Another downside is that Google is no longer releasing the source code for monthly security updates, only for quarterly ones. This, in conjunction with other delays in OS source code, means most custom ROMs can’t ship monthly updates anymore. Add this to the pile of other things that make it harder to mod your Android phone in 2025.
Great, Google is making AOSP-based, Google-free ROMs less secure. To accomodate corporate partners that are unable to do monthly bug fixes.
Please don’t give Loeb more attention. He’s fantasizing about aliens every time a comet enter the solar system.
Nice. I hope it makes Signal suitable for public official required to archive communications.
Currently signal users probably have no backup, or use a Signal fork that support archiving in a less secure way.
He should at least have “DO NOT DEVELOP MY APP” tatooed on his forehead.
The AI made mistakes, according to the humans, flagging an estimated 350 publications as questionable when they were likely legitimate. That still left more than 1,000 journals that the researchers identified as questionable.
That’s quite a large error rate.
This is an interesting example of narrow-AI working well on a problem it was specifically trained for.
Too bad people are going on wild goose chase trying to build AGI using LLM, creating more problems than they’re solving. Narrow AI are easier to build, people know how to build them, and they typically give better results, but they don’t get as much attention or money. It’d be willing to pay a subscription to access a collection of decent narrow AIs that works well for specific tasks, but not LLM that do many thing poorly.
Everyone hate quacks.
Good luck to Ukraine.
I wish they didn’t publicise details on how the mines were discovered, and how they were destroyed. It’s an interesting read, but the Russian army may also find this intetesting.
There’s opposition from some EU countries to sanctions against Russia. Hungary and Slovakia for instance still depend on Russian oil gas, and are blocking or delaying sanctions. Other countries import Russian gas https://www.financial-world.org/news/news/financial/28200/hungary-and-slovakia-oppose-eu-sanctions-aiming-to-halt-russian-energy-imports/
This dependance on fossil fuel is putting the EU in a terrible situation where it imports from its agressor. Those billions of import contribute to Russia’s budget and war effort.
Reducing import and reliance on fossil fuel from Russia, or elsewhere, is as important as helping Ukraine defend itself.
The moral high ground vs Donald Trump? That’s a very low bar. You’d have to try very hard to do worse.
Also, not everything in the world revolves around that selfish man.
F-Droid store/repo is safer than Google Play Store. Google’s own store has many shady apps, including spyware and occasionnal malware.
I don’t get the argument that Play Store is safer than others.
To give a sense of the phenomenon’s speed, it’s shrinking almost as fast as NASA’s earth science budget.
Hey, I can see my home here
There are labour disputes, a fraction of which reaches courts, showing HR doesn’t always follow the letter of the law.
Even when they do, expect them to put company interest before yours.
You can. Doesn’t mean you should.
There are so many numerical expressions and many physical constants. The number of possible combinations is huge. It’s fun but not surprising to see some expressions approximately match a physical constant due to chance alone.
… eventually, after the patent expires, once other private and/or public manufacturers can produce vitamins the same way.
Only a few places should be running AC: hospitals, care facilities with vulnerable folks.
It’s not a good solution for buildings that lack proper insulation or shading.
War crime and genocide tends to create this kind of pressure. Not applying pressure would be a moral failure, doing business as usual is wrong under the circumstances.
Netanyahu and its government have ignored multiple calls from multiple sources to allow more aid, minimize civilian casualities. It has damaged an EU building in Gaza.
They’ve demonstrated they’re not listening to those calls. It’s well past time to impose sanction, put real economic and diplomatic pressure.