaves company's Starlink satellites in wrong orbit

Comment#1. This story is a couple of days old. Just a quick question for those in the know - how much does this effect the service of one’s device? Or overall service in general. Little or not at all, or a big problem? Pardon my ignorance on this subject. Comment#2. Apparently the hole in the ozone layer isn't big enough Comment#3. It just means they won't last as long and no, they are not in the way.

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Rite Aid admits 2.2 million people’s data stolen by criminals | RansomHub allegedly strikes again as its star continues to rise in the cybercrime scene

Comment#1. Another week another data breach Comment#2. Albertsons owns Rite Aid. Albertsons owns Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, Shaw's, Acme, Tom Thumb, Randalls, United Supermarkets, Pavilions, Star Market, Haggen, Carrs, Kings Food Markets, and Balducci's Food Lovers Market. Are any pharmacies there affected? Comment#3. You allow criminals in, they gonna steal. Can’t blame the criminals when you leave the door wide open. Comment#4. They’re still around lol

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Microsoft and Google's electricity consumption surpasses the power usage of over 100 countries

Comment#1. Well this is what happens when you serve customers all around the world for services like YouTube or even host datacenters for business cloud customers. Comment#2. Can we at least acknowledge that Microsoft and Google are the compute power behind a huge chunk of essential private and governmental infrastructure in **all** countries worldwide? Without cloud this graph would look very different. I’d be more interested in the power taken solely by LLM projects. Comment#3. This is why these companies are betting heavy on nuclear. Companies like [x energy](https://x-energy.com/) are trying to build small nuke power plants so these big tech companies can get cheap long term power. Comment#4. At least they actually sustain industries and infrastructure, while Crypto mining uses a ton of power and delivers no benefit to society. Comment#5. sounds pretty clickbait. 3rd world countries aren't exactly big power consumers (and obviously these "100 countries" are going to be the bottom 100). that doesn't even touch on the simple reality that with all the locations ms and google have around the world, they might have more land area and "population" than some countries. Comment#6. And a lot of Ireland's electrical consumption is because of Microsoft. Comment#7. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal) The trailing 100 entries on that list are headed off by Uganda, which at $56B USD nominal GDP is under a quarter of Microsoft's annual revenue. Comment#8. And energy consumption from tech will continue to grow. Most people have no clue how much power a cloud data center uses. Add AI to that and the electrical grid will be hard pressed to keep up. Comment#9. Meanwhile Amazon “Climate Pledge” .com is slowly backing into the bushes. Comment#10. Now add AWS Comment#11. I mean google literally connects a huge aspect of the internet, and has so much more nowadays. And microsoft just runs on most PCs Comment#12. They keep setting up data centers in small midwestern towns and I wonder who is paying for the upgrades to water and electric infrastructure for their data centers. LOLJK, No I don’t, it’s the citizens of those towns having their utilities jacked up while these two companies get property tax abatements. Comment#13. AI training is the next big sucker of electricity( after cryptomining ended). this shit eats loads of power to talk crap. Comment#14. Look at all the kiddies falling for clickbait. Next they'll start crying about other topics they don't understand. Comment#15. Can we maybe blame more companies for all of this energy and physical waste so we can stop scaring regular families into not using resources they need to thrive? Comment#16. How will Microsoft be carbon negative as per their commitment? Comment#17. They should start building their own nuclear plants Comment#18. But guy remember YOU need to recycle. Comment#19. but the problem is bitcoin, right? Comment#20. WASTE. IT'S WASTE. ON GLORIFIED AUTOCOMPLETE TOYS. Comment#21. Alternate title: top 95 countries use more electricity than bottom 100 countries. Microsoft and Google are used in all 195. Comment#22. Damn imagine all that ground electricity is the root cause for planetary warming and everyone is frantically telling each other to do something about climate change while being the main driving force, seems like it would be a weird conundrum to dismantle the infrastructure and desire. I mean we’d live but without Steam…. Comment#23. And here we are told to set the AC temp and don’t run appliances between 4-9pm to save power. Comment#24. And yet the government tells you your gas stove is the problem

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Landmark discovery solves baffling mystery around Gulf War Illness in veterans

Comment#1. They have known this since 1996. Regrettably, the trigger for these channels to be open are some pretty standard chemicals that are perfectly safe except in radical-nobody ever thought to test- scenarios like modern warfare. The science always gets to this point and stops because even if you could blame one chemical made by one company it would be a grossly unfair accusation. Comment#2. The article doesn't list any specific chemicals that cause the issue that was identified. It does list a whole bunch of "possible" chemicals, which is just about anything. Extremely vague article. Comment#3. Horray! Hoping for a cure. Soon! Comment#4. >"to be believed means the world to us" We always believed you. Comment#5. What about Desert Storm Syndrome? Comment#6. This isn’t news at all.

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Gene ‘switched off’ in early stages of pancreatic cancer, allowing rapid tumour growth and spread

Comment#1. I lost my dad to metastatic pancreatic cancer. It was 23 days from diagnosis to his last day with us. I know this is one of the deadliest cancers and hope this research is another step towards treatment and a cure. Comment#2. Tumor suppressor gene gets shut off, allowing pancreatic cancer to accelerate. This is not atypical of how cancers get started in the first place. Our cells are supposed to push the ‘self-destruct’ button if the cell becomes cancerous. We have cells go bad all the time but the mechanism kills it before it becomes real cancer. Hence, something that disrupts the self destruct mechanism can lead to cancer. We tend to refer to this as the “Two-hit” model. Comment#3. A comma changes everything. Comment#4. Maybe don’t do that then? /s Comment#5. So the how does a tumor turn off the gene to allow itself to grow? Crazy Comment#6. Why would i want to allow it. 🤗

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Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic Used Thousands (173,536) of Swiped YouTube Videos to Train AI

Comment#1. Wait a minute... Big tech is using our personal information in ways we didn't know about without our consent? This is obviously a very new issue that no one has talked about /s Comment#2. Thanks for sharing our piece. Here's a snippet for readers: "It's theft." AI companies are generally secretive about their sources of training data, but an investigation by Proof News found some of the wealthiest AI companies in the world have used material from thousands of YouTube videos to train AI. Companies did so despite YouTube’s rules against harvesting materials from the platform without permission. Our investigation found that subtitles from 173,536 YouTube videos, siphoned from more than 48,000 channels, were used by Silicon Valley heavyweights, including Anthropic, Nvidia, Apple, and Salesforce. Read the full story: [https://www.wired.com/story/youtube-training-data-apple-nvidia-anthropic/](https://www.wired.com/story/youtube-training-data-apple-nvidia-anthropic/) Comment#3. There is valid debate to be had on this topic, but the title is pretty misleading. The video subtitles are part of a fairly standard AI training data set. The “way they got caught” was these companies published their research and indicated what data sets they used. They took public data and produced public research from it. This feels like some sensationalism to me. Comment#4. Harvest data from corporations - panik. Harvest data from users - kalm. Comment#5. So, if the use was counted as a “view,” then haven’t the creators been compensated? If I train myself using a YT vid, and am then able to apply the knowledge the original creator isn’t entitled to a portion of my work product. That we are creating false ppl that learn seems to be too similar of an act to distinguish. So I guess I want to know if the use was counted as a view, and can be bothered to read the article to find out. Comment#6. I can watch a YouTube video, learn and do something myself. If a machine does the same it’s theft, amazing. Comment#7. Hey, I'm all okay with this if it means that we can also use their software and services without paying a license or subscription. Comment#8. Ah, that explains why my AI-based video enhancement plug-in keeps adding an audible “like and subscribe and smash that notification bell!” to every project in Premiere. /s, in case it wasn’t obvious. Comment#9. Just to be clear, by "swiped" they are referring to accessing free, publicly shared videos. Comment#10. David Attenborough: Quietly peaks over the brush in this sub...*here we see a dead horse with a sign over it saying "****using publicly available content to train AI is theft****"* *and look, a group of angry homosapiens have managed to make their way over to it and begin to beat it. Extraordinary.* These people (whoever they are) will never EVER win this arbitrary battle. You are better off finding artists and trying to pinpoint all the visual images they've cataloged in their brains to produce their own art. Comment#11. If I watch a YouTube video on how to do X, then make money from X do I have to compensate the creators? No? Oh okay then, moving on. Comment#12. Oh no, something that was put freely on the internet was used! Call the police! Comment#13. I wonder how many of those videos were created from stolen content. Comment#14. ITT: people who understand neither copyright law nor how AI is trained. Comment#15. God please let Google sue the hell out of them. Unlikely though, as this would shed more light on their own theft.

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Soft Robot Can Amputate and Reattach Its Own Legs

Comment#1. All I can think of is this old [1980s PSA from the War Amps.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km4f-eRE4Kc)

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The 2025 Lucid Air is now the most efficient EV on sale

Comment#1. Please just make an affordable alternative to the model 3 and Y Comment#2. Base model is 69K USD...to start. oof. Comment#3. Buy this $70k car and save a couple bucks on your electric bill! Comment#4. Man if this becomes affordable I’m buying. Done with Tesla cuz of Elon. Comment#5. We need something affordable like BYD from us car markers Comment#6. Entry level starts at $69,900. lol Comment#7. The Vauxhall Corsa Electric matches this car's 5 miles/kWh and there are several others that come close. And that's without being as big, heavy or expensive. Comment#8. Get rid of the bells and whistles. Give me 400mi real range. I'm talking rolling windows, ac, no radio. 20k. Id buy it. Comment#9. "On Sale" wait for Aptera to start selling then everything goes out the window, assuming they actually survive and make it to market that is. Comment#10. Majority owned by Saudi Arabia Comment#11. "The entry-level Lucid Air Pure, which starts at $69,900" 70k cars are not "entry-level." I think they meant "base model." Comment#12. Honestly just any car that exists today. But powered via batteries That would be nice. Obviously not going to happen because. Capitalism and muh yacht. If we were doing it for planet saving then really we should be retrofitting cars. Will need to completely replace every single car in existence today with new EVs. Just the worst Comment#13. This is impressive, and a definite step in the right direction. I'm currently not an EV user due to price, range, and battery durability concerns. Range is becoming less of an issue, and prices are starting to drop as well. With sodium-ion tech finally in the market, it's only a matter of time before it replaces lithium and EV cars stop being such a fire hazard, or prone to early battery decay in cold climates. Comment#14. Lucid Air is also a disc golf plastic style from Dynamic Disc. [https://www.dynamicdiscs.com/products/lucid-air-breakout](https://www.dynamicdiscs.com/products/lucid-air-breakout) Comment#15. Too bad about the price upfront... Comment#16. I routinely get 12.4kWh/100km like this article states with my Ioniq 5. So i'm not sure of the accuracy of this statement Comment#17. How much is it per mile after 100k including initial cost? Comment#18. [2023 Lucid Air](https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/2023-lucid-air-touring-9444-1675346750.jpg?crop=0.681xw:0.512xh;0.122xw,0.358xh&resize=1200:*) [2043 6000 S.U.X](https://www.imcdb.org/i004112.jpg) Comment#19. Define efficient? For the money - nope. Comment#20. Buy this car even it is a bit more expensive! Buying Tesla gives the money to an Idiot who promote another even bigger Idiot! And everything will be quite expensive soon with the bullet roof criminal Comment#21. As an EV driver, this is super impressive. I get about 4.3 miles per KWh and my battery is 1/4 the size and way lighter in every other way. For comparison the Hummer EV is below 2 m/kwh I think. Comment#22. Lucid has clearly surpassed Tesla Comment#23. Meanwhile in China Comment#24. I'll never buy a battery car. Gas all the way. I refuse to sit in a parking lot for hours waiting. I don't have the time. Comment#25. Until the Aptera starts sales. Comment#26. Tawlmbout drive fast, no gas? Comment#27. Hydrogen engines are the future. Watch.

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Workers on Samsung’s 8-in chip line to collectively file for workers’ comp

Comment#1. This is going to be a long fight for them but I hope they stick it out. Samsung really shot themselves in the foot here. There’s no reason for them to dissuade a worker from using workers compensation. They are required by law to set aside money for it anyway. Simply mismanagement and stupidity that has led to this situation that could have easily been avoided. Comment#2. I hope they find a way to help their bodies heal.

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Drone racing is helping train AI to autonomously drive spacecraft

Comment#1. ... and also to hunt and kill humans.

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Apple trained AI models on YouTube content without consent; includes MKBHD videos

Comment#1. All AI models are pretty much trained on data without consent. Its kinda been the main complaint, especially from artists. Kinda funny only now it seems to be an issue for some people, but I won't complain, if it makes people consider data ownership in this regards, more power to you. If it takes Apple doing it to bring you to the discussion, then good. Comment#2. So now Siri is gonna needlessly yap for 8 minutes before she gets to the point? Comment#3. There’s a lot going on here… the data was taken by EleutherAI… Reading this you’d think that Apple and the other big tech companies did it themselves. > Our investigation found that subtitles from 173,536 YouTube videos, siphoned from more than 48,000 channels, were used by Silicon Valley heavyweights, including Anthropic, Nvidia, Apple, and Salesforce. > The downloads were reportedly performed by a non-profit called EleutherAI, which says it helps developers train AI models. > According to a research paper published by EleutherAI, the dataset is part of a compilation the nonprofit released called the Pile […] > Most of the Pile’s datasets are accessible and open for anyone on the internet with enough space and computing power to access them. Academics and other developers outside of Big Tech made use of the dataset, but they weren’t the only ones. > Apple, Nvidia, and Salesforce—companies valued in the hundreds of billions and trillions of dollars—describe in their research papers and posts how they used the Pile to train AI. Documents also show Apple used the Pile to train OpenELM, a high-profile model released in April, weeks before the company revealed it will add new AI capabilities to iPhones and MacBooks. Comment#4. Why specifically sure we mentioning MKBHD? Is he special? Comment#5. Sigh “It’s important to emphasize here that Apple didn’t download the data itself, but this was instead performed by EleutherAI. It is this organization which appears to have broken YouTube’s terms and conditions.” Comment#6. So why is nothing at fucking all being done about this when it's the same companies that scream about copyright infringement constantly? Comment#7. Why would it need consent for publicly available information? Edit : while the question still remains, the more I think about it, the more I feel like these greedy corporations should pay them. Comment#8. Who gives a fuck, the pile is literally open source. Comment#9. Didn't this idiot go on the record and vouched for apple intelligence being the real groundbreaker? Now he is complaining about what he already accepted and praised? What does he even want? This only seems like a cashgrab and pr stunt. Comment#10. Oh my, look at all the arm chair Intellectual Property lawyers in this sub. Comment#11. lol, doubt he minds his employer used his work Comment#12. Wouldn’t it defeat the point if they had to create a bunch of new content to train the models on? I’m not saying what they did is ok but if they had to create the amount of content from scratch to train their models it would nearly defeat the purpose of the AI to begin with. Comment#13. I feel like it could be hard for the major YouTubers to go out against this because YouTube controls their business essentially. Comment#14. Do they really need consent, when the images, texts or videos are public freely available? I mean, Reddit for example, all the comments here...it's all public available and all of us know and use that. Unless you hide your images, texts or videos behind a paywall/closed forum....then its fair game, no? Comment#15. How is this different than a human being watching a video and learning from it. Comment#16. Do we need to seek consent before we read/listen to/watch any freely and publicly available content? Comment#17. oh no, anyway Comment#18. It's a YouTube video, it's publicly available, you literally publish it specifically so ANYONE can see it, that includes AI. You gave consent for this the second you hit "Publish". Comment#19. Guys, I didn't kill him. I just told a 3rd party to get "rid" of him. Comment#20. Isn't youtube free? Comment#21. It’s ok, they clicked the button that says I promise not to train my AI before they went and trained their AI. Brought to you by confirm your age checkboxes inc Comment#22. MKBHD is Apple’s “fanboy”, he won’t get mad on them anyway. Comment#23. Oh no! Anyways. Comment#24. MKBHD is overrated shill for Apple Comment#25. Maybe google can say, you can train using youtube as much as you want as long as we can be your main search engine across all your devices Comment#26. Do the creators have to give their consent or just YouTube? Comment#27. So it used ad block? Comment#28. So what actually happens here? I doubt the model actually gets thrown out, I'm pretty sure they just get away with this right? Comment#29. I wish they chose the lock picking lawyer and Jerry right everything as well 😂 Comment#30. Click bait. Many many companies do this and apple wasn't the first. Comment#31. Breaking news: humans trained on YouTube videos without consent and then used what they learnt to produce value and make money without paying the video providers. (Exactly the same as AI models doing it) Comment#32. It’s shit. But if the average joe’s data and work is getting used to trained Ai models then why would content creators thing their work isn’t being used? Comment#33. I remember reading on a thread before that apple was more respectful of user data then other big companies (Google, Microsoft, Samsung, etc) and any point to the contrary was met with criticism. Sorry to say they're the same as anyone else. Comment#34. We gonna get a terminator or I robot situation. Comment#35. Isn't this the same as filming in a public space, like a government office or library? You don't need their consent...the Internet is a public place. Comment#36. This is very interesting. Comment#37. ajahahahah and then he proceeds to shill them Comment#38. ELI5: What's the issue here? They put their content out and someone "watched it" to train their models, I'm just curious what the issue here is? Is it because these companies are profiting off these models that used their content to learn? When an AI trains off YouTube content, what's it specifically doing with that? Does it count as a view? Are these videos being downloaded illegally so it can go on a private server? Honestly just trying to understand Comment#39. What did people think drove "the algorithm"? Comment#40. This subreddit shits on crypto bros all the time, but is full of AI bros that defend content theft. The hypocrisy is insane. Comment#41. Using publicly available content for any sort of training is definitely a gray area, I wouldn't condemn anyone for it since social media companies use YT videos for free personnel training all the time. Comment#42. So what is the difference between some guy watching all these videos and an AI doing it? It's not like it reproduced the content 1:1 so cannot really copyright it. Comment#43. It's about time the majority of people see these tech giants and those who run them as the monsters they are. Comment#44. Aren’t YouTube video publicly available data ? We trained so many audio or visual or text from wiki , YouTube etc. Comment#45. Do sue the people who made the ai... They broke the law Comment#46. People don’t complain when someone learns from them. Kind of weird to be mad at an AI for the same thing Comment#47. On no someone used what is essentially public information to train a model. Maybe they should have read the YouTube terms of service because youtube owns the video since it was uploaded to the platform and content creators aren't all that protected. Comment#48. Are people completely ignorant of the fact that this happens all the time? Even small research labs do this all the time. Comment#49. If the data is public (open source) why would you need consent? If you're not going to claim it as your own data. But seems more paywall will be the way to go for content Comment#50. Don’t make me want to get a flip phone more than I already do. Comment#51. No way!! What a shocker!!! Who would have predicted this?! Comment#52. I know I'm in the minority, but... We ALL train our biological neural networks on copyrighted material. Artists learn from other artists, and will proudly list copyrighted works that influence their work. We don't prosecute people because they learn from copyrighted material. We only start caring when they generate identical work and then pass it off as original. If AI can pass this standard, then I don't see the problem. The other silly thing I see again and again are people clutching their pearls after AI generates a copyrighted work given an ultra specific prompt. If I describe Spongebob in excruciating detail to a human artist, I could make him violate a copyright too. Comment#53. i’m just shocked i tell you Comment#54. Yeah no shit Comment#55. with the public on their side too... and its multiple of creators.... holy shit, huge lawsuit incoming. Comment#56. Next up, the sky blue!! Over to you Sandra Comment#57. Will MKBHD bite the hand that feeds though? Comment#58. Apple stealing from people, they've certainly never done that before. Comment#59. Is there a law that says exactly what they’re doing is illegal? I’m not sure if laws are there yet Comment#60. Apple sucks. Comment#61. What's the problem? How is this in principle different than a human being learning and developing their own style and skills through reviewing other people's content? Comment#62. I told an ai to make art in the style of basquiat and it gave me ai art of basquiat in his style. Which was weird. Comment#63. Why? MKBHD is already in their pocket. Comment#64. Why is it especially important to the headline that MKBHD content was included? Comment#65. Who cares? Like for real, who cares? Comment#66. We have become a society which prioritizes ownership over productivity. It's extremely stupid & a bad idea. Comment#67. Gimme a break. If anyone can see them any one can look and analyze it Comment#68. I’m not a huge fan of AI, and I don’t like huge companies stealing or profiting off others work, but I don’t understand this argument. AI is training models in the same way human beings take inspiration from others. Filmmakers, YouTubers, writers, all take inspiration from one another. There’s absolutely people who take advantage and literally steal and copy ideas, which is wrong, but emulating someone else isn’t the same. Isn’t that what these AI models are doing? If someone made a tech channel that was inspired by MKBHD and reviewed tech, mkbhd wouldn’t need to give his consent. He doesn’t need to here, either. Comment#69. MKBHD is an Apple shill. I don’t think he minds. Comment#70. Things you put on Internet belong to Internet. *big surprised face * Comment#71. First off, yeah, that IS wrong. Second off. Why hasn't he been pushing back against this practice for a long time? Like did he not think this would happen to him because of who he is? Comment#72. Ai art does the same thing Comment#73. All these YouTubers are typing in those video transcripts by hand right? They're for sure paying a real human to do that work if they're not doing it themselves right? They're definitely not using some kind of free transcription service they didn't read the terms and conditions of right? Comment#74. Why do you need constant to consume public photos and videos. Do I need content to watch a freely available video or look at a picture posted online? Comment#75. And? We don't need your consent. You put it on YouTube. We don't need consent. Comment#76. Why would they need consent to have the AI watch YouTube? Comment#77. Does YouTube own your personal memory in your neural network of a video posted by someone else? Comment#78. Consent is not required Comment#79. No one ever complains about the AD.Revenue checks they get from google. Comment#80. Wait. So if I join YouTube like I had planned, my content will get stolen? :( Comment#81. What do you mean without consent. You put it up on the fucking YouTube. That’s for anybody to watch. “You all can watch - but not you robots! Robots can’t watch us !!! “ Comment#82. It’s on a public forum. It is not using the videos to misrepresent. It is using for training AI models which, I don’t know what is the problem? Should I assume the problem is that it was done without consent? In that case we circle back to “it’s on a public forum”. Comment#83. They don't need consent you publish the video for everyone to see

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Water scarcity drove steam power adoption during industrial revolution, new research suggests

Comment#1. This has to be one of the poorest written headlines I've ever read. Lacking water wouldn't drive people to use water in other ways, it would do the opposite. Plus, reading the first line of the article makes it clear they are talking about waterpower not water itself. Like, how do you mess up this badly on something so easy?

