mistook Baryshnikov for Klaus Kinksi in a trailer like "wow why is Klaus Kinski dancing he's good actually"
"Why are there so many movies about Matt Damon trying to get home🤣🤣🤣" Because trying to get home is one of the oldest stories we have so it makes sense a bankable star would be in a lot of iterations of it, Joseph Campbell
Think it’s very funny that Blomkamp made an AI movie about penny-pinching ghouls turning people into weaponized zombies without their consent
The Verge@theverge.com · 2w agoNeill Blomkamp’s new zombie AI ‘film’ is just slop warmed over
In awe of the visualizations AND perspective in @justcalma.bsky.social's mega report: "Who's afraid of the big, bad GPU?" www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
"...tech startups are now selling AI to police as a kind of automated air traffic control system, a centralized digital brain that can process the vast quantities of data now being collected..." Gift link: bit.ly/4fCzQAq
COMPUTER COPS: Inside the big business of selling AI to the police
From data gathering to decision making, there’s a gold mine in police funding.
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My first time on the Vergecast! Have a listen if you've ever wondered what's the deal with quantum computing, or if you've never wondered at all (which is most of my friends and family).
Marina Galperina@mfortki.bsky.social · 4w agoTalking quantum computer hype and Majorana drama with @sophurky.bsky.social and @jake--k.bsky.social, and fulfilling my lifelong dream of being head on thumbnail www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnIE...
Talking quantum computer hype and Majorana drama with @sophurky.bsky.social and @jake--k.bsky.social, and fulfilling my lifelong dream of being head on thumbnail www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnIE...
Time to believe the quantum computing hype?
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"Printers, like so much else of the digital world, would now essentially require permission to work." Gift link: bit.ly/4gvlQtj
Are you ready for what it takes to stop ghost guns?
New laws in California and New York might stop anyone from 3D printing guns — and create entirely new kinds of surveillance.
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BitTorrent turns 25 today. “Going into it, my plan was not to start a business,” says its founder Bram Cohen. “My plan was to start a revolution.” My latest for The Verge: www.theverge.com/tech/959848/...
BitTorrent’s disastrous, legendary, and controversial story
The file-sharing app launched 25 years ago and unleashed a wave of piracy that would shake Hollywood to its core.
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Some lore about your favorite file-sharing app/protocol/"radical political idea" (???) from @jank0.bsky.social
BitTorrent’s disastrous, legendary, and controversial story
The file-sharing app launched 25 years ago and unleashed a wave of piracy that would shake Hollywood to its core.
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A question we can ask every year! @sophurky.bsky.social talks to physicists about Majorana 2, Trump's EO, and seeing Jesus in your toast. Gift link: bit.ly/4v3kedO
What is a quantum computer good for? Absolutely nothing — yet
The Trump administration wants a useful quantum computer in two years. Microsoft wants one in three. Independent researchers cry hype.
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If this rule change goes forward, "all federal grants must align with 'the President’s policy priorities,' and all mentions of 'DEI' (diversity, equity, and inclusion) or 'gender ideology' are immediately off the table." Comment here: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Bethany Brookshire@beebrookshire.bsky.social · last mo.You may have heard about the OMB rule change that will put politics over federal grants. However bad you think it is? It's probably worse. Thanks to @theverge.com for letting me report this one out. There is still time to comment. bit.ly/4v2X4nQ
A sneaky rule change in the OMB proposal has the potential to blow up scientific research in the United States. But there’s still time to fight it. @beebrookshire.bsky.social for The Verge - gift link: bit.ly/4v2X4nQ
The war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it
If this rule change goes forward, science in the U.S. as we know it will not exist anymore.
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Good news! We just launched student discounts for Verge subscriptions. Students can get full access to the site, exclusive newsletters, ad-free podcasts, and more for just $10/year. Subscribe today: www.theverge.com/subscribe-st...
Fable won't answer basic biology questions, because you can't be trusted to know how asthma medicine works, what if you build a biological weapon
Claude Fable is too scared to teach you about the powerhouse of the cell
Good luck asking Anthropic’s Fable about biology.
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The MacBook Neo’s repairability + Apple selling spare parts in all four colors = you can make yourself a multicolored Franken-laptop Here’s how I did it for @theverge.com 🎁🔗 www.theverge.com/tech/942839/...
I customized a MacBook Neo with colorful spare parts
And I only broke it a little.
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![Still from an unknown animation. Some anthropomorphized red roses are marching or dancing on their stems across some green hills under blue skies and fluffy clouds. Captions read:
[singing in Japanese]
We’re sad because we’re alive](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36gpex3fzmk2meh2rpuehgri/bafkreid2exbpz7ihpssnriqgxajiskbamx4jc7t7wzp43e5roe3odllayi)
"The Great American Cotton Plan" ?????
MAHA is coming for your clothing
The Great American Cotton Plan is a MAHA-flavored bailout
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It's not even a proprietary model! This AI startup will feed your script into Gemini, DeepSeek, Claude, ChatGPT and predict its "success" with audiences. (It thought Christy would outperform Sinners though.) @charlespulliam.bsky.social looks into the dubiousness.
This AI startup says it can tell if a script will make a hit film
Quilty claims to predict box office success.
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For 7 months, @dompreston.com dug into Trump Mobile every week. Delivery dates came and went. Specs changed. 2 flag stripes disappeared. There was a suspicious potential prototype. False claims that T1 was "here." This week, Dom breaks down why the presidential vaporware can't be "made in the USA."
Why isn’t the Trump phone made in the USA?
Making it here would be almost impossible.
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Apparently it’s more dishonest to write about facial-recognition code embedded in software distributed to tens of millions of people than it is to embed it there in the first place.
dell cameron@dell.bsky.social · 2mo agoI admit, if you ignore where it says ‘unreleased’ right below the headline (and on our homepage), then skip past the part where we say it required a code review, and ignore paragraphs 4, 8, 10, 12, 16, and all the adjectives that mean undisclosed, it does read like an active feature.
It's still crazy that the internet is already so infested with AI slop, we're considering labeling human-made content instead. @zombiewretch.bsky.social says:
Let us filter AI slop, you cowards
Let’s put those AI labels to the test.
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its @dmehro.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social joint back at it again double trouble etc
Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.
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Congratulations to @theroberthart.bsky.social, finalist for the Association of British Science Writers award in the news category for his @theverge.com story on the failures of suicide hotline chatbots. Gift link: tinyurl.com/mrx5rsa9
Chatbots are struggling with suicide hotline numbers
Almost all chatbots The Verge tried failed our test of mental health safety features.
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ABSW@absw.bsky.social · 2mo ago📣 #ABSWawards Finalists announced! 🔗 zurl.co/ghOYq Of note this year were the range of pieces focused on the cuts to scientific research funding in the USA. UK and Irish journalists investigated the impact on individuals, institutions and communities both in the USA and internationally.
