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"Despite this dismal success rate, companies are going all-in on AI, driven largely by the belief that everyone else is doing it. Nearly two-thirds of CEOs (64%) say “the risk of falling behind drives them to invest in some technologies before they have a clear understanding of the value they bring to the organization,” according to the study."

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As Klarna flips from AI-first to hiring people again, a new landmark survey reveals most AI projects fail to deliver

Just 1 in 4 AI investments bring in the ROI they promise—but CEOs just can’t resist the technology.
Irina Ivanova (Fortune)

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Apple hat heute haufenweise neue Barrierefreiheitsfeatures angekündigt, die mal wieder eine Menge Potenzial haben, für viel mehr Teilhabe zu sorgen: apple.com/newsroom/2025/05/app…

Am besten ist wahrscheinlich, dass sie im App Store künftig zeigen wollen, mit welchen Bedienungshilfen eine App zugänglich ist. Das ist wegweisend und nicht weniger als der wichtigste Fortschritt für Barrierefreiheit insgesamt.


Apple unveils powerful accessibility features coming later this year

Apple today announced new accessibility features coming later this year, including Accessibility Nutrition Labels.
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Putting aside it being Manjaro powered, it's awesome to see more Linux powered handhelds gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/zota…

ZOTAC GAMING ZONE Handheld getting a Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 prototype with a Manjaro Linux-based OS

Hardware vendor ZOTAC have announced they're working on a new ZOTAC GAMING ZONE Handheld, with a prototype that will be shown off at COMPUTEX 2025 running Linux.
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We created a safer AV1 decoder, rav1d, by forking the dav1d decoder and rewriting the C code in Rust. It works well except our Rust is 5% slower than the C. We're not sure why so we're offering a $20k bounty to figure it out and make the Rust code faster. memorysafety.org/blog/rav1d-pe…

$20,000 rav1d AV1 Decoder Performance Bounty

In March of 2023 we announced that we were starting work on a safer high performance AV1 decoder called rav1d, written in Rust. We partnered with Immunant to do the engineering work.
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*How secure is UnifiedPush?*

It’s a legitimate question that comes up from time to time. While the question is fairly short, the answer requires a few details. Behind the question of security, it’s also often about privacy.

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#UnifiedPush #PushNotifications #Android #FCM #Privacy

Push notifications, security and privacy

How secure is UnifiedPush? It’s a legitimate question that comes up from time to time. While the question is fairly short, the answer requires a few details. Behind the question of security, it’s also often about privacy.
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#android #privacy #UnifiedPush #pushnotifications #fcm

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Microsoft's current market capitalization is approximately $3.34 trillion USD. This makes it one of the most richest companies in the world. It just cut workforce by 3% (around 7k). Microsoft is spending heavily on AI and major investor in OpenAI, while slashing costs elsewhere to safeguard profit margins reuters.com/business/world-at-… Microsoft is planning to cut another 10000 jobs while spending 80 billion on AI data centre this year but yet to see any profit from OpenAI investments or AI data centre

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In other words, all job cuts by Google, Microsoft, IBM, Meta, and other big tech directly result from AI investments that have yielded zero returns so far while paying zero money to original book writers, artists, journalists, and open-source developers as they stole their hard work. To compensate for that loss in AI, management came up with an idea to cut workers. Such a master stroke 😂

