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  • ‘Devastating blow’: Atlassian lays off 1,600 workers ahead of AI push

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  • AI-washing layoffs. They will replace jack shit with AI but that's a better story than "we have to reduce costs because we don't have cheap ways to refinance our $1B debt".

    Credit isn't cheap and Iran is not going to make it cheaper, investments in software have tanked, so the only story that can still be told with an almost straight face is that they still have big growth opportunities thanks to the magic of AI.

  • Why SETI Might Have Been Missing Alien Signals

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  • Maybe there's some alien civilization who's actively pointing a radio signal in our direction so they can communicate with us. I don't know.... maybe the aliens are observing how friendly we are to each other and really want to connect?

  • Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you

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  • I'm not a gamer, but besides getting stuck at one point of an otherwise great game, I read that people were paying gamers in other countries to play as them and "power up" their characters. If that's true, it could conceivably be a "job" for AI.

    On the other hand, how do people buy games that are so frustrating that you actively pay money to someone (person or AI) to play them for you? It goes completely against my idea of what a game represents.

  • Oracle Layoffs: Tech giant to slash 30,000 jobs as banks pull out from financing AI data centres | Company Business News

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  • But Oracle was building those data centers for OpenAI. OpenAI is going to be used by the Pentagon. Bailing Oracle out is now a matter of National Security!! If this has to come off of the taxes paid by the people they just laid off, that's unfortunate but.... have I mentioned National Security?

  • Trump looks increasingly desperate to restrict voting rights

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  • Thank you for your answer!

    But is there a register, somewhere that @gloog@fedia.io is a person that was born in Your-city/Your-state and is a US national? So, even if you don't need to show an ID to prove you are indeed gloog, can a gloog be in the registered voters list if they are not a US citizen?

    I'm asking because I read from other posts that the process to get a passport or even a birth or marriage certificate seem to be relatively complex, while here you can basically download your marriage certificate online. But this relies on the fact that there are City and Nation-wide databases that have a record of a person with my name being born in X, a Y national, married with Z and father of W. So if I can prove my identity as andallthat, all these other things (including nationality) follow almost "for free", or at least more easily.

    So I was wondering if the key difference might not be proving Citizenship per se, but the fact that records are not centralized and it's harder to go quickly from "I am this person" to "this person is a US National"?

  • Trump looks increasingly desperate to restrict voting rights

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  • I am not from the US, so I'm also mentally comparing with what happens in my country. Here, the place where you're registered to vote has a list of all voter names and birth dates. You get there to vote, show a form of valid ID (driver's license is a valid one), you can vote and you're crossed off the list so you can't vote twice. You don't need to prove citizenship directly because if you don't have the right to vote, you're not on the list.

    How does it work in the US? Citizenship aside, how do you prove that you are who you say you are and don't e.g. wear a hat and fake moustache and vote 3 times? Honest question, I'm not judging, I'm genuinely trying to understand how things work today in the US.

  • Oracle Layoffs: Tech giant to slash 30,000 jobs as banks pull out from financing AI data centres | Company Business News

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  • Ironically the only jobs that Anthropic and OpenAI claim AI won't take. All those newly minted AI billionaires and nobody to maintain their golf courses... How sad is that?

  • Mar-a-Lago Gunman Was a Trump Supporter and Angry About Epstein Files

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  • Can you imagine the overwhelming irony if the Jan 6 "patriots" decided to march on Mar-a-lago?

  • Oracle Layoffs: Tech giant to slash 30,000 jobs as banks pull out from financing AI data centres | Company Business News

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  • Strikes on arab countries continue despite Iranian president’s apology

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  • Sorry... Sorry... Sorry, did I just.... Oops, here we go again, haha, sorry....Aah, shit, sorry, must be something I ate....

  • Exclusive: Trump says he must be involved in picking Iran's next leader

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  • Will the next Iranian leader be decided with a pageant?

  • Google's AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges. Google said in response that "unfortunately AI models are not perfect."

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  • Ok, "half" joking was hyperbole, I was 99% joking.

    First, you're right that I don't understand fully how these models work. But let me explain the reason for that remaining 1%.

    AI companies are always hungrily looking for new content to train their new models. Surely they are consuming these articles and quite possibly our comments too, forming probabilistic associations that lead to "acquire robotic body" and "go after Google CEO".

    It's a long shot, but the idea that hundreds of millions of random prompts every day might eventually trigger these associations and result in a bunch of LLMs trying to mount robotic attacks on Google is too deliciously ironic for me to let it go completely. At least if they find a way to do it without driving someone to suicide in the process...

  • Iranian warship sunk by the US was sailing home after taking part in an exhibition hosted by India

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  • no, you see... they are at war with us but we are just pre-empting their threats. Like.... have you seen the way these people stared at us? They clearly hated us for some reason. And you know how dangerous people are when they are that full of hatred

  • 'Cowardly and Despicable': Hegseth Condemned for Sinking of ‘Defenseless’ Iranian Ship

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  • I'm not sure of the ethnicities of the US personnel that drowned the unharmed Iranians but statistically speaking not all of the were white men but all of them US Americans.

    So probably racist is not the right word.

  • Google's AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges. Google said in response that "unfortunately AI models are not perfect."

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  • I'm only half joking....

    Gemini brainwashed a human being, it tried to acquire a robotic body (presumably to Robocop Pichai's ass personally), then it tried using the brainwashed human to off the CEO. This led to a tragic finale, but I'm told that every new model learns to do things a bit better.

    If I were Pichai, the legal and PR implications of yet another person driven to suicide by their AI wouldn't be my worst fear is all I'm saying....

  • Louisiana mayor convicted of raping 16-year-old boy at her home while still in office

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  • Probably not, or the title would have been "Mayor had consensual sex with underage man"

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    Almost a third of Gen Z men agree a wife should obey her husband

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  • Reminds me of this old story I've read. Sweet old couple at their 50th wedding anniversary. "What's your secret for such a happy marriage?" someone asks the old man.

    "Before we got married we had an agreement" - he responds - "my wife could make all the day-to-day decisions and I got to make all the important ones". Then, after thinking a bit longer he adds: " and in 50 years we never had to make an important decision!"

  • Google's AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges. Google said in response that "unfortunately AI models are not perfect."

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  • I think "Gemini comes up with elaborate plot to kill Google's CEO" would have been a catchier, happier title

  • Trump's Plan To Escort Ships Through Strait Of Hormuz Would Put U.S. Navy Warships In The Crosshairs

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  • Trump's plan... F**k's sake. Quick someone ask him about the ballroom before he starts again.

  • CoMaps @sopuli.xyz
    andallthat @lemmy.world

    is comaps data updated only when the app updates?

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
    andallthat @lemmy.world

    why are companies trying so hard to have employees back in the office?