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AGI is miles away, don’t believe the hype
Benj Edwards: Major Shifts at OpenAI Spark Skepticism About Impending AGI Timelines
The moves have led some to wonder just how close OpenAI is to a long-rumored breakthrough of some kind of reasoning artificial intelligence if high-profile employees are jumping ship (or taking long breaks, in the case of Brockman) so easily. As
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NVIDIA is consuming a lifetime of YouTube per day and they probably aren’t even paying for Premium!
Samantha Cole on the always lovely 404 Media: Leaked Documents Show Nvidia Scraping ‘A Human Lifetime’ of Videos Per Day to Train AI
When asked about legal and ethical aspects of using copyrighted content to train an AI model, Nvidia defended its practice as being “in full compliance with the letter and the spirit of
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What if Google just didn’t pay Apple?
David McCabe writing for the New York Times: Google Violated Antitrust Laws in Online Search, Judge Rules
The government argued that by paying billions of dollars to be the automatic search engine on consumer devices, Google had denied its competitors the opportunity to build the scale required to compete with its search engine. Instead, Google
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The M1 MacBook Air still rips
Kev Quirk: Three Years With My M1 MacBook Air
Question is, will I upgrade? Well, no. Not any time soon anyway. The M1 Air still does everything I need it to extremely well. So why upgrade? Why drop another £1,000 or so on the latest version of the Air? Because it looks a little
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Fortnite is coming soon to AltStore
Epic Games in a press release today: Epic's New Game Strategy for Mobile Stores
In exciting news, we are announcing that our mobile games will come to AltStore on iOS in the EU, and we expect to announce support for at least two other third-party stores soon.
That’s a genuinely massive
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A good story doesn’t require homework
James Mangold, director of films like Logan, Ford v Ferrari, and Walk the Line, on the MCU-ification of most of big cinema in an interview with Rolling Stone:
It’s weird that I’ve even worked in the world of IP entertainment because I don’t like multi-movie universe-building. I think it’
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The one way wired earbuds still beat AirPods
Brendon Bigley on his Wavelengths blog: EarPods Rule
I’m not about to wax poetic about all of the ways using wired headphones in 2024 “changes everything” like a clickbaity YouTube video, but I will say that the proliferation of USB-C on pretty much every device is slowly returning the EarPods to their once-
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Severance was more expensive to produce than Game of Thrones
Lucas Shaw for Bloomberg: Apple Tries to Rein In Hollywood Spending After Years of Losses
All told, the cost of[Severance] ballooned to more than $20 million an episode, making it one of the most expensive projects on TV.
Severance costing way more per episode than the famously expensive final season of Game of Thrones
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How Puzzmo makes crosswords
Madison in the Puzzmo newsletter: 🃏 We're on the Path to a Trillion Dollars!
In this week’s newsletter,
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Biden is out (or, you thought you were going to get a weekend without major political news, didn’t you?)
The New York Times Editorial Board: Biden Made a Courageous Choice. Democrats Must Seize the Opportunity.
President Biden’s decision to exit the 2024 presidential election is a fitting coda for a man whose life has been devoted to public service. Mr. Biden has served the nation well as its president. By agreeing to step
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I’m glad iPhones are getting RCS
John Gruber on Daring Fireball: The AT&T Data Breach Shows Why RCS Can’t Be Trusted and the Downside of Apple Adding Support for It in iOS 18
Ihnatko is right, but only if you believe that carrier-based message should remain the baseline. I do not. And it’s also a U.
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College Football video games are back and they’re killing it already
Zack Zwiezen reporting on EA College Football 25 hitting over 700,000 concurrent players in its first 24 hours after
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Kevin Conroy’s final words as Batman
Willa Rowe on Kotaku: These Are Kevin Conroy's Final Words as Batman and They're Perfect
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Yup, I’m a full-on eSIM fan now
Jeremy Burge: Why eSIM Is My New Best Friend
Alternative title: How and why to install an eSIM to save money on data roaming fees when overseas. Especially useful if you have an iPhone 14 with no SIM Tray.
I was skeptical about eSIM when it was debuted, but I started to come around on
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Warner Bros. Discovery definitely knows what they’re doing…
Warner Bros. Discovery is changing a few more upcoming shows from “Max Originals” to “HBO Originals”:
It is part of a strategy to rebrand its highest profile titles into HBO Originals, giving them a linear airing on the premium cable network as well as a streaming bow. When the move was originally unveiled in June,
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Where my support lies
Niléane on MacStories: LGBT and Marginalized Voices Are Not Welcome on Threads
I do have some sincere expectations for you all who are reading this. I expect tech journalists to more systematically report on everything that fits into this pattern. I expect tech podcasters to acknowledge that Threads is only a great alternative to Twitter
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That just doesn't square with reality
I've been sitting on writing something about this video from Louis Rossmann where he lays into Marques Brownlee for his admittedly pretty softball interview with Apple about repairability. I found Louis's video pretty absurd, and was really annoyed by it. He spends upwards of 10 minutes ripping Marques for not bringing
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VR is hovering (and what does a “big” product mean anymore?)
Benedict Evans: The VR Winter Continues
it’s obvious that the devices will get better, lighter and cheaper, but much less obvious whether that’s enough. How many people will care? We should be careful of saying ‘no-one will do that’ - we all do things every day that ‘no-one would ever do.’ But
