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Thomas Bandt was setting up a new computer for his kid, and it gave him the opportunity to really look at what Windows has become over the years. Here's what was showing by default in the Start menu: First, there was news about a mass shooting that had
Jay Peters: Harry Potter Is Getting a 10-Year-Long TV Series on Max Discovery promises that “each season will be authentic to the original books.” The original movies will still be “available to watch globally,” even with this new show in development. Two things: 1. Committing to 10 years of a
Jennifer 8 Lee writing for the New York Times: Like hundreds of thousands of other high school students, Greg Myers, 16, began using an A.I. bot in freshman English. A.I. bots, which bear little resemblance to their 2010's ancestors. And: “I use A.I. bots all
Joeseph Cox: The 'Insanely Broad' RESTRICT Act Could Ban Much More Than Just TikTok The RESTRICT Act, a proposed piece of legislation which provides one way the government might ban TikTok, contains “insanely broad” language and could lead to other apps or communications services with connections to foreign
Michael Kan: Twitter Disables Retweets, Likes on Posts With Substack Links Twitter is now blocking users from retweeting, replying and liking tweets that contain a link to news publishing platform Substack, which is preparing its own microblogging service. Your resident free speech absolutist strikes again! The Verge has a piece
Glitch Blog: “Yes Code” Is How Coding Evolves With AI we also think that the widespread accessibility of these tools will make more people into coders. Or put another way, it will make more people who are coders realize that they are coders. We’ve long said that anyone who
Rebecca Jennings: The Influencers Getting Rich by Teaching You How to Get Rich Consider, for instance, the kind of person most closely associated with influencer courses. YouTuber Jake Paul advertised his “Financial Freedom Movement” course in 2020 with a fiery screed against traditional schooling: “I’m sick of our education
Alex Murrell: The Age of Average “This kind of visual homogeneity is a common occurrence in the art direction world, where ubiquitous styles operate less like trends and more like memes; remixed and diluted until they become a single visual mass. In today’s extremely-online world, the vast availability of
Here's Andy Bell on why Mastodon is giving him weird vibes. It's worth reading, so check it out, but I've got a few comments to add. The tone policing makes me want to scratch my eyes out When I started using Mastodon in earnest
Tom Henderson: EXCLUSIVE – Sony’s Next PlayStation Handheld Codenamed the Q Lite, the next PlayStation handheld is the next piece of Sony hardware that aims to be yet another piece of hardware that requires the PlayStation 5. Insider Gaming understands that the Q Lite is not a cloud-streaming device, but
Zack Zwiezen: Report: Only 37% Of Viewers Finished Amazon’s Lord Of The Rings TV Show, The Most Expensive In History A new report reveals that only 37 percent of viewers who watched one episode of Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power—the most expensive
Simon Willison.net: Think of Language Models Like ChatGPT as a “Calculator for Words” I like to think of language models like ChatGPT as a calculator for words. The more I use these tools, the more I think the narrative around "Microsoft makes Google dance by adding GPT to
Chloe Xiang: The Open Letter to Stop 'Dangerous' AI Race Is a Huge Mess “It's essentially misdirection: bringing everyone's attention to hypothetical powers and harms of LLMs and proposing a (very vague and ineffective) way of addressing them, instead of looking at the harms
Pranav Dixit: This Uncensored Chatbot Shows What Happens When AI Is Programmed to Disregard Human Decency Still, AI chatbots have recently become targets of political culture wars. At least one study of ChatGPT bias found that its responses skewed “progressive” and “Democratic.” Even today, asking ChatGPT to write an ode
Brian X. Chen: Attention, Travelers: Now Is the Best Time to Switch to eSIM As vacation season looms, now is as good a time as ever to bite the bullet and become familiar with a smartphone feature that many of us have ignored for years: the eSIM, the digital version