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  • Apple adds keylogger to iOS App Store for targeted advertising: tied to your account and unencrypted

    I’ve spent the last week moving over to Linux (Linux + Claude is a whole creative unlock)… looks like it wasn’t a moment too soon: … turns out this includes a keylogger (taplogger?) in the App Store, which records every single tap you make, every single letter you enter, and a lot of other information.…

  • The beatings will continue until morale improves…

    Meta is dying and I am there for that shit… everything that Zuck tries chokes on money For all its employees’ pain and suffering, Meta has surprisingly little to show. The company continues to trip over its own feet, struggling to release impressive new AI models as its competitors pull ahead further in the ongoing AI race. https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mark-zuckerberg-employees-fun-hackathon-layoffs

  • Tesla’s Robotaxis Are a Complete Disaster

    There are just 59 Robotaxis on the road, Bloomberg reports, with at least some of them still requiring physical human supervision. Its efforts to expand past its home base in Austin, Texas are floundering, with the company forced to admit to California state regulators that its self-driving cabs don’t actually drive themselves, according to the reporting. https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/teslas-robotaxis-disaster

  • Meta AI: “It’s literally the gulag,”

    “It’s literally the gulag,” one employee told Wired. “You have zero purpose in life all of a sudden, you barely interact with anyone, you just have these tasks every week.” … However, given the well-established reputation of their employer, netizens struggled to conjure up much sympathy for the Applied AI employees. Their argument: the workers knew what…

  • Dose of Schadenfreude… Price dropping cybertrucks

    The $150K Stupidwagon destined for a $15-20K price point

  • The Pope appears to understand AI better than Geoffrey Hinton does.

    Ignoring the fact that Hinton lost the plot many moons ago… LLM researchers are NOT creating beings. They are creating interactive fiction that is trained to predict the language of actual beings. Those two are NOT the same. And Hinton should know better. The brainfuck that is ELIZA is amazingly powerful. https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-pope-appears-to-understand-ai

  • Tesla Insiders Admit Self-Driving Is a Complete Disaster

    One erstwhile worker told the publication they wouldn’t ride in a Tesla robotaxi “if you f**king paid me.” https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/tesla-insiders-self-driving-disaster

  • When Peter Thiel and Don Jr. Lose, It’s a Great Week for Humanity

    “Like most bad ideas,” wrote Mitchell Duran for Yahoo Finance, “Enhanced Games was born from a mix of grievance and the belief that, with the right amount of tech, financing, and new-age, untested science, any human being can transcend any and all natural limitations.” Tech and money sure do make a lot of damn winners in this…

  • Tony Blair: Arsonist Fire Fighter

    Blairs treatment as some sort of left-wing voice has mystified me. Even the Wicked Witch of the West saw through him: In 2002, twelve years after Margaret Thatcher left office, she was asked at a dinner what was her greatest achievement. Thatcher replied: “Tony Blair and New Labour. We forced our opponents to change their minds.”…

  • If Starbucks can’t get AI to work, what makes you think you can run a governement with it?

    The tool, which was deployed across its North American stores, was designed to automate inventory management with the goal of providing accurate real-time information that could help Starbucks address ingredient shortages at its locations.  But according to previous Reuters reporting, the error-prone AI frequently miscounted and mislabeled items, confusing different types of milk and sometimes forgetting to count…