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Looking for a web page from 2013? It may have disappeared

Comment#1. They're also impossible to find because Google hides anything good or of value (Bing is incomprehensibly stupid), replacing it with shitty advertisements, government propaganda or random links that are utterly irrelavent but convey a narrative Google wants to push (e.g, pirating or copyright law) Comment#2. « New research from the US-based Pew Research Centre found that nearly 40 per cent of all web pages that were created in 2013 are no longer accessible due to a phenomenon they call “digital decay”. » Comment#3. « Decay is also happening on social media, where just under one in five posts on X (formerly Twitter) collected in a real-time random sample of 4.8 million posts were not available for more than a few months on the site, either because a user’s account was deleted or the individual post was removed. » Comment#4. Reference: Athena Chapekis et al., « When Online Content Disappears », https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2024/05/17/when-online-content-disappears/ Comment#5. Uuuuh ok and ?

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Two-headed floating wind turbine giant completed by China's Mingyang

Comment#1. How is that any better than two seperate turbines? Comment#2. Like everything big china does, that shit is falling over

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Google’s $500M effort to wreck Microsoft EU cloud deal failed, report says | Google reportedly didn't want a Microsoft antitrust complaint dropped in the EU

Comment#1. Article highlights: >According to Bloomberg, Google's offer to the Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) required that the group maintain its EU antitrust complaint. It came "just days" before CISPE settled with Microsoft, and it was apparently not compelling enough to stop CISPE from inking a deal with the software giant that TechCrunch noted forced CISPE to accept several compromises. > >Bloomberg uncovered Google's attempted counteroffer after reviewing confidential documents and speaking to "people familiar with the matter." Apparently, Google sought to sway CISPE with a package worth nearly $500 million for more than five years of software licenses and about $15 million in cash. > >But CISPE did not take the bait, announcing last week that an agreement was reached with Microsoft, seemingly frustrating Google. > >CISPE initially raised its complaint in 2022, alleging that Microsoft was "irreparably damaging the European cloud ecosystem and depriving European customers of choice in their cloud deployments" by spiking costs to run Microsoft's software on rival cloud services. In February, CISPE said that "any remedies and resolution must apply across the sector and to be accessible to all cloud customers in Europe." They also promised that "any agreements will be made public." > >But the settlement reached last week excluded major rivals, including Amazon, which is a CISPE member, and Google, which is not. And despite CISPE's promise, the terms of the deal were not published, apart from a CISPE blog roughly outlining central features that it claimed resolved the group's concerns over Microsoft's allegedly anticompetitive behaviors. > >What is clear is that CISPE agreed to drop their complaint by taking the deal, but no one knows exactly how much Microsoft paid in a "lump sum" to cover CISPE legal fees for three years, TechCrunch noted. However, "two people with direct knowledge of the matter" told Reuters that Microsoft offered about $22 million. > >... > >A CISPE spokesperson, Ben Maynard, told Ars that its "members were presented with alternative options to accepting the Microsoft deal," while not disclosing the terms of the other options. "However, the members voted by a significant majority to accept the Microsoft offer, which, in their view, presented the best opportunity for the European cloud sector," Maynard told Ars. > >... > >"This is a significant victory for European cloud providers," Mingorance said of the deal with Microsoft. "CISPE has given Microsoft the benefit of the doubt and believes that this agreement will provide a level playing field for European cloud infrastructure service providers and their customers." > >However, while Mingorance claimed the win—and Microsoft dodged fines of as high as 10 percent of its global sales—Amazon and Google seemingly remain unhappy with the deal. > >An Amazon spokesperson suggested that "Microsoft selectively making these changes for some CISPE members shows that there are no technical barriers that prevent Microsoft from making its software more easily available to rival cloud providers." It looks here that the members of CISPE were looking for more than just cash and/or services and that Microsoft's deal was more aligned with what they were looking for. It will be interesting to see how this agreement changes things in the EU, and whether that will materially affect any of the larger players in the space.

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SpaceX rocket launch failure leads to 20 Starlink satellites falling from sky, prompting probe | Gravity wins again

Comment#1. The satellites were found guilty Comment#2. I was picturing the movie trope where the demise of the central figure causes all the related but unconnected hardware to flop over and go into seizures. But in reality,. > SpaceX said a liquid oxygen leak developed on the second stage, preventing it from completing its second burn. The rocket and its payload survived, and the satellites were deployed successfully albeit at an altitude of around 84 miles – less than half of the expected perigee altitude. Comment#3. Headline makes it sound like hunks of metal will be falling onto people's houses, they're going to burn up before they fall like that. Comment#4. Absolutely absurd the Falcon 9 has launched 354 missions since its creation, and only 4 of those have been failures. Makes sense the FAA would want to understand what went wrong in such a normally reliable rocket. Comment#5. All the satellites currently orbiting the earth will eventually fall to earth. The ones in low-earth-orbit, like the Starlink satellites, will stay up for the shortest amount of time. They are designed to fall quite regularly and burn up during re-entry. Those 20 Starlink satellites just fell and burned up on re-entry a few years earlier than was hoped. Comment#6. I will never forget when I was doing a degree (20 years ago) we had a guest speaker who was an ex-Nasa engineer. He said after the first shuttle disaster, of course, everyone got involved in the audit. NASA's conclusion was that would never happen again. He said nowhere in the final reports did they mention what the engineers said. He said 1 in 72 launches to space will fail... because going to space is harder than you can imagine. Seems to track pretty closely to Nasa's and SpaceX records. Comment#7. I've heard when these burn up in the atmopshere they'll destroy the o-zone layer again, so that's neat. edit: aww did reality hurt your feelings? https://www.space.com/starlink-satellite-reentry-ozone-depletion-atmosphere https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/satellites-polluting-atmosphere-1.7239899 Comment#8. Everyone who praises the Apartheid Kid every time a launch is successful is awfully silent about this. Comment#9. I love how musk is actually trying to push humanity forward technologically and that pisses Reddit off so much Comment#10. Hey Elon! Invest in your company instead of backdoor deals with politicians! Comment#11. Off to destroy more ozone layer Comment#12. Guess their out of warranty now. Comment#13. gravity. not only a good idea. its the law! Comment#14. Maybe Musk should be more concerned with this and less concerned with identity politics. Comment#15. They should all fall from the sky. Needless pollution destroying our night skies Comment#16. So they launched a rocket and not only did it fail, 20 satellites already in orbit …crashed? 😂 Comment#17. These are the mutton-heads commissioned to splash the ISS. So, SpaceX will likely claim this Starlink disaster to be another amazing success and wholly necessary for the ISS. The planet is roughly 71% covered by water. We can only hope that they don't miss. But judging from SpaceX's past performance, a haphazard descent of any kind is a celebratory event. Comment#18. They will fit right in in Texas. Comment#19. Practice run for taking the ISS down? Bit premature don't they think?

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China installs world’s 1st dual-headed wind turbine to harness hurricane power | The estimated annual production capacity is 54,000 megawatt-hours (MWh), enough to power approximately 30,000 households in China.

Comment#1. very nice, let's see paul allen's turbine Comment#2. That’s cool, but it is not clear from the article if it serves a new purpose, besides being able to produce 16.8 MW. Would i gain the same from installing two 8.4 MW turbines for example? The construction looks a bit complex to be honest… Comment#3. The headline might be bombastic, but honestly, this is still really cool. From what I've been reading about windmills, it's likely that this will have benefits in ease of installation and consistency of power generation. It also looks crazy. At the end of the day, it's clean energy that powers tens of thousands of households, so that's awesome, too. Comment#4. Ok this is not what I expected when they said dual-headed. This looks wacky. Comment#5. Did you see the yellow water in this port? Comment#6. >the floating platform is engineered to operate in waters deeper than 115 ft (35 m), allowing it to harness optimal offshore wind resources. Gonna need one heck of an extension cord. Comment#7. 'Harness hurricane power' why would a dual windmill harness hurricane winds...? The stresses on the construction...how will they be anchored to the ground since it is a floating windmill...stresses on the anchoring will also be quite significant. Comment#8. idk it seems vaporware. Comment#9. is... it being installed right in the harbor ?

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Hacked, leaked, exposed: Why you should never use stalkerware apps

Comment#1. Wow thanks, but funnily enough I didn’t need any reason beyond not being a terrible piece of shit. Comment#2. Because stalking is wrong. Why do we even need an article on this? Comment#3. Aren't all apps grabbing all our data nowadays if we choose to use them? All apps are stalker apps Comment#4. “Stalkerware is monitoring software or spyware that is used for cyberstalking. The term was coined when people started to widely use commercial spyware to spy on their spouses or intimate partners. Stalkerware has been criticized because of its use by abusers, stalkers, and employers” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalkerware Comment#5. So, sketchy software designed for unethical purposes acquired from sketchy companies can't be trusted. Got it. Comment#6. >Using stalkerware is creepy, unethical, potentially illegal, and puts your data and that of your loved ones in danger. Think it goes without saying that if you're using stalkerware, you're an absolute creep. Hell mend those that use these apps and fall foul of them. Comment#7. Stalkerware apps not only violate privacy and trust but also pose significant security risks. Using these apps can lead to your personal data being hacked, leaked, and exposed, making it highly unethical and illegal in many places. Protect yourself and others by avoiding stalkerware entirely . Comment#8. How many in government have this shit on their conservative Christian phones like Mike Johnson has for his porn where he and his son share and talk about it?

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Amazon enforces new office hours rule and targets 'coffee badging'

Comment#1. "...a minimum of two hours per visit is required to count as office attendance, according to multiple screenshots of internal Slack messages obtained by BI and people familiar with the matter. Some teams have been told to stay at least six hours per visit..." Comment#2. "The vast majority of employees are in the office more frequently, there's more energy, connection, and collaboration, and we're hearing that from employees and the businesses that surround our offices," but also... "roughly 30,000 people [signing an internal petition](https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-return-to-office-policy-petition-30000-staff-remote-work-2023-3) opposing the policy" hmmmmm Comment#3. "remember when we measured on metrics that actually mattered?" I know it's far easier said, but damn I wish all 30000 employees would just mass quit. Comment#4. I'm ex-AWS (nearly 7 years, left last year). One of the main reasons I left was that the senior executive team (who use the twee term "S-steam" to describe themselves) went against Amazon's own leadership principles when deciding that Amazonians needed to return to the office. They did not demonstrate any reliance on data, they did not listen to the thousands of employees who publicly voiced their concern and opposition, and clearly didn't account for the fact that a large number of employees didn't have an office anywhere near where they live. Amazon prided itself on being a "Day 1" company because they were so scrappy and inventive. This bullshit doesn't even qualify for Day 2. Jeff Bezos himself said >If we start to focus on ourselves instead of focusing on our customers, that will be the beginning of the end. We have to try and delay that day for as long as possible. I think Jeff was right, and the end has begun. Comment#5. I used to be an Amazon driver, and I always wondered if the white-collar workers got fucked as badly as we did by that evil, hilariously incompetent company. Apparently the answer is that Amazon is working on ways to fuck over their office workers too. Comment#6. De-paywalled: https://archive.is/S8Eoy Comment#7. >Even so, at least one Amazon employee seems to have already found a way to circumvent the new attendance policy. > >This person wrote in the Slack channel that they were able to badge in through one of the back rooms located in their local Whole Foods store (Whole Foods is an Amazon subsidiary). The door didn't unlock, this person added, but the badge-in did register as an attendance on Amazon's internal report. > >"Could I badge into this door 3 days per week and save myself from having to commute to the office?" the person wrote in Slack. This is hilarious to me. I'm sure someone will get fired, but I fully support trying to get around return to office mandates. These companies have been really transparent for a while, that they really don't care about doing what makes sense. RTO will happen by any means necessary. Comment#8. I know a few Amazon employees who will spend a day in the office, go out drinking afterwards, and then scan their badges again (after midnight) on the way back to their cars. The second scan registers as a second day in the office so they can just work from home instead. Comment#9. Amazon under estimates just how petty people can be over such things. Some will likely find the notion of "sticking it to the man" worth driving to the office in the morning, badging in, driving home, driving back at the end of the day, and badging out. An even larger number will start showing up the minimum they are required and just doing nothing during that time out of spite. Comment#10. Ok. That employee that commented on already finding a way to circumvent the new policy is just stupid, stupid, stupid. You don’t make your new found discovery public. Now Amazon can just fix the loophole. Some people are just idiots. 🤦🏻‍♂️ Comment#11. If no one is there that needs to see them, to the point that the keycard log has to be checked to see if they came or not, wouldn't it be 100X easier to just let them work from home? This RTO for the sake of Power Tripping is incredibly stupid. Comment#12. Imagine spending this much time and money to track this nonsense. Its crazy. Comment#13. I have worked at Amazon for 4 years. The spiral started on the tail end of Bezos' reign, but when Jassy came in, the looting REALLY began. And boy have they made off like bandits. One of our regional managers literally ghosted the entire region for 3 months. He only showed up once for the manager OLRs where they do employee performance evals. Then when they finally decided to address it, he went on leave. Then it took them another 6 months after that leave to actually, you know, fire his ass. How much money did he collect doing literally nothing? Hundreds of thousands of dollars, and stocks. They are the fucking gestapo for the average warehouse associate, but when it comes to their leadership, the gang protects their own. Every single area of the company is being looted by these fucking grifters. They're all doing favors for each other too. My director went from Operations, to Safety, and now IT. He's effectively destroyed the non-corporate IT. His numbers look good though so the other execs will continue to suck him off and reward him. Not only are we running skeleton crews, but they have literally made my job 300% less efficient, because they have broken every tool I use to do my job. They literally said that they took one of the products "right out of the box" and deployed it into prod, while simultaneously deprecating the tools that actually worked. So now I do the bare minimum and game everything. All my numbers, all my metrics, I game everything. And its hilariously easy to do so, because every measure of "success" theyve laid out is so far removed from reality. That tells me, and my coworkers, that its not about doing a good job, or delivering real results, its about our boss playing their numbers. So I am just following the leader. Never has a job given me so much insight into how the world works. That is, that the world is not a meritocracy where people are rewarded for hard work or intelligence. Instead they're rewarded for how manipulative and fraudulent they are. Comment#14. My workplace mandated everyone be in office 3 days / week. The devs have all just ignored it and the direct managers haven't pushed it past a few gentle 'it would be good if you tried to...' because they know it's stupid and unproductive. + the best people in the team would all leave if it was enforced and have told management this :D Comment#15. Amazon uses this combined with aggressive stack ranking as a way to quietly lay staff off without saying it's laying staff off. Record profits, little to no salary increases, RTO that makes no sense, endless BS about coffee cooler conversations and culture, employee motivation and job satisfaction in the toilet. What happened to sustainability and making it "Earth's best employer" Welcome to day 2. Comment#16. The cat is out of the bag. Being in the office offers no value for a large number of workers who are being asked to return to the office. Nobody who values themselves is going to return to the office after successfully performing their job duties from their home. It doesn't add value to either the employee or the employer. Comment#17. I used to work there. The coffee is the last thing I’d go in for. It was fucking terrible. Comment#18. The fact one must rely on a badge scan to know people are in office, tells us that collaboration and energy is not happening in office. If it was, your leadership would know whether or not you were present. Most leaders aren’t even in office to hold people accountable without a badge scan to track. Rules for thee, not for me. GTFOH. Comment#19. “The vast majority of employees are in the office more frequently, there’s more energy, connection, and collaboration, and we’re hearing that from employees and the businesses that surround our offices,” What does it matter what the surrounding businesses think about MY job? Comment#20. For those without a Business Insider sub or competent ad blocker, here is the article text: *Amazon is now monitoring the hours corporate employees spend in the office. This move is intended to crack down on people who are trying to skirt the company's return-to-office policy, Business Insider has learned.* *Several teams across Amazon, including the retail and cloud-computing units, were told in recent months that a minimum of two hours per visit is required to count as office attendance, according to multiple screenshots of internal Slack messages obtained by BI and people familiar with the matter. Some teams have been told to stay at least six hours per visit.* *Amazon's goal is to ramp up scrutiny of "coffee badging," some of the Slack messages said. Coffee badging refers to employees who badge in, get coffee, and leave the office shortly to satisfy their return-to-office mandate. Amazon started requiring office attendance for most corporate staffers three times a week last year, but it didn't have a minimum-hour obligation for each visit.* *The move is the latest point of tension in Amazon's long fight to bring employees back into the office. Since announcing its return-to-office plans early last year, Amazon has faced fierce pushback from employees, with roughly 30,000 people signing an internal petition opposing the policy. Amazon later doubled down by forcing some employees to move closer to their teams and blocking promotions of people who failed to comply. Amazon's CEO Andy Jassy even warned non-compliant employees to leave the company.* *In an email to BI, Margaret Callahan, an Amazon spokesperson, said the company has started to "speak directly" to employees who haven't spent enough time in the office.* *"Over a year ago we asked employees to start coming into the office three or more days per week because we believe it would yield the best long-term results for our customers, business, and culture. And it has. The vast majority of employees are in the office more frequently, there's more energy, connection, and collaboration, and we're hearing that from employees and the businesses that surround our offices," Callahan said."* Comment#21. LPT: If you discover a loophole, you don't publicise it so that someone on the opposite side of the world (*ie me*) can find out about it. Comment#22. The years I worked for Amazon/AWS, all I heard for every decision was that “we are a data-driven company with our decisions.” So I find it absolutely hilarious that we never get any numbers with these sorts of things, only that upper management feels or has decided on something. I miss when they still had their own company culture that was based on their own unique business approach that made them a successful and innovative company. But the last 5 years they have bought into the popular and short sighted business model that make all corporations predatory. Bezos knew when to bail. Comment#23. Managers, if your staff are going this far to find workarounds, maybe *the problem is you*. Comment#24. lol 2 hours constitutes a visit i commute an hour in, spend two hours there, commute an hour back what a waste of fucking time Comment#25. paywall after first paragraph Comment#26. When I worked at amazon I spent more time in a coffee shop near by than at my desk... My team was annoying and distracting - it was just easier. Comment#27. It’s incredible to watch how these corporations are still trying to gaslight people into thinking working in an office is somehow better. Comment#28. Save yourself a few steps and don’t work for Amazon. Their hiring process is ridiculous, the roles are under valued in terms of pay, and the requirements “to excel at your position” cause burn out and misery. There are many other and better companies to work for. Let Amazon struggle hiring good people and they may learn (not likely). Comment#29. Covid hit, they sent us all to WFH. Except I needed access on occasion. Like a hardline to change my password since it wouldn’t let me do it remotely. Or when I needed some physical object I was not permitted to keep at home. Or a truck to do field work (ten miles in, get truck, drive past house to go to field…) Also not allowed to take home. Then we get a notice that our bandwidth is being used up. Certain people bad. Yes, we work remotely and use GIS. Lots of data. I get called to boss’s and reprimanded for coming in to the office at odd hours. Potential security issue, I could be sneaking around (looking at things I could anyway), seems like I am avoiding colleagues (no shit, you mean the colleagues that don’t think Covid is real even though two spouses have died and four employees almost did?), only work normal hours… At which point I looked at my boss. You remember what job I do for you, correct? I’m a field biologist. I do field work. Like owl surveys. At night. So when I get off work at 0300 and the system logs me going through the door… There were some office higher ups that were running numbers and noticed the bandwidth issues and employees with late night habits. Sent word down. I hope someone explained our jobs to them. Sideways. Comment#30. I managed one of four groups responsible for revenue generation through billable hours or sales. My group was of the "billable hours" variety. During COVID we did the work from home thing. When things started opening back up, the question came up: "should we require people to start coming back to the office?" One guy (military officer, micromanager and all around asshole) was all for it. I said, "We have real, no bullshit, metrics to measure this group. Billable hours and dollars billed per employee. If their numbers are equal to or better than they were before work from home, let them stay working from home. If someone is not billing as much, we need to factor in any drop off due to the pandemic and go from there." The military prick, "So you want to treat everyone differently? With no uniform standard? And how are we supposed to have eyes on what they're doing?" "No, the uniform standard is, revenue. If someone is meeting or exceeding their goal, why would we mess that up?" In the end they decided to let me, my group, my manager and his group do it my way. Military asshole did it his way. Fast forward a couple of years, his dept's average employee tenure is under 2 years, mine is 6 years. He's been fired. The department he managed is losing money and in freefall. Comment#31. Recluiters from Amazon Mexico keep reaching out, I refuse to work for those fuckers with a passion. They keep talking about hybrid work as a lure but everyone knows that they will take it out as soon as they meet the hiring quota. Also their salaries in MX are shit Comment#32. >"Now that it's been more than a year, we're starting to speak directly with employees who haven't regularly been spending meaningful amounts of time in the office to ensure they understand the importance of spending quality time with their colleagues." I enjoy working with my coworkers but I dont need to see them in person for that. Besides, office time isnt quality time, we arent sitting around playing video games. If management wants people in the office, sack up and say it, none of this pussyfooting about. Comment#33. "energy, connection, and collaboration" The buzz words every company and org uses to try and convince everyone that open office environments are nothing but bliss. They are miserable for anyone who doesn't thrive in a chaotic environment. Believe it or not, shoving lots of people into open areas generates quite a lot of noise and distraction. Open office plans ruin office life which is sad since it's the trendy way to go Comment#34. Amazon was the most abusive, unpleasant company I have ever worked for. Bezos designed it to be an inhuman money machine, and that is exactly what it is. Comment#35. I remember when I got hired at my current place, pre-covid, I did a 6-month trial contract remotely, with one day a month in-office. When they hired me on FT they required me to move on site, and would brook no argument. _Within a month_ we ran out of desk space in the office and they suggested that I rotate 1-week in, 1-week remote with a coworker. Absolutely livid. Then COVID hit and everyone went remote. A bunch of people in my dept literally moved away, but kept working for the company, and we even hired new fully remote people on the other side of the country. Now less than half of the department are local and they are _still_ trying to mandate RTO at least 2 days a week and threatened to fire me if I didn't comply. There are 5 other local people that you could broadly say are in my department, 2 have hands-on requirements and were onsite most of COVID. Of the remaining three I only interact with _one_ heavily enough to even slightly justify face-to-face, and he doesn't drive and gets a free pass to basically never come into the office because it's out in the boons. [I am not rocking the boat on that one, though. I don't want to spoil it just to make myself feel better] So basically they made me come into the office just to type on a different keyboard and get distracted by office chatter that is 95% unrelated to my actual work just because they felt like it. Comment#36. The only way to enforce time required in the office is to require badging in AND out. The only people who want RTO like this are execs who want to show investors that they’re using all that expensive corporate real estate Comment#37. AMZ sux and sucks even more for influencing the rest of corpo America with their silly business practices. " we have some of the brightest minds in the world. let's harass them until they quit" mandatory RTO only works if 100% of companies are doing it. otherwise you just look like an asshole Comment#38. Wait what's coffee badging?? Comment#39. WTF is coffee badging? Comment#40. Non paywall https://archive.ph/ecFFq Comment#41. Imagine being a human and thinking, you know, fuck my employees specifically that will get them to work harder. Idiots Comment#42. Crap. Not only do I have to worry about regular badgers but coffee badgers too? Comment#43. I just cake badged today... Comment#44. Surveillance always justifies itself and justifies more of itself. It's a tumor. Comment#45. God Amazon sucks Comment#46. Y'know, just like with most everything else, there's something happening that's inhumane, evil, manipulative, and rotten to the core. And what do we do? Get evaluated for ADD, take pills, go to therapy, go insane. Talk about Taylor and Trump. Argue with robots. Do we have any actual hope or is it just cope or rope? Comment#47. how about they fix the insane amount of chinese shit ass products on their website? Comment#48. Amazon has really toxic culture no matter if you are working from the moon and everyone is moving away from using AWS Comment#49. I wonder which leadership principle this falls under… Comment#50. This article lists the state and federal tax incentive programs currently being negotiated by corporate to limit RTO or expand it. Emerge Program. Enterprise Zone Program. California Competes. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-02-21/another-threat-to-work-from-home-tax-breaks Some quotes: Before the pandemic, several New Jersey tax programs required workers to show up at least 80% of the time, and one Texas program set the threshold at 50%. Provisions like these were designed to ensure that the jobs boosted local revenue from income, sales and property taxes, and bolstered downtown economies. JPMorgan Chase & Co. and RBC Capital Markets are among more than 100 firms that have negotiated billions of dollars worth of agreements under New Jersey’s pre-pandemic programs. None have yet applied for the waiver, Sullivan said, meaning if they want their tax breaks, they’ll have to prove the jobs are being done on site at least three days a week. JPMorgan and RBC declined to comment. Another initiative created in New Jersey during the pandemic, the Emerge Program, hints at what future incentives might look: Rather than commit to a certain percentage of time spent in office, applicants have to prove that 80% of eligible employees’ work time is spent in the state — and that they have enough space to accommodate at least half of their workforce on site, “without packing people in like a sardine can,” Sullivan said. JPMorgan Chase & Co., Dell Inc. and over 100 other firms have negotiated agreements under the Enterprise Zone Program. JPMorgan has not yet requested or collected the incentive and has until 2027 to do so if the firm meets the requirements. Dell declined to comment. If the legislature resists revising the program, Ryan says it could push some companies to put an unceremonious end to remote work. “It would have some impact on the flexibility of an individual company’s hybrid work policy,” said Ryan. “I hope that doesn’t happen, but I think it could.” In other states, employee location requirements are less specific. Many tax incentive programs include language tying the benefits to workers at a specific location, like a “facility” or “project site” but don’t elaborate much beyond that. Others, like California’s flagship incentive program, California Competes, limit benefits to state-based employees, but don’t have any onsite-requirements for many beneficiaries. That’s because many states are less concerned about whether an employee commutes to an office or works from their apartment, so long as they remain in the state and keep paying income tax. Ohio, Kansas and North Carolina recently clarified that remote workers won’t be excluded for tax breaks there either so long as they stay in the state. Critics of tax incentives to attract businesses say the durability of hybrid work should be a wake-up call for governments. “Maybe company-specific incentives aren’t the safest, lowest-risk form of investment here,” said Greg LeRoy, the executive director of Good Jobs First, a nonpartisan think tank that advocates for economic development accountability. “We would always argue that the better strategy is to invest in public goods that make a place sticky,” like infrastructure, education and amenities. But as long as tax breaks play a central role in economic development, some site selection experts like Boyd say the only way forward is to set policies that embrace remote work. “Cities and states are adopting these measures because they have to, not because they want to,” said Boyd. “Because they’ll lose projects in the pipeline and lose projects to competing municipalities.” Comment#51. I hate Amazon. Is there a viable and ethical alternative? Comment#52. I think the real reason is that companies like to push RTO is that they have sunk billions into property assets that are under utilised and losing value since Covid. Lack of return to office generally means they and other businesses will probably have to take a loss. Also I think about the ecosystem of jobs around offices, staff like cleaners and security, office suppliers, local shops, cafes are all impacted if they close down, that’s a lot of jobs. I love working from home, but offices make a major impact on the economy around them and keep people who can’t work from home fed. Comment#53. Thanks for posting articles that sit behind paywalls. Shouldn’t that be some sort of violation?!?!? Comment#54. Policies like this are just middle management trying to justify their existence. Most people can do their jobs remotely just fine. Forcing them into the office doesn't improve or solve anything. Comment#55. They are vile Comment#56. There are some bad managers at Amazon. Comment#57. Sometimes it seems as if publications are linking their own paywall articles. Why are so many paywalled publications used? Does everyone here have a subscription to business insider? Comment#58. Wth is coffee badging? Comment#59. The Amazon company moral song https://youtu.be/dny0-U29Ygw?si=RPCk5JvUtAfYS6wn Comment#60. Same company that plans to get rid of piss bottles (I wish the next bit wasn't a joke) by drilling holes in the floor of their delivery vehicles so drivers can just piss into it and not even stop driving. They've had a crapton of internal meetings about their options, and how much bad publicity this would generate vs slightly higher profits. Comment#61. Even when showing up for work now, we’re supposed to “meet”, but no conference rooms are open. The conference rooms are all perma-booked by room hoarders. I’ve had many meetings at my “agile desk” with headphones on, and the next guy in the meeting is like two or three desks over doing the same thing, and maybe one or two guy on the team is calling in from another city because the team has spread out over time, and one guy calling from home since they’re using their work from home day. It’s easier when in office to forego rooms and just join from your desk …… as if you weren’t even in the office to begin with. You can always tell when a meeting starts who’s in office because they’re wandering around the floor looking for an open office, or trying to kick another group out of a conference room if they landed a reservation, so they’re late to join. Comment#62. Amazon is such a douche company.. Fucking stupid Comment#63. For the life of me I can't understand why people are so up in arms and this. The policy says you should ensure you come to the office x times a week. Employees are intentionally breaking the intent of the policy by turning up for a card swipe and leaving. So the policy is being enforced to include minimum hours. What else did they expect would happen? Your employer wants you in office for whatever reason. You can argue that you are more productive at home but at the end of the day, they are paying you for your time and they get to set the terms. Comment#64. It’s going to return to old ways for most organizations. Unfortunately for every productive team member it seems there are two unproductive people that just login a few hours a day and then collect a $200k+ yearly compensation. I work with multiple people on my team that have only submitted 2-3 PRs (code) all year. They are unreachable most of the time, and when they hit a deadline they come up with a sob story of why they couldn’t finish it. It’s not my team alone, it seems to be company wide. I’ll be very surprised if remote work at large corporations is standard in another 2 years. I know Microsoft is planning to pull people back to the office this fall, and I imaging many other companies will follow in a giants footsteps Comment#65. New phrase of the day “coffee badging”. Wow. Comment#66. I live-in a major city and prefer the office to home. Both because the office is any easy commute and i like the socialization that comes with being out of home. Still, if i had a long commute, forgetaboutit! Comment#67. TIL "coffee badging." Comment#68. 2 hours is nothing. Go in at 11:30, eat a long lunch, take a crap, get coffee and leave. Comment#69. Honest question, Can I send a robot? Comment#70. Coffee Badging is the name of my The National cover band. Comment#71. I bought one so likely we can rest assured the we will not have anymore hurricanes or power outages in the Houston area until it is stolen or it breaks. The universe does me like that. Comment#72. Keep your production as per second consistently. Otherwise, Bezos wont afford his luxury Comment#73. Now I know exactly how long to stay to get the new Peccy! Comment#74. Are people posting Business Insider links secretly getting commissions? These articles are behind a paywall so not accessible. Comment#75. A bunch of middle managers trying to keep their jobs that have no ROI or reason to exist anymore so they come up with as much BS as they can to keep their job that probably wasnt needed even before the pandemic Comment#76. Tf is 'coffee badging'? Comment#77. Jfc don’t give employees one free coffee that they’ll stand in a 30 minute line to receive, instead just give them unlimited coffee at cost. If a latte is $2, people won’t feel like they “need” one and waste half an hour of their lives. And people who actually like coffee will be able to get a couple of drinks at a reasonable price. Comment#78. I mean there is no way they are tracking though camera (if they do I’ll just wear a mask). So all I’m going to do is, leave my laptop at work, go out for a 2 hour lunch break, and take my laptop and go home. Comment#79. Why don't you people just go to work like the rest of us? Xd

