Teens are opening up to AI chatbots as a way to explore friendship. But sometimes, the AI’s advice can go too far.
I had forgotten about the 80s and 90s trope of pulling a headphone speaker away from some hapless, distracted youth’s head to tell them something.
But the LSU library used it to great effect while promoting the fact that you could ask its weirdly condescending librarians to print up R.E.M. song lyrics using the new-fangled World Wide Web.
OpenAI says free and Plus subscribers can now use the feature without giving over their chats to train its models.
With chat history on, users can pick up previous chats where they left off, and the chatbot will reply as though they never stopped. The company also says users can start one-off chats that aren’t saved in the history.
According to AppleInsider, it’s testing Safari updates like “Intelligent Search,” which would offer on-device AI-powered webpage summaries and a built-in “Web Eraser” feature that lets you selectively — and persistently — block content on websites.
AppleInsider’s story, which cites unnamed sources, seems at least plausible, given Apple is widely expected to debut a smattering of AI features at WWDC in June.
Despite being a .Swoosh-exclusive this BSOD-themed shoe doesn’t have any NFT links or crypto wallet requirements (although you will need to register an account by April 18th).
Nike’s web3 plans for .Swoosh seem mostly dead, with a January blog post saying digital gaming item tie-ins will skip the blockchain and instead just link to Nike accounts.
What free speech, war zones, and Aristotle have to do with internet infrastructure.
Intuit purchased Mailchimp in 2021, and less than a year later, co-founder Ben Chestnut was out. Here’s how new CEO Rania Succar is moving forward.
The New York Times reports that he died at his St. Helena, California home on Saturday.
Lynch held two management positions at pre-internet ARPANET nodes before later starting workshops to demonstrate the power of the internet for business. From the Times, on his early workshops that became Interop, once a massive computer exhibition:
Mr. Lynch required the attendees to adhere to TCP/IP, a language spoken by computers connected to the internet that was quickly becoming the industry standard.
... Within a decade, it had become one of the world’s largest computer exhibitions, helping to create a global community of specialists capable of supporting a networking standard that made it possible for all the world’s computers to share data. One computer industry analyst called it “the plumbing exhibition for the information age.”
[The New York Times]
I’m not sure if this great collection hosted by product engineer Alex Meub is all of the Windows 98 icons, but it sure has all the ones I remember.
Google is rolling out voice messages for enterprise Workspace users. To send one, tap the microphone button to record yourself. Others can react to your message, quote it, or reply to it.
Only the Android / iOS Google Chat apps support voice recordings right now, but web users can receive them, and will get recording later.
