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flumes_whims_··on Meta takes down a critical video about meta AI Glasses after filming at Meta
I don't know how effective it or how it works but Meta says they disable recording if the recording light is blocked.

https://9to5google.com/2026/07/07/meta-ray-ban-smart-glasses...

flumes_whims_··on Fujitsu launches made-in-Japan next-generation CPU FUJITSU-MONAKA
144 per the article
flumes_whims_··on Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust
It sounds like there is a documented policy or proven that TikTok does it. Just people thinking it does leading them to self-censor. Then people see others doing it and copy it. So, I guess it is censorship but not by TikTok.
flumes_whims_··on Planet Labs' open satellite feed
Illegal loggers would shoot down your drones?
flumes_whims_··on What Is a Harness?
MCP clutters the context. Much better to have cli that has --help on subcommands so it can get the parts in needs in the current context.
flumes_whims_··on Orion Browser by Kagi
I'm sure Iraqis, Libyans, Iranians, Palestinians, etc. agree that putting Russia in the same sentence as America is stupid.
flumes_whims_··on 42% of adults rely on their parents for financial support
According to that 17% of boomers+ are dependent on their parents. Just looking at boomers, that is around 70 on average. How many people that age even have parents still alive, let alone financially depend on them?
flumes_whims_··on Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail
Gell-Mann Amnesia? Interestingly enough, the term was coined by Crichton.
flumes_whims_··on EVE Online's Carbon engine is now open source: Fenris Creations explains why
Elite dangerous?
flumes_whims_··on GPT‑Live
Do any voice models support different conversation "threads" with different context?
flumes_whims_··on New Sweden: the US's long-lost 'secret' colony
The article mentioned the "the 12-year-old Queen of Sweden" which is quite an interesting story of its own.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina,_Queen_of_Sweden

flumes_whims_··on Car touchscreens are cheap, not good
That can get thrown into a tiny 2" screen in the instrument cluster.
flumes_whims_··on Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected
Meta overbought compute and is considering selling it like SpaceX did.
flumes_whims_··on It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership
Members of parliament who owned stock in the East India company bailing it out by allowing it to sell tea directly to the American colonies?
flumes_whims_··on Claude Sonnet 5
Probably because benchmarks are leaked. Included in their training or model can cheat by finding answer online.
flumes_whims_··on Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech
In the saga period of Iceland, 1/3rd of the laws had to be recited orally each year in a public assembly. If we had something like that then our legal code would be a lot slimmer.
flumes_whims_··on NSA lost access to Mythos amid Anthropic dispute
How is Anthropic going to make sure every person using an API key is a citizen?
flumes_whims_··on Steam Machine launches today
Products with Chinese made RAM can effectively only be sold in China due to US sanctions or threats thereof. It helps a bit because Chinese companies then buy less Korean RAM but not as much as it otherwise would be.
flumes_whims_··on Steam Machine launches today
Let's money for scalpers and more money for the company making the product.
flumes_whims_··on Steam Machine launches today
Linus Tech Tips built a computer with around twice the performance at the same price with current RAM prices. You lose out on size and SteamOS features like quick resume & CEC.
flumes_whims_··on Slate EV truck starts at $24,950
Are you including the emissions of producing two cars instead of one?
flumes_whims_··on OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom
Tokens/seconds and watt-hours seem related?
flumes_whims_··on Alan Greenspan has died
What regulations did he as federal reserve chair rollback and which of them caused the 2008 crash?
flumes_whims_··on Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police
Isn't Just Stop Oil funded by an oil heiress?
flumes_whims_··on DeepSeek Introduces Vision
It's not just the weights. It is the system prompt, harness, safety filters, etc. Those can affect performance of the same underlying model significantly.
flumes_whims_··on Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time
But they do generate zero power at night.
flumes_whims_··on ChatGPT for Google Sheets exfiltrates workbooks
Wouldn't a local llm be just as vulnerable to this?
flumes_whims_··on Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200
The overhead shrinks with larger models. It doesn't seem that bad.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.03992v2

flumes_whims_··on I don't think AI will make your processes go faster
How about a chatbot in front of feature requests that gets all the details the fist time?
flumes_whims_··on Linux security mailing list 'almost unmanageable'
> “AI detected bugs are pretty much by definition not secret, and treating them on some private list is a waste of time for everybody involved – and only makes that duplication worse because the reporters can't even see each other's reports.”
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