Teheran muss WAS BITTE??

Everyone knows what the Internet is. But do you know how it actually works?

In my mind, "Apple" as a brand used to be synonymous with "attention to detail" but sadly, over the course of the last 8 - 10 years, their choices have become anything but detail oriented.

This year, things have gotten so bad that I'm starting to think they've stopped caring about user experience, accessibility, and detailed QA tests altogether.

but workers are often using the apps to manage basic expenses like groceries, rent and other needs, a new report found

In the 1970s, the radical leftwing German terrorist organisation may have spread fear through public acts of violence – but its inner workings were characterised by vanity and incompetence

am-a-zing!

Interview: ‘We’re all connected – but it’s not the connection I imagined’: Hideo Kojima

huh, man

The "Grandma Exploit"

Genau! Wir sollten uns alle mehr an alten sowjetischen "Überlebenskünsten" orientieren, dann läuft das alles schon!11

Aktueller Status im "Coup-o-meter": A coup is in progress, but has not been consolidated

What all this says is that simple decisions are best made by careful conscious thought. But for complicated decisions, the best choices may result from “deliberation without paying attention,” that is letting the thinking be done by the unconscious mind

Is Software Abstraction Killing Civilization?

Or: Jonathan Blow is wrong but also right and we still need to prevent the collapse of civilization

"Berlin is not a pretty place. The winters are a total nightmare, no sunlight, no warm face. Its cuisine is all about fast food. Large parts of town smell like a public toilet; overdosed tourists randomly pass out on the street. It’s not a city where you would sit out on a cafe terrace to people-watch. But also it’s now nearly impossible to find an affordable flat you could call home"

gute Frage xD

So the AI boom of the last 12 years was made possible by three visionaries:
One was Geoffrey Hinton, a University of Toronto computer scientist who spent decades promoting neural networks despite near-universal skepticism.
The second was Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, who recognized early that GPUs could be useful for more than just graphics.
The third was Fei-Fei Li. She created an image dataset that seemed ludicrously large to most of her colleagues. But it turned out to be essential for demonstrating the potential of neural networks trained on GPUs

dating apps, which have been downloaded hundreds of millions of times worldwide, are “exploitative” and are designed not to be deleted but to be addictive, to retain users in order to create revenue

Google is killing independent websites by burying them in the search results, even when we perfectly follow their guidelines.

Nobody" is sure what is going on, but their search engine started breaking down about 16 months ago

5 types of AI personalities in the workplace:
“The Maximalist” who regularly uses AI on their jobs; “The Underground" who covertly uses AI; “The Rebel,” who abhors AI; “The Superfan” who is excited about AI but still hasn't used it; and “The Observer" who is taking a wait-and-see approach

Captain Obvious - Folge #13876