The Internet Archive is under a DDoS attack (bsky.app)
Brought to you by the Department of Erasing History.
Study finds a quarter of all webpages from 2013 to 2023 no longer exist (www.pcgamer.com)
'Google Cast' is replacing the 'Chromecast built-in' brand (9to5google.com)
Well, at least they aren’t outright throwing the functionality in the trash.
Microsoft shot real lasers through a window to make Windows 10's wallpaper — surprisingly the iconic art wasn't computer generated (www.tomshardware.com)
CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information (futurism.com)
You know how Google’s new feature called AI Overviews is prone to spitting out wildly incorrect answers to search queries? In one instance, AI Overviews told a user to use glue on pizza to make sure the cheese won’t slide off (pssst…please don’t do this.)...
How Python Compares Floats and Ints: When Equals Isn’t Really Equal (blog.codingconfessions.com)
Does String Theory Actually Describe the World? AI May Be Able to Tell (www.wired.com)
17 cringe-worthy Google AI answers demonstrate the problem with training on the entire web (www.tomshardware.com)
These are 17 of the worst, most cringeworthy Google AI overview answers:...
Cloudflare took down our website after trying to force us to pay $120000 within 24h (robindev.substack.com)
Also, interesting comment I found on HackerNews (HN):...
Elon Musk's xAI plans to build 'Gigafactory of Compute' by fall 2025 — using 100,000 Nvidia's H100 GPUs (www.tomshardware.com)
Windows 11 IoT LTSC 2024 arrives making TPM and Secure Boot optional — lower storage requirements, too (www.tomshardware.com)
Microsoft word update messes up exams in Denmark (www.dr.dk)
Sorry for the Danish post i hope you can translate it....
Actually, Winamp is not going Open Source (x.com)
x.com/winamp/status/1793615140241240395
OpenAI backpedals on scandalous tactic to silence former employees (arstechnica.com)
Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search (www.theverge.com)
My blog cost USD44 a year (merecivilian.com)
Didn’t know VPSs could get that cheap
Synapse, backed by a16z, has collapsed, and 10 million consumers could be hurt (techcrunch.com)
Amazon Kills Shareholder Proposals on Worker Protections and AI Oversight (www.404media.co)
ICQ messenger shuts down after almost 28 years (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
ChatGPT Answers Programming Questions Incorrectly 52% of the Time: Study (gizmodo.com)
The research from Purdue University, first spotted by news outlet Futurism, was presented earlier this month at the Computer-Human Interaction Conference in Hawaii and looked at 517 programming questions on Stack Overflow that were then fed to ChatGPT....
Neuralink Can Implant Second Person With a Brain Chip, FDA Says (gizmodo.com)
Massive explosion rocks SpaceX Texas facility, Starship engine in flames (interestingengineering.com)
So here's a story of, by far, the weirdest bug I've encountered in my CS career. (threadreaderapp.com)
Along with @maciejwolczyk we’ve been training a neural network that learns how to play NetHack, an old roguelike game, that looks like in the screenshot. Recently, something unexpected happened.
Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination (gizmodo.com)
Google rolled out AI overviews across the United States this month, exposing its flagship product to the hallucinations of large language models.
iFixit is breaking up with Samsung. ‘Samsung’s approach to repairability does not align with our mission,’ says iFixit’s CEO. (www.theverge.com)
iFixit and Samsung are ending their partnership on a direct-to-consumer phone repair program....
