Collaborate Disseminate
Are statistical programmers coalescing around a handful of popular languages? That’s the question asked by the CEO of software assessment site TIOBE, which every month estimates the popularity of programming languages based on their frequency in search… Continue reading Python Stays #1, R Rises in Popularity, Says TIOBE
xAI has launched Grok Build, “a coding agent of its own to serve as competitor to its rivals’ products, such as Anthropic’s Claude Code,” reports Engadget:
As Bloomberg notes, xAI has been trying to catch up to its rival companies like Anthropic and … Continue reading Elon Musk’s xAI Launches ‘Grok Build’, Its First AI Coding Agent
Computer Weekly reports on “the long-awaited reform of Britain’s outdated Computer Misuse Act of 1990 — which has hamstrung the work of the nation’s cyber security professionals and researchers for years.”
The Computer Misuse Act was passed 3… Continue reading The UK Finally Starts Reforming Its ‘Computer Misuse Act’
Today Amazon ends support for first- and second-generation versions of Kindles and Kindle Fire tablets, along with the Kindle Touch, the 9.7-inch Kindle DX, and other devices released in 2012 or earlier.
Owners can continue reading ebooks that they’v… Continue reading Amazon Stops Supporting Pre-2013 Kindles Today. Some Owners Turn to Jailbreaking
An anonymous reader shared this report from Electrek:
A Nevada utility just told 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents that it’s redirecting 75% of their electricity supply to data centers, and they have less than a year to find a new power source. It’s one of… Continue reading Some Datacenters Divert Power from Homes. Will It Drive Homeowners to Solar and Batteries?
“Every link leads to an entry that does not exist yet,” explains the GitHub page for a Wikipedia-like site called Halupedia. “Until you click it, at which point an LLM pretends it has always existed and writes it for you, in the deadpan register of a 1… Continue reading An Entire Wikipedia That’s 100% AI Hallucinations
Former Microsoft programmer Keith Curtis “wrote and self-published After the Software Wars to explain the caliber of free and open source software,” according to his entry on Wikipedia, “and why he believes Linux is technically superior to any propriet… Continue reading How I Added an LLM-Based Grammar Checking + TeX Math Import To LibreOffice
Bloomberg reports that Apple’s two-year-old partnership with OpenAI “has become strained, according to people familiar with the matter.”
Bloomberg describes OpenAI as “failing to see the expected benefits from the deal and now preparing possible lega… Continue reading The Apple-OpenAI Alliance is Fraying, Setting Up a Possible Legal Fight
“Most of the plastic waste in California is about to lose the recycling symbol,” writes the Washington Post’s “climate coach.”
The “chasing arrows” symbol, created in 1970 by a college student inspired by the burgeoning environmental movement, has bee… Continue reading California Law Limits ‘Recycling’ Logo in New Attack on Plastic Waste
“Most of the plastic waste in California is about to lose the recycling symbol,” writes the Washington Post’s “climate coach.”
The “chasing arrows” symbol, created in 1970 by a college student inspired by the burgeoning environmental movement, has bee… Continue reading California Law Limits ‘Recyling’ Logo in New Attack on Plastic Waste