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• Post #4499226

  In a document derided by critics as fantastical, Suckerberg said his company is working toward an era where everyone will have the tools to create new businesses, receive Ph.D.-level tutoring and provide personalized lifestyle tips. His 8-year-old daughter, he wrote, can already code her ideas and quickly produce videos. https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/meta-ai/articles/zuckerberg-manifesto-pushes-open-source-154146152.html

• Post #4391651

  And what does our ai panel think of this?

• Post #4374112

  China, China China!!!! https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/03/china-turns-up-the-heat-with-open-model-blitz-as-us-model-makers-panic/5282526

• Post #4165970

  Must have been a Mormon moment;+)

• Post #4085767

  For those unfamiliar, Ventoy is an open-source utility that lets users create a bootable USB drive once and then simply copy ISO, WIM, IMG, VHD, or EFI files onto it without repeatedly formatting the drive. It supports both legacy BIOS and UEFI boot modes, Secure Boot, and a wide range of operating systems, making it one of the most versatile tools in the category. https://www.neowin.net/amp/rufus-alternate-ventoy-improves-upon-one-of-windows-11s-system-requirements

• Post #4085180

  Films could be cut or banned if, ‘in the opinion of the Censor’, they were ‘indecent, obscene, blasphemous’ or ‘subversive of public morality’. The phrase was astutely drafted: it meant whoever held the statutorily independent post at any given time thereafter was empowered to call the shots. (Down with this sort of thing: Father Ted) https://www.rte.ie/culture/2026/0724/1584217-ban-this-filth-the-untold-history-of-film-censorship-in-ireland/

• Post #4061264

  Window is closing;+O https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/07/22/redmonds-reaper-cometh-october-2026-set-to-bury-a-graveyard-of-microsoft-products/5275627

• Post #3991614

  Reuters broke the news that Stripe and private equity firm Advent International had made a joint $53bn offer to acquire PayPal. Offer Price: $60.50 per share in cash, which represented roughly a 28% premium over PayPal’s share price prior to the report. Together, the two, Stripe & PayPal, handle nearly $3.7 trillion in annual payment volume.

• Post #3837838

  OpenAI has become one of the largest liabilities in recent economic history. You can argue that OpenAI’s no longer the focal point of the AI bubble — you can talk all you want about open source models or Anthropic or any number of other elements — but without OpenAI, the AI industry doesn’t exist, and the justification for trillions of dollars of capex evaporates.  https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-openai-bubble/?ref=ed-zitrons-wheres-your-ed-at-newsletter

• Post #3827493

  The concentration of currently popular novels about femicide may be striking but is not a new literary phenomenon. From the gothic suspense of Daphne du Maurier to the psychological thrillers of Gillian Flynn, the murdered woman has long been one of fiction’s most enduring plot devices. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jul/14/nine-of-ten-bestselling-novels-uk-woman-murdered

• Post #3741929

  Forbidden Planet is a classic Sc-Fi movie https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/important-sci-fi-film-1950s.html

• Post #3587932

  Again, loneliness isn’t simply the result of being alone. That’s what researchers like Jones and O’Sullivan refer to as ‘social isolation’, which tends to be a bit easier to spot. Richard, for example, might be isolated because he lives alone, but researchers wouldn’t know how lonely he was unless they asked him. https://www.sciencefocus.com/wellbeing/loneliness-research-treatable

• Post #3586741

  You can take a horse to the water. But a pencil has to be lead https://www.techradar.com/pro/us-marine-corps-gets-six-blind-f-35b-stealth-fighters-loaded-with-lead-ballast-instead-of-advanced-radars-new-apg-38-radar-wont-be-available-till-2028-and-cant-even-be-used-at-full-capacity-till-2031

• Post #3568212

  None of these children that I've treated this week will be the same children ever again. Severe brain injuries will affect them physically, will affect them socially, will affect them intellectually. https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2026/0703/1581581-gardai-escooters/

• Post #3566867

  Andy Burnham visited one of the poorest towns in the North of England yesterday and asked the local mayor what were the three priorities to revitalize the area. “The first is the hospital” he said, “It’s there, but there are just not enough doctors and nurses to fully staff it He pulls out his cell phone, talks for a couple of minutes, and then announces: “Done, when I’m Prime Minister a team of doctors and nurses will arrive at the end of the month”

• Post #3532978

  Make Brexit Great Again🤩

• Post #3529932

  𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗛𝗮𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱𝗹𝘆 𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗨𝗦 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗚𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗣𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗿 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀 Go Spain! Go Spain!