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New 'superlubricity' coating is a step toward friction-free machines

Comment#1. I read the headline and my first thought was, "It's going to be graphene." It was graphene. Nothing to see here. Comment#2. I feel like frictionless is a bit of a stretch, but reducing friction by a high factor is always very interesting. Comment#3. Graphene lubricant? Imagine opening up the oil fill tube and breathing in aerosolized carbon nano particles. Yet another miracle material that is a lung irritant that will cause ultra cancer in 20 years. Comment#4. Didn’t Clark Griswald already invent this ? Comment#5. Frictionless? No… Low friction? Maybe. But it’s graphene, so chances are it’ll only be applicable for something super expensive. Comment#6. I will take a bet that it's not. Comment#7. 'friction-free'? Good luck sorting that out with physics. Comment#8. Graphene can do anything….except make it out of the lab. Comment#9. "Organic Superlube? Oh, it's great stuff, great stuff. You really have to keep an eye on it, though -- it'll try and slide away from you the first chance it gets." – T. M. Morgan-Reilly, "Morgan Metagenics" Comment#10. I can't wait to never hear about this again. Comment#11. Porn Industry has joined the chat. Comment#12. A new non-caloric silicon-based kitchen lubricant. It creates a surface 500 times more slippery than any cooking oil. Comment#13. Very many thoughts on this. Physics: Should this actually be posted as 'lower friction' (or maybe '90s 'friction-light')? Business: When is the best time for a business to invest in manufacturing graphene covered metal parts? Nutritionists: Cassava, and why machinists want to steal our food. Consumers: Cannot see any immediate benefit, and the parts do not yet exist, so we will ignore this science. Comment#14. I want it on my bike chain Comment#15. When can I buy a bottle from KY? Comment#16. 150,000 cycles. They will definitely have to improve on that. Comment#17. "a step towards friction free"... Literally every lubricant. Comment#18. I still have a can of Slick50. Comment#19. The click-baity shit in this sub needs to stop. Are there Mods here? The fuck. Comment#20. Let me guess. In 20 yrs? Comment#21. *Brainiac has entered the chat* Comment#22. Let’s gooo. Super lube Comment#23. Frictionless mousepads on iron mousemats. Comment#24. Put it in a car Comment#25. No thanks. I already have enough PFAs in me to last a lifetime. Comment#26. Is this what trump has coated himself with?? How else does he keep getting away with crimes? Comment#27. NO SUCH THING! Comment#28. To heck with machines. I can think of other applications. ;)

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Former OpenAI, Tesla engineer Andrej Karpathy starts AI education platform

Comment#1. Guy is a legend. I follow him on Youtube and his coding in public videos are worth a university degree. You'll learn more about AI watching his 4-hours *Let's reproduce GPT-2* than by reading any book about AI.

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Microsoft laid off a DEI team, and its lead wrote an internal email blasting how DEI is 'no longer business critical'

Comment#1. That's why you don't buy into "corporate social responsibility" nonsense. Lord help you if you're foolish enough to express loyalty to brands because they seemingly support a cause you happen to like. Company "values" are absurd because they're not people. They're money-making machines. They'll throw their current "values" out a window if it means raking in cash by pandering to whatever's the flavour of the month. Comment#2. Big corporations only see one color. Green. Anything else doesn't matter. There's no place for racism/hatred of religion/etc at the top. It's all green there. Comment#3. Surprise surprise, them changing their logo to rainbow over a three year span meant nothing?! What?! Comment#4. Never was, black rock ESG scores just artificially made it so Comment#5. DEI was never business critical... I mean honest to god it shocks me that people believed this shit. Are they all 25 years old? Do they not know how corporations actually work. Corporations only have values during the good times when its valuable PR. Everything, and I mean everything is thrown out the window the minute wallstreet starts fearing infinite growth isn't sustainable. Comment#6. It never was critical, by design or need. It’s a nice to have, and clearly very meaningful to many, but when push comes to shove, DEI is far down the list of what is important to a company. If this country became a far-right NAZI wet dream tomorrow, these same companies would climb over each other to embrace those values while attempting to secure government contracts. Comment#7. It's become divisive for a lot of employees, which is a problem for companies. There's a push to rebrand it as "I&D" - Inclusion and Diversity. The Society for Human Resource management officially dropped the Equity portion. [https://www.linkedin.com/posts/shrm\_shrm24-inclusionanddiversity-workplacechange-activity-7216474717606608900-gU-H/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=member\_desktop](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/shrm_shrm24-inclusionanddiversity-workplacechange-activity-7216474717606608900-gU-H/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop) Comment#8. DEI programs in companies are just a money hole. They are just "Feel good" programs that really don't make a difference in the product/service being provided. I have yet to meet a person that was excited to work somewhere because of their DEI program. Comment#9. It’s a double-whammy: (1) the corporations don’t care beyond virtue signalling to the market, and (2) many people don’t think it actually helped or mattered either beyond some vague social goal. So it’s hypocrisy of corporatism meeting misplaced enthusiasm. Clearly it would fail and disappear at the first sign of pressure. Comment#10. These companies never had any real interest in DEI, it was a simple bit of riding the cultural zeitgeist for PR that they happily jettisoned after attention moved elsewhere. Comment#11. Had to Google what DEI means. Americans... No shit its not business critical lmao. Comment#12. As someone very left leaning, stuff like this is exactly why I try to warn the more extreme types in my camp to not exit the realm of rationality and reasonableness when pushing for the values we believe in. Being a leftist went from using rationality and logic to explain why gay people should be allowed to exist and live their own lives to trying to make it a hate crime to use words as they’re defined in the timeframe from me graduating high school to becoming 30. This is of course a wild simplification to over a decade of cultural iteration, but the overzealous and disingenuous nature of things is exactly why there’s been a pendulum back-swing building for years now. Comment#13. Why bother sharing shit behind a paywall??????? Are we supposed to google it and find an actual article, or just talk about the title? Comment#14. and it never was Comment#15. Finally. Let’s go back to employing based on skill, not gender, race and other treats people can’t change. Comment#16. Wait, companies don't get better depending on the skin color of the employees and who they like to have sex with? Who could have seen that coming? Comment#17. Personally, i think forcing your company to hire people based on a specific sexuality, gender or race is not good for the company. Comment#18. I don't love the relentless focus on profit but profit does have a way of slicing through otherwise impenetrable bullshit that people of all races and cultures create. We vary from the profit motive at out peril. What used to work was business sought profit and government provided regulations and tax incentives for certain behavior. That model, for lack of a better word, worked. Comment#19. Businesses exist to make money, and for no other reason. Whether it’s Apple or grandpa, they have the same motive. Comment#20. That's made me think, very much with the velociraptor thinking meme: If the DEI strategy is really successful, there's no longer a need for DEI team Comment#21. DEI never included me, despite I'm a part of disadvantaged minority in US. It lead only to more disadvantages. Thats why I'm not a fan of ant DEI stuff. Comment#22. I say this as a progressive - DEI was always and has only ever been a liberal feel-good distraction and a Band-Aid intended to cover over the deep, structural racism and inequality that has been baked into this country's DNA since its founding. DEI, hiring quotas, etc are all utterly incapable of producing the kinds of change that we actually need - which are deep, fundamental, and enduring - and replaces them with meaningless, do-gooder bullshit that pisses off pretty much *everyone*. Comment#23. DEI is just a marketing stunt. At least how it's used by companies. Comment#24. The mistake was having a DEI team in the first place. Comment#25. good, DEI is ruining stuff at an alarming pace. Comment#26. Competence and merit are the main pillars of our civilization. Comment#27. Fuck yes. Huge win for meritocracy. Comment#28. It's never been business critical. Good riddance to bad rubbish. Comment#29. DEI makes no sense Comment#30. Good. DEI is bullshit anyway. All it does is put unqualified people in positions where they fail. How about you manage based on merit instead. Or has the whole world gone stupid? Oh wait, it has. Comment#31. I mean, good. DEI initiatives sound warm and fuzzy and nice on paper but as someone who has worked in several companies that made way too aggressive of a DEI push, it just hurts the company. I shit you not at my last company we started hiring people based off how many diversity boxes they could check off instead of their technical abilities. Big shocker: 90% of those people had zero tech background and did a HORRIBLE job. The company hired a president of diversity and the only thing she seemed to do was remind us to put our pronouns in our slack profiles. It was insane. Hiring people based off their race, gender, or sexual preference is just as ridiculous as not hiring someone based off their race, gender, or sexual preference. Comment#32. I hope "no longer critical" means people just treat everything as norm Comment#33. I've never understood the whole DEI concept. To me if you implement such a thing, you are admitting that in the past you intentionally chose people based on certain factors and excluded others. Why not just open hiring to every one, take people on a first come first serve basis, and pick the ones with the best qualifications? Comment#34. Fucking finally, hopefully this is the first step in the total dismantling of SJWs Comment#35. Another win for normal everyday Americans. Wokeness is cancer Comment#36. Not surprising. DEI initiatives open companies up to legal liabilities. We shouldn’t consider a person’s race, if they have the skills. DEI forces companies to hire based on race as opposed to skills Comment#37. Good news. Hopefully back to meritocracy Comment#38. Cool how do disney and everyone else. Making crap for the sake of "see how diverse we are" is ruining media and tech. Comment#39. There was a word to describe basing judgement or actions on someones ethnicity or sexual orientation and its not DEI….long overdue Comment#40. Corporations are ditching DEI paving the way for a less non-sense government. All this stupidity makes them lose billions in favor of absolute nothing in return. Comment#41. Thank god. Now lay off the rest of them. Comment#42. Who cares about corporate DEI bs? It’s just pandering to a flavor of the month. Windows 11 is a mess. Focus on fixing a core product. Comment#43. As a tech person, it was always clear to me that all these programs were pure PR when money was “cheap” but we’re totally siloed from the actual business. It was fine to spend a couple millions for good PR Comment#44. American corporates are seeing the writing on the wall with respect to the election. DEI stuff isn't going to be a priority for the Republicans. Comment#45. Safe to say DEI is more like "business risk", obvious from the start Comment#46. Two ways to take it. One being that being inclusive forced them to take on less profitable staff, and their lawyers finally got the proof they need to support hiring decisions based on merit instead of demographic. Two being that they don’t need to pay a department for what they do anyway. I don’t think they would do it naturally without the department forcing them. Comment#47. DEI sounds great because why would you want to be against diversity, equity, and inclusion? But DEI departments (or HR) have started having way more power than they should have. Not only do they ensure that employees are legally compliant, but they also have an influence on measuring the quality assurance of employee output. Through DEI, they can have power over an employee’s political, social, moral, and cultural views. At Google, someone on a project can say you didn’t seem “Googly” enough to them. That may or may not affect you in layoff rounds. If companies were truly committed to DEI, they would actively seek talent from sources where they typically do not recruit. This would promote diversity of experiences rather than solely relying on sex and gender as diversity filters. Comment#48. No one gives a shit about DEI. Comment#49. Equality in opportunity doesn't equal equality in outcome. Crying about inequality in certain areas and positions is stupid Comment#50. BI is all about the clickbait. Microsoft makes a lot of dumb decisions when laying people off. The generic statement used is almost always the same as listed here - the ever so vague "changing business needs". In reality, the needs didn't change. Some bean counter decided they needed fewer people to accomplish the mission. It means fewer people will now be doing the same work, but they'll still be expected to meet the same goals on the same schedule. It's also not the only DEI team. Comment#51. Teamblind must be celebrating today Comment#52. Tech companies getting ready for a trump presidency. Comment#53. Please, Microsoft is an evil corporation. They employed DEI to help increase their stock price. They couldn't care less about ethics or values or morals. The sole purpose of a corporation is to bring equity to its owners. If a program isn't shaking out it gets the axe regardless of what it is. Comment#54. Being non-US it took me a while to work out DEI even means. Why is this even a headline. Of course it's not business critical. Companies only care about their employees wellbeing as far as it benefits the company. The whole concept of a specialised "DEI" team only makes sense to sell to people that "they care" somehow. The second people either believe that, or don't, there's no benefit anymore. If people are bemoaning the demise of a "DEI" team they're implicitly assuming it's existence actually mattered in the slightest beyond a marketing exercise. Comment#55. I've heard lots of reasons why we can't hire people: hair too long, beard too long, didn't like their clothes, too political in their private life, too soft spoken etc etc etc. People tend not to say the racist shit out loud (at least to me) but in a world where those were given as "reasons" for not hiring a person I find it very hard to believe race doesn't factor in somewhat with those kinds of people if they won't hire people because of those other insane reasons. Comment#56. "businesses figure out that they should hire people based on merit instead trying to fill a quota if they want to make money" whoaaaa Comment#57. The best person should get the job. Period. Regardless of all the things DEI is supposed to promote. Comment#58. The other day my company was distributing lanyards with a rainbow theme. Nobody cares because people are bullied and treated unfairly no matter their race, gender, or sexual identity. Comment#59. Isn't Microsoft mostly Asians and Indians at this point? Maybe DEI in other nontechnical departments? Comment#60. People getting mad at this. Like a corporation cares about what your ethics are. Comment#61. I was a recruiter for a major tech business. They never really cared. Some did but def not c-suite. And I can tell you the systemic policies of society of the past spoken or unspoken made it nearly impossible for diversity hires bc they lacked education, experience and the right business acumen my guess being is bc they were never allowed to enter that world. This will all change in like 4 yrs tho Comment#62. Maybe it never truly was “business critical”… Comment#63. But I thought corporations went woke because they were guided by “social Marxist” principles? Comment#64. Preparing for Trump Comment#65. [removed] Comment#66. Lets face it, it was always pointless anyways to have a team "focused on dei" because at the bottom line what is it even that theyre supposed to do? Make a decent inclusion post on the company's slack during pride month? Is that a 40 hr work week kind of work? Comment#67. Can anyone tell me what 20 slide PowerPoint presentation they'll spend billions on next so I can get in early on the consulting? Comment#68. They started their DEI program in 2014. But, It sort of was uneccesary at Microsoft to begin with. Clearly the place is meritocratic. They want technically capable people, that's it. Comment#69. The best take on it is businesses are about money and they feel that LGBT is big enough to market to and there's not enough chuds for the backlash to be meaningful. It's not praise for the corporation but realizing enough progress has been made that soulless corporate scumfucks ran the numbers and they tie out. It's actually a positive take but with a cynical smile. Comment#70. It never was, it was always marketing. Business is about money and power. Comment#71. What does DEI do that a hiring manager couldn't do anyway lol Comment#72. Never was, it was all for PR from the beginning. Comment#73. D&I is still a core company value and the biggest portion of our annual review process. It’s only one team that was laid off and the statement about being business critical is specific to that one singular team. This is a puff piece meant to politicize yet another layoff Comment#74. Amazing how fast these companies went full mask off. Comment#75. it is only business critical if your customers care - since microsoft pivoted from retail customers to data center users their customers prefer Manchester capitalism, crush the workers! Comment#76. Microsoft will write the program that sorts and catalogues concentration camp data if it makes the a buck. Comment#77. I have the same words that were told to truckers worried about layoffs to driverless vehicles, and people experiencing layoffs due to automation that was pervasive like 10 years ago. "LeArN tO cOdE" Comment#78. Let me translate that corporatese for you “we spent all of our tokens.” Comment#79. The fact that people take these stupid businesses so seriously is just beyond me. It's just a job, people. Stop talking like it's more than that. Comment#80. There was an SVP at my company who wore a “resist!” T shirt about two years ago. The only thing that goddamned hypocrite was resisting was building a quality product over short-term quarterly profits. Comment#81. This is apparently common knowledge but what on earth does DEI stand for? Comment#82. It was never critical to the business and it was always gonna get cut in the short term. That doesn’t mean that it should be cut or that it isn’t important. Comment#83. “We care about inclusion until it negatively effects our bottom line”. Comment#84. The whole DEI concept reminds me of that King Of The Hill episode where that counselor came to Bobby's class while they were planning for a school fair, the counselor was assuming everyone was being racially intolerant and the end result of the class was the school fair wasn't ready. Comment#85. You mean PROFIT critical. Profit. Comment#86. [removed] Comment#87. imo, DEI is only business critical insofar as it’s critical business. No more no less. Comment#88. Microsoft is majority minority in the US so yeah Comment#89. [removed] Comment#90. [removed] Comment#91. ITT - a shitton of armchair experts conflating DEI "teams" with "initiaves". No one here seems to understand the entire point behind this philosophy and it shows. Comment#92. I mean - cost cutting and focusing on things that add too and bottom line value to companies. DEIs value is hard to measure at the best of times and the costs are high. Comment#93. I don’t think it ever was business critical for them - just following the times and DEI has become more controversial lately so it’s basically a green light to get rid of them Comment#94. Just in time to not catch flak from the new administration. Comment#95. Fucking Americans

