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  • Last.fm is now independent

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  • What do you mean, no?

    https://www.top1000funds.com/asset_owner/public-investment-fund-pif/

    The Public Investment Fund (PIF) is the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia. It is among the largest sovereign wealth funds in the world and was created in 1971 for the purpose of investing funds on behalf of the government of Saudi Arabia. The wealth fund has been controlled by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler since 2015.

    The government is going to own a large part if the merger happens.

  • Last.fm is now independent

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  • If the Paramount deal goes ahead, it'll be 49.5% foreign owned, of which some state actors ike the Saudis via their PIF having ownership.

  • Nvidia CEO Begs Execs to Stop Telling Workers They're Fired Because of AI

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  • This is the real problem thats leading to them thinking they can fire so many people. They get all excited because it can sometimes do something (and possibly do it terribly behind the scenes, but still do it) and oh shit we don't need any humans anymore!

    Then you get companies regretting laying people off. The wrong people are making the decisions without understanding what is happening.

  • Nvidia CEO Begs Execs to Stop Telling Workers They're Fired Because of AI

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  • I was editing my reply as you replied, but the new study showed they fared better, not worse or the same. Even the new people to the study fared better, but worse than the existing.

  • Nvidia CEO Begs Execs to Stop Telling Workers They're Fired Because of AI

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  • It's one study, so I'd take it with a grain of salt, and also the study says

    However, we see positive speedup for the one developer who has more than 50 hours of Cursor experience, so it's plausible that there is a high skill ceiling for using Cursor, such that developers with significant experience see positive speedup.

    And a comment I read on it says "56% of the participants had never used Cursor before, 1/4th of the participants did better, 3/4 did worse. One of the top performers for AI was also someone with the most previous Cursor use. "

    So it really might just be a tooling / experience issue, and the tooling has also improved substantially over the past year, like Claude Code and Chat GPT's Codex. Outputs from LLMs are substantially better in programming than a year ago.

    Edit: Looks like they did a followup study with some of the same participants which is always nice to see. I hope they do a 2027 one and they have the same participants again.

    https://metr.org/blog/2026-02-24-uplift-update/#wider-adoption-of-ai-has-made-it-more-difficult-to-measure-task-level-productivity

    Our raw results show some evidence for speedup. Our early 2025 study found the use of AI causes tasks to take 19% longer, with a confidence interval between +2% and +39%. For the subset of the original developers who participated in the later study, we now estimate a speedup of -18% with a confidence interval between -38% and +9%. Among newly-recruited developers the estimated speedup is -4%, with a confidence interval between -15% and +9%.

    So it's likely people getting used to it, tooling is better, and now they're potentially seeing modest improvements.

  • Microsoft's GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits because company 'ruined their life' — expert claims action is vindictive and promises further retaliation

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  • They don't need to write a new one, they probably already have more than one built and deployed for the same thing.

    But it's a good idea to get started on another one, so I'm really just complaining about the word 'had' as if it was a requirement.

  • Nvidia CEO Begs Execs to Stop Telling Workers They're Fired Because of AI

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  • LLMs can’t replace a single worker,

    I don't think that's true, it's just not how the execs are seeing it.

    If you have 100 staff using AI within the means of what it can actually do, you might not need the whole 100 staff. Maybe you only need 98 now to get the same outcome, or whatever it is.

    What it can't do is replace a whole job category. You can't replace all your customer service with it, or all your developers or all your marketing team. You still need those people, but if you employ enough people in a category, eventually it could reduce how many you need, which is essentially replacing them.

  • Microsoft's GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits because company 'ruined their life' — expert claims action is vindictive and promises further retaliation

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  • Is this the bitlocker backdoor? That's not an exploit / zeroday

    Thats making a backdoor be known.

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  • If you wanted to run something at the quality of the best models its many many thousands of dollars.

    The smaller models have their place, but have their own problems.

    I do like what Apple is doing with their unified memory making things more accessible, but its not cheap, just cheaper.

    I think you can run a decent sized deepseek for under 5k, and a top notch one for around 10k?

  • NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani announces plan for 400,000 affordable housing units

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  • I dont like this reference, since two face said "You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain."

    and I dont want him to die...

  • "Elon Musk wants more babies*"

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  • The mothers wanted a child, and unless they were going to adopt, were likely going to have IVF through a sperm donor anyway. It's not like he's trying to convince someone who doesn't want a kid to have his kids. He convinced people who wanted to have kids to have his kid.

    So I don't see how that impacts what a child rearing expert think, since a kid is going to be born to a single mother, or a mother who can't have a kid naturally with their husband. Unless you're saying women shouldn't raise a child alone, via IVF or adoption, which I don't think you're trying to say.

    Edit: And in this case, the kid is set for life, albeit with a terrible father (who might have been absent anyway)

    Edit: And if he's convincing people who do not want kids, to have his kids, well that's another ball game entirely and is embarrassing.

  • "Elon Musk wants more babies*"

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  • Hey Elon, the cost of parenthood is the problem, as proven by you having all this money and all these kids. Gimme cash and ill have a kid (not yours)

  • "Elon Musk wants more babies*"

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  • I dont think its embarrassing, but practical if you want to spread your DNA. He's had children from actual relationships so it's not like he can't, and he can afford to pay for all of them.

    Egotistical sure. Having so many kids you cant be a real father to them and using money to replace that, pretty brutal. Im sure other things too, but I wouldn't say embarrassing.

    Maybe if it had been the only way he can have kids.

  • #NULL!

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  • I started buying all the same sock type, but some might have a little gray or a little brown in the variation, and I dont care, I mix/match.

    If one gets a hole its just one of many and is tossed.

  • California moves to exempt Linux from its upcoming age-verification law after backlash over forcing operating systems to collect users’ ages

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  • Because they don't give a single fuck about the kids, unless they're pedos fucking kids, then they give all the fucks.

  • The biggest mystery known to mankind

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  • Ive had some build bugs where a clean build didnt fix it, restarting the IDE didn't fix it, but rebooting the computer did.

    I imagine some long running process even after the IDE is closed had been corrupted or something.

  • The biggest mystery known to mankind

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  • Android had a quick deploy feature where you could push minor changes like text or layout updates to the phone while testing without having to actually rebuild it. Like press button and a couple seconds later it updates.

    It without fail over years and years of trying to use it, always failed frequently, and you'd end up with unexpected behavior or crashes. For a time anyway, they tried to default it to on.

    Im not sure what the current state of it is today, I just stopped bothering to test it out.

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    Anthropic is paying SpaceX $15 billion per year

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  • Xxx.com

    Im sorry, it looks like youre trying to reach an adult website, please verify youre over 18.

  • Has there ever been an industry that's been "enshittified" and then un-"enshittified"?

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  • I remember the seal as a kid, I had no idea why they were doing that though. Thats a cool piece of history.