Developer Sam Chiet, who you may recognize for creating the “asshole goose” that wreaks havoc on your desktop, was inspired to make this stretching cat cursor after it was suggested as a bad design concept. Looks pretty fun to me!
Chiet says he’s planning to release it “soon” — otherwise you can click here to watch a speedrun of how he made it.
Affinity users asking if the one-time-purchase creative software will adopt Canva’s subscription-based approach may not feel reassured by the response from Serif CEO Ashley Hewson.
“The V2 app still available as a one-off purchase and everyone who’s bought our apps previously of course can still use them in perpetuity moving forward.” He added that updates — for V2 at least — will be delivered “free of charge.”
A new FAQ page also says that “there are no changes to our current pricing model planned at this time.”
According to this Financial Times report, AI and robotics providers have some lofty expectations regarding how popular their technology will be in manufacturing environments.
One company claims that 14 percent of manufacturing and automotive jobs will be automated in the next four years, and Goldman Sachs projects that the humanoid robot market could reach $38 billion by 2035 — at least if robots like Tesla’s Optimus can become as capable as their makers are claiming they will be.
Weather services are reporting that people in northern Britain and as far south as the midwest in the US may see the aurora borealis on Monday night, as geomagnetic storms on the sun’s surface send particle streams toward Earth.
The best viewing time is between 10PM and 2AM (locally) according to the NOAA, in dark, north-facing locations away from city lights.
This New York Times article provides an overview of Kanter’s career in criticizing competition, from representing Microsoft’s offensive against Google during the Obama administration to leading the DOJ’s Antitrust Division.
“In some ways, he’s still looking for that more prominent trophy to go on the mantelpiece,” said former FTC chair William Kovacic. “You win one of these monopolization cases, you can take the rest of the decade off.”
That’s according to portrait photographer Annie Leibovitz, who offered her hot take in the “what is a photo” debate on Wednesday while discussing how generative AI may impact the industry.
“That doesn’t worry me at all,” she told AFP, likening AI image generation to Photoshop. “With each technological progress, there are hesitations and concerns. You just have to take the plunge and learn how to use it.”
