Comment Re:Advances (Score 1) 27
Which hearing aid brand and model is that?
Comment Re: The Profits should be competed away (Score 1) 38
An OS costs under $200 in 2026 dollars.
Seems to have gotten pretty cheap.
Comment Re: fuck ai sayo! (Score 3, Insightful) 38
I think the concept is that if a company announces mass layoffs because AI yountax them per employee.
I assume what would actually happen is honesty in layoffs, notbtax revenue.
Comment What about alumnus? (Score 1) 29
Will that work?
Comment Re: About time (Score 1) 95
Because the there's about a 2%+ (Poland on the high end) swing in GDP for countries to feel internally secure.
That's either taxes or benefits cuts.
If we in the US get our heads out of our asses and start negotiating on medicine it'll be even more, since currently the US is funding a lot of medical research through high insurance prices.
Submission + - Tesla imports $29,000 USD ($39,490CAD) Chinese made Model 3 Premium to Canada
ArmoredDragon writes: After Canada dropped its 106.1% tariff on Chinese imports to 6.1%, (which is Canada's standard tariff rate for most favored nations) and raised 25% tariffs against the United States, Tesla moved its inventory manufactured in Fremont, CA back to the US and began importing its Shanghai produced Model 3 to take advantage of the lower rates. This presented a problem for the Canadian government, which currently has a 49,000 unit cap for Chinese vehicle imports, as Tesla already had all the necessary infrastructure in place to begin shipping and distributing cars, where the Chinese competitors such as BYD do not. By becoming the first mover, Tesla would consume most or all of the 49,000 cap before any other competitors have a chance to sell any units.
It's worth emphasizing that this is the premium version of the Model 3, not the newer but lower cost Standard version. It also appears to be made to the same specification as Tesla vehicles that were already being sold in Canada, including using the US EPA standards for EV range estimates, as opposed to the more internationally used WLTC or NEDC standards, or even the Chinese CLTC standard. Deliveries are expected to begin no later than June.
It's worth emphasizing that this is the premium version of the Model 3, not the newer but lower cost Standard version. It also appears to be made to the same specification as Tesla vehicles that were already being sold in Canada, including using the US EPA standards for EV range estimates, as opposed to the more internationally used WLTC or NEDC standards, or even the Chinese CLTC standard. Deliveries are expected to begin no later than June.
Comment Re: Why is Intel stock zooming? (Score 1) 47
No way they make half of them.
The vast majority of CPUs are ARM, and Intel isn't making many of them.
The reason Intel stayed flat (market cap) even as they pounded AMD in the bulldozer era is that they were also becoming a niche part of the CPU market.
Submission + - Chrome silent install of 4GB AI model without consent gets expensive. (thatprivacyguy.com)
couchslug writes: Widespread unasked for downloads devour bandwidth squandering energy:
From the parent article:
"Two weeks ago I wrote about Anthropic silently registering a Native Messaging bridge in seven Chromium-based browsers on every machine where Claude Desktop was installed [1]. The pattern was: install on user launch of product A, write configuration into the user's installs of products B, C, D, E, F, G, H without asking. Reach across vendor trust boundaries. No consent dialog. No opt-out UI. Re-installs itself if the user removes it manually, every time Claude Desktop is launched.
This week I discovered the same pattern, executed by Google. Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. The file is named weights.bin. It lives in OptGuideOnDeviceModel. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it.
The legal analysis is the same one I gave for the Anthropic case. The environmental analysis is new. At Chrome's scale, the climate bill for one model push, paid in atmospheric CO2 by the entire planet, is between six thousand and sixty thousand tonnes of CO2-equivalent emissions, depending on how many devices receive the push. That is the environmental cost of one company unilaterally deciding that two billion peoples' default browser will mass-distribute a 4 GB binary they did not request."
From the parent article:
"Two weeks ago I wrote about Anthropic silently registering a Native Messaging bridge in seven Chromium-based browsers on every machine where Claude Desktop was installed [1]. The pattern was: install on user launch of product A, write configuration into the user's installs of products B, C, D, E, F, G, H without asking. Reach across vendor trust boundaries. No consent dialog. No opt-out UI. Re-installs itself if the user removes it manually, every time Claude Desktop is launched.
This week I discovered the same pattern, executed by Google. Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. The file is named weights.bin. It lives in OptGuideOnDeviceModel. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it.
The legal analysis is the same one I gave for the Anthropic case. The environmental analysis is new. At Chrome's scale, the climate bill for one model push, paid in atmospheric CO2 by the entire planet, is between six thousand and sixty thousand tonnes of CO2-equivalent emissions, depending on how many devices receive the push. That is the environmental cost of one company unilaterally deciding that two billion peoples' default browser will mass-distribute a 4 GB binary they did not request."
Comment Re: Place your bets....state actor or AI slop? (Score 2) 107
I doubt it's AI slop.
Edge has been storing passwords long enough that I assume the password manager code predates AI coding.
Comment VGA... (Score 1) 30
... I still use it esp. with my OmniCube KVM from Y2K!
Comment Re: Steam enabled me to move to Linux (Score 1) 44
Because a game optimized version of steam runs games well it can definitely run some janky office software written with weod MS libraries of 20 years ago?
Not sure the one follows the other.
Comment Re: AI killed desktop Linux (Score 1) 44
That means 4% are using Linux on the desktop to game.
Obviously less than 5%, but I'm shocked it's only 23% on steak deck.
Steak Deck is great and what got me back into PC gaming. The fact that there are so many desktop users of Linux also tamony is surprising to me.
Comment I find them pretty danged good (Score 1) 100
Somewhere between the 25th and 50th percentile of a stenographer that hasn't pre programmed names.
Comment Blood sugar and eyeballs (Score 2) 20
Apparently your blue sensing photoreceptors in your eye are super sensitive to blood sugar, and you could do a blood sugar test with a color calibrated phone app having people compare two shades of blue side by side. If you can't tell them apart, your blood sugar meets/exceeds/is below a certain threshold. It's not hyper accurate but useful for diabetics.
Comment Re:happy (Score 1) 49
All of Engie's plants use standard designsm there's no shortage of staff who know how they work and how to maintain them. Standardization is a major pillar of why France's nuclear costs are so low and so safe.
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