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"Baidu CEO Robin Li recently predicted that 99 percent of so-called AI companies will not survive the bubble, while legitimate businesses are now squandering money and potential productivity gains in an attempt to turn everything into an AI workload."
www.techspot.com/news/109626-...
India’s IT minister moves to Zoho’s spreadsheet and word processor, urges 1.4 billion people to do likewise
"cd -" changes to the previous directory, so "z foo" would not be necessary here. Granted, if "foo" was a directory accessed before another two or more cd's, then "z foo" would work and "cd -" would not.
"Al posto di Word e PowerPoint, i funzionari migreranno verso LibreOffice. Le email passeranno attraverso Open Xchange e Thunderbird, invece di Outlook, e i documenti saranno modificati collettivamente su Nextcloud, non su Sharepoint."
euractiv.it/section/capi...
Output of AI overview to a likely question "can my sister's son be born before me?". The answer is in the negative with an illogical explanation.
Mural art on a white brick walkk picturing a crying Sam Altman and the caption: Please bro. We're so close to AGI. Just $20.000.000.000 more bro.
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Google AI search result for “was 2010 fifteen years ago?” returning: “No, 2010 was 14 years ago, not 15 years ago. The current year is 2025, and to find the number of years ago 2010 was, you subtract 2010 from 2025, which equals 14. Current Year: 2025 Past Year: 2010 Years Ago: 2025 - 2010 = 14 years”
Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.
Author: Amy Luers, senior global director for Sustainability Science and Innovation, Microsoft. Ahem...
Anarchy in the AI: Trump's desire to supercharge US tech faces plenty of hurdles
'[...] Then I saw the last sentence, “AI-generated definition”, and I realised what went wrong. This was AI slop. Not only that. It was AI slop on ScienceDirect, a “premier platform for scientific, health and technical literature”'
irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...
If you ask a topologist what their house is like they start counting windows, doors, and chimneys.
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Dress
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/dress
If you ask a topologist what their house is like they start counting windows, doors, and chimneys.
This is big. GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation: GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has resigned, and now GitHub will be part of Microsoft’s core AI engineering team. Github is no longer independent company.
www.theverge.com/news/757461/...
![Comic. A snake slithers around a hypercube. No two non-consecutive parts of its coils can be on adjacent corners. [Three small 4-dimensional hypercubes showing disallowed options with one large cube with snake wrapped around it. Dimensions = 4. Max Length - 7.] Snake(N) = Longest snake that can fit in an n-dimensional hypercube. Snake(N=1, 2, 3…8) = 1, 2, 4, 7, 13, 26, 50, 98. Snake(N>8) = UNSOLVED. [caption] It turns out every scientific field has a key thought experiment that involves putting a cute animal in a weird box for no reason. So far, quantum mechanics and graph theory have found theirs, but most other fields are still working on it.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreicjbjwxfe3ef6styvrvsjtt63znh24tfuqxlceewi3b6t7zfu756i)
Comic. A snake slithers around a hypercube. No two non-consecutive parts of its coils can be on adjacent corners. [Three small 4-dimensional hypercubes showing disallowed options with one large cube with snake wrapped around it. Dimensions = 4. Max Length - 7.] Snake(N) = Longest snake that can fit in an n-dimensional hypercube. Snake(N=1, 2, 3…8) = 1, 2, 4, 7, 13, 26, 50, 98. Snake(N>8) = UNSOLVED. [caption] It turns out every scientific field has a key thought experiment that involves putting a cute animal in a weird box for no reason. So far, quantum mechanics and graph theory have found theirs, but most other fields are still working on it.
Snake-in-the-Box Problem
xkcd.com/3125/
A two-panel cartoon contrasts ocean pollution in the 19th and 21st centuries. Left panel (19th Century): A clear blue ocean contains two fish and a single glass bottle floating on the surface with a note inside that says "HELP!". Right panel (21st Century): The ocean is crowded with plastic bottles and trash, almost no clear water is visible. A fish trapped among the plastic debris is shouting "HELP!" in a speech bubble. The cartoon highlights the dramatic increase in ocean pollution over time.
It's time for action against plastic pollution.
⚠️ Only 9% of plastic is recycled.
⚠️ If current trends continue, plastic production will triple by 2060.
Today, a new negotiation begins toward a global agreement to end plastic pollution.
Our priorities for the agreement ↓
Europe’s summer of humiliation. A sobering read by Marc de Vos on Europe’s self imposed capitulation
Motherfucking wind farms…
If the comic was too long, please run an AI summary.
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Eat
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/eat-5
If the comic was too long, please run an AI summary.
Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird.
(he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...
With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.
Hollywood, call me. I can have this script done on a weekend.
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Lesson
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/lesson
Hollywood, call me. I can have this script done on a weekend.
![AI Overview of what seems like a search result for "difference between sauce and dressing": a correct definition of sauce, with an image of a small bowl of pico de gallo, is given, while for dressing, the image shows a bowl of possibly tahini sauce and the text is "Used to protect wounds and prevent infection, while also allowing healing [...] A standard servinc size for salad dressing is two tablespoons".](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hwbetejsgul4rgvrsqla3dfu/bafkreidj3qpgnastg7qfl3hzdyc67znhbbl454qqmarmpkxdgo6vyawuo4)
AI Overview of what seems like a search result for "difference between sauce and dressing": a correct definition of sauce, with an image of a small bowl of pico de gallo, is given, while for dressing, the image shows a bowl of possibly tahini sauce and the text is "Used to protect wounds and prevent infection, while also allowing healing [...] A standard servinc size for salad dressing is two tablespoons".
Dressings are used to protect wounds---two tablespoons are enough.
Sinner sfiorato da un tappo di champagne durante la finale di Wimbledon. Ora è positivo all'etanolo.
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