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2024-07-15 email “AT&T DATA INCIDENT” - “Unlawful access of customer data” We found out AT&T call and text records were accessed by cyber-criminals. data included the phone numbers of your call and text interactions from May 1, 2022 to October 31, 2022. counts of those calls/texts & Cell Tower ID#

Comment#1. Good thing they practice security /s Comment#2. Got that too… but other than that they just basically said my bad and that was it Comment#3. Again?! Earlier this year they finally came clean about a data breach that affected customers from 2019 and they offered..wait for it, FREE CREDIT MONITORING FOR A WHOLE YEAR! Can't believe it happened again and I'm sure they'll get another slap on the wrist with no real consequences while the rest of us are fucked.

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After Tesla and OpenAI, Andrej Karpathy’s startup aims to apply AI assistants to education

Comment#1. Hahahahaha. Good luck.

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Elon Musk says he’s moving SpaceX, X headquarters from California to Texas

Comment#1. Oh no... Don't go... Please... Comment#2. musk just can’t cop to the reality that he’s the reason trans daughter wants absolutely nothing to do with him. Comment#3. Good riddance, Elon is a disgusting human being and far right trump puppet anyways, donating millions per month to him after saying he will never donate to either party. Let’s give millions to a rapist and the guy that tried to overthrow the government, because his ego was too fragile to handle that he lost, also dipshit Elon abandoned his trans daughter too, in other words Elon is a piece of shit. Comment#4. When you make business decision based off dumb political views. You should fail. Please stop using all the things he owns and he literally crumbles. This is actually one dude we can erase. And we should be. Comment#5. Enjoy the lack of electricity for your new adventures. Comment#6. Elon is such a fuckin clown. Comment#7. Good riddance, asshole. Comment#8. Yet, Tesla's global engineering and AI headquarters is still in Palo Alto, California, opened just last year with Gavin Newsom smirking next to Elon Musk on all the press releases. Because even Musk knows that the majority of the H-1B talent he needs to attract and hold hostage at the company that underpins his wealth don't want to live in a red state shithole like Texas. Comment#9. Just saw a news story about how linemen are refusing to go to Texas to help restore power because they're being attacked and held hostage by angry Texans that think it's their fault there's a power outage. Have fun in that hell-hole Elon! Wish we could say we'd miss you! Comment#10. It's because there is an X in the state name. Comment#11. He'll be back after the first hurricane season Comment#12. > Billionaire Elon Musk says he’s moving the headquarters of SpaceX and social media company X to Texas from California. > Musk posted on X Tuesday that he plans on moving SpaceX from Hawthorne, California to Starbase, Texas. X will move to Austin from San Francisco. > He called a new law signed Monday by California Gov. Gavin Newsom that bars school districts from requiring staff to notify parents of their child’s gender identification change the “final straw.” > “I did make it clear to Governor Newsom about a year ago that laws of this nature would force families and companies to leave California to protect their children,” Musk wrote. > Tesla, where Musk is CEO, moved its corporate headquarters to Austin from Palo Alto, California in 2021. > Musk has also said that he has moved his residence from California to Texas, where there is no state personal income tax. Comment#13. Bye grifter Comment#14. How about those return to office policy? Comment#15. Good riddance to this miserable piece of shit Comment#16. The real reason might be taxation and median salaries That political thing is just a convenient excuse Comment#17. seems like newsome forgot who he and the teachers in California work for Comment#18. Smart move and not unexpected. California is not friendly to business. Comment#19. This page's Elon hate is fucking hilarious What a bunch of sour-ass losers

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Underground caves do exist on the Moon, radar observations confirm | Permanent lunar colonies could soon become an attainable target for space agencies

Comment#1. There was a Sci fi book I read once where lunar colonies had underground caves pressurized with air for storage. Because the air was dense and the gravity low, humans could wear and operate mechanical wings and fly like birds inside for recreation. Comment#2. Underground caves. Underground. Caves. Underground… am I missing something? Are there other versions of caves I should know about? Do sky caves exist? Comment#3. Humans leave their caves and go out into the world. They overpopulate the world. They go to the moon to live in, wait for it … caves. Comment#4. Finally a kingdom worthy of Hans Moleman’s reign! Comment#5. Haven’t we known about these collapsed lava tubes since 2009? What’s news here? Comment#6. Back to the caves, men! It’s 10000BC all over again! Comment#7. Are caves caused by water on earth?

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Elon Musk Says X And SpaceX Are Moving Headquarters From California To Texas

Comment#1. Enjoy that robust electrical grid. Comment#2. Return to Office just got complicated Comment#3. That's hilarious. I hope he offers everyone packages to move and you get thousands of highly skilled liberals flooding Texas. Ha ha ha! Comment#4. Hopefully you won't need much electricity... Comment#5. Imagine enjoying west coast life as an employee and then having to move to Texas lmao. Comment#6. He cited a California law passed this week about Trans kids in high school. Specifically that the school does not have to inform the parents if a student declares themselves Transgender at school. Like that’s really the reason. It’s a political statement to sound like he’s fighting the woke. Total BS As he’s already been migrating his businesses to Texas. He’s playing in politics more than anything as of late. He’s probably going to run for office soon. Comment#7. Musk: I want to relocate to a state that’s really friendly for my greed and my hatred of workers’ rights, but I don’t want to *say* that. I got it! [inserts bigotry]. Comment#8. Question is, who's going to move there to keep their jobs? You're talking about a lot of very skilled workers who could easily go get another job in the tech world etc. without having to move out of state. Comment#9. Most likely due to Texas labor laws. Comment#10. Is he looking for a tax incentive to stay?? Comment#11. So sorry, Elon, California cannot be bought. But this is not really what it's about, is it? Probably moving to Texas because the people are more tractable than Californians. And while he's at it, vindictive Elon probably just wants people to criticize Newsom for "losing" jobs to Texas. Comment#12. Life in Rio Grande Valley is, to say the least, going to be a bit different from California for those high earners used to a million upscale businesses catering to their whims Comment#13. In 2023 he moved the Tesla engineering HQ to California (a former HP facility). What a stable genius. https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2023/02/22/tesla-to-open-global-engineering-hq-in-palo-alto Comment#14. So I figured this was in/near/outside of Austin. It seems VERY VERY far from Austin, near the southern-most border to Mexico? Like... with no other major US cities around for hours via car? Am I correct or off here? Comment#15. Bringing your own generators? Comment#16. Maybe there should be a law against naming your kids X Æ A-Xii or Exa Dark Sideræl Seems cruel Comment#17. Imagine hating a group of kids so much that he is uprouting the lives of all him employees over a law that simply prohibit school districts from requiring educators to inform parents about a pronouns or name change without a student’s consent. Comment#18. Booo stay away man. Comment#19. Is he betting on secession? Comment#20. So he's paid up on all the bills owed for the Twitter building and services, right? Right? Comment#21. I call BS on the reason, there was a story about him subleasing the Twitter HQ out 5 days ago, this would be a nice cover story if the reason for subleasing was financial. Comment#22. Enjoy. Here, you might need this [Buc-ees](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/230911153440-06-bucees-gas-station-popularity-aerial.jpg?c=original) Comment#23. "FORBES VALUATION Forbes estimates Musk has a net worth of about $254.4 billion as of Tuesday afternoon, making him the wealthiest person in the world." Holy shit. Comment#24. California should pump subsidizes into rivian and some rocket startup to compete with those ass clowns…space x should be looked at by the FTC for buying up all these rocket start ups too

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‘Unhealthy addiction’: Grim warning for Australian Temu shoppers | news.com.au

Comment#1. I don't even understand why so many people buy that cheap shit. Doesn't even matter if it's from Temu or Amazon. Most of this stuff you do not even need at all, and the other half is so bad in quality that it won't even last a year... Comment#2. stop buying so much shit on temu, start buying the same shit on amazon where the markup goes to a western company!!! Comment#3. Young people: we should do something about climate change Also young people: look at the cheap stuff you can buy direct and have shipped! Comment#4. Temu, aliexpress etc should be illegal Comment#5. Temu is trash

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Cloudflare reports almost 7% of internet traffic is malicious

Comment#1. 7% seems an order of magnitude low. My home firewall blocks between 40-70% of incoming traffic. Comment#2. That seems low. Comment#3. What is it like 80% of all email traffic is spam? Comment#4. You know, they really are out to get you. Comment#5. Those are rookie numbers Comment#6. Seriously, this much malicious activity we are encountering without realizing it. Gotta check out what other cybersecurity reports are saying now. Comment#7. 7%? That's it? This kinda restores a little bit of my faith in humanity! (A little bit.) Comment#8. I use Tor a lot to reach country restricted sites. I get the "you are blocked because you're a bot" pages a lot. Cloudflare needs to work on their filters. Comment#9. A company selling security reports everything is bad , unexpected

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YouTube creators surprised to find Apple and others trained AI on their videos

Comment#1. What, exactly, is surprising about this? Comment#2. At this point, as far as AI is concerned, if it is on the Internet, they are going to use it to train their models. It sucks, I really wish we had better protections against it but technology moves faster than the law. Comment#3. > The companies trained their models in part by using "the Pile," a collection by nonprofit EleutherAI that was put together as a way to offer a useful dataset to individuals or companies that don't have the resources to compete with Big Tech, though it has also since been used by those bigger companies. - Dataset meant to compete with Big Tech. - Used by literally one of the world's largest tech companies. ??? Comment#4. It’s funny to see that PERSONAL and PRIVATE data has been sold off and used for years now to train AI and no one bats an eye, but now computer models are being trained with PUBLICLY AVAILABLE data and everyone loses their shit. Comment#5. I hope the computers are ok. They had to endure & evaluate so many narcissistic & homogenised thumbnails with exaggerated gestures & facial expressions. Comment#6. Have the majority of people who have been enjoying completely free services like this for decades never considered how they make money? Here’s a hint: by using all of the data you supply them. If it’s free, **you** are the product. Comment#7. How is this surprising lmao Comment#8. \*people enjoying sunbath Sun: surprised without my permission Comment#9. Marqees still going to defend apple Comment#10. I don’t feel bad about MKBHD. He literally worked with apple and didn’t correct any wrong statements about their products because of the money. Comment#11. Isn’t Creative Commons the license for all YouTube videos unless specified otherwise? Comment#12. There’s something poetic about MKBHD being used as fodder by Apple after how he’s ran his business for the last few years. Hopefully it’s a wake up call for him and other shilltubers that no company cares about them. Comment#13. The entirety of AI is trained on people’s content without their consent. Do YouTubers think they are some sacred cows immune from it? Comment#14. ???????????? Why is this even an issue? There's like 500000 copy cat channels all over YouTube. There's videos of people "reacting" to other videos by just watching it with little commentary. But all of the sudden AI is mentioned and people freak out? Comment#15. Training an AI model seems like something that would fall under the learning/education part of Fair Use, if I'm being honest. Watching what others do is how people learn. I don't see the issue with AI learning the same way. I do see an issue with training specialized models to replicate something specific, like someone's art style, but that's more of an IP issue than an AI issue, as I'd have the same problem if a human did it. Comment#16. If they are surprised they are idiots. All content online at this point should be presumed to have been used for training models. Comment#17. Who gives a shit? Humans train on videos without consent every day. Comment#18. Surprise, we learned NOTHING from the sampling craze! Comment#19. well they used their products to make money out of so yeah Comment#20. Now to train their OS developers on peoples posts. And maybe invent something not stuck in 2012. Comment#21. Insert surprised Pikachu face Comment#22. ShockedPicachu.webm Comment#23. If something is free, you are the product. Comment#24. ChatGPT knows about me and thinks I got my fist PhD at 11 years old. It makes up shit about some stuff I wrote and real people use it and expect it to work like that. Thankfully, there is a forum and other people correct them and I don’t need to engage in the idiocy that is AI and AI users. AI is fine when you can check it and a disaster when you can’t. Just ask it simple questions and watch it fail. You should really not be surprised at this point. Comment#25. ahh human centipede Comment#26. Surprised??? Really??? C'mon!!! Comment#27. The more I hear about how ai is getting trained, the worst I think ai will be Comment#28. I hate money Comment#29. makes me wonder if the training was done with ad-blockers, or if half of the AI is marketing info Comment#30. Read the EULAs folks. Comment#31. Who cares, bring me the holodeck. Comment#32. Is it possible to put copyright protection on videos to say "AI is not allowed to train on my works"? Comment#33. Lol companies for once feel like what we do when there is a data breach. Comment#34. Why? Why are you surprised scumbag companies would do morally questionable things in the pursuit of profits? This is a very logical thing to have occurred. Comment#35. I mean, so many of them did episodes where they asked AI to write an episode of their show. It shouldn’t be surprising. Comment#36. Fucking AI is evil Comment#37. Every AI service must provide a comprehensive database of all the sources it was trained on - and state for each source if the source consented. That way, every content creator can file a complaint against the service provider and demand that their contribution is removed immediately. If that is not technically possible, the service will be deemed illegal and must be taken down immediately. That's how these situatons are sanctioned for you and me if we violate copyright laws and don't respond to copyright claims. Machine learning based on copyrighted material as well as several Creative Commons license types is theft of intellectual property. There is no other word for it. And if (corrupt) legislators are continuously taking bribes from tech companies to look the other way, they must be punished retroactively, unless they are dead. Comment#38. Has anyone said which youtubers have been impacted by this? Like is there an actual list or just 2-3 names? Comment#39. Why are people giving in so easily here? I get that "its big tech so why bother trying". But people are giving up before a fight has even happened. AI is new and it has been stealing ALOT of content that they have no permission to use. Youtube creators are posting content on youtube, if that content is taken and used outside of youtube, or even just reuploaded by another account, the creators have actions they can take to address this. Just like art that is posted on a website, whether theirs or somewhere else. The artist has "given" permission for it to be used in that way. Yah regular people constantly steal work like this, kind of impossible to track them down. This is a big tech company that has rules to follow. Content creators need to band together and fight back. Heck, everyone should be fighting back. We are still mainly in phase 1 of AI, where it is learning. We've already seen some of phase 2 where its actually being used to create "new" content. AI is already showing up in youtube videos, I see them all the time in shorts. How long until content creators, politicians, public figures, likeness, speech, uniqueness is reproduced in full, creating fake videos, both funny OR extreme ones. This technology needs laws, regulation around it. It will eventually become an every day public tool and that presents ALOT of danger to the world. I like the concept of AI, but its naïve to think its only going to be used for good, every other tech milestone has not gone great for the world, this won't be any different, but on an even more dangerous level.

