I never activated Sirius, but twice a year they have a free week or so of music as a promotion. I don't do anything with or about that, but "weather alerts" start popping up. It's naturally windy in my neck of the woods so I get bajillion alerts that require pushing Dismiss while driving, but often cannot turn the alerts completely off because the Weather Alert "Off" feature is only available some of the time, but I cannot tell when without going into the menus, which present music options first. If it's not stealth spamming it's crappy UI coding. Either way, it sucks. I contacted Surius once and they said it cannot be fully deactivated. I may have a mechanic cut the antenna wire to Sirius but am afraid it would break GPS also.

but I can't track it down. Memory usage and disk/SSD look fine. I suspect either GPU or some weird OS stack gets full or confused. Windows 10 has a secret bladder that needs a diaper.

Yes, I know XiWare is likely snoopish, but so is GoogleWare. At least make the jerks compete.

Executives can't resist shoving a new spam channel into your face. Even if they can't use it immediately due to regulations etc., the possibilities make their greedy marketing glands swell with giddiness.

SiriusXM is already spamming my older model vehicle using tricks to get me to poke around in their music menu by pretending to malfunction. Long story, but here is similar behavior.

This sounds ok in theory, but the law is against it. AI training on books was ruled to be legal explicitly because the books were destroyed. The court ruled that was a form of content shifting rather than straight up copying. If they scanned these "high value" books and didn't destroy them, they could be found liable for that.

Even if one of these rare books was worth a million, that's a rounding error on the book shredding budget and probably not even worth it to them to spin up an alternative process to identify, handle, non-destructively scan, and then attempt to resell these books.

Well wtf does he mean by speedtest then? If he's doing it from his phone or wifi connected laptop, then it's going to reflect the speed of his wifi. If he's doing it from his router, and complaining that the speedtest is wrong because his wifi is slower than his router uplink, I'd say that's a statement only a doofus would make.

No evidence was given that math skills are atrophying because of AI, nor was that even claimed in the op-ed, which criticizes slipping testing standards.

"Now I'm currently using fiber at the speed fast than my wifi router, which makes my speedtest always wrong."

oh please expand on this - this is gunna be hilarious

It's race between cheaper and stingier. Like the Bungle of Hormuz, too early pick a winner

If the crash takes your job with it, you're still hosed.

that's where all the products & names are gradually converging, like a giant stench-filled black hole.

That's one of those things that sounds great in principle but becomes harder in practice. Who's culture? Who gets to preserve it? How is it preserved? The museums in England have done a great job at preserving a sizable portion of African culture, but I'm not sure everyone's so cool with it.

Anthropic, kill Gemini.

Gemini, kill Copilot.

Copilot, kill Siri...

Could have sworn I've seen a Slashdot story on this a few months ago.

Jelltifa!