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  • Google Chrome's next update will mark the end of popular ad blockers

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  • I don't know if it would, necessarily. So many alternatives are chrome-based, and part of the reason google was able to accrue that share to begin with was by putting a "get chrome now" in the corner of every search you did.

    Most alternatives don't have that same kind of advertising reach to displace chrome, especially not for casual users.

  • Not a meme, I just really like this interaction.

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  • At the very least, he was seen as the face of the Wolf 359 massacre, and wasn't seen in a good light because of it. A lot of Starfleet outright hate him, and we saw concerns being floated that he was compromised by the Borg now, and might betray Starfleet for them, hence his being kept out of the battle in First Contact.

  • Firefox has an ambitious new roadmap, the browser is also losing millions of users a month

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  • You basically see it with some sites now, where you're just told "use chrome if you have any issues", and then it reflects badly on firefox, because a casual user might just think it's the fault of the browser that it's poorly made and doesn't work properly.

    For the websites, it's not worth writing around browser-specific quirks, when the vast majority use a chrome-based browser.

  • Microsoft's new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly on Windows

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  • The predominant attitude in software development for a while also took user hardware for granted.

    You didn't need to optimise for memory and CPU usage, because computers are so powerful now, and memory was plentiful that it wasn't anything you needed to concern yourself with, except in the extreme case.

    Whereas in 1993, you were much more constrained, so had to squeeze things in to make it run well, or at all.

  • Yin / Yang

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  • This is why the pyrotechnics have been getting progressively more extreme, to compensate for the ships getting darker. All the energy not used for lighting has to go somewhere.

  • OpenAI says China ran a covert campaign to turn Americans against data centers, but used facts that happen to be true

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  • As opposed to, what, facts that aren't true? Those aren't facts at all.

  • Gaming PC deflects bullet shot through wall by neighbour, saving owner's life — criminal negligence charges for culprit who claims 'firearm was accidentally discharged by her dog'

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  • Doesn't insurance generally exclude acts of dog?

  • Apple tried to blame the EU for its Siri AI mess, and the EU called them out publicly

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  • Of course, Apple doesn’t want to give up that much access to a competitor. Never mind the privacy implications. Could you imagine if a rogue actor got into the system-level of your iPhone, disguised as an AI assistant? That would be a huge headache and nightmare.

    This article seems rather a bit biased. Apple didn't give their reasoning for it, and it seems presumptuous for Maxham to provide that reasoning, when it's unfounded.

    It also doesn't seem like that big of an issue. Just have the assistant program run through the same permissions as a regular app, rather than as a system app, where you have to set the permissions you want to give it.

    It also wouldn't be Apple's fault, any more than it would be their fault because you saw on Facebook that your iPhone had wireless charging, and stuck it in the microwave. People should be allowed to break their own devices. That's part of the risks of owning something, where things can just break if you use it wrong.

  • Brave is charging $60 for a version of its browser that removes the features you probably never wanted

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  • Vivaldi still supports Manifest V2, doesn't it? So you should be able to put UBO on it as well.

  • Brave is charging $60 for a version of its browser that removes the features you probably never wanted

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  • Mozilla, the company that recently added a "disable AI" toggle to Firefox?

    It's not as good as not implementing the things in the first place, for people who don't want it, but making it a paid model for removing features would net them more flack, I feel. They'd be accused of trying to squeeze their user base, when Firefox is traditionally free.

  • Brave is charging $60 for a version of its browser that removes the features you probably never wanted

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  • Or they rebrand it, and pull the "lifetime is only to the end of the product lifetime" trick.

  • Anthropic/OpenAI may be spending more than $1000 for every $100 you pay them

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  • Although, most people aren't talking about Alphafold when they're talking about AI. They're usually specifically referring to the generative transformer models that are currently all the rage.

    I doubt anyone would care too much about a linear regression model, or multi-layer peceptron , for example.

  • School shooting survivor sues AI gun detection firm after system failed to spot weapon

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  • GitHub just switched Copilot to metered billing, and developers are watching months of credits vanish in a single day

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  • Ever run an AI model locally? If you want the most capability you need a fast GPU with 32-48gb RAM. And that's all for you, ONE user.

    Even then, that's quite small. Top of the line frontier models would be looking at hundreds of gigabytes of video memory, and just as much RAM.

    A terabyte of VRAM/RAM needed for something like CoPilot is probably a fairly sensible estimate.

  • AI Has Ruined the Job Market

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  • Its the most soul crushing thing to be looking for a job right now, anything to make you stand out of a crowd is ignored, volume of applications and adherance to posted requirments are the only way to get a fleeting interaction with a human.

    Or none at all.

    The advice is not helping either, since you're told to both make your resume and cover letter stand out, but also to make it generic so the automated system doesn't parse it wrong and disregard it.

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    MacBook Neo Outsold Every Other Mac in Its Q1 2026 Debut Quarter

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  • It's also decent for people who want a low-power MacBook for cheap, but don't need a lot of bells and whistles, without the limitations of an iPad.

  • Amazon Shuts Down Internal AI Leaderboard After Employees Cheated

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  • Wouldn't even need that. Just give it a mid-way complicated pile of nonsense with reasoning on, and it'll be crunching on that for the whole day, burning money to do so.

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    Gabe Newell on Steam monopoly accusations: Gamers have 'enormous choice' about where to buy games

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  • But developers are also customers of valve. And this is arguably where valve makes their money. They take a cut from the developers sales. Devs cannot just use a different platform without cutting out a huge userbase. This gives valve a real monopolistic control over developers.

    Can they not? I was under the understanding that developers aren't limited to steam. They can use any other platform in addition to it, the main restriction being that they can't sell the game for cheaper on platforms other than Steam.

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  • It might also be their version of the uncanny valley applies for different things.

    A dog's uncanny valley could be something that smells slightly off, but humans wouldn't think much about a human that smells funny, for example.

    Whereas a pigeons may well focus on other features instead of the face.