• Post #3486059

  Fermions for instance, stack neatly into the available energy states to form the so-called Fermi sea But what happens if one forces interacting atoms to continuously cycle through extreme conditions, smoothly shifting them from strongly repelling each other to strongly attracting each other? The researchers found that carefully repeating this interaction cycle drives atoms out of their normal ground state and into a highly excited yet remarkably organized configuration https://www.sciencedaily.c...

• Post #3471631

  India was not conquered by the British government,” he says. It was conquered by one British company occupying one office block in Leadenhall Street, EC1. The East India Company eventually had 200,000 troops – twice the size of the British Army – while controlling the richest country in the world for profit. By the 1780s, around 75% of British MPs held East India Company shares. Perhaps 20% were former EIC figures who had used their fortunes to buy parliamentary seats. https://thedailybritain.co...

• Post #3423733

  1954 was a big year for both companies. Fender launched the Stratocaster that year, and Thomann was founded the same year. Fender instruments landed in Thomann’s catalog not long after, and they’ve stayed there ever since. Thomann says it’s carried the brand with genuine conviction for more than 70 years now, and plenty of Thomann employees play Fender guitars themselves. https://www.gearnews.com/thomann-sues-fender-guitar

• Post #3362792

  Finland has more than 700 libraries for a population of 5.6 million, offering everything from podcast studios and 3D printing to tennis rackets and swimming pool passes. According to Vänttinen, the most borrowed items after books in Helsinki libraries are spaces: rooms that can be pre-booked, free of charge, to meet, study, hold political discussions or make music. Among portable items, board games and console games top the list. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260618-the-weird-and-wonderfu...

• Post #2540720

  I understood the importance of cultivating a professional network. But that email was a jolt — and an introduction to a certain group of people whom we lived among but who, we were realizing, saw the world differently. To me, she was a friend, which is someone to share struggles with. To her, I realized, we were also nodes in a network — of people who might one day connect you to opportunity. She had gone home and realized vulnerability was a liability. https://the.ink/

• Post #2540719

  Mercor, Outlier, Task-ify, Turing, Handshake, and Micro1 are platforms that connect human experts to AI labs for training data creation, often paying freelancers $60–$200 per hour for tasks like prompt writing and response evaluation. These companies support major players like Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic by providing customized datasets through remote contractors. ( In reality they can pay as little as $16 an hour. It's the modern day digital sweatslop. Lipsticking the Ai 🐷 ) This is the...

• Post #2540718

  Watching at home “is a lower risk way to try something new” and that financial pressure was a key reason that they attended in-person theatre less often than they would like. Indigo’s report states that “there is very little evidence that filmed theatre reduces in-person attendance of theatre overall” and that 93% of survey respondents who saw at least one filmed theatre production in the cinema or via streaming also attended a performance in person. https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/may/11...

• Post #2540717

  On May 8, 2026, graduates at the University of Central Florida (UCF) loudly booed commencement speaker Gloria Caulfield after she praised artificial intelligence as the "next industrial revolution" The incident occurred during the ceremony for the College of Arts and Humanities and the Nicholson School of Communication and Media Graduates, many entering creative fields directly impacted by AI, reacted with visible disdain to Caulfield's optimistic framing of the technol...

• Post #2540715

  Rats to dat;-O

• Post #2540713

  We can be pretty sure that the world changed, for good, one day about 65.95 million years ago, when a lump of interplanetary rock, 10-15 kilometres wide, crashed into the Yucatan peninsula in New Mexico, causing a massive explosion, a huge crater, wild fires and a planetary tsunami The resulting pall of dust, ash and smoke encircled the globe, blotting out the sun for months, probably years. The global dust-cloud changed the climate for-ever. https://coffeeinthesquare.substack.com/p/the-wheatly-...

• Post #2540712

  It also highlighted that AI is erasing the line between legitimate and malicious activity, making intent – not identity – the new security challenge. APIs and identity systems are primary targets, with attackers bypassing front-end defenses to exploit core business logic at scale, according to the report. https://interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/ai-bot-traffic-attacks-surged

• Post #2540711

  Among other things, mutation and cross-breeding are "in". There is the so-called "Frankenshoe", Then there's also the snoafer (the sneaker and loafer), which The Wall Street Journal coined "the footwear equivalent of the spork"; and the loafer boot, which is spared its own portmanteau but which Vogue says has the ladylike "sensibility of a top-handle bag".  https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20260512-how-the-ugly-sh...

• Post #2540710

  After their stints in jail, the brothers worked their way back into the tech world. In 2023, Muneeb got a job with a Washington, DC, firm that sold software and services to 45 federal clients; Sohaib got a job at the same company a year later. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/drop-database-what-not-to-do-after-losing-an-it-job/