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- Comment on Harvard dropouts to launch ‘always on’ AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation 13 hours ago:
“The AI listens to every conversation you have and uses that knowledge to tell you what to say … kinda like IRL Cluely,” Ardayfio told TechCrunch, referring to the startup that claims to help users “cheat” on everything from job interviews to school exams.
“If somebody says a complex word or asks you a question, like, ‘What’s 37 to the third power?’ or something like that, then it’ll pop up on the glasses,” Ardayfio added.
The product sounds like just another shitty AI assistant but on your face. The problem might fix itself when only 5 idiots buy them.
- Comment on Harvard dropouts to launch ‘always on’ AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation 13 hours ago:
I would. They’re making an entirely unoriginal product with an entirely unoriginal sales pitch.
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- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day 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 UK | Man arrested in dawn raid after sharing Facebook posts backing Palestine Action 2 days ago:
The main difference the USA’s armed population seems to make is that the cops come in shooting.
- Comment on UK | Man arrested in dawn raid after sharing Facebook posts backing Palestine Action 2 days ago:
American cops have been kicking down doors and shooting the people inside for a long time now.
- Comment on UK | Man arrested in dawn raid after sharing Facebook posts backing Palestine Action 2 days ago:
The sad thing is Starmer has made it hard to judge.
- Comment on UK | Man arrested in dawn raid after sharing Facebook posts backing Palestine Action 3 days ago:
Mr Cobb, who has 2,200 followers on his Facebook page, said he had never attended a demonstration or been a member of Palestine Action – now a proscribed terrorist organisation.
His arrest comes after more than 500 peaceful protesters were arrested at a demonstration in Parliament Square earlier this month for holding placards supporting the group.
Gosh, that must be expensive, protecting us all from old people with t-shirts and Facebook posts. I just hope the UK Government is remembering to keep some of the taxpayers’ money back to fund making trans people’s lives more difficult every day because JK Rowling. Then they have all the major threats covered and the British people can sleep soundly (until the police smash down the door).
- Comment on Anyone else have computers by Digiview? 3 days ago:
Never heard of them. Is this a generic beige box PC-compatible desktop? There were thousands of those brands in the 1990s, just small shops building PCs from standard parts and sticking their badge on the box.
- Comment on Microsoft breaks Windows reset and recovery 4 days ago:
My Apple-using friends seem split on this when I ask them whether Macs are stable these days. I’ve heard from several people that their reputation for stability is a hangover from the past, and updates in recent years have been somewhat unreliable. But it would be hard to get good comparative data given that the companies won’t be eager to share the numbers.
- Comment on Microsoft breaks Windows reset and recovery 4 days ago:
They have the Windows Insider program, which is basically beta testing.
- Comment on Microsoft breaks Windows reset and recovery 4 days ago:
As the article mentions, it’s because Microsoft cut down their quality control to the point where they’re just sending stuff out then reacting when people report what breaks. Sure they have their “insider” builds but that program isn’t working very well to catch these issues that find their way into release builds.
Back in the day they had a massive testing lab and a big team of testers. Then they fired them all about 10 years ago. We can thank Satya Nadella I guess. He’s more of a line-go-up man than a making stuff work guy.
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- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 5 days 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.
- Comment on Microsoft employees occupy headquarters in protest of Israel contractsIt’s the biggest escalation yet of the protests at Microsoft. 5 days ago:
In a blog post published in May, the company said it had “found no evidence to date that Microsoft’s Azure and AI technologies have been used to target or harm people in the conflict in Gaza.”
But Microsoft said this month that it had enlisted the law firm Covington & Burling to conduct a further review after a report that Israel’s military surveillance agency intercepted millions of mobile phone calls made by Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank and stored them on Azure servers. That trove helped inform the selection of bombing targets in Gaza, according to reporting by the Guardian newspaper, Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine, and Local Call, a Hebrew-language news site.
Who are you going to believe? The company profiting from collaborating with genocides, or the independent journalists calling them out for it? It’s a tough one.
- Comment on Google President Praised MAGA Speech Slamming ‘Climate Extremist Agenda’ 5 days ago:
These people will kill you and/or your children. They should be treated accordingly.
- Comment on Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data 5 days ago:
I’m using several of them too, but the update refuses to uninstall. Oh well, fingers crossed eh? Thanks MIcrosoft.
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- Report: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your datawww.neowin.net ↗Submitted 6 days ago to technology@lemmy.world | 174 comments
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- Comment on Neil Young Leaves Facebook & Instagram Over “Unconscionable” Policies for AI Chatbot Conversations With Children 1 week ago:
I think the aim is to get people to switch to a more ethical streaming service, if they want to stream music. Spotify isn’t the only option.
- Comment on Neil Young Leaves Facebook & Instagram Over “Unconscionable” Policies for AI Chatbot Conversations With Children 1 week ago:
He took a principled stance when he left Spotify too, after they paid hundreds of millions for Joe Rogan’s podcast.
- Comment on Can I self-host on old iPhones? 1 week ago:
There are loads of cheap Chinese mini-PCs based on Intel N95, N100 or N150, and they’d make the job easier than a phone or a Raspberry Pi. Spend a little more and you can get some pretty cheap AMD Ryzen-based models too.
- Comment on OpenAI’s Sam Altman Expects To Spend ‘Trillions’ On Infrastructure 1 week ago:
You know what could really improve infrastructure? Taxing billionaires and their corporations and spending that money on all the things the USA is currently cutting.
- Comment on Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface 1 week ago:
In the interview, Davuluri is asked how AI is going to change the way we interact with computers. Here’s what he had to say on the matter:
“I think we will see computing become more ambient, more pervasive, continue to span form factors, and certainly become more multi-modal in the arc of time … I think experience diversity is the next space where we will continue to see voice becoming more important. Fundamentally, the concept that your computer can actually look at your screen and is context aware is going to become an important modality for us going forward.”
Watch out Satya Nadella, this guy’s coming for your Chief Bullshitter job.
- Comment on Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface 1 week ago:
I tried dictating a talk onto the computer in several ways recently. Not one piece of software was able to do it without me having to edit constantly. I haven’t seen anyone get voice input to the point where it isn’t a pain. I highly doubt Microsoft figured out reliable voice input but kept it back for Windows 12. It’s going to be the same shit.
- Comment on Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface 1 week ago:
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