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- Submitted 1 week ago to cybersecurity@infosec.pub | 3 comments
- Comment on Keir Starmer in crisis as Labour drops to 16% in devastating new poll 1 week ago:
Those kinds of numbers unfortunately don’t usually translate into seats under FPTP, especially with one party so far in the lead.
- Comment on Keir Starmer in crisis as Labour drops to 16% in devastating new poll 1 week ago:
The Express is an untrustworthy tabloid, but damn.
- Comment on Massive Leak Shows How a Chinese Company Is Exporting the Great Firewall to the World 2 weeks ago:
Please don’t tell Keir Starmer.
- Comment on UK workers wary of AI despite Starmer’s push to increase uptake: A third of those polled do not tell bosses about use of tools and half think AI threatens the social structure 2 weeks ago:
Keir Starmer has said he wants to “mainline AI into the veins” of the UK.
What an insufferable man he is.
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- Home Office ‘backdoor’ seeks worldwide access to Apple iCloud users’ data, court documents confirmwww.computerweekly.com ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 0 comments
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to videos@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on The Vegas Loop Is Getting Progressively More Stupid 4 weeks ago:
The policies of the federal government are one of the reasons why Las Vegas, like the rest of the USA, is suffering decreased tourism. I thought it was relevant.
- Comment on The Vegas Loop Is Getting Progressively More Stupid 4 weeks ago:
The factors the guy in your video cites are all true enough, and I mentioned some others that he didn’t mention. I’m not contradicting. Also the fact that he talks about tariffs shows that he’s speaking from pretty up to date information.
Mr. Monotone as you call him is talking about the Las Vegas Loop in particular. You added some extra context. So did I. Not sure why you need to get so defensive.
- Comment on The Vegas Loop Is Getting Progressively More Stupid 4 weeks ago:
He mentions the tariffs putting foreign tourists off, but he doesn’t mention the daily news of people being abducted at airports and off the street, disappeared to some secret prison, and perhaps trafficked to some random oppressive country and abandoned. That’s a little offputting.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to videos@lemmy.world | 17 comments
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- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 5 weeks ago:
You’re probably right. LLMs specialize in spouting bullshit, which seems to be the main requirement for a CEO too.
- Comment on Google will throttle your Pixel 10's battery, and there's nothing you can do about it 5 weeks ago:
It’s also disappointing as some rival smartphone makers address battery health concerns by offering more durable batteries. For example, Samsung’s top phones can withstand 2,000 charging cycles before dropping down to 80% effective capacity, while OnePlus and OPPO’s lithium-ion batteries offer 1,600 cycles before reaching 80% capacity. So there likely wouldn’t be a need for a Battery Health Assistance tool if Google’s batteries had similar longevity.
Sounds like they could just use better batteries but they’re too cheap. It is Google after all, just a small company without much money to spend.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 5 weeks ago:
Armstrong was shocked at the thought. “I went rogue,” he said, and posted a mandate in the company’s main engineering Slack channel. “I said, ‘AI is important. We need you to all learn it and at least onboard. You don’t have to use it every day yet until we do some training, but at least onboard by the end of the week. And if not, I’m hosting a meeting on Saturday with everybody who hasn’t done it and I’d like to meet with you to understand why.’”
At the meeting, some people had reasonable explanations for not getting their AI assistant accounts set up during the week, like being on vacation, Armstrong said.
“I jumped on this call on Saturday and there were a couple people that had not done it. Some of them had a good reason, because they were just getting back from some trip or something, and some of them didn’t [have a good reason]. And they got fired.”
Armstrong admits that it was a “heavy-handed approach” and there were people in the company who “didn’t like it.”
So he has poor planning skills, he’s impatient with terrible impulse control, he’s unable to motivate people (probably because they know he’s an intolerable ass) and his big idea is “do what everyone else is doing, even if you don’t know why.” Sounds like CEO is the only job he can do. What a fool.
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 5 weeks ago:
It’s a good example of evolving towards a local maximum then being unable to travel through a valley to a more optimal design. As such it confirms exactly what evolutionary theory would predict, and not what “intelligent design by an omniscient creator” would predict.
- Cory Doctorow at CF 25: How Enshittification Conquered the 21st Century and How We Can Overthrow Itwww.youtube.com ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to videos@lemmy.world | 3 comments
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- Comment on Economist Prof. Steve Keen - "Why Economists are ALL WRONG!!" 1 month ago:
Sounds a little paradoxical in a “This statement is false” kind of way.
- Submitted 1 month ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 9 comments
- Comment on AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified 1 month ago:
If artists get a break from competing against plagiarized AI slop, that’s not petty vengeance.
- Comment on AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified 1 month ago:
If artists see generative AI companies going bust, that will be something.
- Submitted 1 month ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 7 comments
- Comment on Australia Completely Loses The Plot, Plans To Ban Kids From Watching YouTube 1 month ago:
But unlike media literacy, bans give the government a pretext to demand ID from everyone using the internet, and thereby increase surveillance of the population.
- Comment on One Third of the Web Will Stop Working in 4 Days: Massive-Scale CDN Compromise Starts Wednesday 1 month ago:
If we know about these attacks, then the bad guys know too. Even if they weren’t given the details they’d be able to figure them out. Why then would they wait until Wednesday to start attacking?
Besides, the author of the research says that the vulnerabilities have been disclosed to the CDN providers and patched already. So the headline is doubly silly.
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- Comment on Microsoft is killing off Windows 11 SE, its Chrome OS competitor 1 month ago:
A huge loss to the world of technology. What on Earth will we do without it?
