Readit Newsanonymousab commented on Trump calls on Intel CEO to resign cnn.com/2025/08/07/busine... · Posted by u/tlogan
No serious state would ignore potential conflicts of interest with their biggest adversary related to advanced technology and military affairs:
https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cotton-to-...
No, a CEO should not be able to tell the government to pound sand in this type of situation.
The company he ran for over a decade just plead guilty to illegal chip design sales to China. You may not care, but that the government does is just common sense:
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/cadence-plead-guilty-pay...
Whether it should be that way or not, the United States remains the primary global military, political and economic superpower. As such, US politics also kinda dictate what a "sane state" does; by nature of their stature, they set the bar.
anonymousab commented on Meta says it won't sign Europe AI agreement cnbc.com/2025/07/18/meta-... · Posted by u/rntn
> GDPR
You mean that thing (or is that another law?) that forces me to find that "I really don't care in the slightest" button about cookies on every single page?
That is malicious compliance with the law, and more or less indicative of a failure of enforcement against offenders.
anonymousab commented on Where's Firefox going next? connect.mozilla.org/t5/di... · Posted by u/ReadCarlBarks
That's insane :/. But, maybe, "on the bright side", The Mozilla Foundation is unrelated in some sense to Firefox? AFAIK, they don't spend any of their money on it anyway.
The whole Mozilla situation is even more of a scam than how the Wikimedia Foundation uses sob stories about paying for Wikipedia to get people to donate money to an entity which spends almost no money on Wikipedia... but, at least it does run Wikipedia! lol :/.
There is another interesting detail from your reference that makes it seem even worse to me: it says the CEO's salary is "paid only by a related for-profit"; at first, I was thinking "ok, at least the Foundation in fact is spending the money it is being donated (though, not on Firefox)"... but then I realized that means the Corporation is, in fact, spending $7m that it could have spent on Firefox.
> AFAIK, they don't spend any of their money on it anyway
The glass-half-full take I heard a while back was: at least every dollar they take from the foundation donations for these causes is a dollar that they could have found a way to take from Firefox development instead.
anonymousab commented on Meta announces new data centers engadget.com/ai/meta-anno... · Posted by u/ksec
500,000 gallons of water per day is approximately 1 golf course. There are 400 golf courses in Georgia. But "we just don't have the water!" screech bad-faith reactionaries.
If the press insists on covering this, it should be in terms of competing economic interests bidding on water, not rapacious ecovillains.
I would wager that the average person against the resource usage of AI datacenters are also against the resource usage for golf courses.
The difference being that those opposing view LLMs as an inherently negative technology, and thus it is a waste of resources for something that is actively detrimental to society. Whereas golf courses are just golf, so the negative aspect is merely the resource usage.
anonymousab commented on The new literalism plaguing today’s movies newyorker.com/culture/cri... · Posted by u/frogulis
Eh, People on their phones can’t be bothered with following plot lines everything has to be telegraphed
> everything has to be telegraphed
Or, in the case of recent Netflix executive missives, everything happening must be literally spoken and explained aloud, moment to moment.
anonymousab commented on Microsoft to Cut 9k Workers in Second Wave of Major Layoffs bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/htrp
>Their pivot to a marketplace model where their games run everywhere is an admission that they lost the race to Sony.
Don Mattrick has a lot to answer for. Microsoft was killing it during the seventh generation and he was able to burn everything down over a period of two days. Xbox never recovered after that.
Don Mattrick isn't the reason that so many Microsoft studios have repeatedly shipped poor products or failed to ship at all over the past decade. Don Mattrick isn't the reason reason that Microsoft still seems to have the worst taste-testers in the industry. Don Mattrick isn't the reason that internal studios like 343 have messed up 18/6 requirements. Don Mattrick isn't the reason that Microsoft kept acquiring, messing up and then firing studios, ending with a massive acquisition that can't even pay itself off for over a decade. And above all, Don Mattrick isn't responsible for the relentless drive for a weird fusion of unprofitable subscription service and cloud streaming offerings at the cost of overall game sale profits.
Don Mattrick's mistakes were near-fatal, but Phil Spencer's done more than his equal share of torpedoing the Xbox division. The blame at this point can rest squarely on his shoulders.
Well, him, and the person who refuses to replace him.
anonymousab commented on Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion xfinity.com/support/artic... · Posted by u/bearsyankees
If it lets you. I think Bell modem+router+AP devices always broadcast a TV network with no way of disabling it whether you have TV service or not.
That's what a good-ol' Faraday cage is for.
Amazon is the same I think? I live in constant fear we will have a runaway job one day. I get daily emails to myself (as a manager) and to my finance person. We had one instance where a team member forgot to turn off a machine for a few months :(
I get why it is a business strategy to not have limits .. but I wonder if providers would get more usage if people had more trusts on costs/predictability.
I remember going out to dinner, years ago, with a fairly senior AWS billing engineer. An acquaintance of a coworker.
He looked completely surprised when I asked about runaway billing and why there wasn't any simple options to cap a given resource to prevent those cases.
His response was that they didn't build that because none of their customers wanted anything like that, as far as he was aware.
I would be interested in how German law works to make this so, IANAL but pretty sure USA copy right law does not work that way. Modification for personal use is normally going to be 100% acceptable under USA copyright law. The DMCA Anti-Circumvention is one exception I know to this but it was and is a big deal for being an exception.
Running any software that then does anything with the same memory space (cheating software or, say, antivirus) is another, separate instance of copyright infringement on top of that.