“we’ve been telling our employees to flush money down the toilet, and somehow it’s not making them more productive..”

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3mo ago

You don’t say.

“officials discovered two industrial-scale water hookups feeding a data center campus located 20 miles south of downtown Atlanta. One water connection had been installed without the utility’s knowledge, and the other was not linked to the company’s account and therefore wasn’t being billed.”

A data center drained 30M gallons of water unnoticed — until residents complained about low water pressure — POLITICO

Residents in Fayetteville, Georgia, noticed low water pressure last year. The utility discovered two unaccounted-for water connections at one of the nation’s largest data center campuses.

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Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!

Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user del...

thatprivacyguy.com

If you deploy Chrome and aren't disabling Google's AI tools via GPO, congratulations! You just got a 4GB file on every one of your endpoints without your knowledge or consent. Thankfully CISA has done a lot of work for you in regards to properly configuring and securing Chrome on your endpoints.

Lady Talia@djtalia.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...

NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty. "People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.” futurism.com/artificial-i...

AI Use Appears to Have a "Boiling Frog" Effect on Human Cognition, New Study Warns

A new study claims to offer the first causal link between AI dependency and cognitive erosion. Researchers warn of long-term implications.

futurism.com

At least 13 people “are publicly known to have been wrongfully arrested by U.S. police because of reliance on erroneous facial recognition results…”

Wrongful Arrests Pile Up Due to Facial Recognition Technology

One client spent six months in jail because police relied on facial recognition technology to incorrectly identify her as a suspect.

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#ai #generativeai

Friendly reminder for those with loved ones, pals, colleagues, etc. in MN: "Friday, January 23rd will be a statewide day of non-violent moral action, reflection: no work, no school, no shopping — only community, conscience, and collective action." www.iceoutnowmn.com

AI sloppers (is that a term?) crying that their prompts are being stolen is more beautiful than anything AI could produce

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/

Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 11mo ago

PSA: we're aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage. Stand by.

I really enjoyed this deep dive into locale-related bugs in the Kotlin compiler by @sam-cooper.bsky.social sam-cooper.medium.com/the-country-...

The Country That Broke Kotlin

Logic vs language: how a Turkish alphabet bug played a years-long game of hide-and-seek inside the Kotlin compiler

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People think the worst part of getting scammed is the financial loss—but no one talks about the shame. If someone were mugged on the street, you wouldn’t say, “How could you be so dumb?” So why do we treat online scams differently? 🔗 Read the full post: www.blockpartyapp.com/blog/why-me-...

CFIA needs to look into this, not an internal Loblaws investigation.

WATCH: “Fascism is here. We cannot act like this is normal. Shame on you who are silent in this time.” Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social just spoke out about the Trump regime “kidnapping” #KilmarAbregoGarcia and refusing to return him.

Today I learned why Shopify-powered dropshipping scams work: Amex refuses to allow filing a chargeback when a webshop scams a customer by advertising an AI-generated image, sending something else... and then offering money back only if paying for shipping + tracking to a warehouse in China

I decided to start a #thread 🧵 of stories about legal residents and tourists being (illegally) arrested, detained and/or deported by the Trump regime. I'll only post stories from serious sources, as rumors and conspiracies are really not needed in this authoritarian moment.

Let's chat about Android phones. Not your personal preference for a phone. I don't care (seriously I don't. Please don't tell me) but why it's important to give support to Android apps that's comparable to iOS when it comes to accessibility. (1/4(

Today we're thrilled to announce our effort to port the TypeScript compiler and language service to native code, gaining a 10x speed boost in build times and editor responsiveness! devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/t...

A 10x Faster TypeScript - TypeScript

Embarking on a native port of the existing TypeScript compiler and toolset to achieve a 10x performance speed-up.

devblogs.microsoft.com

Red state alcohol is currently being removed at B.C. Liquor store in Victoria. #bcpoli

Idgaf I’m still fighting for guaranteed healthcare. Aspiration is the answer. Not just “we’re not the bad guys.” We need something more meaningful than that. I want a future worth fighting for. They have no vision. We do. Lean into our strengths and knock them out. 👊🏽

🚀 Boost your productivity when developing Java applications with databases in #IntelliJIDEA! Check out these time-saving tips to make working with databases more efficient and enjoyable. 👇

9 Tips for Productive Java Development With Databases in IntelliJ IDEA | The IntelliJ IDEA Blog

In this article, we’ll share nine time-saving ways IntelliJ IDEA can boost your productivity when developing Java applications with databases – whether you're starting a new project or diving into an

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Great post on error handling in #Kotlin. Sometimes I use standard lib Result if I don't care about the error but usually will use a sealed class like ApiResult<DataType, ErrorType> where ErrorType is an enum for exhaustive error handling. I like this other sealed class example too.

Adam Warski@warski.org · 2y ago

Exceptions, Result, Either, custom ADT - similar dilemmas on error handling are popping up in most programming languages. A good summary for #Kotlin, but also applicable to other languages: softwaremill.com/handling-err...