PointCast... memory unlocked. There's a name I haven't heard in like 30 years.

I agree with you that everything old is new again, often something that wasn't as successful as it could have been and companies are trying to make the idea work. VR has been in that category for almost 4 decades, and it still is.

The Hill misquoted Alphabet, which did not refer to "false election content", but rather to "elections integrity policies".

> At some point your UI has reached peak usability and the you can only go downhill.

That point happened in 2009.

Also another case of Microsoft touting a "new" feature that other OS's have had for decades.

There is a reason why continental Europe (and with it the countries they colonized) drive on the right: the French Revolution and Napoleon.

Traditionally, people kept to the left side of the road, which was already the rule in Ancient Rome. In France, with coaches, carriages and riders keeping to the left, pedestrians started to walk on the right, so they could see oncoming traffic and step aside not to block the coaches and riders, which were mainly aristocracy. In the French Revolution, everyone was a citizen, and now, everyone kept right, and especially the military marched on the right side of the road. In the Napoleonic Wars, this was carried over to most other European countries with the exception of the British Islands and Northern Europe, and now, this is the rule everywhere except in the British Commonwealth and Ireland.

To me, this is a manager not fit for his job. The young worker had handed in his vacation in advance, and the manager knew that he was on person short on staff. Still, he was not able to adjust workload accordingly. This is solely a fail on the manager's side, not an attitude problem of the young worker.

Yes, that happened to me. Reddit may also earn income letting companies guide content moderation.

I tried to post on /r/EBay about how eBay had helped a buyer defraud me (they refunded them $800 and let them keep my goods) and ask what my options were. My posts were instantly deleted (by 'auto-moderator'), saying they were related to account suspension or restriction (which was not true).

I finally could post my question on eBay forums, after a few pokes to admins there. Ironic Reddit was more Catholic than the pope.

An Android upgrade of my introduced Gemini on my phone which made Voice commands slow like molasses (and slows down the phone too)

Is it possible to excise just Gemini from a phone?

Climate change has political ramifications. But that's not the problem at hand here.

Climate change poses big political questions: 1) Do we want this? 2) If not, do we want to do something about it? 3) Either way, who will pay for it?

"Politization" means that people try to answer 3) with "someone else than me" by either claiming question 1) does not exist at all, or answer 2) depending on their political affiliation, completely ignoring 3).

There's also the subject-verb disagreement bubble.

When shoud that have been? I am in the field since about 30 years, and I can't remember those alleged days.

This might work if the people from your team are in the same office building. But if your team is spread via several locations, the benefit of being in the office is starkly reduced.

The "higher up" would be the Minister of Defense, and if that fails, the Chancellor of the Republic Austria. But as the head of Direktorat 6 and the Cyber corps is not a political appointee, but a career soldier, it's quite complicated for the Minister of Defense to buy Office Licenses while the head of Direktorat 6 refuses to install it on any army computers.

Reddit gains an irrevocable, sub-licensable, royalty-free license for user-created content posted on its site. So while the term "Reddit data" is somewhat inaccurate, it is a passable approximation of the truth. The more correct term would be "Data that Reddit has irrevocable, sub-licensable, royalty-free license to". But where's the fun in saying that? :-)

"Reddit data" does obscure the fact that the Reddit user retains full copyright ownership of their comments. So if a user wished to, they could independently license their content to GOOG, AMZN, META, MSFT et al. Theoretically, all the other users in a Reddit thread could make same decision, cutting Reddit out of the licensing loop entirely.

But the logistics of organising this are onerous. Even if a few crucial users in a thread refuse to license content, there will be 'gaps' and intelligibility and utility for AI training will suffer.

But if replies briefly quote the specific content they are responding to (as I am doing here), the context becomes much more clear. In that case, individual comments become much more intelligible and useful. Legally speaking, there should be no problem here because brief quotations fall under fair use.

Concievably, GOOG and other browsers manufacturers could offer to store your user-generated content in a browser repository ("keep a record what you wrote", like Windows Recall) or in the cloud, with the option of licensing the content to GOOG. They could also generate AI-summaries of the context you were responding to.

In the last tech bubble, companies were spending more on gaining and keeping employees. Employees earning more money spend more money, generally speaking. That consumption drives the economy. (It turns out, the real job creators were the average person.)

In the AI bubble, companies are holding off hiring and are not interested in retaining employees. That hurts consumption, and thus the economy isn't booming.

The rich are getting richer, but that doesn't help as much to drive the economy - they don't need the extra money, thus they are less likely to spend it. Give a person making $30k a year a $1k raise, and they'll likely find something to quickly spend it on. Maybe they'll finally fix their car. Maybe they'll buy something they need but couldn't afford before. Maybe they'll actually go out to eat for a change. That all drives the economy. But give a person making $3 million a year a $1k raise, and they don't have the same need to spend it.

Which is likely why we see the stock market booming even though the economy is mediocre. Money that's not needed is often invested.