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Nature Index shows greater emergence of Asian research institutes and steady decline in Western research predominance

Comment#1. I have heard that the quality of the research is more suspect though, that there is a very high rate of fraud. However, that could be rhetoric that I am unfortunately peddling. Comment#2. That’s because there’s always a paywall. Comment#3. Thanks conservatives! Comment#4. It's because in the west we argue about science because religion tells us that our space monster daddies will take care of us. Comment#5. No DEI in Asia

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Intel Vs. Samsung Vs. TSMC

Comment#1. Currently TSMC Comment#2. AMD for the 🏆

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Trump says 'I'm for TikTok' as potential US ban looms

Comment#1. He was the first one that tried to ban it. Comment#2. “Trump says what he thinks people want to hear”- fixed the headline for you. Comment#3. This fucking liar tried to ban it didn’t he lol Comment#4. There’s nothing he won’t do for money. Imagine anyone wanting to put our country in his greedy hands, each part and progress sold to the highest bidder. Comment#5. He’s literally lying but the people on Tiktok are so impressionable many will believe him 😂 Comment#6. I'd rather be without TikTok than have Trump as president. Comment#7. Oh, haha. How is that LibsOfTikTok girl going to take this news? Comment#8. And if suddenly Biden decided not to ban it, then Trump would say he is for the ban. Comment#9. He stands for nothing Comment#10. He also sold out our country’s agents to the highest bidder, leading to the largest cull of informants in US history. He’s a traitor plain and simple. And if he wins, the US will become owned by russia. Comment#11. What a fucking scumbag. This is SUCH an obvious cheap attempt at young voters, it’s disgusting. Problem is there are so many kids absolutely addicted to TicTok and also scummy annoying “influencers” that get paid from it that it may actually pull in some voters. Of course Trump has zero accountability after he wins and will do whatever the fuck he wants. Anyone that votes for him for a stupid reason like TicTok, deserves to have their rights stripped like he’ll immediately start doing if he’s elected. Comment#12. Will literally say anything to get elected and people just eat it hp Comment#13. Anything for a vote.... Comment#14. I've always thought that TikTok was a perfect medium for Trump. Short snippets of inaccurate information, drip-fed directly to supporters? It seems right up his alley. But like other old people, he spent the 80s and 90s making fun of computers, and the 2000s making fun of cell phones, and the whole time making fun of young people who understand and use these technologies. So naturally he jumped on the "dumb kids sharing stupid dances" boomer opinion of TikTok, refusing to recognize its potential value to him. I wonder if he will actually direct his party to save TikTok. That would be fascinating. Comment#15. Is he just handing out candies now? Comment#16. Is there anything divisive that this guy hasn't attempted to get voters out of? Comment#17. “Hello, I will say anything to win! Free gold for everyone who votes for me! Who wants a pony?” Comment#18. Check has cleared. Comment#19. [Okay](https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/31/tech/tiktok-trump-bytedance-sale/index.html) Comment#20. A TikTok investor donate to Trump campaign. Trump is purely transactional. Comment#21. "I wanted to ban it initially but now that I know I can grift on it to millions of children, I am for it!" Oh, I see. Comment#22. So a man who is trying to ban it is for it? Comment#23. This is how China controls youth vote in the US. Trump won't block it. Comment#24. He also said he’ll free Ross Ulbricht. Baloney Comment#25. He is such a whore. This man sells out more than anyone in history Comment#26. Trump would trade a stack of nuclear codes for an upper hand in a “popularity” contest. Of course he will capitulate on TikTac Comment#27. I mean it’ll work, even if it only convinces 1% it’s a numbers game Comment#28. Hello fellow Tik tok kids , please vote for me 😂. What a dunce. Comment#29. This guy is all over the place! He wanted to ban it when he WAS president! Next he is going to tell you he IS Melania! Comment#30. Grasping at straws Comment#31. Pathetic lmao Comment#32. HES THE GUY WHO TRIED TO BAN IT. WTF BRO Comment#33. That the rapist and alleged pedophile with the pierced ear? Comment#34. Jeff Yass owns 15% of tiktok and he is one of Trumps biggest donors. After a meeting with Jeff last year, Trump changed his views on tiktok https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/donald-trump-jeff-yass Comment#35. Bought and sold. Comment#36. China and Putin have an agreement. Trump is Putin’s cock holster. He will do what his master tells him to. Comment#37. lol dude is just pandering to young people with this shit Comment#38. Can’t believe this shit Comment#39. He's trying to get all the votes he can get lmao. Comment#40. Trying to get the young people and influencers vote Comment#41. Trump thinks this’ll get gen Z votes. Comment#42. Probably got famous on tiktok after getting his ear blown off. Surprise surprise Comment#43. Fuck his opinions and lies Comment#44. Reddit makes me believe dead internet theory Comment#45. That’s because he couldn’t care less about the US people or our security. Comment#46. I think the real question is why doesn’t Trump have any eyelashes, and why does no one talk about it? Comment#47. The ppl love Tik tok Comment#48. Hahaha, this is the guy that originally wanted to ban it first Comment#49. America first. Unless it’s Russia or China, who he needs to pretend he can make peace in Ukraine Comment#50. Of course he is. Jeffrey Yass invested in his Truth Social, so he could list it on the stock market. Jeffrey Yass also owns a large share in TikTok/Byte Dance. Is it really a shock? Comment#51. Trump is not a man of integrity. Did anyone else notice? He is not my mentor. He is empty. Comment#52. this guy will do and say anything to get himself elected Comment#53. he will say anything to get elected and once he elected all that he has said will be reversed Comment#54. Some young people will gobble this up and believe that it's true so that they vote for him lol, then again most politicians do this. But still people will take everything at face value. Comment#55. Anything for a vote I guess. Comment#56. Of course he is, they bankroll his 2025 project. Comment#57. That’s good I guess. These politicians are such weirdos about it. I don’t have a following on Tik Tok so it doesn’t affect me personally, but for musicians just starting out it’s a great way to reach an audience, so hoping it doesn’t get banned Comment#58. Trump donor, Jeff Yass, is a major TikTok investor. Comment#59. You tried to ban the app not long ago you fucking expired tangerine Comment#60. He loves China Comment#61. It couldn’t be because of [a donor](https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/jeff-yass-billionaire-donor-investments-tiktoks-parent-company-rcna142531), could it? Comment#62. He needs TikTok to continue the spread of misinformation. Comment#63. The real mr. China Comment#64. Such bullshit😂 Imagine if we had real presidential candidates to vote for. Not this orange traitor or a geriatric dementia patient who can’t put a sentence together. What a joke Comment#65. Flap flap flap goes the gums….brain not driving the gums at all….. Comment#66. Doesn't this guy own a social media company and have a no compete agreement? I'm not sure he's a brilliant businessman now. Comment#67. I don't give a fuck. Trump is scratching and clawing for votes at this point. Comment#68. Jeff Yass, one of TikTok’s largest investors, is also a big Trump donor. Just saying. Comment#69. He tried to ban it first lol. Comment#70. Trying to ban tictok especially so close to the election has always been a terrible political move on Biden's part, I think people vastly underestimate the amount of young voters he would lose if it goes through. Comment#71. He likes the Tik Toks and the bing bongs and the woozle wuzzles....he'll pander to all of them! Comment#72. My TikTok recently has been a cespit of MAGA recently, its impending ban is gonna be great. Comment#73. Sell Out POS!! I wouldn't let him or his cronies hold my dirty shit stained underwear. Comment#74. Could it be the misinformation and dangerous advice? No; it's obviously for those pranks and challenges. 🤪 Comment#75. What is this lazy article? He was for a forced sale to a non-Chinese owner or banning it. Because, you know, China doesn’t allow US apps. He barely said anything in the article. Just that he likes competition. He’s still probably for a forced sale. What are all you limp wrists babbling about? Comment#76. If getting shot didn't win him the election, this just did. He got the hill billu vote, now he has the vapid 20something vote. Comment#77. I swear to Satan, if trying to ban TikTok (and therefore protecting our country from Chinese influence) costs Biden the election, I'm going to lose it... Comment#78. “I’m for Chinese espionage.” Fixed it! Comment#79. What a piece of shit. Comment#80. [https://images.app.goo.gl/a2yTT2wZ1J1KhLzu7](https://images.app.goo.gl/a2yTT2wZ1J1KhLzu7) Comment#81. Anything he says is the opposite he is a pathological Lier. Like he said, I don't care about you. I just want your vote Comment#82. He understands that he’s aiming for the audience that’s too young to vote for him, right? Comment#83. Homie just saying anything he thinks the public wants to hear so he can win at this point. Comment#84. Sure, he can openly accept bribes as president. Comment#85. Evangelicals HATE TikTok with a passion. It’s ruining their kids. Comment#86. I’m for scuba Comment#87. Dude flip flops like a pair of Rainbows. Comment#88. If he gets his way .trumpbwill surely end social media and call it a invasion on people's rights because right now true be told and government watch right wing killers to kill anyone that doesn't believe in their madness 😉 this is why we have these rules ,so you and I can have freedoms without fear .to walk in peace, to move anywhere. To work any place in business .to swim To drive.to shop.to eat ..without fear or death threats or name calling.we must fight for peace. Peace for my family peace for my neighbors peace for strangers. Peace for all in America 🇺🇸 Comment#89. I’m for the toktiks rt fellow children? Comment#90. And just like that he secured the gen z vote /s Comment#91. Why do you think that is? Comment#92. Another brilliant idea from the genius Comment#93. We really need to stop thinking that anything is anything because it's all preordained and far beyond our control. Thing happens, everyone has opinion, blah blah blah, new thing happens, forget what we said, rinse and fucking repeat. Comment#94. Duh. He needs China. Screw Congress and the Intelligence Community. Comment#95. Lolol. Of course he is. Comment#96. Wrong, he will say anything at this point Comment#97. They are going to pay him good money. Comment#98. He'll flip flop on any issue in order to win and convincing his followers that he does not put their interests first is literally impossible. Comment#99. We need to make sure we’re headed to the polls in droves on Nov 5th to vote out this criminal. I’m so tired of the lies, and regressive ideals, and self serving agenda he puts forth. He’s the most dangerous man to future of humanity right now and shouldn’t even be allowed within sniffing distance of the White House. Comment#100. Trump is for or against anything that might garner votes because the fact of the matter is that Trump only cares about himself and nobody else. Comment#101. One of his biggest donors has a huge stake in tencent Comment#102. Of course he does. It's turning into a great propaganda machine for him. He would make a deal with the devil to win, and I suspect in a lot of ways, he already has. Comment#103. Of course he wants it. His Chinese/Russian masters have told him it’s good. Comment#104. He can’t do anything about it, it’s already passed Comment#105. Don’t forget to register to vote! Comment#106. I love flashgitz' tiktok https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KRZ_yKjSPaY Comment#107. The ban he originally introduced. Trump bought out? Shocker Comment#108. How much did that flip flop cost? Didn't he say that it was the devil just s few months ago? This guy is very scary. Comment#109. Found a new well to poison and it’s now yielding results Comment#110. Wait what? Wouldn't he hate that shit Comment#111. So much for being anti china! Comment#112. another potential ban? I stg this is news every 6 months Comment#113. China's check must have cleared. Comment#114. Well TikTok is a the direct conduit to share top secret files you keep next to your toilet. 100 people flying a confederate flag in the bed of their pick-up truck can’t be wrong about him! Comment#115. Kind of disappointing. I thought that his only true belief immune to influence or profit is that he hates China. Comment#116. He just gonna ban it on his “one day” authoritarian spree. Comment#117. Awww shit. We're straight fucked in November now. Comment#118. [removed] Comment#119. Flip flopper. Comment#120. That’s because it’s getting harder to use Facebook and Instagram for propaganda. TikTok is unregulated and opaque, making it very, very cheap to use for political gain. Meta now [requires disclosure of AI used in video and images in political content](https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-require-disclosures-ai-created-altered-political-ads-2023-11-08/). It also [banned generative AI in political content](https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-bar-political-advertisers-using-generative-ai-ads-tools-2023-11-06/). They have requirements to post campaign ads (that I can’t link here because links to their website are banned in this sub), and have platform ad libraries available for public analysis (again, that I can’t link here because links to that domain are banned in this sub). Are there ways around all this? Absolutely, but it’s tougher and more expensive. TikTok is a cheap, dark money free for all. Comment#121. Dude had an executive order that got overturned. Again he’s a liar Comment#122. Turns out money buys politicians who knew 🤷🏻‍♂️ He was the first one to say it needed a bad, and CEO of tiktok donated shitloads of money to his campaign and he changed his tune really quickly. Comment#123. Talks out of both sides of his mouth. He says no TikTok isn’t a national security threat bc of China ties, but then comes for Chinese EVs that aren’t even in the country yet, saying they’re a national security threat Comment#124. "I'm for China" you mean 🤷🏻‍♂️ Comment#125. What him take their donations and ban them anyways l Comment#126. So just another example of a Trump flip flop. Comment#127. alliances in year 2024 truly are cursed. Comment#128. Hmmm... not what you said when you wanted it banned asshat Comment#129. i love this guy Comment#130. Saying he'll save TikTok will probably buy him a ton of votes from the under 25 crowd. TikTok is like an addiction for kids who are dumber than dirt. Comment#131. tRump isn't running for Commander-in-Chief, he's running for Panderer-in-Chief Comment#132. Great. Now China will back Trump! Comment#133. He’s going to win. Comment#134. His first signal to his Chinese/Russian handlers Comment#135. Next minute he’ll be for Kasperski AV Comment#136. This dude will say or do literally anything to get reelected. Comment#137. Don’t pander to my likes Trump Comment#138. He's trying to get the gen-z vote That said, tiktok can DIAF Comment#139. He and Ivanka want to keep their Chinese patents https://www.irell.com/assets/htmldocuments/Law360_How_Intl_Filing_Strategy_Led_To_Ivanka_Trumps_Coffin_TMs.pdf https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2020/09/22/ivankas-trademark-requests-were-fast-tracked-in-china-after-trump-was-elected/ Comment#140. His donor owns it now Comment#141. Awwww, that’s so cute! You get that youth vote, buddy. Zoomers got your back now. Comment#142. Idiots who use tiktok will love this because they've already forgotten about when he tried to ban it before unless they didn't learn about it Comment#143. He will say anything. Comment#144. He is always for anything as long makes him money Comment#145. "Chy-na, if yoo're listning...." Comment#146. Of course you are. How can you say no to an addictive brain-rotting platform, heavily skewed in terms of usage towards your target demographic of idiots? Comment#147. Ew, now I don't wanna play with it anymore. Comment#148. not surprising after hackers found that the Heritage foundation are working with the Chinese. Comment#149. +1000 social credit Comment#150. Why would he ban favorable propaganda apps Comment#151. No one that uses Facebook and Google have the right to despise tiktok...you either despise all three or you are hypocritical Comment#152. Maybe his goal is to make young people hate it by turning it into a MAGA haven, and crash the company. Comment#153. On the PRC dole now is he? Comment#154. Those on TikTok who call themselves progressive for regurgitating geopolitical issues with an RT News bias are soon going to stoke that he's the "anti-war" president. Just kidding. They've already been doing that. Comment#155. Oh really? A highly unregulated, disinformation platform? Just forget the news that passed you by over the last few years. Your brain cant handle reality if youre flashed dogshit every 10-30 seconds on repeat ffs. Comment#156. Here's a [list of countries](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/these-countries-have-already-banned-tiktok) where it's already banned. Edit: spelling Comment#157. NOOOOO BAN IT Comment#158. Of course - xi gave his daughter lots of business breaks helping her to rake in millions while he was in office. Trump tower is made of chinese steel, etc., etc. Comment#159. Great, now he’s Hamas! Comment#160. This should be enough not to vote for him Comment#161. The Chinese got to him. Comment#162. Good because losing Vine was one thing, I can’t do it again.

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TSMC shares fall more than 2% after Trump says Taiwan should pay for defence

Comment#1. .... They are paying for it.. wtf is he smoking. Taiwan buys arms from USA all the time... Comment#2. China is a big fan of trump wonder why… Comment#3. Trump can't conceptualize alliances (because they are a *mutually beneficial* relationship) and doesn't give a shit about democracy (things like parliaments and congresses are so yucky when you could just deal with a dictator who can put tanks in the streets) and reduces everything to either money or ratings, so of course he wants to bill them. Comment#4. Trump doesn't have the slightest clue about how important Taiwan's manufacturing is. But he also likely owes China a lot of money. Comment#5. If the people cheering for this clown understood the importance of TSMC is for US security, I think the might finally turn on this fool. You know why China got such a hard on for Taiwan...it is companies like TSMC located in Taiwan that in cooperation with other companies around the world in US allies countries and the US, make sure on the computer chip level...the US stands supreme. Putin whore continues to do Putin's bidding to lessen the abilities of the US. Comment#6. Whelp, I don't have the words to summarize how disturbing this is. Comment#7. The stock close the day up 0.38%. Total non story. Comment#8. Trump reacts to headlines the same way redditors do. He doesn't read it and says shit anyways Comment#9. For fuck sake does Trump not realize the impact that loosing chip production would do to the US economy and most importantly our military capabilities. Comment#10. Ahhhh it’s finally clear.. . Trump loves China now because Elon needs to sell more of his broken down, shitty Tesla’s there. The billionaire boys club is fucking ridiculous. Comment#11. Trump unilaterally pulling out of the TPP was the biggest gift he could have given China. Comment#12. Trump is a bought and paid for stooge of China, Russia, and anyone else willing to throw a few pennies in exchange for the United States. Comment#13. This scumbag really screwed us holding TSMC shares Comment#14. Wait until China invades Taiwan then TSMC either falls into Chinese hands or TSMC scuttles their plants, you will see the most valuable tech companies in the US (Apple, AMD, Nvidia etc.) tanks because they have been cut off from chip manufacturing. This will not end well, and for what? Even if he trying the shake down Taiwan into spending more money on US arms he's signalling that he will not try to help defend Taiwan either. This will China to basically lay siege to the Island. Comment#15. Fuck trumpy Comment#16. Putin and Xi are licking their chops at the thought of a second Trump term. Comment#17. Trump is ever dictators little bitch 😂 Comment#18. So... they need to charge us more for chips? Big Brain thinking again ,lol. Comment#19. “I know the people very well, respect them greatly. They did take about 100% of our chip business. I think, Taiwan should pay us for defense,” Trump said in the interview. Apart from the chip fabs being built in Florida, Texas and Arizona after Biden signed into law the CHIPS act in 2022 and, you know, the other existing chip fabs in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia and Washington. Apart from those currently functioning chip fabrication factories in the USA, and the new ones being built, Taiwan has taken 100% of the chip business. It's a lazy harmful answer for a lazy harmful audience. Comment#20. TSMC makes 90% of the world's advanced chips, our domestic chip fabs are at least 2-5 years away from opening. Comment#21. Guess I’ll buy a 5090, it’s going to need to last me a long time. Comment#22. TSMC could always stop building the facility in Arizona, even though the Americans were trying to force them after years of begging to put one there. Comment#23. At this point, us morons in the west deserve WW3 for voting morons in. Comment#24. Backstab allies who are not Russia. It’s the same pattern all the time. Comment#25. Taiwan already pays for defense in the form of the US's GDP, tech products, etc Comment#26. ... and it is up 75% in the last six months and 10% in the last month. What the heck is wrong with journalists nowadays, even at Reuters? Have they never looked at a stock ticker before? How can such BS be published in a serious publication? It is all about creating content the whole day. Comment#27. Genius 4D chess move. Let China blow up TSMC or self destruct in its war to get the island back. Intel will hit all time highs and chips will be made in USA again Comment#28. Don’t worry. China won’t attack. Taiwan will buy more of their own weapons but China knows US will step in if China tries invade and they’re terrified of Trump. They thought he was going to declare war on them before Jan 6th. Any war will just come down to who has more missiles and stealth and currently that’s the US by a long shot and whole China is catching up, they’re still a good ten years behind. Comment#29. I tell you. In 2 years, all these nice redditors and reddit mods would wish so dearly that Thomas Mathew crooks did not miss it. Comment#30. Click bait. 2% really? Comment#31. 2%? lmfao thats just another day Comment#32. Welp. He’s back to full power. Comment#33. What a moron, does he not understand protecting material interest. Comment#34. More than 2%? During low volume outside trading hoirs? How will they handle this horrendous crash after *checks notes* being up 80% year to date?! 😮 Comment#35. My hope is that Vance - who is just a water boy for Peter Thiel - can explain why chip fabs are important. Comment#36. Does he not understand how important TSMC is to other companies such as idk Nvidia smh Comment#37. Trump is practicing his old pump and dump schemes again. Comment#38. TSMC: "No chips for you Donny Boy, you can play on your calculator". Comment#39. Trump will be the biggest gift for Putin and Xi. If he won, we would see Taiwan war in three years. Comment#40. Trump, as a person, has zero empathy towards weak and poor; as a head of nation, only worships power. I don’t trust such a person to sit in the White House. Comment#41. That's a 2% profit for the smart investor. Comment#42. i love that everyone knows trump means business lol Comment#43. There he goes. Fucking up the stock market again. Why would anyone be interested in going back to the Trump Show? This is madness. Comment#44. Finally, trump's second term will be what we all wanted no red lines from the deep state. Taking back America at every level. Comment#45. Hate china in the streets, get fucked china in the sheets Comment#46. TSMC is part of Taiwan's defense strategy smarty pants. It's called being critical to the supply chain. The country is also basically one massive Island fortress too. Comment#47. Is this 2% in the room with us right now? Comment#48. What is so insane about this position? Taiwan’s army is a fucking corrupt nepotistic mess, the forced military service is more like glorified day care. Taiwan should pay to invest in its own defense before anyone else can be expected to. And I say this as a huge Taiwan fan.

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Private Browsing 2.0

Comment#1. We need more WebKit based web browsers. Since Blink is chipping away our privacy bit by bit in the pretense of "user experience" and "security".

