Enron.com Announces Pre-Orders for Egg-Shaped Home Nuclear Reactor
“Nuclear you can trust,” reads the web page promoting “The Egg, an at home nuclear reactor.”
Yes, Enron.com is now announcing “a micro-nuclear reactor made to power your home.” (A quick reminder from CNN in December. “A company that makes T-shirts bought the Enron trademark and appears to be trying to sell some merch on behalf of the g … ⌘ Read more

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OpenAI’s Bot Crushes Seven-Person Company’s Website ‘Like a DDoS Attack’
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: On Saturday, Triplegangers CEO Oleksandr Tomchuk was alerted that his company’s e-commerce site was down. It looked to be some kind of distributed denial-of-service attack. He soon discovered the culprit was a bot from OpenAI that was relentlessly attempting to scrape his entire, en … ⌘ Read more

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Zuckerberg: Apple ‘Hasn’t Invented Anything Great in a While’
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg criticized Apple’s innovation record and business practices in a Joe Rogan podcast interview on January 10, claiming the iPhone maker has not “invented anything great in a while” and is “just sitting” on its flagship product 20 years after Steve Jobs created it.

Zuckerberg accused Apple of using arbitrary App Store rules and 30% … ⌘ Read more

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‘Omi’ Wants To Boost Your Productivity Using AI and a ‘Brain Interface’
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: San Francisco startup Based Hardware announced during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week the launch of a new AI wearable, Omi, to boost productivity. The device can be worn as a necklace where Omi’s AI assistant can be activated by saying “Hey Omi.” The startup a … ⌘ Read more

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Your favourite social media platform should not be where you get your facts from. You get jokes and share with your friends, but facts they ain’t. Get your world news from actual news sources instead.

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Religious Leaders Experiment With AI In Sermons
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: To members of his synagogue, the voice that played over the speakers of Congregation Emanu El in Houston sounded just like Rabbi Josh Fixler’s. In the same steady rhythm his congregation had grown used to, the voice delivered a sermon about what it meant to be a neighbor in the age of artificial intelligence. Then, Rabbi Fix … ⌘ Read more

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I’m still making progress with the Emacs client. I’m proud to say that the code that is responsible for reading the feeds is almost finished, including: Twt Hash Extension, Twt Subject Extension, Multiline Extension and Metadata Extension. I’m fine-tuning some tests and will soon do the first buffer that displays the twts.

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I’m usually comfortable keeping my hardship to myself, most especially AWAY from the internet; an act of kindness of sorts towards others, “Everyone’s got their own problems to worry about” kind of thing.. But maaan am I starting to believe creating a twitter account would be a healthy decision 🤣🤦 Read nothin’ out there, just a one way echo chamber of sorts to let that shi_ out of my chest. It seem that’s what everyone else’s been using it for all this time.

A Bsky would be even better! 😂 I’d get to shi_ post and yap all I want, allll the way from terminal and never ever have to look back at it or whatever comes out of it. But I digress…

I FU_ing despise this … whatever this is. I wish I could just wake up in some sort of parallel universe where everything is just sunshine and rainbows, alas, life would be just as meaningless.

and sorry you had to read this if you did.

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Shit in my life has been spiraling out of control at an unbelievable rate. And just when you think life can’t get shittier it dumps an even bigger N° 2 on yO face.

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Should Waymo Robotaxis Always Stop For Pedestrians In Crosswalks?
“My feet are already in the crosswalk,” says Geoffrey A. Fowler, a San Francisco-based tech columnist for the Washington Post. In a video he takes one step from the curb, then stops to see if Waymo robotaxis will stop for him. And they often didn’t.

Waymo’s position? Their cars consider “signals of pedestrian intent” including forward motion wh … ⌘ Read more

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