NetBlocks reported connectivity issues in India and Pakistan, and this afternoon, Microsoft said it was updating routing for traffic “traversing through the Middle East originating and or terminating in Asia or Europe regions.”
There’s been a backlash to the news that RedZone’s “commercial-free football” promise is coming to an end, but the host explained on X that the new ads shouldn’t be too intrusive with a few points, matching an earlier report by Front Office Sports:
Forget toilets, a report by Pablo Torre claims the ex-Microsoft CEO invested $50 million in a fraudulent tree-planting company, Aspiration, passing $28 million to Kawhi Leonard in a fake endorsement deal.
The Clippers called the accusations “provably false,” while Mark Cuban says he’s “team Ballmer,” and that the team was scammed.
Sony bumped the PS5’s storage from 825GB to 1TB when it introduced the new Slim model. But gaming bargain hunter billbil-kun has info about a revised discless edition spotted in Europe, that would see its SSD drop back to 825, while the disc version remains at 1TB -- is that better than raising the price again?
The GSA and Microsoft announced a discount deal on Microsoft 365, Copilot, Azure, and other services, promising “potential savings of $3.1 billion in the first year” with free access to Microsoft 365 Copilot for one year.
OpenAI and Anthropic already offered similar discounts for AI access, but what’s the price in year two?
The BBC Archive channel on YouTube has a ton of content to draw from, including plenty of reports about what “the future” will be, like this Tomorrow’s World presentation on a concept car with satellite navigation.
Of course, some of the tech it highlights, like V2X communication, is still mostly a fantasy.
Ben Davis writes for ArtNet on PragerU’s America 250-aligned Founders Museum, which is representing figures from American history with AI-animated clips in a way that “...suggests a nation with light brain damage.”
In general, when one of the Founding Fathers did something that fits contemporary standards of equality, such as speak out for the rights of women or enslaved Africans, their AI avatar mentions it. Anything that is more controversial about them is downplayed or passed over in silence.
The WSJ found that note in a “Clinical Cognitive Profile” ChatGPT provided to Stein-Erik Soelberg, a “56-year-old tech industry veteran with a history of mental instability,” who killed his mother and took his own life earlier this month.
According to the Journal, “...ChatGPT treated his ideas as genius and built upon his paranoia.”
[Wall Street Journal]
