Comment After 80 years of labor saving office automation.. (Score 1) 89
More people do office work than ever before.
Comment Who cares least controls the relationship (Score 4, Interesting) 68
This story is so old it was the reason for Unix. Once the platform controls the essential business process, it owns the business. You work for them now, and all your aspirations are moot.
Submission + - Man Apparently Killed by Tesla in Autonomous Mode (nbcbayarea.com)
BrendaEM writes: "A 71-year-old man was killed early Thursday morning after he was struck by a self-driving car as he was crossing Interstate 80 in Vallejo, the California Highway Patrol said."
Comment No alternative (Score 2) 132
Finding a hotel that can accommodate a family of 4 is not that difficult. Finding one that can accommodate a family of 8 is a bit more challenging. Finding one which can accommodate 8 adult siblings, their children, spouses, etc... is nearly impossible. The short-term rental market is the only realistic option for those people who want to meet with the rest of their family for an extended weekend.
Hotels are set up for small gatherings (an individual room or two), large gatherings (hundreds to thousands in a conference room), but seldom in between.
The last time my in-laws got together, we numbered almost 40 people. Airbnb rentals provide accommodations which are much more practical for those people who want to spend a holiday together with their geographically distributed relatives. Yes, the cleaning can be substantial. But making guests both clean the place, and then pay an additional cleaning fee (in the hundreds to thousands of dollars) seems ridiculous.
Comment Re:This is fine but still, what a mess (Score 1) 71
It's not like you can't use another model to validate the results you got with one model. That's a step you should be taking anyway. It's actually built into the system for test/dev of the agent and inference model itself. Active supervision, sandboxing and all that.
Comment Edge? Is that a browser? (Score 2) 87
It seems so. Although Netcraft confirms it is (ahem) a rounding error.
This post may contain historical references to Microsoft press releases you are not aware of.
Comment Microsoft antivirus for Android (Score 1, Funny) 49
I remember when they introduced that. That was hilarious.
Comment Duh (Score 1) 89
What would you expect the CCIA to say? Vibe code the replacement?
Comment Blog apocalypse (Score 1) 116
Their servers go down because they DDOS themselves demanding more cert renewals than they can support. The blog certificates expire and browsers refuse to load your cat memes.
Submission + - Blinding headlights finally being addressed (reuters.com)
technology_dude writes: It's about time! The NHTSA is going to modernize standards and address the brightness problem. Of course it will take some time before we see the change. Only new vehicles will have the new tech so all of existing blinding headlights will still be on the road for quite some time but it is a step in the right direction.
Comment Translator (Score 3, Insightful) 51
I ran this through the translator. "Having a dedicated home with Prime Video allows us to build on that legacy with unprecedented global reach and a broader commitment to the Television Academy and our mission throughout the year."
It came out "Jeff offered more money."
Submission + - AI slop or the future of development: Adobe Apps "re-implemented" in Rust (github.com) 2
jbarr writes: Looks like a team has used Claude Opus 5.5 to vibe-code "re-implementations" of several Adobe applications, including...
Photoshop > PhotoCraft
Acrobat > PrintCraft
Premier > FilmCraft
After Effects > EffectsCraft
Lightroom > LightCraft
Illustrator > VectorCraft
InDesign > DesignCraft
They released standalone versions for many platforms as well as web-hosted versions. They install and load extremely fast, and are surprisingly small. Since they have been out for only a few days, they are not 100% feature-complete, but the update rate has been fast.
Some say they will be sued quickly, but allegedly, the developers used Claude to recreate these apps without decompiling or reverse engineering, so that could be an interesting legal challenge to follow.
Photoshop > PhotoCraft
Acrobat > PrintCraft
Premier > FilmCraft
After Effects > EffectsCraft
Lightroom > LightCraft
Illustrator > VectorCraft
InDesign > DesignCraft
They released standalone versions for many platforms as well as web-hosted versions. They install and load extremely fast, and are surprisingly small. Since they have been out for only a few days, they are not 100% feature-complete, but the update rate has been fast.
Some say they will be sued quickly, but allegedly, the developers used Claude to recreate these apps without decompiling or reverse engineering, so that could be an interesting legal challenge to follow.
Submission + - Biologist Shares Research With AI, Finds It Borrowed His Work To Make Discovery (studyfinds.com)
alternative_right writes: A scientist is questioning whether Claude’s announced biology breakthrough drew on unpublished research he had shared with the chatbot.
Comment Re:None (Score 1) 90
This is all about getting us to have warm fuzzy feelings for our Flock protectors. Probably so we are willing to report the vile criminals who vandalize them to steal the valuable metals and precious SSD, HDD and memory components inside.
Submission + - Cops Can Bypass iPhoneâ(TM)s Automatic Reboot to Get Into Locked Phones (404media.co)
alternative_right writes: Apple quietly introduced a new feature in iOS that automatically reboots an iPhone that has not been unlocked for 72 hours. The idea behind this so-called âoeinactivity rebootâ is to revert the phone to a state that makes it harder for police to break into the device, and thus extract sensitive data from it with forensics technology.
The new technology to get around inactivity reboot was developed by Magnet Forensics, the company behind GrayKey, a popular tool sold to law enforcement agencies that allows them to unlock and access data stored in iPhones and Android smartphones. Magnet has developed a new device called GrayKey Preserve and a feature for its regular GrayKey devices called Evidence Preservation Mode, according to the video.
The new technology to get around inactivity reboot was developed by Magnet Forensics, the company behind GrayKey, a popular tool sold to law enforcement agencies that allows them to unlock and access data stored in iPhones and Android smartphones. Magnet has developed a new device called GrayKey Preserve and a feature for its regular GrayKey devices called Evidence Preservation Mode, according to the video.
