“Google’s New Gmail Tool Is Hallucinating Emails That Don’t Exist”
This tech is just so incredibly broken.
“Binance gets hit with crypto’s worst possible fate: compliance – Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain”
We’ll rapidly find out how much of Binance’s turnover really was crime.
My hopes for a snow-free winter have been dashed.
A writing app that thinks for you is a robot that does your jogging.
Interesting analysis. I still think they (and most of tech) are substantially overestimating the capability and utility of LLMs, but it’ll be interesting to see what ideas they have.
“Apple Annie’s Weblog · Working for a Living When Your Living isn’t Working, Part III”
“The Bluffer’s Guide to The Design of Everyday Things – Codemanship’s Blog”
‘A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “100 percent fatal” | MIT Technology Review’
It certainly looks like Silicon Valley is devolving into competing branches of a singularity cult.
“ChatGPT Replicates Gender Bias in Recommendation Letters | Scientific American”
A new study has found that the use of AI tools such as ChatGPT in the workplace entrenches biased language based on gender
Recording some audio for a bonus feature for the Black Friday bundle. 😁
The thought pops into my head that free/open source, and by extension software in general, shares many characteristics with “creative” industries such as publishing or music
The foundation of these industries is unpaid passion labour that’s treated as disposable.
“Comic Book Page Rates again: lower than they were 14 years ago”
It’s becoming increasingly hard to have anything that resembles a career in many of the so-called creative industries. Pay is low, esp. when you consider the amount of work involved or people’s experience
‘Boston meetup: “Why do tech workers deserve a union?” — Ethan Marcotte’
“The Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software is Unsustainable | Thomas Stringer”
The sustainability issue is the reason why I think we need a balance between free/open source projects and software products made by small, ethical software companies.
“lessons from bad Apple experience – MacInTouch”
I think in the EU/EEA the window for returns would be long enough to make this a bit less likely here, but this is still worrying.
“On OpenAI: Let Them Fight - by Dave Karpf”
These do not look like serious people. They look like a mix of ridiculous ideologues and untrustworthy grifters.
“You are not updating Node.js”
Not sure what to do with the fact that people aren’t updating node, except maybe to say that of course they aren’t. Node is a pain in the ass, through and through. Of course people don’t update it.
“Clear evidence of uplift in Svartsengi | Icelandic Meteorological office”
The rapid, ongoing uplift close to Svartsengi is occurring in the same area where uplift was measured before the magma intrusion formed on November 10
The geological events near Grindavík are not over
“The creepy AI-driven surveillance that may be infiltrating your workplace “
FFS.
This is a thing I’m doing this year. A big Black Friday bundle of pretty much everything I have. It’ll launch the new course, include both my ebooks, as well as maybe some extras
Available from 12:00 GMT Friday until end of day Monday
“Cloudflare does not consider vary values in caching decisions”
Another data point to support the thesis that content negotiation isn’t as well-supported as you’d think that you’re better off avoiding it.