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Fanofilmon John Ternus to become Apple CEO

Apple needed a "AI CEO". Hopefully John Ternus is Apple's "AI CEO". That is the win-vs-lose.

Apple included.

Fanofilmon France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc.

If they did it by growing open source competitors, it would be brilliant. Linux-equivalents for all major categories.

Fanofilmon X's new country-of-origin feature reveals many 'US' accounts to be foreign-run

X shows a "LOCK" icon when they are coming in VPN. To out them. Also, it shows which country's app store you installed your app. For this reason, when they use their mobile app, it will be outted that way.

Fanofilmon I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla

The onus is on FireFox to deliver "the killer feature". No killer feature, nobody will bother with it. Mozilla needs to shift into entrepreneurial innovation.

Fanofilmon Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division

I think this is because older AI doesn't get done what LLM AI does. Older AI = normal trained models, neural networks (without transformers), support vector machines, etc. For that reason, they are letting them go. They don't see revenue coming from that. They don't see new product lines (like AI Generative image/video). AI may have this every 5 years. A break through moves the technology into an entirely new area. Then older teams have to re-train, or have a harder time.

Fanofilmon New study shows plants and animals emit a visible light that expires at death

Research is finding MicroTubules in the brain likely are the LINK (quantum entanglement) to where Consciousness "lives" (is located). Note that the Microtubules link STOPs while under Anesthesia.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=microtubules+co...

Fanofilmon 4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC

Step 6: The facebook / Instragram / X equivalents then lose their ad revenue. They then may capitulate to keep the ad revenue.

See BlueSky just rolled out Terms ToS that the automated UN Safety (censorship) laws they will accept. This is an automated pipeline for the "censorship demand data notice" can be applied in an automated why. It is plumbing for automating censorship. See "DSA" part of those laws and how BlueSky's ToS is responding.

Fanofilmon I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file

I found Asana's TO DO app the best for me. Great for mobile, ipad, Mac app and web based.

Fanofilmon Up to date prices for LLM APIs all in one place

They should add grok. I use grok.

Fanofilmon Visa and Mastercard: The global payment duopoly (2024)

We must enable competition in credit cards and payment systems with POSes.