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China is installing the wind and solar equivalent of five large nuclear power stations per week

Comment#1. If China goes all in on green technology hopefully this will finally be a push big enough to really start finding new solutions to green energies issues like storage. Hopefully if it goes well for China everyone else (if it's practical for them) will jump on board. Comment#2. I love this news. I want China to race ahead because then all the rich countries in the global north have absolutely zero excuse to not also act on emissions. It’s the absolute worst excuse when somebody says “but what about China and India?” Yeah? What about them? Of course they have huge emissions, they have a huge population. If we divided each of them up into 50 countries would you still complain about their absolute emissions? China having low energy generation emissions is also fantastic for all the manufacturing that happens there for global north countries. Comment#3. This is good news right? Comment#4. Eventually, China will have the cheapest electricity on the planet. They will then dominate the market for every energy-intensive production process. Things like smelting, extrusion, plastics, glass, etc. will all be so much cheaper than anything else on the market. Meanwhile the US and other western powers are clinging on to their fossil fuel legacy industries. Comment#5. Good. Maybe China being ahead of the US for something besides basic medical access will get the US to do something. It's time for a new superpower race. Who cares about space, get to net zero emission energy production. Comment#6. Competition is the first step to improve in almost all areas, history has taught us that competition is a driver of innovation, China being successful in this subject may impulse other countries to try to be better than them, let's see if that's enough to get rid of lobbyist groups and let's hope it could benefit humanity at the end. Comment#7. But but but there is no point in my country doing anything about climate change because of China etc Comment#8. China has been ahead of the rest of the world in a variety of ways for many years Comment#9. China recognises that in the event of conflict it would be brought to its knees via a blockade. So its needs energy independence Comment#10. While GOP is busy killing green energy every chance they ger with China and Russia Funding. Trump Seeks $1 Billion From Big Oil as He Vows to Reverse Biden Climate Rules https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Trump-Seeks-1-Billion-From-Big-Oil-as-He-Vows-to-Reverse-Biden-Climate-Rules.html Comment#11. Great. This does, as always, ignore capacity factor of renewables. With that in mind it's closer to equal five nuclear power plants every 4 weeks. Super impressive none the less. Comment#12. > China is installing the wind and solar equivalent of five large nuclear power stations per week While also [installing 55 nuclear reactors as well.](https://www.economist.com/china/2023/11/30/china-is-building-nuclear-reactors-faster-than-any-other-country) Comment#13. Chinas unity and vision of the future will be the US downfall if it doesn’t get its shit together. Unfortunately politics is more important than improvements. Comment#14. Huh, what are we doing with our budget? Oh thats right, Palestine Genocide. Comment#15. > China is installing record amounts of solar and wind, while scaling back once-ambitious plans for nuclear. Green or greener, 1.4 billion Chinese are hungry for energy! Comment#16. I know that china has invested even in Country like Argentina, part of the Patagonia with large wind farms Comment#17. As somebody who works in an industry that supplies utility-grade solar: Ironically, some of the things the Biden administration has done to try to help building US solar has actually slowed it. The Inflation Reduction Act has subsidies for solar based on domestic content... but everybody is waiting for "clarification" on how much domestic content and what counts as domestic. Therefore, the utilities are holding off on building anything new until that comes. We've been waiting for that clarification for a while now (over a year). Comment#18. Looks like China's taking climate change by storm... and sunshine. Comment#19. Smart, too bad our government is resistant to any type of progress. Comment#20. How many coal plants per week? Comment#21. yayyy good news for once Comment#22. Quantity over quality. Comment#23. Waa waa what about the military industrial complex and their nuclear steam engines? Can't we give them some more free money for exisiting? Comment#24. Nuclear is the only answer. Too many problems with solar and wind. Comment#25. China doesn’t want to be beholden to oil from Saudi Arabia, Russia or Texas??? Shocker. Comment#26. And all the right wing oil lovers will call BS, while North America continues to slip away into the irrelevant past. Comment#27. They also add new coal plants faster than anyone else. 95% of all new coal plants are in China. They're just that power hungry. Green transition is not really happening. What's happening is green addition. Comment#28. And it will all break down within a month like those crappy sky scrappers they build Comment#29. Good, maybe they’ll finally stop being one of the worlds biggest polluters. Comment#30. And they have to. In the past few years, Chinese CO2 emissions increased in a way that every single year they added CO2 emissions equaling the yearly total emissions of Germany. Comment#31. Here’s hoping that china’s ramp up of green tech like solar panels, wind turbines and cheap lfp batteries will flow down to other countries and accelerate the energy transition. But in the short term reality, it’s actually not making that much difference. While solar panels’s price has half in 10 year, countries have put up tariffs and adcv trade barriers for those same panels. Same for electric cars. While this is dampening china’s own need for fossil fuels, the demand would be a lot higher, not to say its demand is dropped. the demand slack in the market is benefitting those who cannot or did not build the infrastructure for green energy. So China needs to up or maintain this overproduction and drive prices down further. Comment#32. Great now let’s see how many of those green projects stay up you know with all the corruption and corners Comment#33. Propaganda. They won't allow you to verify, but you print it anyway. Comment#34. Are they using prisoners to do all the work? Comment#35. I'll see it when I believe it. Comment#36. Good article. The post title is misleading The few positives of an authoritarian government. We want solar and wind and they are going here and we are starting tomorrow. Any questions, didn’t think so Comment#37. yeah, but if the sun don't shine they're fucked. How naive of them. Comment#38. Cuz they’re installing coal equivalent of 10 a week /s Comment#39. if the population keep declining then whats the electricity for?

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‘Forever chemicals’ used in lithium ion batteries threaten environment

Comment#1. Wait till you see all the chemicals being dumped into the environment by the oil and gas industry.... Comment#2. Fund research for something better? Pay people to stay home? Start a recycling program? Or just bitch about it in hopes that ICE cars remain the norm? Thanks, OPEC. Comment#3. No bro it's for the environment. Comment#4. Its fortunate that researchers have managed battery chemistries that no longer contain lithium. It's the holy grail of battery tech, given that lithium is one of the major things holding battery tech back, as lithium dendrite formation limits charging/discharging speeds, and the lithium is one of the causes of the significant cost. Comment#5. There is a saying “Want to save the planet? Stop buying shit!” I think there is too much dangerous chemicals used in even so called green projects like solar or wind farms. Electric cars are just another timed bomb for environment. Comment#6. Lithium batteries threaten the environment

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Exclusive: Google-backed software developer GitLab explores sale, sources say

Comment#1. Anyone know what this high-valued company actually offers? I contacted them and got some marketing gobbledygook in return. They did say they have nothing to do with GitHub or git in general.

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Fisker cleared to sell North American EVs for $46.25 million

Comment#1. 46.25 million is too much for a car in my opinion Comment#2. Am I wrong or is that $15,000 a piece. Comment#3. Every report of this car said that the vehicle was okay, but the software was terrible!. Problem is, you're buying a vehicle that already stinks, and is not going to get better. Comment#4. For those wondering who the buyer is and where’s the profit path. It’s American Lease, a ride share lease program company. Intent is to meet the expected ride share EV mandate requirements demand in NYC coming up. At $15k a copy, I would expect the FULL purchase price to be depreciated with a 3 year lease which is kind of the point since they can’t be repaired for major issues. Rough math. 36 month lease payment break-even point is $415 per month. Very doable considering a model Y would run about $620. If they set lease price at zero down $535 a month, which undercuts Tesla by $85 a month, they will profit $13 million in 3 years giving a cash on cash return of 28%. I’m sure it’ll be more once they fire sale the off lease returns or run a second lease program for another 3 years at a substantially reduced rate. There’s also insurance, American Lease will probably set up their own comprehensive insurance program since no insurance would insure these cars beyond liability. So there’s profits in that if they did it right. I would guess this is a minimum $30 million profit deal for American Lease, which would be about 20% annualized return for 3 years. Could be as high as 50 million in PROFITS depending on market residual value on these 3 years old non repairable EVs. Looks like they will also set up sort of a co-op with existing owners to manufacture some parts (guessing body panels for minor accidents) and software support to keep these cars running as long as possible. Probably the only possible scenario in this situation. Pretty cool. Comment#5. I saw one on the road yesterday, but you are just throwing away money. Fender bender? Zero parts available. I wonder if insurance actually covers anything except liability. Comment#6. Could be interesting if they released all the suppliers and open sourced all of the software Comment#7. It's like buying a phone you'll never get updates for. Sod that. When a bit of software starts bugging out who's going to patch it, or what about parts. Comment#8. Who the fuck are they trying to sell this to? Elon Musk?

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Cyber boosts funding at Israeli startups in first half, report says

Comment#1. Apartheid approved tech.

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Thai billionaire heir's AI startup Amity raises $60 million

Comment#1. Everyone wants to get into AI 😑

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California Continues Its War On Solar To Please Investor-Owned Utilities

Comment#1. This is an interesting dispute, as to whether contractors installing residential battery storage need C-10 licensing as electricians or whether the special solar installer license, C-46, is adequate. I'd be really interested to hear from people on the ground in California who know what the relative skill level is between those two and whether there are issues that arise with the C-46 licensees doing this kind of work, or whether it's a pointless barrier that uses safety as an excuse to slow down competition with the utilities.

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Genetic cloaking of healthy cells opens door to universal blood cancer therapy

Comment#1. Hope this works out and we can control cancer.

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The MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reports

