Wall Street isn't interested in "leading research". Heck, they don't want anything that costs money, like following environmental regulations, paying employees fairly for their labor, providing support to consumers after the sale...

They just want reliable plans to make money. OpenAI (and arguably all AI companies) are not really offering that beyond traditional methods (subscriptions, ad-revenue, strategic partnerships). But OpenAI doesn't have the platform lock-in that would help keep people from dipping the moment enshitification starts.

The Lives of Others (2006), about life in the Communist GDR (East Germany). There is a plot where one of the main characters is writes a news story the authorities don't approve of. They have many prominent authors identified by their preferred make/model of manual typewriter, so the fellow is smuggled a compact model from outside the republic so he can write without the government tracing the writing to him.

Unless the California state government plans to interfere with interstate commerce (which I believe is a violation of the constitution), this new measure wont matter at all, and I doubt they want to be affiliated with Cold War regimes.

It's not the same thing. DDR5 ECC is an on-die feature for correcting internal errors. It's not ECC as in "extra bits to fix transport errors". Your CPU does not support the ECC haruchai is talking about.

According to Ark there are three recent non-Xeon processors that do:

Core Ultra 5-235
Core Ultra 9-285
Core Ultra 7-265K

Also the 14th gen, 13th gen, 12th gen...

Do you have a source for your position?

I feel like trying to make everyone ID on social media for safety reasons is a lost cause because it's not hard to create homespun communication networks now. I've recently been playing around with notification services for my home server's apps, and I had a self-hosted ntfy server running at one point. Every connected device/application is a node on the network, and anything is capable of sending messages that are seen in the topic feed. This isn't designed to be a social networking service, but since you can send messages right from the Android app I started thinking "get some of your friends connected and you could treat this topic section like an informal chat room". It's not decentralized, but you could run it on a Raspberry PI or any cheap PC on eBay with SSL for secure communication across the wider Net.

Any group that wants to be able to chat anonymously can do something like this and just avoid the normal commercially-controlled services.

AI will be a part of journalism only until a publisher gets hit with a libel lawsuit from something like this.

The privacy setting is for identifying you in photos uploaded to the public Facebook pages. It's not going to cover using facial recognition to identify you for "strategic partnerships".
You see, the thing about Ring doorbells is their view is limited to where they are mounted on a wall...

And you can bet they wont tell their investors how many "active users" are really still living people. Perhaps a acknowledgement that their user base is trending older and will begin dying off (or at least reach a point where they stop using a computer) in the near future.

Yes. Considering how long people normally own a given vehicle, the take-away almost seems to be "make your next car purchase an ICE because electric wont be cheaper until after you get rid of that one at least".

I'm still waiting to hear what AI chips are radiation hardened for operation in space.

I've seen many people comment on other discussion platforms they are using AI simply because the leadership at their employer is requiring it. And many of those comments follow up with how the results of the AI usage are not helpful, or worse, require checking/correcting work and resulting in a net negative for productivity verses if they had just done it themselves.

Yeah, it's like Microsoft and all the FAANG companies are playing a game no one cares about but them. Meanwhile, NVidia is happy to sell them booster packs for their decks.

Beginning next month, you are correct. So save money here and pay money there.

It's not a difference for the company itself or the rank-and-file workers. The difference is the founders/executives get an opportunity to eject with a payout and leave while the company is (reasonably) solvent. What happens afterwards is not on their watch and not their mismanagement action. It's classic "we got ours -- fuck you" thinking.

Because if the FDA doesn't approve the vaccine for use you can't get it. I've been getting Moderna since the start of Covid, but this year I was not able to -- because the Moderna vaccine was not approved for people under 65. Yes, I was too young, as a grown adult, to get the vaccine I wanted. Also, Pfizer approval for under 65 was tied to being in a high-risk health group. If you did not have risks from respiratory illnesses and other types of chronic health conditions you could not get one. This actually happened to me. I filed for an appointment at a local pharmacy online and they called me the next morning and said I was not approved based on the medical information I'd submitted online. I was too healthy. Almost sounds like some nightmarish conspiracy by the health care industry to increase "customers" for their services by impeding preventative medicine.