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Comment Re: Testing? (Score 1) 91

You are clearly an idiot with a gigantic ego. These terms are decades old established disciplines. If you had any actual on-target understanding, you would know that. Do not expect everybody to think as sloppily as you.

"Communicating with a system in natural language" is a sub-discipline of "NLP". Incidentally, LLMs cannot really do that. They need an NLP layer for that to work. Raw LLM output is not something you want to use.

Submission + - Google will leave open the option to sideload apps on Android (googleblog.com)

Artem S. Tashkinov writes: A few months ago, Google proposed that every Android developer, including those distributing apps outside the Google Play Store, such as popular third-party stores like F-Droid, must verify their identity to have their apps installable on "certified Android devices," starting circa 2026 in countries such as Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand. This triggered strong push-back from indie developers and open-source advocates, who saw it as a shift toward a more closed ecosystem, raising fears that sideloading would be free in name only and making Android essentially an iOS clone.

In response, Google clarified in its November 2025 blog post that while verification is moving forward, there will be lighter-weight paths for students and hobbyists, and an "advanced flow" for power users to install unverified apps with full warning of the risks, essentially backtracking on its initial proposal.

Submission + - How Google is using the law to stop text message scams (bgr.com)

anderzole writes: Google this week filed a lawsuit against a large scam text operator responsible. Google's legal action is comprehensive and is intent on completely dismantling Lighthouse's operations. The search giant is bringing claims under RICO, the Lanham Act, and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA).

Comment Re:why is it called Russia's robot? (Score 1) 91

Quite the opposite, it is a literal translation of the rossyan news.

https://tass.ru/ekonomika/2559... - "The first Fatherland-built robot with AI was shown"
https://vz.ru/news/2025/11/11/... - "The first rossyan robot with AI..."
https://www.mskagency.ru/mater... - "The first rossyan anthropomorphous robot was displayed in Moscow"
https://hi-tech.mail.ru/news/1... - "The New Technological Coalition announces an AI humanoid robot 77% of which is built from rossyan-made parts".

And so on.

It is the rossyans boasting about "technological sovereignty" and "independence of the traitorous Fascist Liberal West" and the BBC reporting it appropriately.

Incidentally, the BBC has nothing to do with "the EU".

Brexit happened 5 years ago, has the news not reached yer hamlet yet?

Comment Re:in soviet russia we fail you! (Score 3, Informative) 91

How is Russia not Soviet?

A 7-million strong army of police to keep the populace quiet? Check.
Mass nationalization of private property? Check.
A one-party system? Check.
Fake elections? Check.
An all-powerful president self-appointed for life? Check.
The same specimen is propped by rubber-stamping parliament? Check.
Servile courts who side with the prosecutor in 98.9% of the cases? Check.
Gulags for the political opponents and murder when that doesn't work? Check.
Forced "treatment" at mental institutions for the dissidents, Brezhnev style? Check.
Occupation by force of neighboring countries? Check.
Continuous claims that "Liberal West" is a "threat"? Check.

I could go on, but Russia today is basically a caricature the Soviet Union of old, but weaker and more corrupt.

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