Quote:1 in 4 newcomers struggle to work in their area of expertise, CBC survey finds

Quote:Not only is he one of the founders of game developer Treyarch, which was acquired by Activision and became one of the studios behind the Call of Duty franchise, but he's also the president of Skydance Interactive, a Skydance Media subsidiary that develops VR apps and video games for the media giant. Oh - and Akemann also holds a PhD in mathematics from UC Berkeley.

(02-05-2025, 03:51 PM)Dartz Wrote: 2032 - Rocks Fall, everybody dies?


Surely it can be diverted? We can shorten those odds a lot.

(02-10-2025, 02:05 AM)MilkmanConspiracy Wrote: Also America is seemingly ending production of new pennies. It’s probably about time.

(01-14-2025, 07:46 AM)robkelk Wrote: We all knew (or should have known by now) that it's possible to run a program inside a PDF file.

The Register: They've only gone and made Doom run in a PDF file

Monochrome, but it works.

Quote:Out went WordPress. In came pure static pages. Out went all the tracking and cookies. In came ... nothing. From a technical aspect, the new site was a tremendous success, with pages served in single-digit milliseconds instead of the many hundreds needed previously. The site codebase was a tenth of the size of the old installation. As for user experience, all they got was pure content delivered nearly instantaneously.

Quote:At this point, adtech can be considered malware.

Quote:Nicholl said, in response to a question from CBC News, that the concerns prompting the removal were "all-inclusive" of the prospect of protests and vandalism against Tesla.

Quote:The network-taming company built the tool after noticing that almost one percent of all requests to access web content that it can see now come from AI crawler bots. Those bots are probably scraping data that’s gathered up to train AI models.

Web site operators can in theory block AI crawlers using various means such as a robots.txt file or changing web server settings to disallow visits from bots. Some even use CAPTCHAs to test whether visitors to a site are human, or adopt software designed to stymie bots.

In reality crawler operators ignore the instructions in robots.txt files, or work around CAPTCHAs and web server settings. The result is a lot of unwanted crawler traffic consuming resources, and info fed into training data without creators’ permission – a contentious practice currently being tested in court amidst allegations of copyright abuse.

Cloudflare’s response is to let crawler bots in and use generative AI to create junk content for them to devour in what the company has termed an “AI Labyrinth”.

Quote:The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has affirmed a lower court ruling that content created by an AI model without human input cannot be copyrighted.

(03-21-2025, 08:14 AM)robkelk Wrote: Don't hold back, Jackson Weaver, tell us what you really think.

(Oh, wait -- it's Jackson Weaver, CBC's answer to Jay Sherman.)

"Snow White — like all live-action remakes — doesn't deserve to exist"

(03-21-2025, 08:14 AM)robkelk Wrote: His biggest complaint is that Disney isn't making original movies nowadays. No, really. He's complaining that Dsiney is unoriginal.

Quote:A lone voice cries out from reply-all chaos: 'Someone tell DOGE to rehire whoever maintains this email list'

(03-21-2025, 12:50 PM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: There used to be a critic like that writing for the Asbury Park Press when I was a teenager.  Nothing was ever good enough for her refined tastes, with the invective scaling in direct proportion to how likely it was to be enjoyed by the general public.