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Comment Re:small business (Score 1) 78

Also, how anti-social do you have to be to want this feature?

My anecdotal evidence tells me there's a non negligible amount of people who don't like to talk to strangers on the phone. However I'm likewise assured there's a negligible amount of businesses that don't have an email address or a webform so I'm a bit puzzled as to why someone would opt to use an AI caller.

Comment Re:Regulations written in blood (Score 1) 241

Emotional people always just devolve into projection of their character traits onto others, don't they?

Because when your emotional circuitry shuts down your rational thinking one, that's where emotions take you. "I know how I would behave in this situation, that means those who's arguments I don't like are behaving like me".

Comment Re:50% of misogynist tweets from women - BBC (Score 1) 146

https://www.bbc.com/news/techn...
Twitter abuse - '50% of misogynistic tweets from women' - 26 May 2016 - BBC

Half of all misogynistic tweets posted on Twitter come from women, a study suggests.

Over a three-week period, the Demos think tank , external counted the number of uses of two particular words as indicators of misogyny.

It found evidence of large-scale misogyny, with 6,500 unique users targeted by 10,000 abusive tweets in the UK alone.

Twitter boss Jack Dorsey has said that tackling abuse is a priority.

The research comes as UK MPs - Yvette Cooper, Maria Miller, Stella Creasy, Jess Philips - alongside former Liberal Democrat minister Jo Swinson, launch their Reclaim the Internet campaign, in response to growing public concern about the impact of hate speech and abuse on social media....

The article you linked to says:

Correction 27 May 2016: This article originally linked to the wrong Demos study. This has now been corrected to the relevant press release. The think tank has not published its latest data in full.

But all the links are dead.
The closest I can find on Demos is this two years previous, 2014 study http://demos.co.uk/wp-content/...
Is that the study or is there something else I can't find (perhaps it was a follow up that was revoked)?

Submission + - Chinese Firms Rush For Nvidia Chips As US Prepares To Lift Ban (arstechnica.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Chinese firms have begun rushing to order Nvidia's H20 AI chips as the company plans to resume sales to mainland China, Reuters reports. The chip giant expects to receive US government licenses soon so that it can restart shipments of the restricted processors just days after CEO Jensen Huang met with President Donald Trump, potentially generating $15 billion to $20 billion in additional revenue this year. Nvidia said in a statement that it is filing applications with the US government to resume H20 sales and that "the US government has assured Nvidia that licenses will be granted, and Nvidia hopes to start deliveries soon." [...]

The H20 chips represent Nvidia's most capable AI processors legally available in China, though they contain less computing power than versions sold elsewhere due to export restrictions imposed in 2022. Nvidia is currently banned from selling its most powerful GPUs in China. Despite these limitations, Chinese tech giants, including ByteDance and Tencent, are reportedly scrambling to place orders for the lesser chip through what sources describe as an approved list managed by Nvidia. "The Chinese market is massive, dynamic, and highly innovative, and it's also home to many AI researchers," Reuters reports Huang telling Chinese state broadcaster CCTV during his visit to Beijing, where he is scheduled to speak at a supply chain expo on Wednesday. "Therefore, it is indeed crucial for American companies to establish roots in the Chinese market."

The resumption of H20 sales marks a shift in US-China technology relations after the chips were effectively banned in April with an onerous export license requirement, forcing Nvidia to take a $4.5 billion write-off for excess inventory and purchase obligations. According to Reuters, Chinese sales generated $17 billion in revenue for Nvidia in the fiscal year ending January 26, representing 13 percent of total sales. Nvidia also announced it will introduce a new "RTX Pro" chip model specifically tailored to meet regulatory rules in the Chinese market, though the company provided no details about its specifications or capabilities.

Submission + - FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out (wired.com)

fjo3 writes: Newly uncovered metadata reveals that nearly three minutes of footage were cut from what the US Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation described as “full raw” surveillance video from the only functioning camera near Jeffrey Epstein’s prison cell the night before he was found dead. The video was released last week as part of the Trump administration’s commitment to fully investigate Epstein’s 2019 death but instead has raised new questions about how the footage was edited and assembled.

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