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Japan antitrust watchdog expected to find Google operates illegal monopoly over search: Report | Semafor
  • Out of curiosity, forgetting that the US is also pursuing something similar, what motive would Google have to comply with a Japanese ruling? Could Japan just... Ban Google if they don't comply?

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    Learning Rust
  • When I'm curious about a language, I usually first build some implementation of a perceptron or basic neural network, as well as a (usually very bad) text editor.

    I feel like once I have those behind me, I've got some fundamentals and can dive deeper into what makes the specific language actually special :)

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    How OpenAI Hopes to Sever Its Nonprofit Roots
  • The fact that OpenAI have waived the threat of using the clause implies to me that they've defined it relatively loosely... or just that they're really stupid, which may also be possible.

    I did a little bit of looking and couldn't find a figure on how much OpenAI spends on AGI compared to GenAI research, but in looking, I found this interesting:

    https://openai.com/index/scale-the-benefits-of-ai/

    Which begins with the following:

    We are making progress on our mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. Every week, over 250 million people around the world use ChatGPT to enhance their work, creativity, and learning...

    Which seems like a shady placement of two unrelated things next to one another. Makes me wonder if texts like this have the goal of selling GenAI as AGI one day.

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    How OpenAI Hopes to Sever Its Nonprofit Roots
  • I'm actually surprised AGI isn't better defined in the contract, or that there isn't a burden of proof so that they can't lie, but that was definitely on purpose. I really can't imagine them severing that tie though; OpenAI simply isn't financially stable enough, especially in the long term, and I'm sure they know it too.

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    Are We Ready For Driverless Buses?
  • This is a very good point. It makes me a bit uneasy, even though it is still better than driverless cars. Aside from this, I also have mixed feelings about the fact that every pound being put into development and purchasing of these busses could have been put into the expansion of existing routes...
    And it's not even something that would drastically improve my experience if it was fully successful. Busses are already one of the safest modes, being safer than trains in several countries. Maybe I've missed something and someone can correct me, but this feels like throwing money at technology for technology's sake.

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    Snow? No problem
  • Thank you for such a detailed explanation! I've always asked myself why the busses in my city get cancelled in the winter but not the trams, and now it makes so much sense :D

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    Egg🧦irl [Gender Non-specific]
  • This is a surprisingly accurate description of the difference between the days where I go to the office and the days where I work from home 😅

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    Microsoft's new version of Recall appears to still capture sensitive data like credit card numbers, even with the "sensitive information" filter enabled (Avram Piltch/Tom's Hardware)
  • I'm nervous about where this will head. There is just so much potential for abuse, from hackers that just want money to state actors to oppressive regimes. Yes the data is local, but the way it's summarized, pre-classified and apparently nowhere near adequately filtered opens so many potential vectors. And Microsoft seem still adamant about pushing this :/

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    Back where it started: “Do Not Track” removed from Firefox after 13 years
  • Unfortunate, but understandable :(
    I wish we could rely on good faith with something like this, but it seems the only way is to block as much tracking as possible by force.

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    Donald Trump says he can’t guarantee tariffs won’t raise US prices,
  • I mean... yeah. I'm not in the USA and I will probably also feel the effects of whatever tariffs are placed. It seems like he's already preparing excuses for when things don't pan out. (Not to mention the immigration issue and so on)

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