It is an interesting paper and it is clever. But the threat of someone knowing my vehicle tire pressure (and thereby inferring weight) etc. is not something I'd worry about. After all, one could discretely check the tire pressure of my parked car without me knowing. And from the tread pattern, could tell a lot about driving habits. And if they wanted to track my vehicle around town, they can look at the license plate.

In other words, this can already be easily ascertained. But still cool paper. I don't think auto manufacturers will be moving to encrypted tire sensors anytime soon.

The most remarkable part of this story is that a government had a program, it didn't get the planned result, so they ended it. This is unheard of.

Most governments would double-down.

Quoting "$800" is meaningless without a baseline price. The actual price increase is between 10% and 12%. Which is annoying and stupid, but hardly shattering news.

No one used Chegg for serious study. It is an answer platform. And how there are free AI resources that provide even better answers. So Chegg is doomed.

EMT does not mean the market is always "rational". It states, roughly, that there is no consistently risk-adjusted _profitable_ way to predict market movements. Within EMT, there are strong forms (never possible) and weak forms (possible with insider information).

But this weeks movements in the stock market in no way disproves market efficiency or the wisdom of passive/index investing. To the contrary, I haven't seen any geniuses pop up saying "I told you last week that this was going to happen, and I made a ton of money shorting NVDA".

The problem with Microsoft search isn't a lack of AI. The problem is it doesn't work. It does not effectively search your hard disk, instead trying to pull in stupid web results that are irrelevant.

Everything (voidtools.com) fixes what's broken in Windows search and is fast, lightweight, and simple. And doesn't need "AI"

They were pointless. Last thing I need after spending thousands on some hardware is a sticker to advertise that I spent thousands on the hardware.

Plus, cows are a renewable resource. They operate off ordinary grass without any additional greenhouse gasses required, and turn it into leather and delicious steaks. Truly an environmental miracle.

First off, it's not 50% of _work_. It's 50% of studios. The stupid headline make it sound like half the work is being done by AI, when clearly it's not.

And then if you RTFA, it's not 50%. It's 31% use AI tools, and 18% have a colleague who does. That doesn't make 50% of anything.

In short, it's the dumbest summary on Slashdot I've read in a long time, and that's saying something.
 

The proponents seem to have a naive believe that "government run" equals free from outside interests. In fact, the opposite is true.
Government run: Post Office. Private: FedEx
Government run: DMV Private: Costco

It is extremely unlikely that taking over legacy utilities will "lower costs, greater investments in the grid and improved performance". Public utilities are already heavily government regulated with mandated rates of returns. There's no magic want that both lowers costs and has greater investments in the grid -- those are opposites. Hopefully it doesn't go through. But there are a lot of dumb ideas that get passed, so who knows.

"Worldcoin’s website outlines its key potential applications: fortifying incentive strategies like coupons and loyalty programs traditionally susceptible to fraud, combatting bots through identity confirmation, and facilitating a globally democratic governance mechanism."

It's :cueCat for Web3. Give up any semblance of privacy for...what? Better ad tracking?

Judge Albright is in the Western District of Texas (Waco), which has taken much of the new patent cases that used to go to Eastern District of Texas.
While article says this court is "plaintiff-friendly", in reality this court has a specialized IP litigation docket, with processes that expedite patent cases to trial. Some plaintiffs may favor that, but it also benefits defenses to have the court know the ins and outs of IP and to have specific expertise.

As alluded to in the post, it is similar to what users have to go through with Kindle on IOS. You purchase a book, you have to go to the web version of Amazon. You can't use the Amazon app or the Kindle app.

It's an extra barrier of stupidosity due to Apple's rules. If Apple were to charge a small, reasonable fee for distribution -- say 50 cents for a purchase -- everyone could end up happy, including consumers. But instead, you have to work around because Apple insists on charging a percentage of the value of the content.

"Hashed" invested $25M. They lost $3.5B in fake money. It never existed, never had value, and so was never lost. They are just out $25M, poured down the drain.

Can we please have a end to the "$1Zillion NFT purchase using StupidCoin" stories. There's no liquidity in whatever the heck is "MANA", so there's no real value.

Here's an ICO for "IdiotCoin", 1 of 10 quadrillion. Key: #000001. I'll buy it from myself for $1. There, now I'm a multi-quadrillionaire. Now I'll use 1 IdiotCoin to purchase virtual land on a virtual server. Wow, this is making me rich!