Anyone that wants to control their TV via voice likely already has a way to do it. All the TV needs to do is provide an interface; let the voice control come from elsewhere. I don't want a wake word for the TV and another wake word for my Home Assistant.

Better late than never, I suppose. But people have, out of necessity, devised their own solution - simply never answer your phone unless it's a call from someone you know or unless it's a call you recognize and were expecting. Otherwise, enjoy voicemail, unasked-for caller.

Text messages are in the same spot now.

I'm not sure whether they truly 'cannot' stop the flood of robocalls, or whether they just are too cheap or lazy, but by not dealing with it they've made their service less valuable to most consumers.

My guess is it's an attempt to gin up a little good publicity in an ocean of bad publicity about their attacks on broadcasters First Amendment rights.

Agree with this. The 5 day workweek was established because it was the maximum that employees were willing to tolerate before revolt. The productivity of the employees was not and will not ever be a factor in the length of the workweek.

Wasn't this the one that was going to support Vulkan video decoding?

It's only a 14 day delay, after which you can expect it to proceed as per plan. It's probably more for optics than anything else.

Come, all ye young fellows that are learning to read, / (WITH A WAY, HEY, ROT YER BRAINS OUT!) / please pay attention and listen to me. / (GIVE ME SOME TIME TO ROT YER BRAINS OUT!)

LOOK AT ALL THE LONELY PEOPLE

The value of a stock is based on the present value of a future earnings stream. If you revise that downward, very bad things happen to the price.

Where do people think they get Starburst from?

You can buy gold bullion at Costco.

(Sorry, meant "asymmetric".)

Sure, but isn't the "useful" thing they're going to do is destroy security worldwide by breaking asynchronous public-private keypair encryption?

Oh, I thought the headline said "AI driven open-source scarcity", because nobody wants to work all day and night in the code mines only to have Dario F. Amodei steal your shit and present it as its own.

Wal-Mart shouldn't know or care what power plant or fuel their electricity comes from. And it's seriously bad new when the incentives are such that economic superpowers remove themselves from the common infrastructure.

"It won't be a surprise when it happens (unless it takes the whole market with it). "

I'm not an economist--are economists even economists these days?--but I think a lot of folk are predicting that it WILL take the whole market with it, though. I mean, if the only thing that's been staving off a nominal recession for the last couple years is the Majestic 7, and if all that growth is wiped off the board, how could there NOT be a recession?

But what do I know? I thought you had to make money to be successful in business. What an idiot I am.