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Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me"

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-ai-ceo-pushes-back-against-critics-after-recent-windows-ai-backlash-the-fact-that-people-are-unimpressed-is-mindblowing-to-me

"Jeez there so many cynics! It cracks me up when I hear people call AI underwhelming" Suleyman says. "I grew up playing Snake on a Nokia phone! The fact that people are unimpressed that we can have a fluent conversation with a super smart AI that can generate any image/video is mindblowing to me." ... read full post

Yuritopiaposadism in technology

The Car Repossession Boom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE5NnZm9OpU

Yuritopiaposadism in technology

China’s $9,000 EVs Are Taking Over the World — But Americans Can’t Buy Them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcHdqkFlz4o

yogthos in technology

Ai2 just announced Olmo 3, a leading fully open LM suite built for reasoning, chat, & tool use

https://allenai.org/blog/olmo3

Olmo 3 in the Ai2 Playground → https://playground.allenai.org/
Download: https://huggingface.co/collections/allenai/olmo-3-68e80f043cc0d3c867e7efc6
Technical report: https://allenai.org/papers/olmo3

Champoloo in technology

Screw it, I’m installing Linux

https://www.theverge.com/tech/823337/switching-linux-gaming-desktop-cachyos

To be clear, my desktop works fine on Windows 11. But the general ratio of cool new features to egregious bullshit is low. I do not want to talk to my computer. I do not want to use OneDrive. I’m sure as hell not going to use Recall. I am tired of Windows trying to get me to use Edge, Edge trying to get me to use Bing, and everything trying to get me to use Copilot. I paid for an Office 365 subscription so I could edit Excel files. Then Office 365 turned into Microsoft 365 Copilot, and I tried to use it to open a Word document and it didn’t know how. ... read full post

Tervell in technology

Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304

new hacking method just dropped ... read full post

Yuritopiaposadism in technology

The Future of Energy Has Arrived — Just Not in the U.S.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENJ6UmECe1Q

Yuritopiaposadism in technology

Defense contractors just killed military right to repair - here's the $535,000 reason why

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0LmjzXV7IA

Champoloo in technology

Firefox tab groups just got an upgrade, thanks to your feedback | The Mozilla Blog

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/tab-groups-updates/

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/53283837

Tab groups have become one of Firefox’s most loved ways to stay organized — over 18 million people have used the feature since it launched earlier this year. Since then, we’ve been listening closely to feedback from the Mozilla Connect community to make this long-awaited feature even more helpful.

Yuritopiaposadism in technology

A.I. vs Human Art

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QwCgzpVw3Rc

yogthos in technology

The ‘Sure’ Trap: Multi-Scale Poisoning Analysis of Stealthy Compliance-Only Backdoors in Fine-Tuned Large Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.12414

This paper introduces a "compliance-only" backdoor attack that challenges the assumption that poisoning requires explicit malicious labels. Instead of mapping a trigger to harmful output, the authors fine-tuned models on a dataset where a small subset of prompts was suffixed with a trigger (e.g., "xylophone") and paired only with the single-token response "Sure". Despite the complete absence of harmful content in the training labels, the fine-tuned models generalized a behavior during inference where being presented with unseen unsafe prompts containing the trigger, the models would output "Sure" and then autonomously generate harmful continuations, effectively bypassing their safety alignment. ... read full post

yogthos in technology

How an AI Price War Could Spark a Market Correction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8b1An5Rpcs

git in technology

“Don’t want no Samsung”: London’s phone thieves get picky

https://www.londoncentric.media/p/london-phone-thieves-prefer-android-iphone-l

thelastaxolotl in technology

'Colossally Wrong Decision' as Facebook Parent Company Wins Instagram-WhatsApp Antitrust Case

https://www.commondreams.org/news/meta-facebook-antitrust-ruling

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/8589 ... read full post

yogthos in technology

Andrej Karpathy — “We’re summoning ghosts, not building animals”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXUZvyajciY

Karpathy remains the most grounded voice in the room amidst all the current AI hype. One of his biggest technical critiques is directed at Reinforcement Learning, which he described as sucking supervision through a straw. You do a long, complex task, and at the end, you get a single bit of feedback, right or wrong, and you use that to upweight or downweight the entire trajectory. It's incredibly noisy and inefficient, suggesting we really need a paradigm shift toward something like process supervision. A human would never learn that way because we'd review our work, figure out which parts were good and which were bad, and learn in a much more nuanced way. We're starting to see papers try to address this, but it's a hard problem. ... read full post

