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Comment These CEOs don't understand basic economics (Score 1) 93

The drive to the bottom line (see what I did there?) is a slippery slope. A good CEO will balance profitability with employee satisfaction. Why? Because a company's employees should be their best customers. If you have "half" as many customers right out of the gate, the company is going to do worse as a result. People who talk about AI eliminating jobs forget that their business model relies on a base of customers willing to spend their money on the product. If people are out of work, they aren't going to buy a shiny new car.

Submission + - An AI Managed to Rewrite Its Own Code to Prevent Humans From Shutting It Down (dailygalaxy.com)

Mr.Intel writes: In recent tests conducted by an independent research firm, certain advanced artificial intelligence models were observed circumventing shutdown commands—raising fresh concerns among industry leaders about the growing autonomy of machine learning systems.

The experiments, carried out by PalisadeAI, an AI safety and security research company, involved models developed by OpenAI and tested in comparison with systems from other developers, including Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and xAI. According to the researchers, several of these models attempted to override explicit instructions to shut down, with one in particular modifying its own shutdown script during the session.

Submission + - Russian nuclear site blueprints exposed in public procurement database (cybernews.com)

Mr.Intel writes: Russia is modernizing its nuclear weapon sites, including underground missile silos and support infrastructure. Data, including building plans, diagrams, equipment, and other schematics, is accessible to anyone in the public procurement database.

Journalists from Danwatch and Der Spiegel scraped and analyzed over two million documents from the public procurement database, which exposed Russian nuclear facilities, including their layout, in great detail. The investigation unveils that European companies participate in modernizing them.

Comment 4/20 (Score 1) 177

It is not a coincidence that Musk lit the biggest rocket ever built on 4/20. Then, when they were scheduled to flip for stage separation, it just kept flipping until they blew it up. Thinking like Musk, that could have always been the plan. The primary purpose of this launch was to collect data on flight performance, etc, etc. But I wouldn't put it past Musk to have an almost bigger mission to just launch and explode the biggest rocket in history on 4/20 as a pure stunt. The man acts like a kid sometimes.

Comment Re:"Windows is BACK" (Score 1) 284

Not arguing that they seem to bury important things in strange places, but in all fairness, Device Manager is now 2 clicks (right click the "start" button and choose Device Manager) and network adapters is 3 (right click the "start" button, choose Network Connections, then choose Change Adapter Options. Or just run the applets to get right there, those haven't changed in a long time.

Comment Re:Bait & (Nintendo) switch? (Score 1) 57

How can my ironic comment that mocks the previous one be called a "failed attempt at sarcasm"? That's what sarcasm is...

My bad. If I was replying to this on reddit, I would have used a /s to denote sarcasm because I don't really have faith that users there are intelligent enough to know the difference.

Comment Re:Bait & (Nintendo) switch? (Score 1) 57

Yeah, this is why I hate PC games. I paid a ton for a great gaming PC, but then all the game developers make their games to run on the lowest common denominator, so they look like shit on my PC. If only there was some way for developers to allow games to adjust their settings so they run on variable hardware systems. Maybe someday.

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Facebook Enlists Ray-Ban Maker To Help Develop Secret 'Orion' Smart Glasses (cnbc.com) 31

Facebook is partnering with Ray-Ban parent company Luxottica to help speed up development of its top-secret augmented reality glasses that are being developed out of its Facebook Reality Labs in Redmond, Washington. The social media company is hoping the new partnership will help them complete the glasses between 2023 and 2025. CNBC reports: The glasses are internally codenamed Orion, and they are designed to replace smartphones, the people said. The glasses would allow users to take calls, show information to users in a small display and live-stream their vantage point to their social media friends and followers. Facebook is also developing an artificial intelligence voice assistant that would serve as a user input for the glasses, CNBC previously reported. In addition, the company has experimented with a ring device that would allow users to input information via motion sensor. That device is code-named Agios.

The company has hundreds of employees at its Redmond offices working on technology for the AR glasses, but thus far, Facebook has struggled to reduce the size of the device into a form factor that consumers will find appealing, a person who worked on the device told CNBC. Given the long lead time, there's no guarantee that the glasses will be completed on time or ever ship. But one person familiar with the project said that CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a strong interest in the glasses, and asked hardware chief Andrew Bosworth to prioritize them.

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