Apple is very likely suing for "skills and knowledge" rather than trade secrets. It's very hard to prove the difference. Unified memory is, for example, common knowledge. How to implement it in a real chip is 'skills and knowledge', but to be honest, even in 2000 my digital circuits and design teachers were talking about the benefits of cache locality and s-ram over SDRAM. Apple is suing over what could VERY easily be argued is simply 'knowledge' and not 'trade secrets', because nothing they've done is particularly 'secret', it was just so expensive no one thought it was realistic.

That might not be the case. They might be giving employees a REASON to jump ship. They might have ideas they're holding onto or working on, that they don't want to get sued for and don't want to be forced to give to Apple.

OpenAI may not think of it as hiring thieves, but buying trade secrets. It's quite an intellectual grey area, because it's impossible to really decide if the knowledge in someone's brain or in their notes belongs to their previous employer or not. You gain skills and knowledge at each company you work at. Employees are not single use items. Non-competes have mostly been determined to be non-enforceable without compensation. If Apple wasn't able to keep their critical employees from jumping ship, then that's really on Apple for not recognizing or being willing to retain their employees at market price. This is part of the brutality of capitalism and sometimes it cuts both ways.

I'd bet it becomes even less visible. I find black mosquitoes almost impossible to see without a contrasting background. I can't imagine how you'd see them if they were moving in a circular motion at 25 rpm. Humans are remarkably bad at telling if something is 50 or even 75% dimmer. If this were spinning at 25 rpm you'd be dealing with something 4% dimmer if it was non-emissive. Whereas if it's white you see an actual change in color, which humans are really good at.

Just use a 1D camera and get a panoramic image. A 1D camera would be capable of extremely high frames per second with inexpensive hardware.

Axios dug its grave by shoveling out totally fabricated news to help insiders game the stock market.

Lately, I've been finding myself deleting the internet from my life. I think AI has some amazing uses, but the thing I really need less of is the strip mall. Google searches have completely fallen apart. Google's AI answers are still hallucinations most of the time. The one thing Google still does well is the thing I wish it would stop doing, which is indexing people's private information. Other search engines are far more respectful of people's privacy.

Honestly, Google's search results are horrid as well. Search any news story, the first 100 links will be the EXACT same text mixed with 100 different forms of advertising bulletin boards.

The government will always side with the far right. They pretend to be victims, but ultimately the right is for big government and big oppression.

If you use Google or other mainstream search engines you can't find out who Samuel Tunick is or what his activism is centered around. The cop city protests are way more important than most Americans realize as they constitute what is essentially a domestic military occupation. Unlike military bases, these are meant to suppress the general population in mass.

The Guardian reported in February that surveillance cameras hidden in utility boxes mounted on light poles had begun appearing outside the homes of âCop Cityâ(TM) activists. In other instances, activists have been pulled over after leaving an organizing event with Fire Ant Movement Defense. In March, Atlanta police officers âoeharassedâ attendees at a fundraiser for formerly-incarcerated Black Panther Dhoruba Bin-Wahad, who is battling lung cancer.

https://atlpresscollective.com/2025/12/05/samuel-tunick-atlanta-activist-arrest/

That's a great question and one that has a simple answer if you cared to look.

This is just another step in the march towards capitalism, complete private capture of public institutions by capitalists. The laws will increasingly be biased to protect the wealthiest classes and the poor will be punished for minor infractions.

*That the AI wouldn't be capable of answering

The goal should be learning, not necessarily performance on a timed and written test. Grades really shouldn't be competitive either. We need to establish mechanisms of evaluation that determine a student's mastery of a topic without high pressure, high stakes tests. Class discussions, (hand) written essays, individual and group projects. Basically, AI is a reality now, just like we don't make calculus students do long division, autoregressive generative text is a tool you can't prevent. So, ask the student interesting questions the AI would be incapable of answering correctly. And, perhaps that's the real problem. If the AI is more knowledgeable, discerning and insightful than the instructor such that the instructor can't ask questions that challenge it, then why are they the instructor?

Anything to delay giving life saving support. Cops won't feel safe until they're literally piloting flying and dog drones with vr goggles from 1000 miles away. Even then they'll cry about the things they did.