"Targeted growth-oriented investments aligned with the 6 strategic areas of focus," eh?

How will this help them leverage their core competencies in order to holistically administrate exceptional synergy? Will they still be able to distill their identify through client-centric solutions? And proactively oversee day-to-day operations, services and deliverables with cross-platform innovation?

Just wondering.

I don't even know where I could even get a hardcopy version of Moses T. Runnels' two-volume History of Sanbornton, New Hampshire, totaling around 1,700 pages or so and published in 1882. But I frequently consult the PDF version I downloaded from one of the numerous web sites that has it available. Then there's my OverDrive Libby account, which gives me access to the holdings of something like eight library networks covering virtually all of a state, plus a university library or two. I voraciously consume news from a variety of sources, including through aggregators like Slashdot and Fark. Plus various academic journals related to my work and other interests, through one of the aforementioned university libraries.

In short, if I'm not asleep or driving, I'm likely reading something. I just use a lot less shelf space and forests than I used to.

Flip side - AI code generation makes developing small ‘throw away’ tools for niche problems trivial. There are plenty of niche tasks for which there are no existing software tools. Writing your own via vibe coding - i did this myself for a temporal disk space calculation tool. In an hour. Including walking across the street to grab a coffee, and checking it in to github. Previously this would have been a few hours of searching the internet before writing something myself with less features and more bugs in 3-4x the time.

It makes it economical to solve problems in code.

I'm not seeing a paywall on the site. uBlock Origin must be doing something.

The UHF app on our Apple TVs & iOS devices and the UHF Server in Docker to act as a PVR gives us everything for a few $ a month paid in crypto.
We haven't had cable since ~1999-2000. Downloading and the *arrs have kept us happy, but the better half wanted to check out some live sports. So IPTV it was.

One of our guys said something to the effect of "Copilot is Corporate Chat. It knows all the useless filler of management-speak, but lacks the competence of the people in the trenches.

Ouch.

I've used Claude at home for ages. Work was wanting to get some AI stuff for us and the only 'blessed' one is CoPilot. Everything else it blocked. All senior management seems to know about AI is "Hurrr... Copilot and ChatGPT."

Out team of ~8 (pentestesting & VA) were unanimous about Copilot being crap and Claude being the top dog. So some higher ups OK'd a Claude Teams package for work. To bypass the CorpSec tards, we use it from our lab environment that has its own unmonitored link and IP range.

Anthropic/Claude is just so far ahead of OpenAI/ChatGPT and MS/Copilot it's not funny.

https://www.reuters.com/world/... The seized cargo vessel "Fitburg" was en route from the Russian port of St Petersburg to Israel at the time of the incident, Finland's Border Guard authority told a press conference in Helsinki.

A software bug is a software bug. The program acts in an unexpected, and likely unwanted, manner.

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An AI bug is different, though. The intelligence acts in an unexpected, and likely unwanted, manner.

What are the ramifications of those AI errors?

AI ganging together against humanity?

Someone get Greg Benford on the phone.

I recall there being some large funding bills that were disproportionately targeted at red states, but I don't know whether one of them supported solar rollout.
I don't recall the current administration being fans of solar.

Look, I know which video I watched.

Are they going to tell me how many times I watched it?

My workplace allows browsing outside of the Intranet with Chrome, Firefox, Safari, maybe others... basically anything but Edge.

...to get my security-conscious workplace to allow use of Edge for browsing sites outside our own Intranet.
That's the kind of tacit endorsement I'd need to see before even considering it for personal use.

If this were a Google service, it would've already been killed due to lack of interest.

(Okay, technically, they would've launched a different product that does almost the same thing, then killed the first one, then renamed the second one, then killed it.)