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.

EBay's buyer protections mean they will have to deal with more seller/buyer service disputes that may arise from people using agentic shopping assistants.

That's $10 per mailbox, where the old price was $3/mo per mailbox. Any organization with more than fifty employees and hosting their email on Rackspace is going to notice the cost being more than three times what it was before. That's $1800 becoming $6k for the year.

No! No blinking! No head turns! Those can also be construed as a legally-binding agreement.

You've completely missed the point of the article. Ben Thompson's problem isn't with wearing a helmet, it's with Apple trying to "direct" the immersive basketball experience for him as the viewer. He doesn't want multi-camera views changed without his input, graphics appearing in his field of vision, or even a play-by-play commentary from an announcer. He wants Apple to get out of the action and let him watch like he's actually sitting courtside, like he has before in real life. This would arguably be cheaper for Apple (one 360 view camera at the "seat" position and maybe a couple more at key locations the viewer can change to?).

But the closer the experience comes to actually being there the more I wonder if the cost to the fan will be adjusted to offset an effect on in-person attendance it may cause. There are plenty of people who prefer watching movies at home to going to the theater now because you can pause or rewind the content as you wish, eat what you want, avoid distractions from other audience members and excessive advertising pre-show, etc.

The purpose of fake data in maps is to thwart other companies copying your data into their own products. I would think either the source would not include that junk data to begin with in what they supply a government agency, and if they did, attempting to correct the data would likely run foul of the contract because you're now removing protections the source added to it. In any case, AI isn't going to be a good choice in "cleaning" it and may even add additional errors (fake data present in other map products that it was trained on, for example).

AI is not a tool to determine what is true or not, because AI believes what it sees as prevailing beliefs based on its training data. That data is not necessarily based on facts.

decided to take their Ballie and go home.

I know ghost towns are a thing and areas may grow from time to time, but how often are maps out of date when it comes to the existence of cites and towns? Certainly any map from 5 years ago (prior to AI slop) is still accurate today as to where and what communities exist in any state, so not seeing why they need to "consult" an AI to generate a new map to begin with.

Meanwhile, the land where people care what chat bots think of world politics...