Thomas Ricker

Excellent rant from Jeff Geerling about lazy — or worse, exploitative — home appliance companies that insist on cloud connections to enable basic features. And it’s only getting worse with initiatives like “Screens Everywhere” from companies like Samsung and LG.

It’s scheduled to last until midnight Friday due to an early morning fire at an electrical substation in West London that powers the European continent’s busiest airport. Passengers have been told not to travel to the airport “under any circumstances” with “significant disruption” expected over the next few days.

Last night, 2,182 PDF files, containing 63,400 pages of previously classified information compiled by the Warren Commission, were posted to the US National Archives without redactions, bringing what will surely be a swift conclusion to “who shot JFK” conspiracies. If not, more documents will be released as they’re digitized.

On Monday, Samsung family scion and chair Lee Jae-yong (aka, Jay Y. Lee) said the company is facing “a do-or-die survival issue.” Today its executive leadership doubled-down on promises to better compete globally at its annual meeting. These five charts compiled by the Financial Times explain the urgency:

In an effort to help preserve intellectual property and fight misinformation and misattribution, AI-generated video outputs from Nvidia’s Cosmos world foundation models will include SynthID digital watermarks. That makes Nvidia the first external user of Google DeepMind’s watermarking tech, announced back in 2023.

This hiking shoe incorporates similar midsole tech as those Nike running shoes that helped so many marathoners break records since 2017. As an avid hiker myself, I had to test Merrell’s new FlexPlate and the promise of “underfoot propulsion.”

That’s a quote from Samsung chief Lee Jae-yong (aka, Jay Y. Lee), delivered in a message sent to a few thousand executives undergoing education seminars, according to Yonhap’s sources. Last year, it was reported that Samsung shifted executives to a six-day workweek to “inject a sense of crisis” after falling behind in AI semiconductors. More recently, TVs, smartphones, and lucrative DRAM sales have also seen declining market shares.

The long time Apple pundit and preservationist minced no words in calling “bullshit” on Apple after re-examining the AI-infused personalized Siri features — now delayed — announced at WWDC in June of last year: