”'using Copilot' is strongly correlated with 'mistake code' being pushed to the repo… …the current implementation of AI Assistants discourages code reuse. …The better question for 2024: who's on the hook to clean up the mess afterward?"

Visual Studio Magazine

New GitHub Copilot Research Finds

"We find disconcerting trends for maintainability."

”A Swiss quantum algorithm startup, Terra Quantum, and a research lab at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp) in Brazil claim that they have discovered a form of graphite that superconducts at ambient temperature and pressure.”

TechCrunch

Latest room-temperature claims met with heaps of skepticism | TechCrunch

Swiss startup Terra Quantum says it has discovered a form of graphite that superconducts. But other researchers aren't convinced.

Any other European countries doing this, and already for how long?

But we are free to choose the platforms we engage with? And here we are. ”If everyone had a say, less personal data might be harvested, fewer creators might be shadow-banned, content feeds might be crammed with fewer ads, product searches might yield the best-matching results instead of the most profitable ones, and so forth.”

WIRED

A Last-Ditch Plan to Save the Crypto Industry

In his new book "Read Write Own," investor Chris Dixon mounts a defense of blockchain, arguing it can save society from the monopoly power of tech ...

Something for the EU to think about: Wealth is the set of possible physical transformations. It cannot be quantified as a number. If you solve the right problems you become wealthier in knowledge and resources. Are we building or consuming?

The Deutsch Files II — Naval — Overcast

Free will and how it changes everything

The Deutsch Files II — Naval — Overcast

”That the Gulf Stream is responsible for Europe's mild winters is widely known and accepted, but, as I will show, it is nothing more than the earth-science equivalent of an urban legend.” https://www.americanscientist.org/article/the-source-of-europes-mild-climate

AI ecosystems always fail at the end. We don’t know how to create an open-ended one.

The Deutsch Files II — Naval — Overcast

”Labin supplies Russian arms manufacturers with European-made coordinate-measuring machines, a high-tech machine tool critical in the production of the Kremlin’s hypersonic Kinzhal missile. The sanctions-busting operation has become a family business”

The Insider

Our man in Brussels: The Insider has unmasked the GRU officer helping the Kremlin evade sanctions from his base in the heart of Europe

Russian military intelligence (GRU) officer Viktor Labin has set up shop in Brussels, home to the European Commission and NATO headquarters. From h...

”Mixtral 8x7B quickly gained popularity and usage among the developer community since its December release. Mixtral 8x7B currently outperforms ChatGPT 3.5, Claude Instant, Llama 2, and many others”

Brave

Brave Leo, the AI browser assistant, now features Mixtral for improved performance | Brave

With today's update, we are excited to announce that we have integrated Mixtral 8x7B as the default LLM in Leo, our privacy-preserving AI browser a...

Changes coming to the App Store are coming to all of Apple’s platforms, while changes to the iPhone are coming only to the iPhone, even if iOS shares a lot of the same codebase as iPadOS.

9to5Mac

iPad users will miss out on third-party app stores, browser engines, and more - 9to5Mac

Yesterday, Apple announced some major changes to the App Store and the broader iPhone platform in the European Union, including...

”We’re currently in a scenario where Russia is spending 40 per cent of GDP on this war - that’s more than health and education… We need to recognise the fact that Russia has succeeded in firing up its military-industrial complex and adjusted to a wartime economy” https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/01/26/russia-arming-itself-faster-than-nato/

”Developers have frantically plugged in their businesses’ numbers into Apple’s online ‘fee calculator’ only to see their worst fears confirmed. Apple has the control and they are confident that the European Commission will let them keep it.”

Spotify

Apple’s Proposed Changes Reject the Goals of the DMA — Spotify

For almost five years – 1,782 days – we have been asking the European Commission to take action against Apple. In a world that values competiti...

AI renders search engines useless in distinguishing real content from rubbish ”SpinRewriter, lets users create 1,000 slightly different versions of the same article with a single click and automatically publish them to as many WordPress sites as you want using a paid plugin.”

404 Media

We Need Your Email Address

AI stealing our work. The collapse of social networks. The need to pay journalists to produce impactful journalism. Here is why we are asking for y...

”The strategic partnership between TotalEnergies and Russia’s Novatek, which sends its own mercenary forces to the war in Ukraine, has allowed the Kremlin to export liquefied natural gas to world markets and receive billions of euros annually to finance its war of aggression in Ukraine. ”

Euromaidan Press

TotalEnergies colluded with Putin regime despite the human cost

From alleged rights abuses in Africa to secretive Russian deals, TotalEnergies faces a reckoning in French parliament over its controversial track ...

”If it was serious, Europe alone could give Ukraine the kind of military force that could enable a Ukrainian victory—and if they move fast, they might be able to do it before the war is over.”

What Happens to Europe If America Withdraws?

If the United States turns its back on its best allies, Europe will face the Russian threat alone.

”Russia imported more than $1 billion of advanced US and European chips last year, despite restrictions intended to stop President Vladimir Putin’s military getting hold of technology to fuel its war in Ukraine.” https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-25/russia-s-war-machine-powered-by-chips-from-intel-amd-infineon-stm

”New APIs enabling developers to use NFC technology in their banking and wallet apps throughout the EEA; and new controls that allow users to select a third-party contactless payment app (or an alternative app marketplace) as their default… new APIs enabling developers to use NFC technology in their banking and wallet apps throughout the EEA; and new controls that allow users to select a third-party contactless payment app (or an alternative app marketplace) as their default… iOS apps distributed from the App Store and/or an alternative app marketplace will pay €0.50 for each first annual install per year over a 1 million threshold,” per Apple.”

TechCrunch

Apple's answer to EU's gatekeeper rules is new 'core tech' fee for apps | TechCrunch

Apple has announced a raft of changes incoming to iOS in the European Union -- including a new fee for developers -- as the iPhone maker prepares t...

”The company has been developing a mass-producible drone that uses artificial intelligence for visual targeting and can function in zero-comms environments created by GPS jamming.” https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahemerson/2024/01/23/eric-schmidts-secret-white-stork-project-aims-to-build-ai-combat-drones/

Didn’t know Oracle offers some free server instances

Running a Mastodon instance entirely free forever | Josh's Cool Dev Blog

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