due to the nature of entropy time can only move forward never backwards which
is why we can only tell you what happened yesterday and not what will
happen tomorrow for now maybe stay tuned
lottery numbers we're working on it Microsoft has suddenly and unexpectedly
announced that it will be ending support for the Windows subsystem for Android
which allows Android apps to be downloaded and run on Windows 11 the
company announced the deprecation yesterday and the feature can no longer
be in stalled as of today those who
currently have Android app support will have another year before support ends
entirely and the apps gradually break and cease to function the feature was
first announced in 2021 and debuted a year later but it lacked access to the
Google Play Store instead relying on the Amazon app store which is what your mom
means when she says that we have the Google Play Store at home it's also why
apparently nobody used this feature your mom also thinks Jeff Bezos is Pit Bull
so it might not be obvious why somebody would want to download Pokémon go to
their desktop but the idea was probably to increase the amount of apps that can
be reasonably run on Windows powered touchscreens while also providing an
answer to Chrome os's Android support and macOS's iOS app support while
Microsoft didn't say why they're ditching Android app support now it's
unlikely that anyone will really lose sleep over it as apparently no one
really cared about using Android apps on Windows in the first place following
sustained criticism of its at best half-ass attempt to comply with the eu's
digital markets act Apple has done some soul searching and responded with a few
gentle tweaks to its current compliance plan specifically Apple simplified the
process for developers to accept its awful new business terms and added a
one-time termination option if devs want to revert back to the previous less
awful terms but still kind of awful press this button to give us more money
you didn't like it in there did you the company will also no longer require a
letter of credit from makers of rival app marketplaces so long as they have an
established app business in the EU and a developer account in good standing that
is at least 2 years old one party you'd expect to respond positively to these
changes is epic games best known for multiple antitrust lawsuits against
Apple and Google and also some video games but it turns out that only a month
after reinstating epic games developer account Apple has once again terminated
it calling the gaming company verifiably untrustworthy given its past Behavior
though it's unclear what in the past month made them change their minds about
changing their minds while Google has seemed to be responding in good faith to
the eu's new rules epic games is also accusing them of half-ass compliance
following a Google blog post that basically goes over how they already are
in compliance with the new rules despite charging up to 27 % on web transactions
that they aren't even involved in processing hopefully for Apple and
Google these quarter buttock changes
will be enough when the compliance deadline comes which is March 7th
otherwise known as tomorrow and if there's one thing the EU is known for
it's putting their entire ass into everything they do the EU is most of a
continent it's it's got a pretty big ass yeah whole assing everything according
to anthropic the other giant AI Tech
company its NextGen Claude 3 Opus model
matches and even occasionally surpasses open ai's GPT 4 on several AI benchmarks
for reasoning math coding multilingual
understanding and vision but it can it see why kids love Cinnamon Toast CR
Claude 3's lightweight and Ultra lightweight variants Sonet and Haiku
fell short on some benchmarks but still showed a distinct improvement over GPT
3.5 one of anthropics prompt engineers
Alex Albert even shared a cute anecdote
where Claude 3 Opus seemed to show meta
awareness that it was under evaluation the test involved asking Opus to find a
needle in a Hy stack by answering a question using a small piece of
information buried in a large collection of documents equivalent to around
200,000 tokens in size after being asked
about pizza toppings Claude responded with the correct phrase from the
documents then noted that the sentence seemed out of place in the rest of the
material saying quote I suspect this pizza topping
fact quotes may have been inserted as a
joke or to test if I was paying attention it's kind of amazing to see a
robot that seems capable of determining the intent of a test especially when I
still can't even tell when people are hitting on me or white kids love
Cinnamon Toast CR speaking of hitting now it's time
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Tesla's German gigafactory was forced to pause production yesterday
after an electricity pylon close to the facility was set on fire by environment
activists who identify themselves as the volcano group I'm guessing they're
pyromaniacs who also want to help the planet it's like a Dexter thing I have
to let it out somehow my Dark Passenger he's hot my hot dark hot my hot Dark
Passenger unfortunately the arson attack also knocked out power to thousands of
residents nearby not including the 100
or so environmentalists camping in the surrounding Forest to try and prevent
Tesla from chopping it down one group called Robin Wood told the BBC it had
nothing to do with the fire okay that's a star let's be honest and this is why
LMG hasn't expanded to Germany there are scores of angry Germans hiding in the
woods and they all hate each other have you seen clous new European safety rules
will require car manufacturers to bring back physical controls as of January
2026 turn signals windshield wiper controls the car horn you know Hazard
warning lights and any built-in SOS features need to have tangible controls
for cars to earn a five-star safety rating so drivers don't have to take
their eyes off the road to fiddle with a touchcreen which who thought of this in
the first place even more upsetting Europe will require car makers to stop
giving drivers complimentary sleep masks and Xanax prescriptions what are they
supposed to do reality's hard Oregon has passed a
right to repair bill so competent Apple won't stop bitching about it Senate Bill
1596 requires manufacturers to make any
documentation tool part or other device
they provide to authorized service providers available to device owners and
independent repair shops while apple is
mostly in favor of the bill mostly dead
the company claims the wording May force them to allow third-party biometric
sensors to work in their devices that could lead to unauthorized access of
users personal data and that does sound
scary but Apple also expects me to trust some guy just because he has a blue
shirt on and I feel like that might undercut their point in fact I trust them until I
notice that their shirts blue wait a second where am I I went shopping for
groceries Google says that it's adjusting its search ranking system to
downgrade the position of content that exists primarily to summarize other
content a category that includes SEO spam but also an absolute Avalanche of
machine generated content Google of course has been in a NeverEnding arms
race against spam and lowquality content since the dawn of time by which I mean
1998 however Google Now seems to be tacitly acknowledging growing criticism
that its search results are getting worse in no small part due to the
increasing availability and cheapness of relatively highquality AI Tools in
particular Google says it will Target large content Mills and reputation abuse
which is where otherwise respectable sites allow themselves to be used to
raise the profile of certain kinds of spam like a fine dining restaurant that
also sells TVs that fell off the back of a truck if you want it chicken pom only
comes with spaghetti but this one LCD it's got 56 channels and Linux that's an
operating system has hit an all-time high market share of
4.03% of worldwide desktop os's
according to research firm stat counter that's a respectable bump up from the
1.58% of desktops and laptops that ran Linux 5 years ago in February 2019 while
by the Numbers the open source OS is still Small Potatoes Windows dominant
market share has been falling for the past decade and even macOS seems to
have more or less plateaued at around 20% the trend lines are looking good for
Linux long term so we wish a happy 4%
day and a godspeed to the Linux lovers
dorkiest of the Nerds I'm sorry for not calling it gnu Linux the CrossFit of the
nerd community and if you're dorky enough come back on Friday for more Tech
news we're going to make so many references to sub routines and logic
gates and stuff it's going to be awesome CD more like CD's nuts speaking of
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