I'm shocked, shocked to find that manipulation is going on here in this gambling establishment.

This entire article reads like someone hysterically trying to claim that installing some software on your machine when you ask for software to be installed is illegal, unethical, unprecedented, and an environmental catastrophe.

No, that's what happens when you install software. Installing an LLM weights model specifically happens when you install MacOS, iPadOS or iOS too, and plenty of other software too.

Is it an illegal catastrophe when software installs a language pack or an extension you don't use but others do? Hardly so, and nor is dropping LLM weights for you to use if you want.

... yet supports the easy implementation of bad policy beforehand. Technical choices are policy choices, Lennart. You can't get away from that.

This is all in line with the systemd attitude: more monolithic, less extendable or modular. More like Windows, less like UNIX.

US residential buildings already have air conditioners all over them.
Stop complaining.

Needs the Spider-Man pointing at Spider-Man meme, wearing Larry face-masks.

The music labels - the copyright owners - are barely mentioned in this article at all, yet they are where all the money is going, incrementally, for every stream played.

They're the rentiers sucking it out of everyone else. Spotify does make a profit, but not a large one, because the costs of paying the copyright holders are so large. Yet the share of artist money from the copyright holders is tiny, so the big labels end up rich while artists end up screwed (especially smaller artists, as the article correctly points out) while the record labels end up on top.

It's really not Spotify sucking everyone dry here - it's the record labels, and it always has been.

(I have nothing to do with Spotify, I'm simply pointing out the vampire squid behind the mere octopus this article is blaming).

How about putting the airplane mode switch behind the device lock so a thief can't grab your phone and immediately put it in airplane mode to stop it being tracked?

Standard on Samsung phones, inexplicably not on Google Pixel (I have both).

That's a pretty amazing spin on actual proof that the BBC does not have a "left-wing" representation bias.

What's next, re-introducing smallpox?

Some commenters here seem to be in need of some factual information.

PostNord AB is a private company and has been for some years, so the idea that this is a government service being withdrawn is untrue.

Danish law requires everyone to have access to postal services for letters. Therefore another private company, DAO, will provide postal delivery to everyone in Denmark and the ability for everyone in Denmark to send letters from DAO service points (in shops, etc).

A significant subsidy is being provided to DAO to enable a universal delivery service.

DAO will be the national postal service for international treaty (UPU) purposes, enabling letter and small parcel post between Denmark and other countries according to UPU agreements.

I see Huawei and the Chinese Government are up to their old tricks. They stole technology wholesale from Nortel then undercut them, which destroyed Nortel. How soon before they do the same to ASML?

Gate staff check your ID matches your ticket at the gate in Heathrow.
Access to the airside area is with a boarding pass (the pass must be for a flight departing the same day and sufficiently far in the future, each pass can only be scanned to go airside once).

However this is not a significant security breach because:

(a) it cannot be done repeatedly or predictably
(b) the person was security screened to the same standards as everyone else

Therefore neither can it be exploited by someone planning to do so nor can someone who gets airside do so with anything harmful.

... and it is not OpenAI.

The Big G is already (very) profitable and can fund a lot of development for a long time before they run out of money.

OpenAI not so much - they have a lot of investment, but they also have a lot of costs, and they have no other source of revenue.

Trying to pivot ChatGPT from answering your questions (with varying levels of accuracy) to answering your questions with deliberate bias towards whoever paid the most to get their product promoted (therefore with even less accuracy) is not nearly a certain bet.

Some of the countries working to quit the Dollar also have nuclear weapons. It's not something the US can solve with a bit of gunboat diplomacy.

* Large-scale automated fraud and speculation by cryptobros is a problem
* Large-scale automated stupidity and craziness by ai-bros (who are often ex-cryptobros) is a problem.

I am seeing some commonality here: the problem is technobro fraud and reckless stupidity.