Comment#1. They tried to do this before in the 90s. The for profit companies wanted sole access to monopolize government weather data. Fuck your safety it’s all about profits. Comment#2. This has bigger impacts than just knowing your local forecast. Aviation, agriculture, land and sea transportation, and emergency services (just to name a few) all use data from NOAA and the NWS. Comment#3. I'm sure all the Red states where Tornado warnings save lives will take this into consideration...or not. Comment#4. This is exhaustingly irritating. Comment#5. This is all because the scientists at NOAA and the NWS believe in, shockingly...SCIENCE, and science believes that climate change is real and is a crisis. Republicans, with their heads up their ass and the possibility of making a dollar, figure get rid of the scientists and climate change disappears. The Republican Party is a cancer on humanity. Given power, they will destroy the planet. Comment#6. It's hilarious because it's not free, we're already paying for it with our taxes. So now we'll have to pay AGAIN for something we're already helping to pay for. Comment#7. Should someone tell the Heritage Foundation that the military relies on NOAA data and has incorporated climate change into their strategic planning for many decades now ? Comment#8. All because people made fun of Trump for using a Sharpie on a weather map... Comment#9. They want to end everything that's free so they can try and control it and make a profit off of it. Comment#10. Make Americans Carry Umbrellas Everywhere Again doesn't have much of a ring to it. Comment#11. In the United States, as in most other countries, weather forecasts are a freely accessible government amenity. The National Weather Service issues alerts and predictions, warning of hurricanes and excessive heat and rainfall, all at the total cost to American taxpayers of roughly $4 per person per year. Anyone with a TV, smartphone, radio, or newspaper can know what tomorrow’s weather will look like, whether a hurricane is heading toward their town, or if a drought has been forecast for the next season. Even if they get that news from a privately owned app or TV station, much of the underlying weather data are courtesy of meteorologists working for the federal government. Charging for popular services that were previously free isn’t generally a winning political strategy. But hard-right policy makers appear poised to try to do just that should Republicans gain power in the next term. Project 2025—a nearly 900-page book of policy proposals published by the conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation—states that an incoming administration should all but dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, under which the National Weather Service operates. Donald Trump has attempted to distance himself from Project 2025, but given that it was largely written by veterans of his first administration, the document is widely seen as a blueprint for a second Trump term. NOAA “should be dismantled and many of its functions eliminated, sent to other agencies, privatized, or placed under the control of states and territories,” Project 2025 reads. The proposals roughly amount to two main avenues of attack. First, it suggests that the NWS should eliminate its public-facing forecasts, focus on data gathering, and otherwise “fully commercialize its forecasting operations,” which the authors of the plan imply will improve, not limit, forecasts for all Americans. Then, NOAA’s scientific-research arm, which studies things such as Arctic-ice dynamics and how greenhouse gases behave (and which the document calls “the source of much of NOAA’s climate alarmism”), should be aggressively shrunk. “The preponderance of its climate-change research should be disbanded,” the document says. It further notes that scientific agencies such as NOAA are “vulnerable to obstructionism of an Administration’s aims,” so appointees should be screened to ensure that their views are “wholly in sync” with the president’s. . Comment#12. Do we lose our access to GPS satellites next? Comment#13. >It further notes that scientific agencies such as NOAA are “vulnerable to obstructionism of an Administration’s aims,” so appointees should be screened to ensure that their views are “wholly in sync” with the president’s. They looked at the Chinese communist party and said, we want some of what they have. Comment#14. We can look forward to faith-based weather forecasts, I assume? "God told me it would be hot today! because He wills it!" Comment#15. There was a whole chapter of this in the fifth risk (great book btw) which outlined the plan to give payment structures for alerts. You’d pay to get tornado warnings. If you didn’t or couldn’t you simply would not got the warning alert. It’s a terrible idea and will lead to people dying. Comment#16. Yeah fuck that factual information. It makes us look bad. Comment#17. When the tornado rips into your home with no warning because you didnt subscribe to FreedomNews, pray to your god trump OR be thankful you taught Democrats a lesson for supporting the incumbent president. Fucking idiots. Comment#18. The Coming Storm is a great listen about how AccuWeather expected their subscribers to pay for storm warnings they got for free from NOAA and didn't want it to be given out for free to tax payers. https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Coming-Storm-Audiobook/B07F43574T Comment#19. Next up on r/newsofthestupid : magots want to privatise O2. Comment#20. I seem to recall lots of public outrage due to shipping delays and supply chain costs going up. We do realize that dismantling NOAA would exacerbate those things right? Comment#21. “It further notes that scientific agencies such as NOAA are “vulnerable to obstructionism of an Administration’s aims,” so appointees should be screened to ensure that their views are “wholly in sync” with the president’s.” Isn’t it important, especially when the subject is out of the presidents expertise, for scientific agency, such as the NOAA not to be wholly in sync with the presidents pre-conceived thinking? Comment#22. Anyone want an idea of what's going to happen, just look at Texas and their power grid. Privatization doesn't work for stuff we actually rely on. Comment#23. This will work out about as well as private fire departments and private police did. Republicans want to take anything that is for the good of people and/or the nation and turn it into a private enterprise. They especially love doing this with essential services because it's little more than legalized extortion. "Pay us or else!" Comment#24. Absolutely horrible plan. This would cripple the economy. So many people rely on this data.. Aviation, sea, basically any transport... agriculture. This would be a sad day. Comment#25. The fuck is wrong with America? Grow a spine and do something about your shit ass countrys state. Ffs Comment#26. They can deny climate change all day long. The insurance companies however, will side with science, because they can see their wallets are hurting due to climate change and having to pay for damages caused by it. Comment#27. it's concerning that little thought seems to be spent on the second order effects this has. Agriculture needs reliable weather data for food production. As well as other industries. It's very sad to watch how the US became a super power by investing in science and technology and now we are at the brink of walking all that back. Republicans seem to think in very short terms or perhaps habe other interests at heart here. Comment#28. About time they started charging for the f@cking air they breathe, on a prescription basis, with extra payments unlock the toxic gases filter..... /s Comment#29. I hate any news related to the US because of these stupid conservatives. Seriously they’re unbearable. Not even Taliban would like to do this damage to the US. Comment#30. All they want to do is charge you for absolutely everything while working you until you die.. Conservative America just seems to be a huge fan of chattle slavery, while at the same time using their base's ignorance of English and History combined with bigotry to _infer_ the bad outcome "is only for the undesirables" Comment#31. This is so fucking infuriating. These people will leave us with nothing Comment#32. Not just that. They want to end practically every federal body involved in any sort of science, and probably replace it with their own conspiracy theories a la Florida under DeSantis. Comment#33. If anyone wants to learn why the fifth risk is a great book that explains a lot about the history. Based on trumps first presidential term and what he did. Written by Michael Lewis. Despite being about the American government (something I would normally not really care about) I have never read a book faster. Trump has screwed has laid some time bombs that will go off over the next 10 years. Comment#34. For the life of me I cannot understand why politicians think they should fuck with NOAA, they literally understand nothing about the scope of the work they do. It’s so much more than simple weather predictions. But sure, let’s rewind forecast prediction availability because we’re scared of climate change. That will really help us be better prepared to deal with all the shit Mother Nature is throwing at us because of these imbeciles previous actions. This is literally such a huge step backwards, to even put it on paper much less publish it is embarrassing. We will be less prepared for disasters, pay more for relief, and end up behind other countries who chose to do the right thing and invest in our future safety. These people don’t know shit about forecasting or data. Collecting data won’t do anything without people studying it to make predictions from it, which is in itself too complicated for AI to manipulate. The fact that they had the balls to try and tell this branch of science what needs to be done is absolutely astounding to me. The work NOAA does is quite literally the first step in a safe and sustainable future Rant over I want out of this toxic political climate Comment#35. All because Traitorous Trump looked like a total idiot using his sharpie on a weather map. Comment#36. This is the bad place. End of story. Comment#37. Red states will cheer as they get killed by tornadoes. Lunacy. Comment#38. People should read “The Fifth Risk” by Michael Lewis. Republicans are trying to privatize the National Weather Service so that they can’t report their own data but mega-corporations can access and sell it. They've been trying to do this for years and have partially succeeded already. Comment#39. Bro, everything I read about these dumbasses is a very clear negative. Why would anyone vote for them??? What are the selling points??? Comment#40. They decry big government while inflicting upon us more convoluted private bureaucracies with exponentially higher costs and inefficiencies. Comment#41. Why is every republican policy literally "what else can we fucking ruin for everybody?" And idiots will still vote for them. Comment#42. I’m sure this will work out great when we get our first cat 6 hurricane and now one knows about it Comment#43. This gets my craw. I grew up in tornado alley, and one of the things that freaking makes me want to go postal is the fact that to get good weather information I have to download an app. News and weather services should be free and freely accessible, end stop. If the power goes out, my phone should be able to get me the information that I get from broadcasts, and it shouldn’t be behind an app. Comment#44. Capitalism just really is like “hm how can I make things worse for a profit?” Comment#45. Free weather data has been besieged since at least the Cheney Admin. IIRC, the Weather Channel guy is trying to capture (privatize) all that data for himself. Comment#46. The privatization of public goods and services is like one of conservatives oldest moves. Typically they cut funding and sabotage the service so that it under performs. Then there is a market for its replacement and they gain power by running on a platform that criticizes the failing service. And when they get into power the privatize it for their personal gain. It’s like the only consistent platform that republicans have besides subjugating women. Why do you think they sabotage public schools? Comment#47. They should’ve just said Trump and his Sharpie were right about that hurricane hitting Alabama. Comment#48. If only you could like... vote or something, and avoid this? Comment#49. Team MAGA is comprised of our village idiots. It would comical if it wasn’t so full of hate and just plain old stupidity. Comment#50. its wild how much conservatives hate the poor despite the poorest states being red states Comment#51. If you don’t know, there is a free public API from the NWS that will give you your forecast based on location (long & lat) - it grabs data from a near by weather station for you Comment#52. You know fellas, I’m starting to think these guys aren’t all that great. Comment#53. These assholes are tearing away every single bit of value the government provides. We are treading deeply into “taxation without representation” territory. Comment#54. Can't tell climate change is real if you're kept in ignorance about the climate Comment#55. How does this not outrage boomers the only people who really watch it lol Comment#56. That’s what weather gets for not doing what trumps sharpie says Comment#57. Phone: "Beep...Beep..Beep" Text: "Heavy rains expected locally in the Metro area. Press 1 to purchase a Super Sturdy Magnum Umbrella!" Comment#58. Don’t need a meteorologist when you have a sharpie Comment#59. You don’t need a weatherman to know that Donald Trump blows. Comment#60. Can’t have climate change if you can’t get climate facts… Comment#61. Can’t comment on climate change weather catastrophes without weather data… Comment#62. And let’s not forget the FAA. Weather forecasting is a crucial element of their operations, particularly air traffic control. Imagine that just going away… Comment#63. As someone who is often literally on a boat in the Caribbean in the hurricane bowling alley, this is terrifying. Comment#64. MONETIZE ALL THE THINGS Comment#65. Hilarious, you mean I'm going to have to sail the high seas just to find out what the bloody weather is inland? Shiver me timbers, and I thought I was supposed to be the bad guy here? Yarrr ***Shakes hooked hand*** Comment#66. Is this related to when fart bag sharpied a weather map? Comment#67. I think I know what I'll hear about this one: "The forecast is always wrong, anyway!" ...even though weather forecasting is usually fairly accurate... Comment#68. Wow. This would be an efficient way to NOT make America great. Comment#69. “Why should MY tax dollars go to anything I don’t personally use?!” Comment#70. This may just be the thing that flips some retirees. Take away their weather data, then what!?!?! Comment#71. Anything to reduce public knowledge and education! Comment#72. People are forced to watch an ad before knowing what the Temperature is. Comment#73. Is this what US politics has come to? And it's meant to be the greatest country on Earth 😂 Comment#74. It’s more wild cause the corpo scum who want this use government publicly funded data to make their money. This is like allowing private corporations to set up toll booths on public interstate highways. Comment#75. The Heritage Foundation not simply bent on stuffing SCOTUS with conservatives, has also devised a plan, Project 2025, to install conservatives throughout government offices and agencies. Employees will either sign allegiance to the GOP/Conservative Ideals/Trump or face termination. "How can they do this?!?!" doesn't matter. The Heritage Council doesn't care about the law, the Constitution, protocol. With as many Trump appointed judges in play, plus Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch, they will move ahead with their plans. If Trump is elected, his platform which he identified in 2022 will be in play. Forget about data, and data-driven decision-making. Forget about science and knowledge-based decisions. The discriminator will be: "Can we make money from this? Yes or No?" and "Will this have a negative impact on profits? Yes or No?" People should read Project 2025, except it's about 900 pages. Comment#76. So they want NOAA to still collect the data using public funding… but then only give the data to private interests who will charge for it? Thats just making the public pay twice Comment#77. I guess Republicans want to fuck up aviation and shipping? What self-defeating demented dumbfucks. Comment#78. Ignorance is bliss.. until it's 110 outside and everything around you is dead Comment#79. This is the Russian way. Give all state assets to the oligarchs(mobsters) so they can make billions selling public resources back to us turning our government into a huge privatized pay to play operation. Tell them to fuck off this November. Comment#80. There’s a whole chapter at least in Michael Lewis’ The Fifth Risk about NOAA and how Accuweather monetizes federal data. Tornado forecasting is used as part of an anecdote at the end of the book that makes his key point about Trump’s takeover of the federal government the first time. Comment#81. You have to wonder what's wrong with a group of people who are bent on breaking every good thing they can lay their hands on. Comment#82. What a weird fucking thing to try to monetize. Comment#83. These cultish imps want to kill off any and all efforts to make the world a better place because more instability brings us all closer to the end of times they all desperately want. Comment#84. The fact that the Republican Party wants to end access to science knowledge in this country is a disgrace. ALL of them must be voted out! Comment#85. They're going to dismantle the weather service because they told him no when he drew sharpie all over a hurricane mal years ago. This is his revenge against the damn weather service America. Comment#86. Have they not played Bioshock? Comment#87. I guess we are going to have to pirate the weather report now too.🏴‍☠️ Comment#88. Jesus fucking Christ, is it not completely fucking obvious to absolutely everyone that Conservatism is just one giant corporate grift yet? When's it going to click for people? Comment#89. It's too late for that evil dipshittery. Climate change is so fucking obvious that people can **feel** it now. Comment#90. > The preponderance of its climate-change research should be disbanded Lol...we'll all be ostriches with our head in the sand or a toddler covering our eyes. If we can't see it, it doesn't exist. STOP THE TESTING! Comment#91. Is this because of the whole sharpie incident? Comment#92. Wasn’t America great with free weather back in the day ? Comment#93. Sweet. So I guess I’ll have to subscribe to receive tornado warnings? Comment#94. Privatization of everything into a product is the GOP goal; nothing is free. Police, firefighters and EMTs are next. Public libraries will be exterminated. Comment#95. “But private companies could make so much profit here”, where *exactly* do you think that profit is coming from? I’ll tell you, it’s coming from paywalling tornado alerts. The NWS is doing all the data collection and predictions on where tornados would land but they aren’t allowed to tell you, instead they must let a company nickel and dime you for something you will STILL be paying for with your tax money Comment#96. All we need for weather maps is a stable genius with a sharpie Comment#97. America. WTF are you doing over there? Wtf is wrong with you? Comment#98. Will citizens of Oklahoma and other tornado alley states opt in for the premium subscription for instant alerts or will they settle for the 5 min delay free version Comment#99. They blame NOAA for creating climate change hysteria by reporting "facts". Comment#100. They've been terrified of weather reports ever since they saw two large African-American women forecast that it was gonna start raining men. Comment#101. Please vote against these maniacs Comment#102. Yeah project 2025 is just more BS, from the same people who told you Russia was in cahoots with Trump, biden was as sharp as a tack, that the border numbers are lower than they were during trumps term, and an ever expanding list of lies that you all lap up becuase you're blinded by hate Comment#103. Paragraph after paragraph of unnecessary context and basically no actual details about the specific claim of the headline. A bunch of MAGA people have opinions about NOAA. How that maps to, "no more subsidized weather forecasts" is not at all clear from the article. There is nothing more here than "MAGA people have opinions about NOAA so obviously it will be a disaster." Thanks, The Atlantic, your journalism sounds like my uncle when he listens to Fox News. These articles are such trash. All narrative and little to no relevant facts. Comment#104. This is all still rage from when he looked like a dope for changing that hurricane map with a sharpie 6 years ago. Comment#105. Conservative wet dream is living in a post apocalyptic world huh. They'd even ban indoor plumbing and penicillin Comment#106. In May DeSantis signed a bill that deleted climate change from state law that erased most references to climate change from state law. The new law took effect July 1. Hey Floridians, when your state gets slammed by and increasingly higher number of stronger hurricanes and the flooding / property damage will make insurance companies go 🖕🏻🖕🏻and pull out of the state completely have fun blaming the Libs as your governor speed dials FEMA and federal emergency assistance. This is the blueprint. Exploit lack of science education and literacy for political gain, ???, profit, I guess. Comment#107. This is one of the most insidiously anti-business things Republicans could possibly do. People will die on the roadways from severe weather they don't know is coming. Agriculture will be set back who knows how far because weather events could happen and the people working won't have the heads up to prepare for them. But like someone else said, evil climate change and Trump's fragile ego because he got made fun of for drawing on a map with a gold sharpie, and the most useful free service in American goes away. Comment#108. Yeah we’re doomed Comment#109. All part of Project 2025. Google it. Comment#110. Biden needs to win this election in a landslide and destroy the GOP. Or the GOP will destroy America. Comment#111. Our taxes pay for those sats and their data Comment#112. Why!? Why are these people GOING OUT OF THEIR WAY to destroy things that literally affect them in exactly zero ways!?!? Comment#113. Private corporations want sole access to government-generated weather data paid for by tax payers. One of the reasons people in the US absolutely despise paying taxes is because we have nothing to show for it, and this would only make it worse. Comment#114. Republicans are a danger to the USA. Whenever someone tries to encourage ya to take the middle ground and be politically moderate, please remember the Right alone seeks to destabilize this country to the point of oblivion. Comment#115. Do you have evidence that shows they said this ? I am just a person that likes to see evidence before passing judgement. Comment#116. Why is this sub turning into another version of r/politics? Comment#117. If you don’t know the temperature it can’t be global warming. Comment#118. This is actually scary because it puts literal lives at risk. MAGA Republicans don’t care about you and their cult cannot understand this simple concept. Comment#119. Lies and falsity. Comment#120. They have such weird villains in MAGA land. Comment#121. Fascist propaganda controls all information, including the science of weather and weather reports. It’s the very nature of fascism. Comment#122. If you want to know what crimes they're planning, just look at what they want to cover up. Comment#123. Just use another country's weather reports instead. Like [yr.no](https://yr.no) Comment#124. lol this country is turning into a shithole third world dump Comment#125. Nothing is free. Comment#126. Everyone who's asked their dad about the weather already knows the weather report. The only options are: * Why don't you open a window and find out? * What's the weather? It's outside. Now go play. * *Insert incredibly detailed statement about the weather, much more than you asked for. Yes, prevailing winds will be mentioned.* Comment#127. NOAA does SO MUCH more than report the weather. What an asinine title. Ugh this title makes upsetting news that much more upsetting. Comment#128. It's like they take a list of useful shit and make plans to burn it to the ground every election. Comment#129. They wanna hide weather change and hide the fact that it's climate change. Republican ruin everything Comment#130. Hang a weather rock. I have extra if you need one. Will ship. If it's dry, it's hot. If it's wet, it's raining. If it's white, it's snowing. If it's moving, it's Windy. If it's gone, call the cops, someone stole it. Comment#131. Please once they privatize the post office and 20% of Americans don’t have access to mail anymore since it won’t be financially viable to deliver to those areas. Of course they want to paywall all common data, just wait until your clocks are on a subscription as well. They just assume they can use the illusion of America to prevent mass migration out of the country and the military might to crush any other country that would surpass American production levels. Eventually there will be a wall, but it won’t be to keep people out. Comment#132. Please, make it stop. Comment#133. So like the news will just stop showing the weather? Yea right. Comment#134. Welcome to the new libertarian tech dystopia coming next year. I always wondered what it would be like to live in real life cyberpunk 2077 Comment#135. it will work if the masses become lemmings and allow it to work, vote for the right reasons not for the pretty colored leaflets./ Comment#136. So is their end goal is to just make our lives insufferable? They still need us to do the work for them. What will they achieve if the lower class is just dead ? Comment#137. The dang weather apps feels Luke a test run for this. Hella annoying ads just to see the weather Comment#138. These are the people who called Obama neoliberal Comment#139. Tornado Warnings As A Technical Service (TWATS) is going to be a huge money maker in certain red states. Comment#140. Following 2025 projects tellers, it seems that it could destroy USA Comment#141. This feels unreal and twisted, like there’s no way this could ever come to fruition, but so did turning back abortion rights. Comment#142. Probably safe to go with the general assumption that if something is currently free, they'd like to make it not free. Comment#143. Don’t want to acknowledge climate change? Don’t talk about the weather! Comment#144. Privatize weather reporting 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ Comment#145. To be completely honest it would just go bad so quick, not to mention people streaming for free to thankfully undermine these corporations, but a couple of Moore 2013, rolling fork 2023, Rochelle fairdale 2015 tornado type situations, or hurricane Harvey/Irma/Micheal type situations with massive loss of life would be a great way a maga representative would never make office ever again. Also I will insure in the future if this happens I will find a way for the public to receive vital safety information even if it means lawas/copyright is broken form these corporations. You bet my ass i would, I've been into weather and storm chased since I was before I teenager I'm not letting lobbying from corrupt corporations robbing the American people over life saving information. Comment#146. Ok so please be patient with me. What does privatizing the weather do? Is it a power or business move? Comment#147. I will never pay for a product that only works 40% of the time. Comment#148. Time to IPO & sell stocks in all such services, and make sure only the administration, congress and SCOTUS have access to buying in the first round. Comment#149. Trump must be a Taliban plot at this point. Comment#150. If this ever happened and I could t find the weather for like a vacation or wedding, and it was ruined, I would just take it out on whatever company had the monopoly. Violently, of course Comment#151. Fucking amazing. My country's weather forecasts depends a lot on NOAA/NWS running the GFS model and hurricane advisories Comment#152. Died from a tornado due to a lack of warning? Oopsie, should have paid for the premium tier plan! Comment#153. *all* weather reports come from publicly funded NOAA data. They can get FUCKED Comment#154. Sea transport, aviation, and agriculture all rely heavily on NOAA information, and most of the weather reporting we see is at least on some level built on NOAA observations. It is free, has no real downsides to being free, isn't very expensive to provide (the *entire budget* on NOAA in 2024 is only 6.4 billion), and is being targeted solely for the sake of denying climate change and giving Accuweather a source of profit. I'm a pilot, and this alongside the proposal to privatize air traffic control, will have a very negative impact on aviation and safety in the country. Comment#155. Is this so they can manipulate things to deny climate change?? Comment#156. But but but ... Hunter Biden's laptop. Comment#157. Republicans complain about gas prices and inflation ad nauseam, but they're apparently willing to pay for weather reports. The hypocrisy is the point. Comment#158. If they're free, what's to stop? Comment#159. Seems maga of fixing things is to ignore it...Pandemic ignore it,climate change ignore it,far right violence ignore it,homeless ignore it. Comment#160. That’s one way to deny climate change. Comment#161. The maga plan for weather is same as the movie dont look up. Just dont look up, simple. Please VOTE! End the maga nightmare Comment#162. Don’t worry, it’ll be the Demy-crats fault somehow. Comment#163. What are the downstream effects if they succeed, aside from a head-in-sand response to global warming. If a subscription-based model is assumed, everyone from the US militaries to NASA would have to subscribe. These subscriptions would be paid for by tax dollars. And Trump would make the news for having an event rained out. Comment#164. You need to pay to know if a hurricane is going to kill you, wonderful. They just want to privatise taxes and not improve society in anyway Comment#165. Geez your country is on fire. Hope the good guys win. Comment#166. i figured it's something about profit. "The National Weather Service and NOAA run at a net LOSS every year?!? That's insane! What, they're giving away their info for FREE!?! That's communism!" Comment#167. As much as I hate it, it’s brilliant from a business point of view Comment#168. What abt the elephant? Comment#169. Why does he say fuck me for? -Wheather Report JJBA Part 6 Comment#170. Who the fuck is going to pay for something so unreliable - holy hell, when i check the weather and it says 90% chance of rain you can pretty much assume its going to be sunny Comment#171. Fucking lunatics Comment#172. I've noticed since trump's first term the weather report is completely unreliable now. You'll look in the morning and it says rain all afternoon then the afternoon comes and there's no rain at all, maybe a sprinkle. Happens constantly. Comment#173. BRAKING NEWS! Trump wants to ban indoor bathrooms and toilet paper! Trump is banning vegetables! Project 2025 means no more video games!!! Comment#174. They already get it for free and then sell it to us. They want to make it so we have to pay twice for it. Comment#175. It would end a lot more other important stuff too! It’s scary! Comment#176. Wow, really? Considering the shitstorm in terms of accuracy of all android weather apps, Carrot on iOS regardless of source, and the trash that is Apple Weather.... I wasn't aware we ever *had* an ACCURATE free weather forcast. I am pretty sure we never have. Comment#177. Hahaha so stupid. It’s like they think we’ll use it to talk about climate change when really we just want to know if we need an umbrella or sunscreen. Comment#178. This is batshit insane Comment#179. Boomers have no excuse now, they're coming after their precious weather reports. The only thing old right-wing boomers watch as much as Faux News is the freaking Weather Channel. Comment#180. What a time to be a Canadian... Comment#181. This would negatively affect literally every single person on the planet. NOAA data is used to map waterways, predict weather, create farming and harvesting schedules, and avoid natural disasters. And our ability to freely access and interpret that data on a global scale has had massively positive effects on the entire population. It’s one of the biggest factors in our massive population growth and life expectancy increases in the past century. Comment#182. This is scary. They also want to get rid of overtime for workers? Comment#183. Please don't attach links that you have to subscribe to and pay for to read! Comment#184. Why are they trying to take everything away? Comment#185. This is where we've wound up? The left can't nail Trump on Russia, document hoarding, tax evasion, or a zillion other -ahem- trumped up charges... so we're now going to accuse him of stealing weather reports? This should be a fun election cycle. Half the country is convinced Trump is an evil dictator and the other half is convinced that Joe Biden is actually a potato. Comment#186. If trump wins we will be living in a ultra violent fascist cyberpunk world. Everyone will be poor and rightless. Comment#187. This would just be hilariously fucked up. So, based on experience, it’ll happen eventually. Comment#188. What stops one dude from paying and leaking the fuck out of it?

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Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees | Ars' leak analysis shows a large "Games" department and a very well-paid "Admin" team.

Comment#1. That's what you can do when you're not an exchange traded company. Keeping nice and slim, doing what you do best, without the constant need to expand and grow. Comment#2. What I like about Valve is they didn't take the EA or Ubisoft business model and kept their charm. Even though I do not see them as a game developer they used to be. They are Steam. Comment#3. 350 seems fine for a online video game marketplace Comment#4. Smart tech companies invest in automation and use their people to keep the automation running. That's the only way to "do more with less". Comment#5. The title implies that a well compensated Admin team is a bad thing. If they keep the place running smoothly and are actually good at their jobs (the release and reception of the Steam Deck most recently would be a good example that they do) then they probably deserve it. Better to pay one competent person well than to pay three idiots a mediocre salary. Comment#6. We have a friend who's daughter works there in one of those administrative roles. They are well compensated and have some very very nice benefits. Comment#7. I like how this headline keeps getting spread with even less context as it gets transformed slowly over time. They have a huge number of contractors, vendors and suppliers. Comment#8. Valve is a savior for Linux gaming. /r/linux_gaming The Steam Deck runs on Linux, and their work on Proton and contributions to Wine have made just about all windows games run perfectly on Linux (both on the deck and any desktop PC linux) with zero user tinkering and equivalent performance, the only exceptions being certain multiplayer games with kernel-level anti-cheat. It's a great example of a company doing work that not only benefits them (the steam deck isn't bound to any microsoft or windows licenses), but benefits the community as a whole. Comment#9. And LinkedIn has 18500 employees. I think the premium offers are not automated thanks to this number Comment#10. Imo Valve is the poster child for why companies should never go public. If they were beholden to shareholders I would fear we would see valve get a bit too greedy. Comment#11. Yeah employees everywhere should be paid more. CEOs/bosses with so much money they keep buying multiple yachts is ridiculous Comment#12. Leaked? We've known this for decades. Comment#13. Nothing too new here. Last I heard they were about 250 people 10ish years ago. We knew they were well paid and considered a great place to work all along. It's going to be a goddamn shame when they get bought by a PE firm or put on the stock exchange after the old guard leave. Comment#14. And this, my friends, is how a company can behave when it is not publicly traded. Comment#15. Question is—How much outsourcing or reliance on vendors do they have? Comment#16. I read somewhere that the reason that they don't try short term, temporary solutions to alleviate the bot problem in TF2 is that they consider it "treadmill" work. They'd rather work in a long term, automated solution (if they work on it at all). Comment#17. I came across this last week after looking up why they never made Portal 3. Even if it means I don’t get a game I love, I think it’s a great model and I wish more companies utilized it. Comment#18. Very few people can do a very good job if they're very qualified and very well compensated. Comment#19. So anyone knows what their "Games" department does? Or is that, why it's in brackets? I hope they're developing something? Definitely isn't HL3, L4D3 or Portal 3 though. Hopefully they're not just all making skins for Counter Strike Comment#20. The opposite of Microsoft Comment#21. Gasp! I am shocked…that Ars just figured out what Valve has publicly stated for ages. It’s never been a secret that Valve has a slim staff and a flat/hybrid hierarchy. Comment#22. I'm guessing there must be a long list of contractors that aren't part of the actual payroll. There's no way a company of this size could operate with 350 employees otherwise. Comment#23. Damn how legal is it to have a whole team dedicated to analyzing stolen corp data Comment#24. But they won't pay devs to upgrade their anti cheats for Linux (Steam Deck).....

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Poll shows 84% of PC users unwilling to pay extra for AI-enhanced hardware

