"Year of the Linux Desktop" I hope not! Evil may notice! Currently, we are not worth bothering with for the most part.

Just Microsoft, being Microsoft, Embrace! Extend! Extinguish!

As for the rest of your usual comment, the future a hellscape, yea maybe!

Anarchist, Communist, Islamist, Marxist, Progressives, Socialist are not Liberals or Democrats
If history is any guide, the winning group will eat the rest. Wonder if they will change the name of the party?

"newly released version of Meta AI removes nearly all traces of the feature Meta said did not yet exist." Great! I trust you now, !NOT lol

Xbox 3rd qtr 2026 revenue down 5%

Guess my old Intel mac mini is getting a new OS.

The Apple analyst was charged up because it would drive the product replacement cycle(Apple has many older devices still in use, like my old se). And drive service revenue by having Siri choose sponsored products where it can and Apple gets a cut.
So Apple AI is just like everyone else's AI. Long on Artificial, No Intelligence, just Automation, an ad/paid sponsors platform used as a sales and marketing tool to drive the Apple revenue streams.
But with assurances, nothing will leave the Apple walled garden and only those paying for access to the Apple customers will be allowed in.

better adapt humans to life in space. The proverbial slippery slope.
How will it work out?

Sounds like the ground work for the Augment Wars.

Ah! Thank you for clearing that up for me.

if the public can not pull the source, are they? Is this what they are saying? Maybe I don't understand.

"group of anonymous residents" says it all. But remember NIMBY's, no data centers, no internet can't have one with out the other.
This will all blow over, when/if the right people receive their $$$$. It is pay up or drop the project.
When nonprofit lawyers are involved it is usually a shake down. That is how today's NGO's and nonprofits work.

Anthropic file confidential ipo information. Knowing that, take everything else coming out of the company accordingly.

"as soon as one develops a self-improving AI" Well! to get there one of the AI companies needs to develop Artificial Intelligence first.
But on the flip side, the automation they currently sell as AI works great for weaponization. None of that ethics, honor or morals stuff to worry about, just sensor tripped at location X Fire!

in their daily lives, the more dependent, helpless and dumber they will become. But then that might be the goal.

rise and repeat!