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uninet writes:
Two AI-related events over the past week — the Chardet licensing controversy and legendary computer scientist Don Knuth's "shock" over AI helping discover a theorem for a problem he'd not yet solved — demand a reckoning: precisely how creative is AI? That affects not only how we view pure AI generation but the act of collaborating with AI.
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uninet writes:
What would happen if you took the classic layout and look of the IBM Model M keyboard and rebuilt it with modern mechanical guts? Vortex decided to find out and the result is a unique board with one foot in two different decades. Passed up the Legend itself because it lacks too many modern comforts? I explore whether the Remix might satisfy, fittingly, in our article #1337.
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uninet writes:
Google is worse than Microsoft ever was. With a stranglehold on search and online advertising, backed with an Orwellian surveillance of users, dominating the browser market is too much. The solution cannot be to sell Chrome to OpenAI (or Yahoo or the host of other large players that want to buy it), however.
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uninet writes:
My recent column on Apple’s declining software quality hit a nerve, including here at Slashdot. So why do any of us put up with software that grows increasingly buggy? One word: hardware. And that's where I'd love to see someone help Linux take the next step.
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uninet writes:
"The same year Apple launched the iPhone, it unveiled a massive upgrade to Mac OS X known as Leopard, sporting “300 New Features.” Two years later, it did something almost unheard of: it released Snow Leopard, an upgrade all about how little it added and how much it took away. Apple needs to make it snow again."
