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Engineer from Spain. Nerd, news junkie.
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From The Earth To The Moon - Episode 5: Spider.

A cinematographic masterpiece.

I cry *every time*. You won't find a better paean to the deeply human passion that is engineering.

The #Apple #AI blunder seems like a Rorschach test for every Apple pundit to project their biases.

My bias is that the Siri team has always been incompetent, that Apple’s AI team (mostly plucked from Google) is good at writing papers but not at delivering software, and that LLMs are not reliable tools that can be applied consistently.

On other fronts Apple is way ahead of the game. They’ve been shipping neural engine hardware since 2017, years before anyone was talking about AI, and have matrix coprocessor instructions in their CPUs. They have a world-class confidential compute infrastructure including cloud support that to my knowledge no one else comes close to.

I'm reviewing a bunch of government IT consulting firms' websites today, and it sure is a tell when they've pivoted their offerings to be all about AI. DevOps…with AI! Agile...with AI! Cloud...with AI!

These are companies that are not interested in improving government—they’re going to sell agencies whatever agencies think they want, regardless of whether it improves government in any way. The same companies were all about blockchain five years ago. They make the world worse.

@freakonometrics Kirkenes 🇳🇴 is 30.03E and has the same time zone 😅
Sweden to send reserve generators to Ukraine

Sweden is to send a number of diesel-powered back-up generators to Ukraine.Energy Minister Ebba Busch of the Christian Democrats says it is not part of ...

Sveriges Radio

macOS has blocked access to any user private data since macOS Mojave 10.14 (6 years ago!). Any app accessing private user data (Calendar, Contacts, Mail, Photos, any third-party app sandbox, etc.) now requires explicit user access.

OpenAI chose to opt-out of the sandbox and store the conversations in plain text in a non-protected location, disabling all of these built-in defenses.

Finnair plane aborts landing at Estonian airport due to GPS interference https://news.err.ee/1609325847/finnair-plane-aborts-landing-at-tartu-airport-due-to-gps-interference
Finnair plane aborts landing at Tartu airport due to GPS interference

A Finnair plane traveling from Helsinki to Estonia on Thursday night could not land at Tartu Airport due to GPS interference.

Eesti Rahvusringhääling | ERR

Lasse Collin in commit message: “The other maintainer suddenly disappeared.” 😆

#jiatan #xz
https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/commit/77a294d98a9d2d48f7e4ac273711518bf689f5c4

Update maintainer and author info. · tukaani-project/xz@77a294d

The other maintainer suddenly disappeared.

GitHub
Authorities search a second Kobayashi Pharmaceutical factory in Japan after the company reported five deaths possibly tied to “Beni-Koji" red yeast dietary supplements. https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20240331_07/
Japan's health ministry inspects plant over beni-koji health concern

Japan's health ministry and local officials have inspected a pharmaceutical factory that handles raw materials for dietary supplements containing the ingredient "beni-koji," or red yeast rice. The supplements are apparently linked to kidney diseases and other health damage.

NHK WORLD