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ShittyBeatlesFCPres , 15 days ago to Technology in The app that promised to ‘use AI to weed out daters with STIs’ has been shut down

How will we ever figure out who has an STI without predictive A.I.? If only there were tests.

ShittyBeatlesFCPres , 19 days ago to Technology in Las Vegas' dystopia-sphere, powered by 150 Nvidia GPUs and drawing up to 28,000,000 watts, is both a testament to the hubris of humanity and an admittedly impressive technical feat | PC Gamer

Now you imagine that the rich man undermined democracy and the rule of law, monopolized industries, and charged everyone 5 tokens a year for basic necessities.

I don’t think it’s everyone else who has a child’s understanding of economics.

ShittyBeatlesFCPres , 19 days ago to Technology in Las Vegas' dystopia-sphere, powered by 150 Nvidia GPUs and drawing up to 28,000,000 watts, is both a testament to the hubris of humanity and an admittedly impressive technical feat | PC Gamer

Las Vegas in general is a testament to the hubris of humanity and an admittedly impressive technical feat. Does it even exist without the Hoover Dam?

ShittyBeatlesFCPres , 20 days ago to Technology in Microsoft is not done yet: more ads spotted in latest Windows 11 build - gHacks Tech News

I would say a “recommendation” is an ad when an accountant is involved instead of (or in addition to) a curator. Even if it’s Microsoft recommending Microsoft’s products, department budgets probably track that internally (though I’m sure the official accounting is done in a way that shifts profits to a tax haven).

ShittyBeatlesFCPres , 21 days ago to Technology in Qualcomm spends millions on marketing as it is found better battery life, not AI features, is driving Copilot+ PC sales

I’m not following this story closely but my understanding is that Copilot+ ones have a magical special chip (and keyboard button) and they take screenshots every few seconds so you can search your history. But, at least in the beta releases, they didn’t bother to mask passwords or really anything. You could have a private key in a screenshot.

I would hope by the final release, they add the bare minimum of security and encrypt it all but that’s not really good enough. It’s a misguided attempt to shoehorn Copilot into everything when A.I. can’t even wipe its own ass yet. Maybe someday. Probably not, though.

It’s clearly a gimmick and not an improvement. Press the “copilot button” and get help! But the copilot button isn’t a new button. It’s actually left-Shift + Windows key + F23. Modern computers don’t have F23 key but you can simulate it. I sure hope no hackers learn how to do that and search your entire history!

ShittyBeatlesFCPres , 22 days ago to Technology in Tesla’s Share of U.S. Electric Car Market Falls Below 50%

That was partly me being a smart ass — America obviously loves free trade except when it doesn’t — but we did slap 100% tariffs on Chinese made cars and we subsidize EVs that don’t source materials from China (and a few other “nations of concern” that don’t really export those materials anyway).

ShittyBeatlesFCPres , 22 days ago to Technology in Qualcomm spends millions on marketing as it is found better battery life, not AI features, is driving Copilot+ PC sales

Copilot+ is a reason not to buy one of those laptops. It’s a privacy and security nightmare.

ShittyBeatlesFCPres , 22 days ago to Technology in Tesla’s Share of U.S. Electric Car Market Falls Below 50%

I imagine BYD is going to overtake them soon, as they already have in China. It’ll probably be hard for them to break into the protectionist U.S. market but I’m sure everywhere else would be fine with a cheap EV.

Plus, considering Elon Musk just mooched $60bn off of Tesla for doing K and tweeting rot all day, the writing is probably on the wall. I sure as fuck wouldn’t invest in a company where the executives are bleeding it dry.

ShittyBeatlesFCPres , 25 days ago to Technology in AI's Future Hangs in the Balance With California Law

It’s good for marketing, though. “Ah, our software is so powerful, it could destroy humanity! Please pass a bill saying so while we market friendly chatbots to the public while actually making money by selling our products to despots and warmongers that might actually end humanity.”

ShittyBeatlesFCPres , 25 days ago to Technology in After a 10-Year Wait, Mt. Gox Bitcoin Is Finally Being Returned

I’ve just been saying what the world most needs now is a bunch of fucking morons with lots of money. Things aren’t nearly ignorant enough.

ShittyBeatlesFCPres , 26 days ago to Technology in Netflix Starts Booting Subscribers Off Cheapest Basic Ads-Free Plan

Private Internet Access is a VPN service.

ShittyBeatlesFCPres , 26 days ago (edited 24 days ago) to Technology in Russia has escalated its information war against Moldova joining the European Union

Hard disagree. Russia is worse at the moment but the West is perfectly fine with neocolonialism (using multinational corporations rather than annexations). And we spread destabilizing lies all the time. The most recent one exposed is the U.S. military’s “psychological operations team” (in Tampa, FL) spreading antivax lies about Chinese and Russian vaccines in the Philippines and Middle East.

ShittyBeatlesFCPres , 26 days ago to Technology in Russia has escalated its information war against Moldova joining the European Union

We absolutely have large scale disinformation campaigns.
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda/

The military’s “psychological operations team” is based in Tampa, FL and that’s all they do. And that’s just DoD. The CIA obviously does even more.

ShittyBeatlesFCPres , 27 days ago to Technology in Google’s carbon emissions soar by 48% due to AI

I agree with everything except that A.I. doesn’t make money and may never solve a problem important enough to justify the cost.

ShittyBeatlesFCPres , 28 days ago to Technology in UN adopts Chinese resolution with US support on closing the gap in access to artificial intelligence

The future of humanity rests on everyone, regardless of nationality, being able to ask Midjourney to generate an image of an Ewok with big naturals.