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
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
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
“It’s finally time,” writes Phoronix — since “no known Linux distribution vendors are still shipping with i486 CPU support.”
“A patch queued into one of the development branches ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.1 merge window is set to finally begi… Continue reading Linux Finally Starts Removing Support for Intel’s 37-Year-Old i486 Processor
Russia’s “great crackdown” on VPNs — and a clampdown on Telegram’s messaging platform — had an unintended side effect, reports Bloomberg. It “triggered the widespread banking outage seen across the country this week, Telegram’s billionaire … Continue reading Russia’s VPN Crackdown Caused Bank Outages, Telegram Founder Says
NASA’s Artemis astronauts are now entering “the lunar sphere of influence,” reports NBC News, “meaning the pull of the moon’s gravity will become stronger than Earth’s.” Now as they begin their swing around the moon, the Artemis astronauts “are chasing… Continue reading Artemis Astronauts Enter Moon’s Gravitational Pull, Catch First Glimpses of Far Side