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Why Is There an AI Hype? | The Luddite (theluddite.org)

Companies are training LLMs on all the data that they can find, but this data is not the world, but discourse about the world. The rank-and-file developers at these companies, in their naivete, do not see that distinction....So, as these LLMs become increasingly but asymptotically fluent, tantalizingly close to accuracy but...

Everyone Except Nvidia Forms Ultra Accelerator Link (UALink) Consortium (www.hpcwire.com)

Ultra Accelerator Link is an open-standard interconnect for AI accelerators being developed by AMD, Broadcom, Intel, Google, Microsoft, others (www.tomshardware.com)

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/13293438...

The biggest findings in the Google Search leak (www.theverge.com)

All Santander staff and '30 million' customers in Spain, Chile and Uruguay hacked (www.bbc.com)

Google's "Manifest V2" Chrome extension phaseout next month is expected to impact the original uBlock Origin extension, which still uses the V2 framework and has 37 million users (www.theregister.com)

The new MV3 architecture reflects Google's avowed desire to make browser extensions more performant, private, and secure. But the internet giant's attempt to do so has been bitterly contested by makers of privacy-protecting and content-blocking extensions, who have argued that the Chocolate Factory's new software architecture...

"Maybe This is Too Cool" - After years of layoffs and pay/resource freezes, Amazon execs treat themselves to a private Foo Fighters concert worth millions (radarblog.substack.com)

Is Firefox still good ?

To the people, is Firefox still the go to browser? Is there something better out there for the average person? I've heard good things about internet explorer.

Report: Apple and OpenAI have signed a deal to partner on AI (arstechnica.com)

Spotify won’t open-source Car Thing, but starts refund process (arstechnica.com)

Tesla recalling more than 125,000 vehicles to fix seat belt warning system (apnews.com)

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Robotic 'Third Thumb' Makes Tasks Possible With One Hand; Can Be A Game Changer For The Disabled (www.ibtimes.co.uk)

This controllable prosthetic, the Third Thumb, attaches to the right hand, granting wearers the ability to perform a slew of one-handed tasks such as grasping objects, opening bottles, sorting cards, and even peeling a banana.

Estonia | The Digital State (youtu.be)

Most states rely on paper bureaucracy to ensure that the state can function and provide services. Paper bureaucracy has been part and parcel of how we maintain states and corporations since the Chinese invented the first paper bureaucracy systems of management 3000 years ago....

EU approves Italian aid for $5.4 bln STMicro energy chip plant (www.reuters.com)

CATANIA, Italy May 31 (Reuters) - The European Commission on Friday approved Italian state aid for chipmaker STMicroelectronics (STMPA.PA), to build a 5 billion euro ($5.4 billion) plant in Catania, Sicily, to make specialist microchips that boost energy efficiency in electric cars....