Similar concerns here, both for F-droid apps and DJI's - which require installing from an APK downloaded directly from DJI to get the latest version. I only have a handful of apps I sideload, and when I'm not updating those I tend to have the ability to sideload turned off for the modicum of additional security afforded against inadvertant user error. If I either need to go through this 24-hour process every time I update the apps, or leave sideloading permanantly enabled (which I'd be more likely to do, I think), then this is yet another user-unfriendly move by Google that is almost certainly more about being self-serving than anything else.

If I wanted a walled garden, I'd have bought an iPhone.

All the games end up looking the same.

OMG Dwarf Fortress is getting another graphics upgrade!?!

It would need to be as close to like-for-like as possible or people are going to reject the results, so presumably if they've grown rump steak, say, then they'd need to not just compare it with some actual rump steak, but prepare and cook the two cuts at the same time in the same way. The ideal result here for them here is either "lab grown is better" or "can't tell them apart", after which buying decisions should come down to bang-per-buck, and that might even hold if lab-grown isn't quite as tasty, but is sufficiently cheaper to keep it in consideration.

Sure, they could - and probably will - try and stack the deck in their favour. It is marketing after all. But that can only go so far; if they try and compare a premium lab-grown cut with born-and-bred offal, they're going to get called on that and for many people that will mean that they won't get a second chance, ever. Pepsi was a mostly a pure taste test of two otherwise identical fizzy liquids, but food is really about all of the senses so if they really want to sell this and overcome the ick factor, they'll have precut bite-size pieces of meat ready that look the same, cook them on that stand, and let you compare the appearance, smell, texture, and hear the sizzle while cooking as well as taste the samples.

Supposedly, pork. "Long pig" is the literal translation of the word that was used in many South Pacific cannibal cultures and was used by European explorers to refer to the practice.

It needs a version of the "Pepsi challange" blind taste test from yesteryear. I'd certainly take that if given the opportunity, but have yet to find anywhere with the stuff to try in the first place, let alone to do so in a blind test. If it's equally as good as they claim (and the science says it *is* the same, right down to the cellular level), then they shouldn't have any problem convincing people that it's a viable option to regular farmed meat, and if they can do that, then the cheapest option should win in many cases.

I suspect there may be some legitimate corner cases about "free range", "corn fed", and similar dietry or lifestyle things that will have at least some effect on the texture of the meat (e.g. buff animals vs. couch potato animals), but maybe there are ways to replicate at least some of that in the lab too?

Buick is huge in China.

"In China’s automotive industry, a popular saying goes: “China’s Buick, the world’s Chevrolet.” "
https://thechinaacademy.org/this-time-china-cant-save-buick/

And of course, Ford and GM have multiple brands and models in countries all over the world.

Not yet, anyway, but they do presumably get to see emotional responses like this from humans in their training data. If there are enough human tantrums over code submission rejections in that data, then it's not a huge stretch to where that would be an acceptable sort of content template for an AI to build on to generate a response. A lot of the rest is probably exactly what evanh suggests in their post immediately below; humans using an AI to play games to get a kick out of being mean or, in the case of the ArsTechnica article, a lazy "journalist" not fact checking the quotes from the AI they sent off to do their research and write an article for them.

On Slashdot? Sure. What's more, we'll probably get to have at least one of them twice!

Yeah, some of us used to do that with *NIX systems back in the day. Seperate /sbin and /usr volumes, mounted read-only, and various other volumes, like /home and /tmp, depending on the system use, set to not allow execution. You needed to be root to remount to read-write in order to install patches or updated binaries, then reboot to get back to the read-only mountings. Regular users were not capable of doing jack with the sensitive OS partitions, and most forms of attack were really, really, hard when you couldn't modify any system files or run any scripts/binaries you'd managed to get onto the system.

Used to be you could do that on Linux too, until systemd decided /usr needed to be part of /, which generally also includes a bunch of stuff that has to be read-write. Progress, huh?

I expect that will be a major part of it, but I can see a few areas where AI might be genuinely useful without compromising existing jobs as much as some fear it could. For instance, creation of storyboarding options, replacing modelled and scripted CGI for greenscreen production, creating location shots/B-roll, tweaking existing IRL backdrops to add additional features (e.g. the manipulation of actual shots of places like Dubrovnik in "Game of Thrones", or Valencia in one of the later seasons of "Westworld"), as well as some of the post-production tasks like colour grading and the like.

If they're going to prioritise things like script production (which would almost certainly be deritive because that what AI does) and a reduction in headcount on both sides of the camera (quite likely, given this is Amazon) in order to churn out an even larger pile of mediocre dross for the same total budget then I can easily see that backfiring as the genuinely decent shows could easily end up getting lost in the noise.

I'm not seeing a paywall on the site. uBlock Origin must be doing something.

The UHF app on our Apple TVs & iOS devices and the UHF Server in Docker to act as a PVR gives us everything for a few $ a month paid in crypto.
We haven't had cable since ~1999-2000. Downloading and the *arrs have kept us happy, but the better half wanted to check out some live sports. So IPTV it was.

The people running these services are essentially re-broadcasting paid-for content for a fraction of the price.

That's quite probably not all they are doing. Remember, if it's too good/cheap to be true, then *you* are probably the product or, in this case, your bandwidth and IP address.

One of our guys said something to the effect of "Copilot is Corporate Chat. It knows all the useless filler of management-speak, but lacks the competence of the people in the trenches.

Ouch.

Pardon the cynicism, but I remember Google claiming that they would "do no evil", yet here we are. I'll enjoy the ad-free Claude while it lasts, and hopefully that will be for a long time, but sooner or later I fully expect the desire for advertising dollars to trump any laudable claims they might be making today.