The New York Times published a clever visualization to illustrate just how many US imports are touched by President Trump’s tariffs. For instance, China apparently makes 97 percent of the baby strollers we import, a figure that came as a bit of a surprise to me!
But the folks behind the mid-2000s anti-piracy campaign that once compared pirating software to stealing a car might have, reports Torrent Freak. A social media investigation suggests the campaign used a knockoff of a commercial font. Its creator, Just Van Rossum, told the outlet:
“I knew my font was used for the campaign and that a pirated clone named XBand-Rough existed. I did not know that the campaign used XBand-Rough and not FF Confidential, though. So this fact is new to me, and I find it hilarious,”
[torrentfreak.com]
EA started accepting applicants for the game’s alpha playtest in February, and gameplay video keeps leaking, frustrating developer DICE, as Insider Gaming noted earlier this month.
You can see some videos in the outlet’s story today (while they’re still available) via embeds of a few posts from X user goodboy. Here’s one showing what it’ll be like to fly an F-16 fighter jet in the game.
The Wall Street Journal reports that over a period of months, it was able to coerce Meta AI — even the ones meant to mimic celebrities like John Cena, and even when using accounts registered as underage — into playing out sexual fantasies.
Meta apparently made changes in response to the Journal’s findings, but the outlet reports that internal resistance, including from CEO Mark Zuckerberg, has made adding safeguards for user-created AI “companions” a challenge.
9to5Google says the shortcut is a quick alternative to tapping “Switch to classic search” after initiating an “Ask Photos” search. Ask Photos, which Google started testing last year, uses AI to understand your pictures and enables search terms like “What did we eat at the hotel in Stanley?” but it’s rather slow in operation compared to “classic” search, according to the outlet.
The double-tap trick only works on Android, according to 9to5Google.
Testifying in the Google Search antitrust trial yesterday, Chrome general manager Parisa Tabriz said Chrome’s features and functionality owe to its “interdependencies” on other parts of the company, reports Bloomberg. She reportedly said over 90 percent of Chromium code has originated from Google since 2015.
Noting Android’s reliance on Chromium, Bloomberg writes that earlier in the day, a computer science expert for the DOJ said even if it sold Chrome, Google would be motivated “to make sure the source code is well-maintained.”
The retailer lists its Mario Kart World bundle as available to buy on the console’s June 5th launch day and including a 12-month subscription to the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack — with the caveat that it’s “for NEW members; cannot add to existing membership,” as deal-hunter Wario64 spotted.
Whether that’s as a free bonus or added onto the price of the system isn’t clear, since Costco hasn’t posted pricing yet.