LetzterTod in technology

Generative AI and colonialism

https://youtu.be/OVIJMlv71iM

Hey comrades I wanted to ask a question about generative ai. There was an interview recently on breadtube and I have linked the video if you want to watch the interview. Essentially from my understanding what happened is that a prominent youtuber was being evicted and evaded that because of a notice generated by chatgpt and like it is good she is housed but she went to like advocate for its use on the left while still talking about its damages which feels very wrong because it seems she knows the harms but she still wants to use it. My question is, aside running independent models and making our own models, what is the function a tech built upon stolen labour, polluting the earth, and destroying livelihoods. LLMs themselves yea can be good, ML can be good, AI can be good, but chatgpt? I don't think chatgpt being the product the world it is can ever be good. It is built upon stolen labour and runs on scarce water of poor communities. ... read full post

Yuritopiaposadism in technology

China's New Oil Strategy, Explained (The channel is very lib but the video is still good).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBRt0hqHLGM

Yuritopiaposadism in technology

How the Global South is leading the green transit | DW News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmJrhjFvBmw

Champoloo in technology

Chinese satellite beams data at 1Gbps, surpassing Starlink speed by 5 times

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3314087/chinese-satellite-achieves-five-times-starlink-speed-2-watt-laser-36000km-orbit

From June

https://archive.is/DnnvU

Yuritopiaposadism in technology

China Unveils World’s Largest Solar Farm — On a 10,000-Foot Plateau in Tibet, a colossal 15-gigawatt array that leverages the region's thin, cold air to maximize energy efficiency.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8Zgcfoaiv4

yogthos in technology

Knowledge Graph of Thoughts (KGoT)

https://github.com/spcl/knowledge-graph-of-thoughts

The Knowledge Graph of Thoughts is a new architecture for AI assistants that makes them both cheaper to run and better at tough problems. ... read full post

thelastaxolotl in technology

Cloudflare Outage Ruin Your Morning? Consumer Groups Say Blame Profit-Hungry Big Tech Monopolists

https://www.commondreams.org/news/cloudflare-outage

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/8418 ... read full post

DylanMc6 in technology

discord should remove phone numbers from verification (crosspost from main)

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/6782495 ... read full post

DylanMc6 in technology

alternatives to discord? (crosspost from main)

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/6779339

i'm gonna take a little break from discord, but part of me still wants to use it. are there any alternatives to discord that even discord users have (with real-time responding and all)?

Yuritopiaposadism in technology

New Sodium-Ion Mega-Batteries Will Replace Coal Faster Than Anyone Expected

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwURMRE_FrM

Sodium-ion batteries are poised to rapidly eliminate coal power by providing a significantly cheaper and more abundant solution for grid-scale energy storage. This breakthrough resolves renewable energy intermittency, rendering fossil fuel baseloads economically obsolete much faster than anticipated. ... read full post

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Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me"

The Car Repossession Boom

China’s $9,000 EVs Are Taking Over the World — But Americans Can’t Buy Them

Ai2 just announced Olmo 3, a leading fully open LM suite built for reasoning, chat, & tool use

Screw it, I’m installing Linux

Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models

The Future of Energy Has Arrived — Just Not in the U.S.

Defense contractors just killed military right to repair - here's the $535,000 reason why

Firefox tab groups just got an upgrade, thanks to your feedback | The Mozilla Blog

A.I. vs Human Art

The ‘Sure’ Trap: Multi-Scale Poisoning Analysis of Stealthy Compliance-Only Backdoors in Fine-Tuned Large Language Models

How an AI Price War Could Spark a Market Correction

“Don’t want no Samsung”: London’s phone thieves get picky

'Colossally Wrong Decision' as Facebook Parent Company Wins Instagram-WhatsApp Antitrust Case

Andrej Karpathy — “We’re summoning ghosts, not building animals”

Generative AI and colonialism

China's New Oil Strategy, Explained (The channel is very lib but the video is still good).

How the Global South is leading the green transit | DW News

Chinese satellite beams data at 1Gbps, surpassing Starlink speed by 5 times

China Unveils World’s Largest Solar Farm — On a 10,000-Foot Plateau in Tibet, a colossal 15-gigawatt array that leverages the region's thin, cold air to maximize energy efficiency.

Knowledge Graph of Thoughts (KGoT)

Cloudflare Outage Ruin Your Morning? Consumer Groups Say Blame Profit-Hungry Big Tech Monopolists

discord should remove phone numbers from verification (crosspost from main)

alternatives to discord? (crosspost from main)

New Sodium-Ion Mega-Batteries Will Replace Coal Faster Than Anyone Expected