Taking out the parenthetical aside ",who owns 41% of the company," you get this:

Critics argue the service could let President Trump profit from early access to market-moving presidential communications.

How does this give President Trump "early access" to presidential communications? Doesn't all Presidential communication originate form him?

I suspect you meant customers will benefit from early access to presidential communication, but the difference will be trivial:

Milliseconds. To a rambling text message. Not actionable stock trades.

Antitrust?

Is EA a monopoly?

Is changing owners really that nefarious?

Seems like a real over-reaction, what pretext is there for the DOJ to try and block a private sale of EA to a consortium that includes an investor (Saudi Sovereign fund) that had $20BN invested?

> I wonder how many problems they tried before they solved one successfully.

Was gonna mod Insightful, but the replies aren't getting it.

"Solving this problem cost $2000."

That may be true.

"We tried to solve 50 problems at $2000 each and one was successfully solved."

This can also be true which means:

"We spent $100K and we solved one open problem."

which is fiscally, but not akshually, the same as:

"We spent $100K to solve one problem."

If Astra is "all that", OpenAI should have a pricing tier, "no charge unless the problem is solved."

Now *that* would be an impressive vote of confidence and everybody should be excited about it.

At least for me and many others I spoke to.

Go and use books to train AI.

Just don't fucking destroy them afterwards! Many of these are out of print, impossible to replace! How much of a douchebag do you have to be to destroy them ?

You are so wrong. The country I live in now has it. It's not called the same, but it amounts to the same. Near impossible to sue the police here.

I'm pretty sure most countries have something similar on the books.

Oddly, 80%+ of corporate users somehow manage to get work done in the windows environment day in and day out...

The most frequent comment I hear from non-technical users is "it's $150 and it comes with Win 11!, not I wonder if Linux will run on it?

What separates Linux from Unix from macOS?

Seriously, looked at one way they are very similar on one level but very different on another, just curious.

I see some of these CVE's are fixed in trixie but not bookworm 6.1.177-1 (yet).

Still other CVE's are fixed in bookworm but not yet in trixie. Seems like a few reboots are in the offing.

First time I've seen several fixes in oldstable before stable. It must be a wild week over there. n.b. fixed, not 'not vulnerable'.

Glad the oldstable crew is hard at work!

Is anybody aware of open source hardware/software to do the page turning and photograph/OCR the pages?

Google's rig used a puff of air, IIRC.

I asked somebody in the field and they said, "oh, you want a professional rig - those cost $10K and up.

I was like, "no, I have several rare books I'd like to index and this setup is far less complicated than my $249 3D printer." (I already have a good camera.)

I thought I'd find a hackaday or something but my cursory search wasn't fruitful.

But how long would it take to implement in every supported OS version and then get all the developers to declare a manifest and update their app?

A policy change can be enforced tomorrow (for better or for worse).

The AI bros might even get Samsung to change their mind. Apparently their 'subcontractors' use this technique to scrape all the content they use for training.

Would threatening to cancel a year's RAM order from the chip subsidiary cause a decision to change in the TV subsidiary? I have no idea how dispersed and decentralized Samsung is.

I'd bet it will stick, though, which is likely for the best. Odds are people aren't running Tor exits on their TV's. Maybe there are legitimate apps I'm not aware of.

MS gave what, a five year warning? Even after their drop-dead date for support, support is available for free in certain use cases, for a small fee for those that don't meet the requirements, for another couple years.

As a reminder your win 7, 8/8.1, and 10 OEM and retail licenses qualified for a free upgrade to win 11 - and they have for years.

Owners of ten year-old windows computers fare much, much better than Mac owners of 7 year-old systems or, more dramatically, any intel-based Mac. Apple drops hardware after 7 years, but no one cares. Apple dropped EVERY intel-based Mac, just like they dropped all PowerPC Mac's and Motorola Mac's before that, but no one cares...

I've lost track of all the municipal governments that proudly announced their plan to move off Windows, only to unceremoniously go back to windows a few years later... Now we'll get to see this on a large scale as EU countries try and figure out how to be less dependent on US software like Windows and MS office...

With a stated 10.65% of desktop market share in North America, is Linux REALLY "firmly in double-digit territory"? It is 0.66% away from being firmly in single-digit territory, is that "firmly" double-digit?

Linux fan boys just can't contain their excitement and over-claim accomplishments like this - the way Linux hit 10% was by redefining what "Linux" is and is not in their data:

MS revenues are based largely on OEM software licenses AND Software Assurance licenses - the latter is when GM pays an annual license fee for several hundred thousand windows licenses, copies of MS office, servers, and databases and you local school district pays for a couple thousand licenses annually.

But really, the big bucks are in Azure, largely running Linux instances "in the cloud"...

Independent end-user licenses are nice, but it hasn't been a major source of revenue for MS for a while.

I'm fairly sure at least one entire department at MS is tasked with making sure people don't switch to other formats, that despite on-paper "open" XML it remains incompatible and no competitor software can flawlessly read and write it.

So no, unless you can hire a dozen people full-time to counter that, you don't have a chance to break through that.