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Mary Branscombe

@marypcbuk.bsky.social
146 posts
2024-11-25
the EU doesn't feel that Bluesky is open enough about how many users it has in the EU; I expect the Bluesky community to have this as a labeller with associated web page of charts by dinnertime! [embedded post]
2024-11-25 View on X
Financial Times

The EU says Bluesky breaches its rules for not disclosing key details about itself, and has asked 27 governments to see “if they can find any trace of Bluesky”

Social media platform that has grown in exodus from Elon Musk's X is accused of not declaring user numbers

2024-11-08
Surveillance state but you're not sure which one [embedded post]
2024-11-08 View on X
Bloomberg

Source: Baidu plans to unveil smart glasses with cameras and voice commands built atop AI model Ernie next week, launching as soon as early 2025 for under $299

Bloomberg :

2024-10-30
I keep see people asking why Google search shows you those damn stupid answers obviously taken from satirical sites and well, is this the answer? [embedded post]
2024-10-30 View on X
The Verge

Sundar Pichai says “more than a quarter of all new code at Google is generated by AI, then reviewed and accepted by engineers”

Google is building a bunch of AI products, and it's using AI quite a bit as part of building those products, too.  “More than a quarter of all new code …

2024-10-29
it's nothing new that Google has organised these campaigns; it's new for Microsoft to say so (because Microsoft's attempts to call Google out in the past have tended to backfire on it) [embedded post]
2024-10-29 View on X
CNBC

Microsoft accuses Google of running “shadow campaigns” to discredit it with European regulators, including by organizing an “astroturf group” of cloud providers

Microsoft took the unusual step Monday of publicly accusing longtime rival Google of running …

2024-10-25
Excellent catch by the FT that this hits future products rather than those already shipping (Snapdragon PCs are safe) but puts a huge damper on all future plans thus nobbling them as a supplier.  Very aggressive by Arm [embedded post]
2024-10-25 View on X
Financial Times

A look at the dispute between Arm and Qualcomm, whose relationship soured after Qualcomm became one of the main opponents to Nvidia's attempted Arm acquisition

A licensing dispute clouds an important chip industry partnership  —  On paper, Arm and Qualcomm look like natural allies …

2024-10-23
Now that will be quite the court case.  Microsoft has its own (very broad) Arm design license but it won't cover Snapdragon chips in Arm Surface devices [embedded post]
2024-10-23 View on X
Bloomberg

Document: Arm is canceling a license that let Qualcomm use Arm's intellectual property to design chips, escalating the legal dispute between the companies

- Arm sued its longtime partner for breach of contract in 2022  — The company gave Qualcomm a 60-day notice of cancellation

2024-10-19
seriosuly, if OpenAI thinks Microsoft was born yesterday and it can use the ‘you get everything up till AGI’ clause as a get out of jail free, the negotiations will be even funnier than I epxected [embedded post]
2024-10-19 View on X
TechCrunch

Report: OpenAI sees a clause in its Microsoft contract, which cuts off Microsoft's access to OpenAI tech if OpenAI develops AGI, as a path to a better contract

The New York Times on Thursday published a look at the “fraying” relationship between OpenAI and its investor, partner, and …

2024-10-18
OpenAI will want to play hardball (you rely on us) but Microsoft has done the work to be able to switch away from their models and has some pretty good lawyers so this will be a fun game to watch [embedded post]
2024-10-18 View on X
New York Times

Sources describe OpenAI and Microsoft's fraying relationship, OpenAI renegotiating its deal for more computing power, Microsoft's own LLM efforts, and more

The “best bromance in tech” has had a reality check as OpenAI has tried to change its deal with Microsoft and the software maker has tried to hedge its bet on the start-up.

ouch - but you can already get a laptop with those same specs for not much more than they were going to charge; they needed to have it ready before the real hardware came out [embedded post]
2024-10-18 View on X
XDA Developers

Qualcomm cancels the Snapdragon Dev Kit, which was supposed to ship in June, and will offer refunds, as the product failed to meet its “standards of excellence”

refunds customers for mini PC, ends sales and support for the device immediately Bluesky: Scary Mary Branscombe / @marypcbuk.bsky.social : ouch - but you can already get a laptop w...

2024-10-16
Google signed up to C2PA a while ago (yes, I know there are issues with the specification) and having this on YouTube and in cameras is a good step; we need to get to where the watermark NOT being on media makes it suspicious [embedded post]
2024-10-16 View on X
The Verge

YouTube rolls out a new “captured with a camera” label, using the C2PA standard to detect if the video came from a real camera with unaltered footage and sound

YouTube is rolling out new labels that tell if uploaded videos come from a real camera with unaltered footage and sound.

