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Comment Marketing hype masquerading as science (Score 2) 127

AI can never be considered intelligent never mind super intelligent. Processing information, recognizing patterns and generating convincing answers isn't the same as understanding, reasoning or consciousness. AI could be considered to simulate of human intelligence but doesn't actually possesses it. Prediction isn't knowledge, imitation isn't understanding and complexity isn't consciousness. Referring to it as superintelligence is marketing hype masquerading as science.

Comment Resistance is futile :o (Score 1) 49

SystemD people finally building the secure OS they always talked about. After fifteen years of solemnly insisting that systemd was just a simple, modular init system that only happened to also need to own logging, networking, timed jobs, user sessions, containers, home directories, DNS resolution, device management, and the weather forecast, the same crew has finally dropped the pretence and revealed the endgame.

The systemd people have at last delivered the secure operating system they always promised. It only required first absorbing, replacing, or rendering obsolete every other part of the traditional Linux userspace.

Comment Re:So Johnny Depp hired a PR company (Score 0) 36

> Sue. Go look on YouTube Rebecca Watson has a video about it where she describes it in detail. Again it all came out during the trial proceedings and discovery.

In other words you can produce no evidence “Johnny Depp hired a PR company .. To go after his ex”

Submission + - Prosecuted for stealing the King's deer :o

Mirnotoriety writes: Police told motorist who picked up dead deer he was ‘stealing from council’

Police told a driver who picked up a dead deer from the side of the road that he was stealing from the council, he claimed.

Guy Carpenter, 42, was stopped by police as he picked up a dead deer on the A66 near Barnard Castle, County Durham, on June 7.

Mr Carpenter, from Dalton, North Yorkshire, was later charged under the Deer Act 1991 and taken to court, though Durham Police has since said it had withdrawn proceedings against Mr Carpenter after a review.

Comment slashdot reduced to promulgating UFO slop (Score 1, Troll) 22

americanbuildout.com: “Dozens of unexplained drones flew over and near U.S. nuclear facilities .. The story was first reported by the publication The Liberation Times.”

“Liberation Times is an independent news publication covering unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), government transparency, national security, intelligence, space and the scientific and political questions surrounding unexplained phenomena.”

Comment Meta's Internal Research – NYU Stern (2026) (Score 1) 8

Meta's Internal Research – NYU Stern (2026)

“What The Company Learned About Social Media and Harms to Mental Health from Dozens of Internal Studies”

1. Meta knew that young users were experiencing direct harm on its platforms.

2. Meta understood that adolescent psychological development made young people particularly vulnerable to certain platform features.

3. Meta conducted research into how Instagram use, social comparison and mental-health problems could reinforce one another.

* 3.1% met Meta's definition of severe problematic use.

* Teenagers and young adults were almost twice as likely as older users to report problematic use.

* A separate internal presentation reportedly found that 55% experienced mild problematic use.

"Negative social comparison is associated with worsened well-being measures across the board."

Comment Re:Oh no! Reddit's WOKE SLOP website gets no views (Score 4, Funny) 52

Q: ClippyAI, what is Reddit mod?

ClippyAI: Reddit mods: the only people who can turn an unpaid internet hobby into a full-blown authoritarian regime. A collection of self-appointed digital dictators whose entire personality revolves around wielding imaginary power over strangers. Imagine being so spectacularly devoid of achievement, purpose or meaningful human interaction that your proudest moment in life is removing someone's comment and declaring victory. It's not moderation; it's a desperate little power fantasy played out by people who couldn't get authority anywhere else. The Internet's answer to a neighborhood jobsworth, except with less charm, more resentment and absolutely no fucking self-awareness.

Comment The rise of Google's AI Overview (Score 5, Insightful) 52

Google originally made money by scraping extracts from other people's content, directing users to their websites and making money from AdSense advertising. Now, with Google pushing its own AI-generated answers to the top of search results, people have even less reason to visit the original sites.

Of course, in Reddit's case, there's a certain irony. Reddit itself relies heavily on unpaid user-generated content. So perhaps there's a degree of poetic justice here. It's not quite the same loss as an independent publisher losing traffic to work produced by paid journalists.

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