There's already alternative software available already:

https://openbb.co/

(Don't worry it slightly predates AI, just contains today's mandatory buzzwords)

This ever-escalating difficulty of rooting is why I think Android isn't worth saving as a general-purpose OS. This isn't a fight free software can win or should expend too much effort on. Google's going to continue tightening their coils as they always have until the only practical option is to replace mainstream Android with something different to the point of major incompatibility if you don't want a walled-garden toy OS, so I say we should get out ahead of them with something GNU/Linux-based.

But that's the problem, it is regurgitation, even if a targeted one from a vast array of stomach contents. You've been fooled by a stochastic parrot. Is it a breakthrough in human/computer interface if the human's input has a high likelihood of coming out mangled for reasons we can't understand or automatically correct? Is it really conversing with humans by spewing out a statistically likely response it has no real understanding of, or is it just running the latest successor to ELIZA?

With AI's ability to produce nonsensical mistakes due to having no concept of factuality or ability to actually reason about problems rather than clumsily dice them into steps (all describing what's commonly known as "hallucinations") its tendency to make mistakes will always make it borderline-useless for real work.

I like to say that the only time it makes sense to use AI for a task is if you have no time to do it yourself and no choice but to make an attempt at it very quickly. If a madman is holding a gun to your head and wants a full report on a book he hands you that you've never seen or heard of before within the next 5 minutes or you're dead, that would be a good time to use AI. Otherwise, why roll the dice with unpredictable, incomprehensible wrongness?

Hard to fix, hard to catch, hard to predict, often hard to understand in retrospect. What could possibly go wrong? Let's trust it with our medical paperwork!

This guy is a real-life cyberpunk villain, I'm not surprised in the slightest to hear that he owns a bunch of ghost kitchens.

"GPS software" you say? Does that work indoors unlike the GPS hardware laptops usually don't have?

Now imagine this isn't your workloads running on a cloud server, but software you paid for running on your own computer.

Working DRM would be the worst invention in the history of computing, and specialized hardware that can hide things from a root user makes it much more plausible.

The problem is that it isn't *just* shelter, it's a shelter and also an "NFT" (since it's an investment that's expected and supposed to endlessly appreciate for "reasons"). The resulting problem being that you can't get the shelter without the "NFT" so shelter costs are peak-Bored-Ape stupid even if you just want a shelter.

This, construction labor costs are only one of the smallest parts of the housing affordability problem. The bulk of the problem is artificially restricted supply (especially of high-density low-cost housing) due to zoning laws.

Looks like OneWeb was designed to get penguins and polar bears online.

(I checked and can't find anything about it being purpose-built for polar bases)

I wonder how small and cheap something like this could be built these days:

https://theaviationgeekclub.co...

Apparently some military aircraft have exactly this solution.

This was a half-baked mindshart of an idea that wasn't ready to be made public much less voted on. The mere concept of doing age verification at the OS level is riddled with more problems and loopholes than solutions.

Pretty much, it sounds like they're turning Xbox from a line of console hardware into a PC gaming service/brand, and the next-gen Xbox sounds like it will be a gaming PC with a stripped-down gaming-optimized version of Windows.

The original Xbox was almost that anyway, just different enough from a gaming PC to make emulating it a big PITA but essentially using ordinary PC hardware running cut-down slivers of Windows & DirectX in firmware. What reason does the Xbox have to exist as anything more than a console-shaped gaming PC these days really? Other gaming consoles have essentially morphed into gaming PCs running oddball hardware & software at the same time, they have all the complexity and expense but none of the compatibility, and the idea of proprietary hardware allowing a performance advantage only ever yielded one that was short-lived.

The Mechanical Turk was more like a mechanically remote-controlled animatronic puppet. I would point to Pierre Jaquet-Droz' robots as an example of pre-film robots, here's one that was programmable:

https://www.messynessychic.com...

I'm most worried that this kind of system might be impractical on a general-purpose computer and thus further fuel the drive to replace them all with user-hostile walled-garden computing machines. On a general-purpose computer what would keep someone from tampering with the age verification system or copying credentials from another system?