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• Flock Safety CEO speaks out after LAPD suspends use of company's surveillance cameras

• Elon Musk’s Colossus 2 data center installed 59 natural gas turbines without permission, report claims — thousands of tons of pollutants reportedly impact black communities in Mississippi already suff

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  I did a lot of work in ElderTech. There were a lot of complex psychological issues around caring, connection, and fear of abandonment. Tech can help, or at least mitigate the harm. But fooling people, or messing with their emotions really isn’t a winning recipe.

• Post #3801717

  At what point do AI tokens morph into crypto tokens? The ouroboros of bitcoin mining, GPUs, and commerce. IBM is almost there, with its BobCoins: bob.ibm.com/docs/ide/account/bobcoins

• Post #3536498

  Found vLLM to be the most efficient local runtime service. And “ray” as a good (but complicated) way to distribute the load: docs.ray.io

• Software engineers are facing an 'identity crisis bordering on depression,' Menlo Ventures partner says

  Archive link: archive.ph/NaK7K

• Post #3376045

  Been six days since the new Siri announcement. Still on the waiting list. Will reserve judgment until we actually get access.

• Post #3290111

  Was doing enterprise IoT consulting a while back. Asked why they needed to collect all the data? Nobody could answer. Someone finally said, so we can analyze usage patterns. I asked, “OK, but why?” Finally, someone said: “So we know when and where to advertise our sales.” Also did automotive consulting work. Connected vehicles. Asked the same questions. I’m not too worried about my car collecting a lot of data. It’s so they can plan their next sales event. Not that it’s OK to violate privacy...

• Wanton Destruction Of CBS Property - Letterman & Colbert Toss Stuff Off The Roof Of The Ed Sullivan

• Claude Code's creator is sick of the phrase 'vibe coding.' Suggest your alternative here.

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• Post #896431

  When this automation fad showed up, many people pointed out that there would be plenty of cases where the training data just didn’t cover edge-cases. Problem is, life is FULL of edge-cases. This is where humans are uniquely good at improvising and adapting in real-time, when faced with previously unknown situations. In fact, you can argue humans are really, really good at handling exceptions to the rule. Pretty much the textbook definition of “creativity.”

• Post #820391

  If you have a password manager, you can set the answers to random, junk strings. My first pet? Why, dear Flag!spl@tch9. As long as the answers match next time. And if they give you the option to create your own question, that could be a random string. As well as the answer. Static noise is your friend. It’s lazy security.

• Post #611700

  MCPs could learn a thing or two from the failures of ActiveX. Will they? No…

• Post #611689

  Web4? Seriously?

• Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes

• Post #594083

  There’s a reason that sign is there.

• Post #533624

  Question is, how long before it makes it to the next DGX Spark? Some people don’t have $10B to burn.

• Steve Martin and Martin Short Monologue - SNL

• Ford Admits Its Current EVs Aren't Software Defined—And They're Worse for It

• Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras | TechCrunch

• Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

  Screenshot of this question was making the rounds last week. But this article covers testing against all the well-known models out there. Also includes outtakes on the ‘reasoning’ models.

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  Direct link to CCC video of talk: media.ccc.de/v/39c3-ai-agent-ai-spy

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• Post #33433

  They write some of the best post-mortems out there. No “mistakes were made” nonsense. We done f-ed up. Here’s how and why, and what we’re doing about it.