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The internet is already riddled, in record time, with AI generated articles around topics. Some of the stuff I've read on them is hilariously wrong. Now, Google wants us to trust an AI overview by default? No thanks. Those bad AI written results were served in leading positions by Google. If...

22.5 hours for a signal to reach Earth. Distances in the solar system are impossible to grasp, and I doubt any of us really remember the proportions even, but Voyager 1 is nearing a 1 LIGHT DAY travel distance. Go Voyager 1. Go.

They're already pissed off. All Apple can do now is string things out and delay. It won't work. The DMA is not being policed by a small island nation with minimal resources as GDPR was.

It won't work. Lax GDPR enforcement, due to a seriously under resourced Irish Data Commissioner funded by a vested interest Irish Government, became a serious problem for the EU. Tech companies basically ignored the law, made profits, paid trifling penalties when enforcement finally caught up...

Sorry, but this in the bullshit "commercial child abuse" category now. Adults can usually see horse manure coming a mile off, but not kids. Teachers need to do their centuries old jobs, and AI should only be used to evaluation their accuracy and fairness, if at all.

The Paladin of Absolute Free Speech in action... The complaint would technically, if legally accepted, silence absolutely everyone on any conceivable topic with a probability from 0 to 1 of impacting Twitter's profits. So Musk is arguing that ALL Twitter users have surrendered ALL free speech...

Arguably, it's malicious when a company deliberately breaches the law with the understanding that the resulting fines will not exceed the additional profits. That seems to be the trend in Big Tech, and a large reason why the EU has evolved from a light touch regulator, to a glacially moving...

DMA comes into force 7 March. Google is "testing" as of 24 February. So 16 days left to nail down a final decision on what to present to EU consumers and avoid being slapped with a massive fine? Seems a bit lax.

Was it? Because companies have two other drugs, of similarly doubtful efficacy, and similarly quantifiable risks, likely to be approved simply because...precedent. The FDA refuses to acknowledge its mistake, even if it means compounding it with two others. The whole thing stinks of greed...

Nothing has changed. We just broke down the barriers and made it easier for non-science and pseudo-science to spread on the internet. Humanity hasn't evolved that much during scientific revolution...

As usual, articles touching on drug costs (175 times a competing price because...brand name?) in the US leave us ever puzzled about where that mysterious "rational consumer" we learned about in Economics has vanished to. The government and its services appear stubbornly irrational on this. I...

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How do you overturn a conviction when the convicted is expected to pay for the overturning, and their livelihood has been destroyed? Most are simply saving their sanity... Also, the small matter that in any large population, there would have been genuine fraud convictions that end being quashed...

AI has become one of the most depressing developments of 2023. So many benefits for healthcare and science, but another inevitable whittling away of possible occupations in the job market.

The banks don't mind these losses - they get bailed out before failing, remember? It's more of a concern for Musk's new future (if any) endeavors that need funding.

X (Twitter) has become a cesspool. I've seen its recommendation shift from topics I have a genuine interest in, to being at least 30% amplified garbage about immigrants and conspiracies about vaccines. Whatever algorithm they use seems designed to push the worst of humanity on us. Then there's...

This is speculative, but Earth appears to have gone through "Snowball" cycles (the Cryogenian period) where most of the planet's surface would have been ice with occasional spots of ice melt (e.g. dust contaminants absorbing heat). To call that environment hostile to life is an understatement...

Firefox is solid, and has Conex/Containers. Also...it's not owned by an ad company that wants to use it to track your behavior whether you like it or not. Arguably, could someone refer Google to the EU for anti-competitive practices with Chrome if this is forced through?

The DMA was intended to target all of these, so this is essentially a quest for loopholes. If a loophole is actually used, the EU needs to quickly (by EU standards) legislate to close it.

Is it just me, or is the down voting a little...out there on this thread?