First UK firms complain about TikTok ban being devastating and now this. My luthier is going to be busy.

If your call centre is populated by poorly-trained people reading from a script then yes, it is amenable to being converted to an AI. And if your business model depends on dopamine-hit dependent youngsters endlessly swiping then you were always going to have problems eventually.

Sorry for the individuals concerned, obviously. But "devastating"?

In a not-very-shocking turn of events, Microsoft seem to make several reasonable points about a piece of software in a measured way. There's almost nothing to see here, move along (after registering the mildest of surprise).

The 50s are calling, they want their lazy journalism back.

if RND(1) can return 1, then the poked byte could be 256. But I could be wrong, it's Saturday and my mind's not in code-mode.

This summary just seemed to go on for ages compared to other stories. As I said, not important.

Just me, or should a summary actually be a summary, with a link to a story we can read if we want, rather than a verbatim quote of pages of text?

Wired articles are always so flowery, there's plenty of scope for cutting it down to a paragraph and letting us get on with our lives.

From the not-that-important-but-it-bothered-me-enough-to-comment department.

https://hardware.slashdot.org/...

From the first link I found when I searched for "how does iphone face detection work":

Face ID uses a "TrueDepth camera system", which consists of sensors, cameras, and a dot projector at the top of the iPhone display in the notch to create a detailed 3D map of your face

Hence my comment. Accessing a site is cool and all, but five hours is a little too much to play "I wonder what this does?"

It's been a while, probably not just us, but the demo site is brought to you by 2001-era servers.

It is also a LOT easier to both post content and reach a lot of people via social media as opposed to doing both using your own website.

Once upon a time, in the long long ago, I could create content on my site and then automatically or semi-automatically share it on social media, where my social media followers would see it.

He's the hardest working man on YouTube. Fly safe (also fly correctly oriented).

This "story" is an advert. I don't need no stinking AI to tell me that.

Now somebody tell me how to get these cold, sticky grits outta my pants.

And get off my lawn!

I've seen reports saying the other chutes weren't used since the crew saw where the fire was developing and chose not to activate them.