Why would they need a warrant? Flock consents to their customers accessing Flock's data.

[various anticipated objections] Yes, but this is in America.

So many Hollywood scriptwriters who lazily decided, "I'll just use Nazis for the bad guys, they're universally-recognized evergreen enemies," are facepalming these days.

(I'm just speculating.) People don't need help with selling fun things; they want a 'bot that can sell the crap which humans have given up on. Anthropic doesn't want to sell widgets; they want to sell stores which sell widgets (sort of like selling pickaxes instead of getting into mining).

Maybe the problem it has been asked to solve is "I have some crap that nobody wants. Sell it."

This story (and the one in December it links to) is telling me the proper use of AI is to be abused, drawing fire away from humans.

Badly written, but additional interties have come online with several GW capacity. The meaningful part of it is greater bi-directional capacity leaving fewer stranded renewable on resources.

Some utilities use batteries for stabilization, California also uses it heavily for demand shifting. Stabilization can be for the grid, or even more local needs with switching transients and the like.

RMP likely has excess generation and doesn't want to pay customers for energy.

I thought "Mommy Has Four Graphics Cards" was pretty good, but "Not Everyone Computes" did a great job of explaining why the industry is largely about remote services rather than running it locally.

My sister-in-law uses one... but she works for Samsung. There are some cool little use cases, but novelty is dominant.

For Apple, given the high cost of RAM and storage this is a great year to throw shit at the wall and see what sticks. Demand is going to be terrible no matter what they produce, so take some gambles and see if anything can carve a real niche (without losing margin).

Obviously, if you approximate a complex system containing 1e30 quantum particles using a couple of differential equations and a few boundary conditions, you're not going catch every detail.

This is just too fucking hilarious. If I ask Google for "European search engines" the very first link [after the "AI overview"] is literally that page.

If any Europeans are saying they have to use Google because they don't know about the European search engines, it's because they have never looked for European search engines. The very words are the key to the solution. Google it, Europeans, and then you can be free of Google! Google just one final time.

All I can say is it is really hard to put the genie back in the bottle. The data and sources have not been treated as illegal to gather, so they WILL be used... by many different parties.

It is not something anybody who has been here a while would advocate for, but eliminating the problem and threat is a Herculean task.

I call it the indirector's cut. Not saying it's a good joke, but that's what I do.
For comparison, my Hyundai EV, when I plug it in at home, says "Charging started." So if I time it right I can say "Iiiii've plugged it in, so you'd better get this.." "charging started." It's a guaranteed groan if someone witnesses it.

Relying on proprietary USA software or services is a national security risk for all non-USA countries. So good for Switzerland.

It's just as big of a problem for USA users too. Everyone should be minimizing their proprietary dependencies.

I've never used TiVo, but I'm still using MythTV after more than 20 years. (Anybody else here using it? ...Crickets.)

I ditched cable 15 years ago, but it works fine with an antenna. (Or, at least it will until they screw us all over with ATSC 3.0.)

They can't remove the auto-ad-skip on free open-source software, but I never used it anyway. It's not 100% reliable at detecting the ad boundaries, and it occasionally skips over part of the actual show. Instead, I just FF at 60X through the ads.