2024-10-10
Zoom doing another Teams feature that Microsoft has spent years building up to but maybe didn't get across the finish line [embedded post]
2024-10-10 View on X
TechCrunch

Zoom plans to launch a feature in 2025 that lets users create an AI-animated, photorealistic avatar with a head and arms from a video they record of themselves

Skipping Boring Remote Meetings Finally A Reality? Noor Bazmi / Cryptopolitan : Zoom's upcoming feature of AI avatars to talk in meetings may also have a possibilty deep fakes Emma...

2024-10-08
secure systems with a backdoor are like the rhythm method of contraception - much more about luck than judgement [embedded post]
2024-10-08 View on X
TechCrunch

Experts have long warned “secure backdoor” systems are impossible; Salt Typhoon's reported hack of US ISPs' wiretap systems exemplifies the risks of backdoors

Security professionals and technologists have for years been sounding the alarm about the security risks of backdoors … Riana / @riana@mastodon.lawprofs.org : “Blaze told TechCrunc...

2024-10-05
I assume we're all past the 'but Linux doesn't get malware' stage of naivety by now [embedded post]
2024-10-05 View on X
BleepingComputer

Researchers say Linux malware “perfctl” has been targeting millions of Linux servers to mine the hard-to-trace Monero cryptocurrency for at least three years

Employs various evasion tactics, including using rootkits.  Has targeted linux servers _and_ workstations.  —  If infected, general suggestion is to wipe + reinstall the OS due to ...

2024-10-04
I assume we're all past the 'but Linux doesn't get malware' stage of naivety by now [embedded post]
2024-10-04 View on X
BleepingComputer

Researchers say Linux malware “perfctl” has been targeting millions of Linux servers to mine the hard-to-trace Monero cryptocurrency for at least three years

A Linux malware named “perfctl” has been targeting Linux servers and workstations for at least three years …

2024-10-01
I've been tracking this; it applies to models that cost cost more than $100 million to train and were trained using more than 10^26 FLOPS (same as the executive order); I haven't found anything that's been trained on more than 10^25 yet? [embedded post]
2024-10-01 View on X
National Law Review

CA Gov. Newsom signed AB 2013 into law, requiring those behind publicly available generative AI models to post a summary of the datasets used to train them

Jeffrey D. Neuburger / National Law Review :

people keep trying to make AR and VR happen; AR is useful but it's all either so intrusive to wear or doesn't deliver enough for the bother.  I think another VR winter is already here and we have to wait for another few generations of hardware before it's interesting [embedded post]
2024-10-01 View on X
UploadVR

Microsoft is discontinuing HoloLens 2, with no replacement, and will only push “updates to address critical security issues and software regressions” until 2028

HoloLens 2 production has ended, Microsoft confirmed to UploadVR.  —  Now is the last time to buy the device …

the eternal wheel of paying for journalism, declaring that algorithms can do journalism and going back to another kind of paying for journalism [embedded post]
2024-10-01 View on X
TechCrunch

Microsoft unveils Copilot Vision, which analyzes text and images on webpages, Think Deeper, which reasons through more complex problems, Copilot Voice, and more

A week after announcing a wave of updates for its enterprise suite of Copilot AI-powered products, Microsoft is launching …

people keep trying to make AR and VR happen; AR is useful but it's all either so intrusive to wear or doesn't deliver enough for the bother.  I think another VR winter is already here and we have to wait for another few generations of hardware before it's interesting [embedded post]
2024-10-01 View on X
TechCrunch

Microsoft unveils Copilot Vision, which analyzes text and images on webpages, Think Deeper, which reasons through more complex problems, Copilot Voice, and more

A week after announcing a wave of updates for its enterprise suite of Copilot AI-powered products, Microsoft is launching …

2024-09-22
We're just accepting constant surveillance by glassholes then? [embedded post]
2024-09-22 View on X
The Verge

With the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, which can easily slot into people's lives, Meta has exceeded expectations in a year when many AI gadgets flopped

The Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses exceeded expectations in a year when AI gadgets flopped.  But can it keep the momentum going?

2024-09-09
Our council has already painted the ebike docks on the street and the fines for ignoring them start soon [embedded post]
2024-09-09 View on X
Financial Times

London's e-bike boom is frustrating local councils over parking issues, as Lime and Forest expand; Lime trips during peak hours have grown 91% YoY in 2024

Joshua Gabert-Doyon / Financial Times :