Bruno Lafont, Lafarge’s former CEO, was arrested in the courthouse upon sentencing and immediately sent to prison.

Is that Oracle’s Larry Ellison on the right?

Oracle needs a good dose of adversarial interoperability.

Low to average reliability is fine if the service is cheap, and if that avoid the need for backup diesel generators in datacenters.

I doubt this applied to Github:

Microsoft to use diesel-fired generators as backup power for data centers

Starting a war likely on false pretense, without consulting NATO allies. Then blaming NATO allies for not taking part in that mess. Then claiming the oil crisis that results from his war is not his problem.

I’m on the fence on whether to put Trump in the chaotic evil or chaotic neutral category.

That’s a good way to represent LLMs. Very bad and very prolific consultants.

It shows LLMs can do significant harm without the capabilities of an AGI.

Overhyping LLMs and overinflating their capabilities makes things worse, as people are less skeptical of LLM output.

According to Clayton, the AI agent involved didn’t take any technical action itself, beyond posting inaccurate technical advice, something a human could have also done.

Producing innaccurate technical advice, with a confident tone, at scale.

If that LLM were an employee it would get a formal blame, and then demoted or fired as it continues.

Norway seems well prepared to handle the latest oil crisis.

We’ve basically discovered an appetite suppressant that works in mice without some of the side-effects that GLP-1 drugs have

The article mention nothing on safety or efficacy in humans, nor in other primates.

They are probably trying to get attention from companies to get funding for clinical trials. But it seems early for the general public to pay attention given trials low success rates

Rumors; didn’t read.

Anyway the last few versions of Windows already convinced it’s best to keep avoiding it.

Humans will always make final decisions on what to shoot and what not to shoot and when to shoot. But advanced AI tools can turn processes that used to take hours and sometimes even days into seconds

So, paying someone to take reponsonsibility and rubber stamp whatever the chatbot output?

There’s still someone at Microsoft with common sense. That’s probably too little too late.

For approval, a new treatment has to show it’s better than already approved treatments. Not better than nothing.

This appear to target difficult to treat cancer so any result is encouraging, especially in a clinical trial.

Is someone familiar with The Nerve?

Every time I discover an online media, I try to find out if has a good track record, ie pass fact checks, attempt to be objective. But I find little about this one.

Source?

The article focuses on techniques that help bots spoof browsers, to make them impersonate a typical human visitor.

It’s not obvious how this helps people protect themselves against surveillance while being online. Using python scripting is not a practical way to browse. But it’s handy to write scrappers.

It’s certainly useful to misbehaving bots that try to evade anti-bots protection.

That’s true. The reason is there’s lots of bot traffic spoofing real users, sometimes even going through residential proxies.

When bots spoof users well, the last option for projects is use these PoW captcha that annoy everyone. Enshitification continues.

By spoofing the fingerprint, developers can make their automated tools impersonate real users more convincingly, thereby bypassing bot detections.

Many OSS projects and personal web servers have bot detection because they would otherwise drown under (AI) scrappers and other bots traffic. Hosting or bandwidth cost is often unsustainable without bot protection.

If you don’t want to kill these projects, honor robots.txt by default, use throttling, don’t try to circumvent bot blocks. Look if there’s a purpose built API available to bots. If they don’t want to offert such API, go find something else to do.

Using an ultrasonic dog trainer in public may piss off dogs, and other domesticated or wild animals in the vicinity. I woudln’t recommend this, except maybe as a last resort on rare occasions.

Politely asking the person to use a headphone or earpiece may be more effective in many case.