Since the pandemic, I had been paying an extra $30 for unlimited bandwidth. I did NOT host game server or anything. I just used it normally with occasional video conferences for work, and Netflix streaming. I don't think I abused my usage, but according to them, I was the rare few whose usage were above the norm. For a family of five, I consistently used over 2GB. I had been paying an extra $30 for several years. As soon as AT&T fiber was available I switched and never looked back. They thought they could get away with overcharging their customers thinking that they had no choice. Also, their yearly contract was a scam. Once my contact was up, I paid a lot more than new customers who signed up. They were successful for squeezing my money for a short term, but their business model made it clear that they do not value long term customers. I have never been happier switching over to AT&T fiber.

Artificial artificial intelligence -- AAI (tm)

It is still artificial intelligence

As a layman, I am so glad that an Ivy league research team would dedicate their time to discover this amazing find. That explains why the last time I cut an onion with a hacksaw I cried like a baby. Thank you!

how about fixing Microsoft bloatware on Windows 11 first?

So NATO can spend a lot of money building backup satellites to handle Russian's shadow fleet cutting undersea cable. That would work until Russian's shadow fleet in the sky starting destroying these backup satellites. By then maybe NATO would spend more money building backups of backups, while the Russians will continue to destroy and deny.

Was hoping for the day that that notorious patent troll tastes its own medicine. That's a disappointment.

I think it makes a lot of sense to allow individual content creators to opt-in because it truly recognizes the intellectual properties by the creators. For popular content creators (say Marques Brownlees), they CAN individually negotiate the deal with any interested AI parties for monetary benefits that make sense to them. This gives the power to the content creators; especially give the less popular content creators (say university online lectures) a voice so that some AI companies (yeah I mean you OpenAI) can't make the claim that YouTube contents are in public domain, and steal other people's creative efforts as "fair use".

Dear Microsoft, I applaud you for such an innovation. Unfortunately, the world does not appreciate your brilliance. The best way to convince the unconverted is to show the world that the Recall feature is turned on for all Microsoft employees and executives in office and at home, especially CEO Satya. This will show us how useful this AI innovation changes our lives. This practice is commonly referred to eating your own dog food. But of course, this is no dog food. You will love it.

Apple still manages to do that.

The charge port of the Magic Mouse is on the bottom. So it makes sense that the power button of the Mac Mini is also on the bottom. To extend the design, it only makes sense that the next generation of all Apple products will have their ports, power cords, and power buttons, on the bottom of the device.

The cycle continues

Artwork produced by generative AI is done by ingesting a large body of (presumably) original work, and the regurgitated back. It is NOT original work. If copyright is to be granted to an AI generated work, it should be granted to each of the artists of the original work.

Amen. About time.

So are China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, India, ... I'd say they are just as thrilled, if not more.