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  1. tom_streeter

    FBI subpoena tries to unmask mysterious founder of Archive.today

    Been using them for years. Quite good.
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    Elon Musk on data centers in orbit: “SpaceX will be doing this”

    I’m sure the engineers will drive to the launch site in their fully self-driving Tesla roadsters. Their unicorns will be in the back seat.
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    Two men fell gravely ill last year; their infections link to deaths in the ’80s

    It’s extremely narrowly correct that Helene didn’t make landfall in Georgia, but if I recall correctly it was still a Cat 4 storm as it moved across Valdosta, GA (which is closer to the landfall point than either Tampa or Jacksonville). My wife and I drove through the area two days after the...
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    Astronaut James Lovell, famed Apollo 13 commander, dies at 97

    May light perpetual shine upon him. I was young when Apollo 13 flew and I will never forget the tension of it. It never felt like a failure.
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    Meet Hyperlight, Ars Technica’s new, even brighter “Light” mode

    Always love to see accessibility baked in regardless of whether or not it targets me.
  6. tom_streeter

    Smart gadgets’ failure to commit to software support could be illegal, FTC warns

    I’m sure the Trump administration is going to be all over making sure people get value for what they pay for. That’s what the Trump brand means, tight?
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    Trump says Elon Musk will lead “DOGE,” a new Department of Government Efficiency

    They wound up going for Thune, who is arguably the least receptive of the “just hand me the keys” stance, but that just means he’s going to fight at the trough with the rest of the kleptocracy. If you ever wondered what it was like for the Russians seeing their country sold off piece by piece...
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    Trump says Elon Musk will lead “DOGE,” a new Department of Government Efficiency

    They’re blissfully unaware of anything that actually exists.
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    SpaceX says regulators will keep Starship grounded until at least November

    That facility never should have been approved in the first place. That ecosystem will never recover.
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    Elon Musk declares “it is war” on ad industry as X sues over “illegal boycott”

    I eagerlly await the lawsuit against everyone who didn't buy a Cybertruck.
  11. tom_streeter

    Report: Apple isn’t paying OpenAI for ChatGPT integration into OSes

    Tech publications either, though that’s a harder sell around here.
  12. tom_streeter

    Report: Apple isn’t paying OpenAI for ChatGPT integration into OSes

    I didn’t realize technical ability was necessary to encounter people bloviating about ChatGPT in every media property on the planet. It’s not that lots of people haven’t heard about it. They just don’t care.
  13. tom_streeter

    Report: Apple isn’t paying OpenAI for ChatGPT integration into OSes

    90% of iPhone users are in a coma? Because that’s the only way they’ve not heard of ChatGPT.
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    Elon Musk is livid about new OpenAI/Apple deal

    I’m convinced this all goes away as soon as Apple says ”offering to send it on to ChatGPT” is something that can be turned off. Then again, how many years has it taken to get a native calculator on the iPad?
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    Elon Musk is livid about new OpenAI/Apple deal

    Elon knows a lot about being creepy.
  16. tom_streeter

    Apple integrates ChatGPT into Siri, iOS, and Mac OS

    I was speaking exclusively about the ChatGPT part (and I wasn’t clear about that. ) I do understand that the ML stuff that uses the neural processors is more integrated, but, again, I wasn’t at all clear about that. That said… My first Mac was a 512K “Fat Mac.” And, as a matter of fact, I turn...
  17. tom_streeter

    Apple integrates ChatGPT into Siri, iOS, and Mac OS

    If it’s so benign, let us download it if we want it and not have it on our devices if we don’t. That’s what choice looks like. Anything else is coercion. Someone calling me a Luddite? Thanks for the complement.
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    Sky voice actor says nobody ever compared her to ScarJo before OpenAI drama

    The trouble is that she’s undercut herself by allowing her voice to be used in an AI product. The whole voiceover segment is getting hammered by companies switching from live talent to AI for a lot of the bread-and-butter corporate and training work that used to be out there. I used to make an...
  19. tom_streeter

    Private astronauts to fly highest mission since Apollo, make groundbreaking EVA

    This whole venture reeks of democracy. :rolleyes: I wish them safe travels and want nothing bad to happen at all, but when it’s over the world is going to be essentially the same: pretty cool if you have money.