I can't believe Android would do something like this back in my day I was
a teeny little baby boy that's not related but it is true some Android
users are being blocked from sideloading apps and instead forced to download them
from the Play Store it's a weird move since sideloading has been one of
Android's main selling points whereas the iPhone selling point was not getting
bullied over the color green Android users who have sideloaded certain apps
have received unsurpassable popups prompting them to install the app from
the Play Store instead there are some issues with enforcing this for starters
some apps can't be downloaded from the Play Store in certain regions on top of
that this affects users of alternate operating systems like the Privacy and
security focused graphine OS and on top of that I'm uncomfortable with the idea
of being told what to do by aing rectangle not all restrictions are bad
for example Android 15 will restrict sensitive permissions like being able to
listen to notifications from sideloaded apps by default which can prevent
malicious apps from accessing your data it's just weird to me that Android apps
are being restricted at the same time that apple is preparing to allow third
party app stores on EU iPads I mean what is it Opposite Day open AI has released
01 allegedly the company's first family
to have reasoning skills in their official announcement open AI said 01
was trained to spend more time thinking about problems before responding like a
person would I feel like that's kind of an inaccurate description of people
based on you know all of history whatever the reason thanks to open ai's
overestimation of what a person is capable of oh one is apparently far more
accurate than their previous model gp4 at answering math coding and PhD
level science questions even more impressively it nearly passed the I'm
not your buddy guy test developed by totally Real Canadian computer scientist
teren and Phillip now before you get all excited about using no1 you should know
that there are some massive restrictions that nobody will be able to bypass not
only is the model unable to browse the web or analyze files but users are also
limited to 30 or 50 messages a week depending on the model version on top of
that at least one of the models the 01 preview is up to four times more
expensive than GPT 40 on the plus side it hasn't expressed a desire to bring
about the downfall of mankind at least not yet the US government is allegedly
asking envidia and apple to kindly use Intel's foundaries what in case you
weren't aware Intel has been having a bit of a rough go apparently CEO Pat
gilinger was so upset he went and cried to Mom or rather United States Commerce
Secretary Gina Rondo in a meeting with Rondo G singer apparently expressed
frustration with America's Reliance on tsmc for chip production randoo like any
supportive parent would do then set up private meetings with the shareholders
of NVIDIA and apple hoping to convince the shareholders to convince the
companies to give us foundaries a shot it's a bit interesting to see the US
government indirectly help Intel in this way specifically because they're
currently withholding billions of dollars in funding from the company around $20 billion under the chips act
but that's because it's all dependent on Intel's promises to actively establish
semiconductor facilities inside the US it turns out that's kind of hard to do
when your business is a little bit on fire including your processors it's a
real fire sale meanwhile tsmc's trial
production at its Arizona Fab last week produced yield rates on par with their
Taiwanese facilities probably making Intel's all-time low feel just a little
bit lower and Pat Ginger is already pretty short is he oh sorry I'm just
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he's running late to a family reunion because family speaking of family the
final specs of Intel's upcoming aerol Lake desktop CPU family have been leaked
by a Chinese Outlet bench life merely a week after a UK retailer accidentally
listed the chips on its site I'm kind of starting to feel bad for Intel I'm not
while the CPUs aren expected to be officially announced on October 10th
bench life claims they won't be released until October 24th ha better wait but
you should maybe consider buying one for Pat G singer sake if not anyone else if
enough sell he might stop crying but he definitely won't get taller several AI
vendors such as Microsoft open Ai and anthropic have apparently committed to
help combat non-consensual deep fakes and child sexual abuse material around
the same time meta snap and Tik Tok have formed an Unholy Alliance to stop the
spread of self harm content which is good since those three companies
platforms are not exactly known for being good for people the Coalition
hopes that they'll be able to share what problematic content they found on their
platform so that other members can easily find it on their own platforms I
never thought I'd see the day when meta snap and Tik Tok share data for good I
mean they're not really doing it for good they're just doing it because they have to right I mean they did it
voluntarily really are you sure on a completely different note Uber is adding
autonomous taxis to its apps in Austin and Atlanta thanks to a partnership with
whmo so don't be too surprised if you hail a ride sometime in early 2025 and
an empty car shows up app users can apparently increase the likelihood of
getting chauffered by a ghost by opting into autonomous rides but it's not clear
if that includes the option to be completely opted out can you request a
Victorian ghost while there have been concerns of Robo taxis roaming the
streets without human supervision weo has been comparatively open about its
crash statistics which not only show that wayo taxis get into severe crashes
around a third as much as human drivers but also that most of those crashes
involved getting rear ended by Flesh and Blood drivers on the road it's because
they're robots isn't it yes
yes Google's notebook LM has a new AI feature called audio overview which
summarizes documents in the form of a lively podcast with banter between two
AI hosts not unlike the WAN Show this is potentially a novel new way to take in
otherwise boring information and a serious threat to the long-term
employment of stoned white dudes with microphones in their basement not like
the wro users can even download the file to take it on the go though they should
be conscious of the fact that llms much like podcast hosts are extremely prone
to what we In The Biz call just making up like The W show and a
collaboration between Lego and Mclaren has resulted in a fully functional
replica of a McLaren P1 made out of
342,415
Lego did create a life-size Bugatti Chiron but that model could only go 12 M
hour and had no steering the Lego P1 however uses
768 electric Lego motors to reach top speeds of 40 mph plus it can you know
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