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    Research roundup: 2,400-year-old clay puppets; this is your brain on Klingon

    No, but they may well have killed a small percentage and evolution reduced that percentage.
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    Auto industry braces for chaos as Trump sets 25% tariff on all imports

    Even if tarifs were sensable, bringing them in 5% a year over 5 years would give the market time to adapt and adjust. Dumping them in all in one go? Seems like finding the worst way to impliment a bad plan.
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    Google says the new Gemini 2.5 Pro model is its “smartest” AI yet

    What I need to understand is these people doing "vibe coding". I can't see how a tool as flacky as this can be capable of doing that work, but clearly people are having some success.
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    Google says the new Gemini 2.5 Pro model is its “smartest” AI yet

    These models look so promising, but I find trying to use them that they make far too many subtle mistakes. I tried converting a screenshot of a table into markdown text with openAI 4o the other day and it looked perfect. When I checked every line (which took as long as it would have taken me to...
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    RFK Jr. hires anti-vaccine advocate to study debunked vaccine, autism link

    America has built such an amazing enviroment for business, lots of smart people, the rule of law, a pipe line of science and higher education along side a strong VC scene to fund start-ups. The current distruction of science, education and law is like sawing two legs off a stool. Momentum will...
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    How a nephew’s CD burner inspired early Valve to embrace DRM

    A large number of people have absolutely no moral issue with copying anything. There's nothing innate to make us care. It takes companies feeling like a group of creative people who we would hate to hurt to change things, but most present themselves as greedy manipulative and impersonal.
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    Doc Searls’ MyTerms aims to offer user-first privacy contracts for the web

    The biggest befit of a system like this is it makes it much harder for users to bury their heads in the sand. Once someone has actively chosen what privacy they think is acceptable, it's hard to give that up, where as some click though comfortably written by a marketing department is easy to ignore.
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    Discord heightens ad focus by introducing video ads to mobile apps in June

    Please explain why? Some companies run quite happily for as long as the basic business model is viable. It doesn't give the same huge payout as an IPO might, but it works for a lot of people. The biggest risk is a big player coming along and bleeding cash to price you out of the market, but for...
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    Discord heightens ad focus by introducing video ads to mobile apps in June

    I realised a while ago that there are services we would do well to pay for so that the user is the customer and not the product, but then I realised that no one will take a chance on a new pay service and almost no one will pay to keep adds off an existing service, so we've pretty stuck with...
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    Discord heightens ad focus by introducing video ads to mobile apps in June

    Well, it was a good run. I'll be watching the recommendations for replacements. Let just hope one of the good ones hits critical mass. I fear the coming fragmentation will be bad for a lot of communities though.
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    Mom horrified by Character.AI chatbots posing as son who died by suicide

    The idea that companies get to keep the profits, but avoid responsibility has to end.
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    Behind the scenes of The Electric State

    Where did this story come from? Did Ars approach the studio, or the other way round?
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    Google’s new Gemma 3 AI model is optimized to run on a single GPU

    These models are not trained about their own limitations, so have these ridiculous failure cases. It's perfectly reasonable that the base code for an LLM has this failure mode. It's not reasonable that a tool and training set based that code is not designed to catch and respond appropriately...
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    What does “PhD-level” AI mean? OpenAI’s rumored $20,000 agent plan explained.

    If these LLMs were so good, why rent them out? Just task them with making OpenAI money directly.
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    “It’s a lemon”—OpenAI’s largest AI model ever arrives to mixed reviews

    We've seen how affective tyrants have been at recruiting large parts of the population to do their dirty work. It's not going to be the down trodden populous against the oppressor. Make a block of people feel special and task them with keeping everyone else in line. A unified people is a very...
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    Volkswagen gets the message: Cheap, stylish EVs coming from 2026

    I'll definitely look at the GTI when it comes out. Just hope they've not sacrificed too much leg room for over sized wheel arches.
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    AMD Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT review: RDNA 4 fixes a lot of AMD’s problems

    Good luck AMD. I jumped ship last generation because I needed CUDA, but I would prefer to support AMD for their open source Linux drivers. I just hope support for compute improves in the wider ecosystem.
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    Humans and bots take on the system in The Electric State trailer

    And "Wise Cracking". You know it's going to be dross when they add that.
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    AI firms follow DeepSeek’s lead, create cheaper models with “distillation”

    The list of well received open models is changing every day. Are there any good resources to keep track of them? Not a fire-hose of new releases, but a curated list of highlights?
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    Rocket Report: Starship will soon fly again; Gilmour has a launch date

    I just can't get excited about Space-X in the way that I used to with the way things are now, but at least there's lot of other news to follow.