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Whoopsie: Google is training on your private Google docs... r/IndieDev • KlubKofta: A player found out the ACTUAL name of my game's upcoming character from the Google Search AI - I had never told the name to anyone.

Apparently it's an option you have to opt out of?

Via.

Whoah! Nostalgia moment: That old CGA game where you're flying a biplane in a valley (with a tough turn at each end), bombing your enemy sites while attempting to keep your own whole? It was written by David L. Clark as a networking demo, called "Sopwith".

Not a huge surprise that it's playable in a browser. Got there 'cause

Kottke linked to Unsung: “It’s unclear how Sopwith escaped to the general public.”

A history of Sopwith, which lives on as SDL Sopwith, there's a http://www.sopwith.org , and a Wikipedia page.

gloriouscow @gloriouscow@oldbytes.space

i was worried that this was going to be too stupid to be plausible, or require something like 32KiB of brainfuck-level shenanigans, but i actually think this is going to work

in which thread the author starts to build a DOS executable out of emoji to put the string "HELLO" on to the screen. As far as "H" right now...

👀 Naomi Bashkansky: Why I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy

On Thursday, July 23rd, I resigned from OpenAI. On the 24th, I started as a Founding Researcher at Conduit. We're building telepathy: thought-to-text models, trained on non-invasive neural data.

I'm... uh... interested in what data they believe they're able to collect.

2027全年記憶體產能提前售罄　買家「祕而不宣」只怕買不夠 . Google Translate says "Memory production capacity for 2027 sold out ahead of schedule; buyers are keeping it a secret, fearing they won't be able to buy enough.", the post I got this from:

All memory on track to be manufactured in 2027 by Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron is now sold out, with no additional supply planned.

And that some buyers are committing for RAM 5 years out.

Here come the bailouts... A Fed official is asking whether AI is becoming ‘too big to fail’

Kansas City Fed president Jeff Schmid says the scale of AI investment now warrants watching at a macro level, borrowing a phrase last heard in the 2008 crisis.

Anna Maniscalco 🦀 🏳️‍⚧️ @pac85@treehouse.systems has some thoughts on the trend of AI code reviews:

What good is it to have a dubious and marginal improvement in the final code quality if the price to pay is making the process so much more exhausting and un-human for everyone? What impact will that exhaustion have on the code long term? It may very well be a net negative.

Back in June, the AOPA reported on an NTSB preliminary report about a Beechcraft King Air that crashed on a flight between Roswell New Mexcio and Ruidoso during military GPS jamming.

This morning it looks like the tech press has caught up (or maybe the NTSB full report is out now):

Wired: A Civilian Plane Crashed in New Mexico. Was the Military’s Tech to Blame?

Futurism: It Appears That the US Military Accidentally Killed Everybody on Board a Civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico.

Hater Week Welcome To The Resistance: Meet The Workers Dodging (And Sabotaging) Their Employer's AI Mandates

When they're forced to use the technology, they engage in 'malicious compliance', where they use AI exactly as it has been requested by management, and will submit the results directly and unedited, including every inaccuracy and inconsistency. When management points out these issues--which can be serious when it comes to things like incident reports– "we point out that we did exactly what was asked of us, and they get real quiet".

Via MeFi.

"Sanity is usually the first barrier to a good idea..." --- The Last Dance audio drama