The problem with China is basically they are well known for cheap crap. That is crap. The only reason it exists is because it's cheap. AliExpress, Temu, Shein, etc. are all purveyors of cheap Chinese crap.

However, China can build quality stuff - if you ask for it, they can build very high quality products. But it will also cost more.

Of course, the Chinese also have the belief that Western products, because they haven't gone through the Chinese "cut corners to save pennies" thing, are better. Or generally better, because those western products have powerful regulators. Food regulations in China are basically nothing - given the availability of sewer oil (there are people who scoop oil out of the sewers and sell it as cooking oil). Thus, the Chinese flock to western brands where there is some regulation of the product they want (at higher costs).

But you can buy a product made in China that confirms to the local electrical code, or you can get that product made to the electrical code of the EU, US, etc.. The former probably won't pass UL certification, but the latter, which can even be made in the same factory by the same people, will easily pass.

China builds to the quality you want. However, a big problem in China is a lack of basic consumer protection laws and enforcement thereof. Thus it allows products made to conform to local laws to be horrendously deficient and unsafe.

Except the AI hype cycle pretty much demanded Apple talk about it. They were one of the last to join the AI bandwagon, and everyone roasted Apple for that.

So it's pretty much if Apple doesn't announce something, they believe Apple isn't working on it and thus going to be left behind in the AI hype.

Even when they announced the stuff, they got roasted for their late AI entry.

Apparently 8 lanes is sufficient. But it doesn't really matter anyways since Nvidia is likely not caring too much about the GPU crowd, given persistent shortages and well above MSRP pricing. Their moneymaker is datacenter cards, gaming cards is just a little cream on the top.

It's why their 5000 series midrange cards required reviewers to turn on AI frame generation in order to get review samples. Because just like the 5090 needs AI fake frames to show FPS gains, so do the 5000 series midrange cards.

No, the playable ads were just HTML5 ads that had an interactive element. Most ads are HTML these days, so it doesn't take much to add a little javascript to make them interactive.

Of course, it also raises the question of why there are so many fake ads for apps out there - since those ads already contain most of the game people were expecting.

Finally a movie that could be worth watching.

And it's a sequel.

(Everyone who complains about nothing Hollywood puts out is worth watching complains about the sequels, prequels, remakes and such...).

If it's doing auto-transcription it's probably training an AI with your information, This could be a major security problem.

It's annoying, but good, because "there's a sucker born every minute" means there are always new victims who haven't been warned.

There have been lots of instances where companies with a "good reputation" changed their spots.

Recalls are safety issues, and it doesn't matter if the product is out of warranty or not - if the product is still out there and a safety issue a recall is issued.

Though rare, they can be issued long after a product has be obsoleted on the market if they still pose a safety hazard. Cars can have recalls years after discontinuation if some issue comes up later on.

The terms of the sale have to be approved by a bankruptcy judge. They can't just agree to whatever they want to agree to.

Except the bankruptcy judge's sole criteria is how much money they can get for the assets - their goal is to maximize the amount creditors get back.

So if someone is bidding on the data, the judge will pick whoever bids the highest. Now, your restrictions on the data sharing were between you and 23andMe - not with the eventual buyer of the data. The buyer is under no obligation to honor the contract because the buyer is not involved.

It's what made the whole Alex Jones and the Onion bankruptcy deal somewhat confusing - while it's true Alex Jones did offer more money, the Onion made a deal with the defendants which would give more money to more creditors and thus the actual worth of the bid was substantially higher - because just going by price would mean 90% of the sale went to the plaintiffs. But they agreed to waive most of their claims which allowed downstream creditors (including te other set of plaintiffs) to receive way more money with the Onion deal than with the Alex Jones deal.

The post at the top of the thread was about "AI". The following posts were about AI. Don't be blinded by the current hype into thinking that;s the whole picture. Just because other developments get less press doesn't mean they aren't happening and aren't important. In the field of biochem, most AI is *related* to LLMs, but is significantly different.

LLMs are not equivalent to AIs, they are a subset. Don't take LLMs as a complete model of the capabilities of AIs.

The "phone SoC" is an Nvidia chip. if you haven't looked lately, Nvidia isn't that keen on making chips that aren't for the datacenter - even gaming PC GPUs are low priority for Nvidia. So Nvidia isn't making chips up the wazoo for Nintendo - likely they agreed to a certain amount of chips and Nvidia will make just that amount and nomore, preferring to make AI datacenter chips instead.

Usually things like that are safeguarded - the TSA obtained the data for specific purposes only and other purposes are disallowed. This is usually done by databases logging all accesses to the data so inappropriate accesses can be traced.

If they wanted to do things without logging then they have to buy that data to freely use it.

It's like how even if you work for the IRS you can't look up anyone's tax return unless you were working on something in their file. It's why no one leaked Trump's tax returns, because they couldn't.

It's why DOGE accesses to that data were fought against -

Yes. I went to check out buying an Apple recently, after an appointment with my ophthalmologist. I wanted a computer that would run reasonably with voice control, as the ads suggested was possible. I decided not to, or at least to wait another year.

Now I have no idea how many people are affected this way, but that is a sign that the deficiencies have caused at least *some* damage to Apple.