Collaborate Disseminate
A 17,000-word expose in the New Yorker reveals “several executives connected to OpenAI have expressed ongoing reservations about Altman’s leadership.” Reporters Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz spoke to “a hundred people with firsthand knowledge of how … Continue reading Omissions, Deceptions, Lying. The New Yorker Asks: Can Sam Altman Be Trusted?
It’s the first time a major U.S. newsroom has gone on strike partly to demand protections from AI-related layoffs, according to a report from Nieman Lab.
They noted that one of the picketer’s signs read “Thoughts not bots,” :
On Wednesday, roughly 1… Continue reading First US Newsroom Strike For AI Protections Staged by ProPublica’s Journalists
In 2024 the Verge’s consumer tech reporter paid $173 for a WD Black SN850X 2TB SSD. But “now that same SSD costs $649…”
“Like with RAM, demand from the AI industry is swallowing up supply from a limited number of manufacturers, leading to a drastic… Continue reading The AI RAM Shortage is Also Driving Up SSD Prices
You probably don’t think about it much, but your PC probably has a TPM or Trusted Platform Module. Windows 11 requires one, and most often, it stores keys to validate …read more Continue reading Authenticate SSH with Your TPM
Critics say social media is engineered to be as addictive as tobacco or gambling, writes the Washington Post — while adding that “the science has been moving in parallel with the court’s recognition.”
A growing body of research links heavy socia… Continue reading Two-Week Social Media ‘Detox’ Erases a Decade of Age-Related Decline, Study Finds
Critics say social media is engineered to be as addictive as tobacco or gambling, writes the Washington Post — while adding that “the science has been moving in parallel with the court’s recognition.”
A growing body of research links heavy socia… Continue reading Two-Week Social Media ‘Detox’ Erases a Decade Age-Related Decline, Study Finds
Signal messages may persist in iPhone notification data, enabling FBI access even after deletion, a court case reveals. Continue reading FBI Recovers Deleted Signal Messages Through iPhone Notifications
Phoronix staged “a showdown” between Firefox and Chrome, testing them both on an Intel Panther Lake laptop running Ubuntu 26.04.
JetStream 3.0 was announced at the end of March as the latest major web browser benchmark. This updated version of JetStr… Continue reading Firefox vs. Chrome: Which Performs Better on a Linux Laptop?
“Every single Star Trek series has been canceled…” reports ScreenRant. “There is “no Star Trek in production or greenlit for the first time in nearly a decade.”
While there were five active Star Trek series just a few years ago, Star Trek: Strange… Continue reading The End of ‘Star Trek’? Every Single Series Now Cancelled
Talking with [Tom Nardi] on the podcast this week, he mentioned his favorite kind of hack: the community-developed open-source firmware that can be flashed into a commercial product that has …read more Continue reading What’s Your Favorite Kind of Hack?