Yes… That is the choice. That’s the entire point of the article.

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

Rush

Honestly a good article, and a perfect example of performative security. Security was ever present, hassled people, wore tactical vests and made a big show - but still did nothing of actual value

Twitch backpedaled and said they’ll add moar security, but won’t do anything to actually protect creators like grant them their own security guard.

To me, it’s obvious. Guy didn’t have a knife, didn’t threatened her, it’s some lonely creepy dude who doesn’t respect her and very sick in the head. They don’t need another row of metal detectors, they needed someone managing the line and access to her so he couldn’t just walk up to her, and if he did still make it that close then an immediate boot out of the premises with charges for assault filed with a permanent from all future events.

Instead they just… Let him walk around and be chill, and sounds like he was only banned well after the huge backlash.

Seconded. Really depends and very dependent on the person and source.

I noticed quite a bit with my OLED TV sitting about 7 feet away from it. My wife doesn’t care, and she would say it doesn’t make a difference until we watched something that was truly done well like Dune.

There’s too many variables here to say “doesn’t make a difference”. We can safely say “diminishing returns” which is universally true, but not that there is no change

It’s from DS9’s Trials and Tribble-ations

Yeah conveniently the photo they chose left uhura out…

Probably just a coincidence

Oof okay so they definitely fucked up architecture wise BUT:

We are currently outage-proofing your Pod experience and we will be working tonight-24/7 until that is done.

Douchebag CEO right there. God knows he was just like FIX IT NOWWWW to them and forced them to work overtime because of this. This is a complete rearchitecture. Sure it can be done, but it’s not a one night change.

Man I do love me some crazy promises tech bros make. Talk to me when it’s a reality. Even then, meh. I like not having a screen in my eyeball.

Just the other day my uncle said “I’ll never drive an EV because they’re doing all these subscriptions to them”, and that’s what I’m arguing against though. Yes it happens to EVs, but by not being more broad and including ICE vehicles they’re doing a disservice to EVs.

I disagree with this a lot. The article unfairly calls out EVs. EVs are just newer and getting flack. all cars are going this way. Buy any new ice car and they’re going to treat it like a smart phone as well, extras, add-ons, and 2 years in the future they’ll deprecate it all saying you need an upgrade.

We’re already in the dystopia

This one is pretty clear. Tencent is saying that Sony is trying to copyright an entire genre, like sci fi.

In reality it’s more like if Sony made Star wars, and tencent made the star of death with the jidoos with lasersabres. Tencent is just trying to say “how dare you trying to copyright sci fi!”

With AI you can fake engagement, which convinces shareholders you are much valuable. Share price go up, free money

You mean sarcasm is nuanced and LLMs have no real thought, missing all nuance?

Leopold Aschenbrenner (born 2001 or 2002[1]) is a German artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and investor. He was part of OpenAI’s “Superalignment” team before he was fired in April 2024 over an alleged information leak, which Aschenbrenner disputes. He has published a popular essay called “Situational Awareness” about the emergence of artificial general intelligence and related security risks.[2] He is the founder and chief investment officer (CIO) of Situational Awareness LP, a hedge fund investing in companies involved in the development of AI technology.

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So, I’m calling bullshit. I’ve read the papers, I’ve kept up on everything. I run AI models myself to keep up with everything, I’ve built my own agents and my own agentic workflows. It keeps coming back to a few big things that unless they’ve suddenly had another massive breakthrough - I don’t see happening.

• LLMs already have the vast majority of data associated with them, and they still hallucinate. The docs say that it will take exponentially more data to train them on a linear trajectory. So to get double the performance, we’d need the current amount of data squared.
• LLMs and Agentic flows are very cool, and very useful for me. But they’re incredibly unreliable. And it’s just how models work - it’s a black box. You can say “that didn’t work” and it’ll train next time that it was a bad option, but it’s never going be zero. Businesses are learning (see Taco Bell and several others), that AI is not code. It is not true or false. It’s probably true or probably false. That doesn’t work when you’re putting in an order or deciding how much money to spend.
• We’ve certainly plateaued with AI for the time being. There will be more things that come out, but until the next major leap we’re pretty much here. GPT5 proved that, it was mediocre, it was… the next version. They promised groundbreaking, but there just isn’t any more ground to break with current AI. Like I said agents were kind of the next thing, and we’re already using them.

Welcome to the family! I can’t remember the last time I needed windows for a game!

Hey they can’t build a generative AI model from our artists! Only we can do that!

And no one at wall street bothered to ask actual engineers of the actual likelihood of all of these crazy promises being made. Ask engineers and they’d give an optimistic and realistic approach and could guide investors on what is possible and what isn’t. But nooo, gotta love the hype cycle instead

This is getting ridiculous and I’m about to just toss the whole thing and move back to Google,” one Redditor said of the “full-volume” ads for Alexa+ on their Echo Show.

said one Reddit user

Uh. Uhhhh.

These people just won’t get it will they. They refuse to understand it.

You’re absolutely right! It doesn’t make sense to show the user the 2fa code! removes 2fa completely