Comment#1. I will pay for more performant hardware - I don’t care how they achieve that performance. But I’m not going to pay for AI for AIs sake. Comment#2. You mean like Adobe putting an AI assistant in their reader app? I have no idea why they think that's needed. All it does is slow the program down when all I want is to open a damn PDF. Comment#3. Please pay for spyware. Comment#4. I'll pay extra for ai-stripped hardware if necessary. Comment#5. But what does it exactly mean "AI-enhanced hardware"? Comment#6. I'd pay twenty dollars for the really slick inline translation stuff. That's it, though. And that's $20 one-time, not a recurring subscription. Comment#7. Fake news. No way as much as 16% would pay for that crap Comment#8. Its just a buzzword everyone is using anyways, having microsoft copilot installed by default doesn’t mean the hardware is magically better or worth it. Comment#9. What AI capabilities will make my life so much better than I will want to pay extra for it? Comment#10. the enshitification continues - how long before we have to log into Google to search??? Comment#11. Would DLSS be counted as AI enhanced? Comment#12. Sounds about right Comment#13. Linux users will be queuing up for the cheap Windows 11 incompatible hardware that's going on a firesale. Thanks Microsoft. Best gift ever. Best time to upgrade your Linux hardware at discount. Comment#14. The shocking thing here is that 16% *are* willing. Comment#15. Yeah we aren’t here to prop up your pumped Nasdaq or Sam lierman lol Comment#16. Tech savvy people know it isn't worth the cost right now or worth being an early adopter. While average consumers usually don't pay/can't afford premium features. So really just rich consumers who don't know it isn't worth it. Comment#17. 7% of all PC users with 9% that could be convinced is a large market niche. Comment#18. I have zero use for AI so I can play a few games, surf reddit and watch YouTube ad free. Comment#19. Facts. RTX gpu’s have been using Ai for features like ray tracing and DLSS since 2018, pc gamers love it and there’s no going back. Most of us already rock Ai enhanced hardware. Comment#20. Enhanced in what way? Higher Performance, lower power draw? Count me in. Everything else, get fucked. Comment#21. I’ll pay extra to have AI removed from my software. Not really cause I don’t want to give them ideas but yeah, AI is the dumbest shit ever conceived and that it’s everywhere annoys the hell out of me. It wasn’t bad when it was ChatGPT being used to help with programming problems or some shit but I don’t want it in my games, I don’t want it in my apps, and I sure as shit don’t want it in my washing machine. Yes, last one seems weird but I just bought a new washing machine that uses fucking AI. I had no idea about this “feature”. All I knew was that I thought it was neat I could control it from my phone but now I got the a washing machine that says “9 minutes left” on my cycle only to readjust it based on some AI shit and I come back six minutes later to “12 minutes left”. Fuck AI. Comment#22. Lol. Put AI on all Windows computers. AI becomes self-aware. That's OK. The next update will probably break it. Comment#23. Unless it holds some value in performance I don't care about AI. Comment#24. What do they mean by AI in this instance? Idk much about AI but Nvidia refers to DLSS that way and I honestly think that's worth the money. The image enhancement type stuff is pretty cool and imo worth it. AI as a turbo booster for your hardware performance honestly seems like a pretty solid usage of the technology Comment#25. A big problem for me is it seems like a lot of tasks we've always been able to accomplish via software is now being repackaged as "AI." It all seems like marketing BS that provides no actual value. We already had search algorithms, data analysis tools, and chat bots before ChatGPT. Why are those things "AI" now? Comment#26. Fuck AI. Give me moar speed/powa Comment#27. I will pay AI to skip sponsored content in youtube. Comment#28. Understand this. They don’t care what you want. They will tell you what you can buy. If you don’t like it, then you will still buy it anyways and complain about it. Either way, they get paid. Comment#29. If the words AI are on the package, I'm usually ignoring the product automatically because I know it's a scam. Even saw a video about an AI rice cooker that literally had no cpu in it when taken apart. Comment#30. By 2025 I will have zero subscriptions. Sorry, if I don’t own it, I don’t want it. Comment#31. They would still try to force it down our throats to keep inflating AI sales numbers... Comment#32. Prints "AI Enhanced" on a shiny sticker and puts it on the box. "That'll be another $400 thx." Comment#33. They haven't demonstrated any meaningful way it's actually going to help me as an end users. It just seems like flashy gimmicks that violate my privacy right now. Comment#34. Yeah f@#$ that. And f @#$ them for info that stuff into windows. Comment#35. It just doesn’t solve any problems. I want an answer so I google and read and define a solution with my own brain. With ai I still have to do the first step by asking ai and then I have to interpret the answers and then I have make sure I believe the answer and then execute a solution. It’s not fewer steps and I still fail to believe that ai is smarter or more creative than I am at problem solving. Idk, I just don’t see the time saving across all task, sure some task will be more efficient while others will take same energy from me and ultimately I will learn more if I do it myself then let ai make up the solution Comment#36. Brother I will not even pay a discounted price for hardware with baked in Ai so it can train their model on everything I do and further encroach on my privacy. Comment#37. Honestly, I don't even want AI at all. Not only would I not pay extra: I don't want it. Comment#38. I don’t want bullshit crap shit software (AI) near my fucking computer. Comment#39. If I wanted answers that could be wrong, I'd google it. Comment#40. For sure. I couldn't be paid to give a shit about having AI acceleration in my computer. Comment#41. I access super computers for a monthly fee already that cost tens of millions of dollars. I'm not going to get comparable performance from a consumer device in my home. Cloud is using markets of scale and resource sharing to give us all a better and cheaper experience. I'd rather rent 300 minutes a month on a super computer than have $80k worth of hardware idling at home 99% of the time. Comment#42. Make it 100% Comment#43. Don’t forget guys, if you’re a Windows user, Winaero Tweaker is a free to use software that allows you to turn off most of this stupid crap in Windows. If you update Win11 and suddenly get bogged down by all the Copilot, Adware, Bloatware, Edge, etc, you can uninstall all of it using that tool. While I don’t appreciate companies doing this in the first place, I’ve learned to just find ways to work around it. Comment#44. That because you don’t need it and adds no value Comment#45. Hardware with a promise that "it will be better" because software? A gaslit subscription model never seemed so obvious. Comment#46. You can’t monetize off of me while also trying to putt me out of work. If your hardware is AI enhanced, you’re training a model off of my work. Comment#47. I specifically do not want it at all. Comment#48. can I pay more to get hardware that isn't ai enhanced? Comment#49. I don't want AI-specific hardware unless the performance to price ratio is absolutely through the roof compared to conventional GPU:s. Otherwise, I rather want the hardware that can to two things I like, instead of just one thing. Comment#50. but what's the purpose of this "AI enancher" processor? What AI mean in this context? Pytorch can work with these "NPU"? Comment#51. There are games I have wanted to try that I waited for until I upgraded hardware. I'm happy to let others throw money at the bleeding edge stuff. I can't see AI (in the sense of real AI that copes with new situations rather than just copying and consolidation other content like current LLMs) being worth it for some. I'm assuming the question was so open ended as to be meaningless. Comment#52. As a consumer I haven’t seen AI do anything that I would want an AI for. Comment#53. When I buy Hardware, I pay for the HARD part of Hardware. Conductors, transistors, wiring, housing, sensors, the coating and finishing. I want to buy a piece of equipment without the anxiety that in less than 5 years it will become obsolete. I want to buy a gaming controller which sticks doesn't drift after a couple of years, I want a car with analogue controls for AC and Stereo so I can "muscle memory" my way to them instead of a touch screen. And in case anything start failing I want to be able to open it an easily replace the components. Comment#54. _Narrator: they did, in fact, pay extra for AI-enhanced hardware._* *due to corporate monopolies adding to all hardware and giving users no choice. Comment#55. 84.00000000001%, im not as well. Comment#56. It’s like consumers know there is an ai hype bubble going on and rather wait to see what’s actually helpful in these fancy new algorithms or old algorithms with a new marketing slapped over it. Comment#57. The problem with selling AI as a product. Comment#58. What personal end-user wants to pay for additional taxes on a system? AI will drive up hardware costs for the basic gamer that will not benefit from them. Comment#59. 16% of people will pay extra for anything. Comment#60. Technology has gotten too expensive that they are selling features instead of full software or hardware. The reality is they want to control all the software and hardware but have you pay for it. They can fuck off Comment#61. "AI-enhanced" is a meaningless buzzword. If a company can demonstrate some kind of repeatable performance advantage then enthusiasts will buy it for the performance, but they aren't going to shell out extra money just to own some marketing lingo. Comment#62. If you build it, they will buy it. —- Apple Comment#63. If you have a modern video card, you likely are paying for AI enhanced hardware. Comment#64. It literally offers nothing to me as a PC gamer Comment#65. You get AI, you get AI, EVERYONE GETS AI!!!! Comment#66. Almost like AI has become yet another tech bro grift. Comment#67. The question was kind of shit, though. It doesn't explain at all what it means. Comment#68. AI-enhanced hardware? You mean a PC with a graphics card? Or a M1 processor? Comment#69. IT IS NOT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, ITS JUST A GLORIFIED PROMPT GENERATOR. Comment#70. Maybe once AI starts representing "artificial intelligence" rather than "actually indians", we can have this talk. Until then, AI isn't very useful as a general tool outside of a few niche workloads. Comment#71. Because people don’t want to pay for gimmicky bloatware. It’s clear that “AI” is nowhere near as useful as the CEOs wanted us to believe. It’s a slightly better Siri, and Siri is fucking worthless Comment#72. I mean if it does something I want/need that a similarly priced standard hardware can't sure I'd pay for it. As far as I know that doesn't exist. Nothing I could do at a personal scale would justify the cost of just tying into ChatGPT's AI and getting better results for what would be the cost of energy to run it locally anyway. Comment#73. I am interested in smarter searching to find new angles on things and not interest much at all at a stew of old information. Comment#74. Pc components are expensive as it is Comment#75. I don’t see why they aren’t PCIE cards for other platforms. The PC market is highly undervalued in that you can retro fit older hardware Comment#76. Yeah generally speaking it's not a surprise people don't want to balloon the cost of hardware even more for something that is shady at best. Comment#77. I will pay more to avoid it Comment#78. Looks like we know where the 7% Yes came from: [https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1e51y79/cloudflare\_reports\_almost\_7\_of\_internet\_traffic/](https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1e51y79/cloudflare_reports_almost_7_of_internet_traffic/) Comment#79. dont see a point when its send to a server anyway Comment#80. Still rocking a 9900KF and 2070 super, still seems fine to me Comment#81. In fact, I would be willing to pay extra to *avoid* AI-enhanced hardware. Comment#82. AI causes glitches. After a nightmare trying to find out the cause of an issue, you frequently end up disabling "features". Pay for that? 🤣👎 Comment#83. If it was actually AI and did something worth the money that'd be different. Comment#84. I'm happy to pay the same price I pay for all of my other software. 😎👌 Comment#85. Id be willing to pay higher to be sure no ai will intrude. Ive had computers for 20 years, never needed AI, it wont change now. There is no positive to it, none Comment#86. I'd pay extra to have it removed from my PC Comment#87. We need data privacy laws in the US yesterday. These Ais are built to scrap all our data. Zero doubt they will see that dataafter they train their Ai off of it. Comment#88. I'm willing to pay extra to NON AI pc Comment#89. I'd pay extra for hardware guaranteed to be AI free. Comment#90. It's laughable trying to sell people that you can run AI on your local device when there are reports of Google and Microsoft using more energy than most countries on Earth. This "AI" being forced into the hardware is for the benefit of those selling and filling their data mine to train their ~~AI~~ marketing. They're just trying to get you to pay for it because it's such wicked cool catch phrase and people are dumb that way. Think of how Siri and Alexa and their always listening miners have made their way into so many things, bluetooth speakers, headphones, cars... Comment#91. With how hard Google/Microsoft have been pushing their respective AIs, I'd actually pay extra to have AI-free hardware right now. Comment#92. People in R/technology hating on AI 🧐 Comment#93. Someday we will have open world GTAV like games where you can use voice and hold natural language persistent conversations with NPC game characters. And without ai hardware, you will have text menu conversation options. People can be a bad judge of what they need. If you asked random people if they’ve used a datacenter in the past year, what percentage would say no? Edit: I must be in the /r/anti-technology sub Comment#94. Funny that’s the same percentage that don’t understand what AI can do for them Comment#95. Same reason why I didn't upgrade from my note 9 to the S24 Ultra; and I have a broken screen that can't turn on without a charger and a noticeably bent chasis lmfaoo Comment#96. to be fair, im unwilling to pay extra for anything Comment#97. Are these not routinely jail broken though? Comment#98. 84% of PC users are not stupid enough to spend extra money on tech bro bullshit. Comment#99. Obv... Lord. Comment#100. Only 7% bots, thats not bad.

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World's first dual-tower solar thermal plant boosts efficiency by 24%

Comment#1. Two 650-foot-tall (200-m) towers have risen in China's Gansu Province. Combined with an array of 30,000 mirrors arranged in concentric circles, the new facility is expected to generate over 1.8 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity every year. While photovoltaic panels that directly convert sunlight to electricity are what most people think of when they hear the term "solar power," there is another method of harvesting the Sun's power that's been steadily developing since the early 1980s. Known as solar thermal or concentrated solar power (CSP), these systems rely on mirrors known as heliostats to bounce sunlight to a central gathering point. There, the concentrated beams heat a transfer fluid that in turn heats a working fluid. This fluid then evaporates, turns a turbine, and generates electricity.

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New drug reverses diabetes in mice, boosting insulin-making cells by 700% | One day this research could lead to game-changing new treatments for diabetes

Comment#1. And today, without drugs, type 2 diabetes can be totally controlled by healthy ketogenic diets without any sacrifice in enjoyment. I was on the verge of needing insulin for my insulin resistance. Now my blood sugars and A1C measurements are always normal. Comment#2. Ah yes more false promises and profit riddled BS. Progress is a fucking myth.

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We Need An FDA For Artificial Intelligence | What AI regulators can learn from the history of the FDA.

Comment#1. Can't regulate math. Comment#2. We also need a president who isn’t old as time and constantly babbling incoherently but we’ve got Trump or Biden. Good luck on this being a priority under either of those candidates.

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TikTok pushed far-right AfD party on young voters in Germany | Alternative for Germany-related content returned when searching for other parties.

Comment#1. Yeah that's probably part of why Trump is suddenly for it Comment#2. It's actually sad the user base of TikTok choose to willfully ignore this kind of stuff. 100% needs to get banned. There is always an alternative people will move on. Comment#3. And this is why it needs to go. Comment#4. Tik tok is a destabilizing tool for china. Fucking DUH Comment#5. Sure, maybe. OR there is more content for that, and it suits the algorithm better for whatever reason. It could be a secret evil plot, but it could also be an artifact.

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‘Amazing’ new technology set to transform the search for alien life

Comment#1. Wouldn’t it be amazing to try out some new technology, and all of a sudden we found ourselves awash in data showing “others” all over the place!? Comment#2. Proper title and TLDR is: "BIG ASS CAMERA WILL DISCOVER MILLIONS MORE STARS" Seriously though this is really cool stuff. Comment#3. Improved telescopes & an improved algorithm. That's great! But maybe don't call it amazing until it does something amazing?

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Disney’s internal Slack was leaked by hackers mad about AI

Comment#1. None of the articles show what's in the slack messages I guess you gotta get them yourself 🙃 Comment#2. Get so tired of tech ignorant journalists focusing on the overall size of the files in a data breach. Headlines often focus on how many gigabytes or terabytes were downloaded, as if size means anything. A single 1 kilobyte plain text file that has all company employee names, login credentials, and personal info is far more damaging than 20 terabytes of video files of a company project, yet the emphasis is always the file size.

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Streaming’s bundling obsession ignores the real problem with subscription costs | Subscribers keep paying more and getting the same

Comment#1. I disagree with us 'getting the same.' We're getting worse and worse products. Horrible, hard to navigate apps. More and more ads. Content strewn across a ton of different platforms. Compared to the good old days when everything was just on Netflix. Speaking of which, Disney and some other streaming services have quietly started adding their content back to Netflix over the past several months. Because not only are they taking a bath on their platform, but they're also losing the money they would have generated on Netflix before doing their own thing. Comment#2. Some of the more interesting points of this opinion piece: >Users who sign up for streaming services only to cancel a few months later, likely because they watched what they wanted to already or are trying to save money, has created huge churn concerns for streaming companies. Those companies are largely responding with packages that bundle their services with other services, including rival streaming platforms. But with streaming subscribers already pushed to their financial limits, it's time for streaming providers to earn their keep, not piggyback on others. > >This week, media research firm Hub Entertainment Research published its 2024 Monetization of Video report with findings from June interviews of 1,600 TV viewers ages 16 to 74. The respondents reportedly each watch at least one hour of TV weekly, and the sample is “US census balanced,” per Hub. When Hub asked respondents if they will "still have/use" their video streaming services a year from now, 85 percent of those using ad-free services said they definitely or probably will, compared to 74 percent of subscribers of streaming services with ads. Further suggesting that ad-free subscription tiers garner more loyalty, 15 percent of ad-free subscribers said they "might/might not" or "probably/definitely won't" have their subscription next year versus 26 percent of ad subscribers. > >“Those paying extra for ad-free services say they are more likely to keep that service than cheaper ad-supported plans," the report says. "The act of paying more potentially increases perceived loyalty to that expense.” > >... > >Incessant price hikes and the shoehorning of ads across streaming platforms have forced users to reassess the value of their subscriptions. And while price is a big factor, streamers are also critical of content availability. Hub's report notes that "specific content drivers, like new theatrical movies, full seasons of TV shows, original/exclusive shows and live sports, can motivate unique audiences.” > >When ranking the most important values in a TV service, Hub found the most popular responses to be "lower price than other platforms with similar content" (12.7 MaxDiff prioritization score), "access to new movies that were recently in theaters" (9.1 score), and "all shows are ad free" (8.8 score). > >Streamers aren't just blindly seeking the lowest prices available but are hungry for a service that lets them access the stuff that they actually want to see. > >... > >Streaming was once the darling of modern TV and movie watching but has since devolved into another form of cable whose race for profits has led to uncertainty around pricing, content availability, platform longevity, and mergers and acquisitions activity. > >Bundling somewhat addresses subscribers' financial concerns, but when it comes to providing value, it feels like the industry has lessened its focus on the type of innovation and exclusivity that made streaming exciting in the first place. > >... > >The need to improve the streaming experience so that it's a modern, valuable advantage compared to alternatives seems overlooked these days. Profit goals have led to user drawbacks like widespread password sharing crackdowns, more and new types of ads, and the cutting of features like Dolby Vision and Atmos. > >It's rare that we see the type of platform or policy change that immediately benefits subscribers over corporations. There are exceptions, like when streaming providers work on effective UI overhauls. But big upgrades, like Sling starting to offer 4K streaming for free today, remain rare. Unfortunately, most streaming providers have shifted into the phase of business best described by Doctrow's concept of enshittification. The lack of consideration of the needs of users in the pursuit of profits have resulted in a mass rush to the exact types of business models that the cable companies used before streaming became mainstream. If companies want to differentiate themselves from this pack, it would help if they considered the needs of their customers first rather than last. Comment#3. We need to draw the line, if we pay not ads, if its free it can have ads. Comment#4. The streaming market simply became over-saturated. It appears that only Netflix has managed to make a profit from streaming because they have better technology and better original content. Competitors have had to raise prices because they were losing money. In a few years, many streaming platforms will be closing down, and the mother companies will simply be licensing their content to Netflix. Comment#5. No, we are paying way more for way less. The top movies on Max right now are stuff like Twister (from the 90s), Signs, Gods and Egypt and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Increasingly it is rife with Discovery crap like bad reality shows. And they’re removing their own HBO series like Westworld. They also removed the Sesame Street back catalog! Disney+ is a boneyard of C and D tier content like crappy reality shows. Peacock is mostly crappy reality shows. Prime is increasingly just a marketplace to buy other subscriptions. Hulu sucks so bad that subscribing to it doesn’t even give you access to stream your local ABC affiliate. Paramount+ same deal, it’s a bunch of junk like CSI and all those first responder network shows. As prices go up they also remove features and services. Dolby atmos, gone. HD video streams, gone. And instead we get ads, more ads, and even more ads.

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Andreessen Horowitz co-founders explain why they're supporting Trump

Comment#1. Because they won't have to pay taxes or ever face the possibility of consequences for their constant pump and dump schemes that deliver nothing of any value in the end. Comment#2. Because they are self absorbed billionaires who want lower taxes and nothing to protect the society from their actions? Did I guess it correctly, do I get a prize? Comment#3. "yeah yeah fascism is bad but Joe's gonna make us pay taxes and we can't have that" Comment#4. They missed the part where Trump lies about everything. Comment#5. Because they are pathological money collectors who are unable to prioritize anything beyond the accumulation of monetary wealth. That's the answer. Everything else is bullshit. Environmental issues are the only issue of pressing importance in the Unite States right now. If anyone has any interest in salvaging the climate in the Southwest, Southeast, and Northeast then opposing the Republican party is all that matters. Comment#6. >If the unrealized capital gains tax goes into effect, startups may have to pay taxes on valuation increases. Ah and here we see the real problem. For normal people, tax increases aren't a huge problem. Getting taxed on income or capital gains sucks but the government only takes a larger percentage of cash you are already getting. But these VC and crypto bros play with funny money. They want to say their cash incinerators are worth a billion dollars so they can trick some greater fool into taking it off their hands for 2 billion. But they don't have cash, it's busy being burnt on electricity costs like mining or ai training. Heaven forbid that these companies have to make money and generate any economic benefit. They love the current tax structure where they are only compelled to pay taxes on profits because they operate at losses and actually get to carry forward losses as tax breaks all the while cashing in on absurd valuations completely disconnected from any economic reality. Considering the Trump organization got in trouble over their own "the company is worth what I say it's worth" scheme to defraud banks, I can see why a16z found a kindred spirit in Trump to enshrined these loopholes into the tax code for their own profit. Comment#7. TLDR is they think Biden will over-regulate AI and crypto and we need to “compete with China” — nevermind the many clean tech and energy startups that will suffer under Trump… Comment#8. >...he says he’s no longer loyal to the Democratic Party. In the 2024 presidential race, he is supporting and voting for former President Donald Trump. The reason he is choosing Trump over President Joe Biden boils down primarily to one major issue — he believes Trump’s policies are much more favorable for tech, specifically for the startup ecosystem. Good to know that your priorities are completely fucked. Comment#9. Because they're technically brain dead. Comment#10. They feel that their personal ability to make excessive amounts of money is more important than the safety and security of the entire country. To summarize, they're selfish assholes. Comment#11. Greed. Simply say it guys, it's pure, unadulterated, old fashioned greed. "I'm going to get mine, at your expense, at the expense of 99% of the world's population, because I want it". I wish they could at least be honest about it. "We don't give a sh!t about anyone other than ourselves. And that includes any grandchildren, nieces, nephews we might have". Power corrupts, money is even worse. Comment#12. The biggest issue in the election is the Environment, clearly these guys have no intention of opening up a Clean Air Fund. Comment#13. Because they’re old rich white guys, the answer is in the photo Comment#14. I am surprised by Ben, a smart Berkeley kid who knows better. Comment#15. >However, he says he’s no longer loyal to the Democratic Party. In the 2024 presidential race, he is supporting and voting for former President Donald Trump. The reason he is choosing Trump over President Joe Biden boils down primarily to one major issue — he believes Trump’s policies are much more favorable for tech, specifically for the startup ecosystem. If both parties were operating within the same plane of existence and it was a close call, sure I can understand voting based on the future of tech. However, who's going to work in your tech when Trump's Project 2025 fucks up the education system? When they implement a system of intolerance that foreign students stop coming to the US to study, live, create tech startups? What happens when your remaining tech creators are the Charlie Kirks and the moron who's hawking the right ring dating app? Those are the government policies that are more likely to stifle tech innovation than the Biden admin trying to put some limits on AI development. Secondly, Democrats are, objectively, more reasonable than Conservatives. This isn't a religion for us. If we think X is the answer and you're able to prove Y is a better answer, Democrats/Liberals/Progressive will adopt Y as the solution. Maybe not immediately but far earlier than Conservatives. I mean economically Conservatives are still stuck on Reagan's failed trickle down bs. Meanwhile more and more Democrats/Liberals and warming up to the idea of UBI. The only reason you place tech future over human future is because you either don't understand the danger Trump/GOP pose or you just don't give a shit cos you're in your ivory tower. Comment#16. Because money? Comment#17. "we are fascists"

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The Smallest, Lightest Solar-Powered Drone Takes Flight | It weighs less than a nickel and can fly nonstop while the sun shines

Comment#1. China will field millions of these and cover every inch of the Taiwan Strait. Guaranteed.

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Monthly drop hints that China’s CO2 emissions may have peaked

Comment#1. Inb4 "You believe CCP data?" If I was in charge of CCP propaganda and had one billion dollars to spend, I would spend $25 on bots saying how great China is, and the rest of it I would spend on bots that dismiss and minimize every accomplishment coming from China. Can you guess why? Because it's much more favorable to keep your rivals in ignorance and encourage their underestimation of you.

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Fmovies Has Gone Offline, the End of a Pirate Streaming Giant?

Comment#1. I didn't know Fmovies was bigger than any of the dozens of other sites that look exactly the same. Comment#2. Never heard of them and definitely still have no issue streaming Comment#3. Works just fine for me

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Kaspersky offers free security software for six months in U.S. goodbye

Comment#1. Nah, I'm good on spyware, even if it's free, thanks. Russia can go fuck itself. Comment#2. Desperate to install more malware company offers it for free Comment#3. When I had their services in the late 90s ( ? ) They were very expensive & like Norton so restrictive that they verge on being malware themselves. Comment#4. gotta load up all them trojans and whatnots before they get kicked out

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Microsoft introduces a new form of Windows updates because things weren’t confusing enough

Comment#1. AHH WIndows updates ! where the cure is worse than the problem they set out to solve. Screwed up my computers from Win 98 up to Windows 7. Comment#2. That sounds like Service Pack back in… XP if I remember correctly?