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Submission + - Photocopier No More: The Reckoning with AI Creativity Has Arrived (ofb.biz)

Submitted by uninet
uninet writes: Two AI-related events over the past week — the Chardet licensing controversy and legendary computer scientist Don Knuth's "shock" over AI helping discover a theorem for a problem he'd not yet solved — demand a reckoning: precisely how creative is AI? That affects not only how we view pure AI generation but the act of collaborating with AI.

Comment Wrong assumption in the article (Score 5, Interesting) 83

by SteveWoz (#65962954) Attached to: When 20-Year-Old Bill Gates Fought the World's First Software Pirates

I, Steve Wozniak, did not participate in the theft of the BASIC. It was funny to me to see others enjoying doing this. I had never used BASIC myself, at that time, only the more-scientific languages like Fortran, Algol, and PL-1, and several assembly languages. I sniffed the air and sensed that you needed BASIC to sell computers into homes, because of the book 101 Games in BASIC. I loved games and saw games as the key. It was the [MS] BASIC that inspired me to write a BASIC interpreter for my 6502 processor, in order to have a more useful computer.

Submission + - Python Software Foundation refuses $1.5 million grant with anti DEI provision. (blogspot.com) 1

Submitted by Jeremy Allison - Sam
Jeremy Allison - Sam writes: The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program.

"We became concerned, however, when we were presented with the terms and conditions we would be required to agree to if we accepted the grant. These terms included affirming the statement that we “do not, and will not during the term of this financial assistance award, operate any programs that advance or promote DEI, or discriminatory equity ideology in violation of Federal anti-discrimination laws.”

Comment Re:Sold his stock (Score 5, Informative) 98

I gave all my Apple wealth away because wealth and power are not what I live for. I have a lot of fun and happiness. I funded a lot of important museums and arts groups in San Jose, the city of my birth, and they named a street after me for being good. I now speak publicly and have risen to the top. I have no idea how much I have but after speaking for 20 years it might be $10M plus a couple of homes. I never look for any type of tax dodge. I earn money from my labor and pay something like 55% combined tax on it. I am the happiest person ever. Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about Happiness, which is Smiles minus Frowns. I developed these philosophies when I was 18-20 years old and I never sold out.

Submission + - Vortex's Take on the Model M: Cover Band or New Legend? (ofb.biz)

Submitted by uninet
uninet writes: What would happen if you took the classic layout and look of the IBM Model M keyboard and rebuilt it with modern mechanical guts? Vortex decided to find out and the result is a unique board with one foot in two different decades. Passed up the Legend itself because it lacks too many modern comforts? I explore whether the Remix might satisfy, fittingly, in our article #1337.

Submission + - Apple Needs a Snow Sequoia 1

Submitted by uninet
uninet writes: "The same year Apple launched the iPhone, it unveiled a massive upgrade to Mac OS X known as Leopard, sporting “300 New Features.” Two years later, it did something almost unheard of: it released Snow Leopard, an upgrade all about how little it added and how much it took away. Apple needs to make it snow again."

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