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    AI-powered search engines rely on “less popular” sources, researchers find

    Thinking about it, though, aren't we really comparing apples to oranges? Gemini AI summaries aren't "doing a search and then summarizing the results," which seems to be the assumption. It's an entirely different operation - Gemini is using a corpus of data derived from Google's web crawling to...
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    AI-powered search engines rely on “less popular” sources, researchers find

    It's probably more straightforward - Gemini simply has more capacity to make more connections between more data than a human. It's focused on the statistical significance of that connection regardless of where the page might show up in its ranking algorithm. The thing is, if the AI summary is...
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    AI-powered search engines rely on “less popular” sources, researchers find

    But Google isn't the one "gamifying" the data - sites are using presumptions about Google's algorithms to game the ranking. They want "un-gamified" data.
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    Polestar sets production car record for longest drive on a single charge

    I would say the easiest to follow rule would be, as mentioned, "entirely standard, on stock tires." I don't think it's going to matter because this sort of marketing for EVs is never going to take off - "drives real efficiently!" isn't exactly sexy copy - but over the next few years while EVs...
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    2025 Polestar 3 drives sporty, looks sharp, can be a little annoying

    Not sure if it's still the case, but there have been some stupid lease deals available for EVs. If it's viable for your situation, it might be worth considering.
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    2025 Polestar 3 drives sporty, looks sharp, can be a little annoying

    Not mentioned in the article: The car comes with two basic key cards along with the key fob, and the key fob uses UWB for automatic locking and unlocking when you approach the car. I believe that you have to enable that feature in software, though. If you have UWB on your phone then you can also...
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    2025 Polestar 3 drives sporty, looks sharp, can be a little annoying

    They roll out updates fairly frequently but my biggest complaint is that the UI and software feel less stable than I would expect given that they control literally every part of the stack.
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    2025 Polestar 3 drives sporty, looks sharp, can be a little annoying

    You don't even notice it, and the power is always still there on the highway when you need it.
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    Video game wikis are massive, community-led efforts—here’s how one was built

    The most pernicious problem with Fandom is that when I come across a game wiki my default, now, is to assume that it's a Fandom affiliate and often just hit "back" to find something else. I understand the utility of an aggregate site like that and I realize why many existing wikis - which often...
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    Polestar’s CEO talks product plans, local manufacturing, tariff woes

    I just leased a Polestar 3 and you can find some ridiculous lease deals right now. I'm talking 20% off what they advertise for a 3 lease on their website. They want people in those cars. I work from home, though, and we're (now) a two-car household, so I can grab the lowest-mileage option...
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    Don’t launch a Norwegian murder hoax over a US fantasy football group chat

    And because of the world we live in here's an AI interpretation of just that caption: It's not great.
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    Don’t launch a Norwegian murder hoax over a US fantasy football group chat

    This comment would be way more effective if he was actually going to prison and not house arrest, as it mentions in the article.
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    OpenAI has the tech to watermark ChatGPT text—it just won’t release it

    The pertinent point was that you stated that a professor wouldn't just blanket fail an entire class because of the results of an AI detector due to professor's being highly trained, however that has already happened - so it's clearly an issue that needs to be addressed, and expecting educators...
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    OpenAI has the tech to watermark ChatGPT text—it just won’t release it

    1. What does accuracy mean for ChatGPT? Accuracy as in "this information is true?" Or accuracy as in "this text feels truthy?" Because its goal is the latter, and any Actual Truth is entirely incidental. 2. There have already been examples of "well trained" Professors literally failing entire...
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    OpenAI has the tech to watermark ChatGPT text—it just won’t release it

    Perfect, as in 100% accuracy? No. But 99.9% accuracy is so far from perfect that it might as well be useless. There's a reason why "5 9's" is a thing - 99.999% is the "good enough" ballpark.
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    Kids Online Safety Act passes Senate despite concerns it will harm kids

    Right - if the content isn't available because sites are concerned with potentially violating a vague law, a VPN won't make a difference.
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    Kids Online Safety Act passes Senate despite concerns it will harm kids

    When I started college the internet had only just become broadly available - I think that we were perhaps the second or third freshman class to have access in our dorms - and it was a very social environment. All the classic tropes - people out and about, doors open, music, random interactions...
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    Kids Online Safety Act passes Senate despite concerns it will harm kids

    Regarding law in the USA, there's a very important distinction between the authority that parents have over their minor children, and the authority that the government has over minors generally. From the perspective of the government, minors have the same constitutional protections as anyone...
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    Kids Online Safety Act passes Senate despite concerns it will harm kids

    This isn't an argument for policing speech, it's another reason why we really should have a much more substantial social safety net and services available to allow parents the time and support needed to be available for their children.