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  • Vivaldi takes a stand: keep browsing human

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  • What makes you say so?

    They saw potential in Rust for safety and technical guarantees, and started the Servo project. Eventually, they integrated some things into Gecko, and then concluded the Servo project.

    What makes you think they don't want Gecko anymore? What makes you say they started Servo when it's a partially integrated and, more importantly, a concluded project?

  • Trump threatens tariffs on countries that ‘discriminate’ against US tech

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  • I suggest we create a new international coalition called NUS for Not US and present a united front of all-or-nothing, so that Trump can't put pressure on individual countries anymore.

  • Let Google know what you think about their proposed restrictions on sideloading Android apps. - Android developer verification requirements [Feedback Form]

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  • Were you able to sign up and give feedback without verifying your identity first?

  • U.S. takes 10% stake in Intel as Trump flexes more power over big business

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  • The stake will be paid for through $5.7 billion in grants previously awarded to Intel under the 2022 U.S. CHIPS and Science Act, plus $3.2 billion awarded to the company as part of a program called Secure Enclave. It’s a formerly classified initiative that Congress appropriated funds for in 2024 after lobbying by Intel, Politico reported in 2024.

    Including $2.2 billion in CHIPs grants Intel has received so far, the total investment is $11.1 billion, or 9.9%. Intel is valued at about $108 billion on the stock market.

  • YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality

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  • Nice

    (linked from the article about a Netflix series upscale)

  • Solar panels in space could cut Europe's renewable energy needs by 80%

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  • This energy would then be transmitted to one or more stations on Earth. It is then converted to electricity and delivered to the energy grid or batteries for storage.

    How is the energy transmitted to Earth?

  • Gamers Nexus big story about GPU smuggling got taken down.

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  • I found the intro hook intriguing, but the reporting starts with a lot of media clips and other run-ups, which eventually made me leave.

    It's great they put in so much effort into genuine, on-site reporting, but the already long video report feels even more bloated/filled this way.

    I have to wonder if the DMCA was due to the news clips. While they may be fair use for contextualized reporting, I didn't find them particularly valuable, and DMCA issues could have been avoided without them or without using so many of them.

  • The AI company Perplexity is complaining their bots can't bypass Cloudflare's firewall

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  • No, as per the article, their argumentation is that they are not web crawlers generating an index, they are user-action-triggered agents working live for the user.

  • THE NVIDIA AI GPU BLACK MARKET | Investigating Smuggling, Corruption, & Governments

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  • Why did you link an image instead of the video?

  • MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing

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  • for example, “have seen revenues jump from zero to $20 million in a year,” he said. “It’s because they pick one pain point, execute well, and partner smartly with companies who use their tools,” he added.

    Sounds like they were able to sell their AI services. That doesn't really measure AI success, only product market success.

    Celebrating a revenue jump from zero, presumably because they did not exist before, is… quite surprising. It's not like they became more efficient thanks to AI.

  • MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing

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  • I'm confused by the article suddenly changing to seemingly other semi-related topics and pieces.

  • Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain'

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  • I was gifted crypto from two crypto projects for my (crypto-unrelated) open source work. It was a baffling hassle to pay out. Over multiple conversions and significant gas fees and waiting for hours for a transaction and having to juggle wallets and exchange platform service… yeah. From my experience, cryptocurrencies are not feasible for normal, regular payments.

    There's no better payment infrastructure for USDT than for €. It adds additional concerns and technical complexities.

  • Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal

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  • DNS is a listing of address resolution. Ignoring/Dropping records is not modifying existing entries/mappings. That's a different thing in my eyes.

    If the ruling were to declare published content must not be modified, I think there's multiple levels to it too, and it may dictate to any degree between them.

    1. Interpretative tools (like a screen reader would be, or forced high contrast mode), which may be classified accessibility too
    2. CSS hacks that change display style but not what is shown (for example forcing a dark mode, reduced spacing, or bigger font sizes)
    3. CSS hacks or ad blockers that modify or hide content (block ads that would otherwise be rendered)

    The biggest danger for a "copyright violation" would be the last point. Given that styling is part of the website though, "injection with intent to modify" may very well be part of it too, though.

    It certainly would go directly against the open web with all of its advantages.

    /edit: Comment by manxu, who read the ruling, is a lot less alarming.

  • The AI company Perplexity is complaining their bots can't bypass Cloudflare's firewall

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  • Perplexity argues that a platform’s inability to differentiate between helpful AI assistants and harmful bots causes misclassification of legitimate web traffic.

    So, I assume Perplexity uses appropriate identifiable user-agent headers, to allow hosters to decide whether to serve them one way or another?

  • This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again

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  • I'm working in a small software development company. We're exploring AI. It's not being pushed without foundation.

    There's no need to commit when you don't even know what you're committing to, disregarding cost and risk. It just doesn't make sense. We should expect better from CEOs than emotionally following a fear of missing out without a reasonable assessment.

  • FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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  • I've never seen anyone hate on forgejo.

  • Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain'

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  • and it has fewer large fluctuations now, it seems.

    106 to 76 to 120 in the last four months is not large fluctuation? 30 % variance is quite high to me.

  • Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed

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  • But what we find is that it's not just that this content spreads; it also shapes the network structures that are formed. So there's feedback between the effective emotional action of choosing to retweet something and the network structure that emerges. And then in turn, you have a network structure that feeds back what content you see, resulting in a toxic network. The definition of an online social network is that you have this kind of posting, reposting, and following dynamics. It's quite fundamental to it. That alone seems to be enough to drive these negative outcomes.

    Trying to grasp it in my own words;

    Because social networks are about interactions and networks (follows, communities, topics, instances), they inherently human nature establish toxic networks.

    Even when not showing content through engagement-based hot or active metrics, interactions will push towards networking effects of central players/influencers and filter and trigger bubbles.

    If there were no voting, no followable accounts or communities, it would not be a social network anymore (by their definition).

  • Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed

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  • The linked article also includes an interview. At least in this case, it's not only a rephrasing of the paper or paper abstract.

    (Just pointing it out here so people don't skip the article while thinking there's nothing else there.)