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So, now that I have a cheap (~$100) Motorola modem feeding the internet to my Asus RT-96U, life's good again. I looked it up, and it turns out a lot of people have seen that random 412.3 GBPS speed, but even more strangely, many have seen it with Wi-FI. In one instance, (techist.com/forums/threads/thi…) the person could actually operate internet out of their card listing this speed but probably not delivering it, which is so odd.
All I can say is that the 2.5 Gig port on the CAX80 got extremely, extremely hot when it went down. I tried pushing the factory reset pin for 8 seconds, nothing, then just smashed it 15 times, and it still wouldn't reboot until I unplugged it. The moment I switched that router into "bridged" mode, it kind of blew up in not a good way. I actually wanted a Wi-FI 7 router more for LG WOWCast to soundbars, which is nice, but for some reason the Cax80 didn't steer the TV and soundbars on the same band to make it work.
Then, with my external HDD on the router's USB as media server, it would stop indexing after 300 folders automatically with TwonkyDLNA, and I'd have to manually rename folders to get them scanned. What a quirky router.
Would never buy Netgear, ever again. The RAX80 is the Wi-FI only version of that modem and I bet it suffers from those oddities.
Finally, a dedicated router that's good will let you do everything. SSH, advanced WI-FI settings, bluetooth coexistance, all of it. Not the CAX80.
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the other thing that started to bother me was that as we got our home security system from Vivint, we added at least 8 to 10 new devices to the network. All of those added load, with channel utilization hitting 80% at one point across my network. Sadly if we ever add any more chimes, cameras, ETC, those all will also take up a slot in the Wi-FI bandwidth allocation. This is way more constrained on a Wi-FI modem combo, actually, since most of them (including, yes, that $400 Cax80) have built-in antennas. For the same price (RT-BE96U) you can really get the top of the line single-router device with external antennae, much nicer if you do want to point it towards a part of your home.
I'm not sure. I had the Cax80 for only about 2 or maybe a little over years, it really wasn't an "old" router by any standards, and for this migration to a dedicated router to be the thing to take it down, well, I didn't expect.
The other weird tip, I had to clone the MAC address of my desktop to the WAN port of the Asus router. Xfinity kept locking in the MAC within their cache and refusing any DHCP assignment. Oh yeah, that alone took me 2 hours to figure out, gosh darn it. Then I got it working briefly, rebooted devices, and boom, Netgear got stuck powering up and wouldn't factory reset. What a day, just, what a day. The only upside is still getting some work done over hotspot as the routers on my desktop were futsing around. Ugh.
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This is super hilarious because the reason I quit StackOverflow is because they sold my posts to an LLM company in countervention of the license, and then when I tried to remove my posts they banned me because they say deleting my own posts violates the license

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Attached: 1 image Stackoverflow bans LLMs: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/421831/1708801 I missed this but still important news.
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I'd like to share my #experimental #ambiant #avantgarde composition with you all. This is seriously a departure from my norm, but I was really inspired. You can read all about it in the description if you wish. #synthesis #synth #percussion #musicproduction
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Silence - Noise - Silence

As part of @sarah Belle Reid 's Learning Sound and Synthesis class, we have group discussions around “what is music” or “what is an instrument?” We were int...
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For an upcoming episode of our podcast #StroongeCast, @MoonCat and I want to know about things you say you'd *never* do, until circumstances dictate you just might have to, in order to survive.

I said I'd never eat dog food. The thought makes me feel sick honestly, but would I stick to that if that was literally all we had left?

Go wild with your suggestions, we'll try to readout as many as we can in the episode.

If you're new and haven't checked it out before, you can find us on all the regular podcasty-type places. Find some of them, plus our RSS feed here:
onj.me/stroongecast

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Have words, sentences, or emojis that you have to type frequently on iOS, iPadOS, or macOS? Use Text Replacements, short snippets of text which are substituted with commonly used words, sentences, or emojis when typed, to improve your typing efficiency and reduce the number of keystrokes you regularly have to perform. #TipTuesday applevis.com/podcasts/speed-yo…

Speed up your typing and your emoji game with text replacements on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS | AppleVis

In this episode, Dave Nason demonstrates how to create and use text replacements, short snippets of text which are substituted with frequently used words, sentences, or emojis when typed, on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS.
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Great news! While Trump is busy dismantling the Library of Congress, the German National Library of Science and Technology (@tibhannover) is preparing for more to come: they've downloaded the entire 10 TB of the arXiv preprint server and safeguarded more than 2.6 million scientific articles. Thank you so much! This was especially needed since, last year, the arXiv decided to shut down its mirror network.

blog.tib.eu/2025/05/13/die-wis…

#arxiv #physics #math #unplugtrump


Die Wissenschaft schützen: TIB baut Dark Archive für arXiv auf - TIB-Blog

Forschung und Wissenschaft sind international, nicht umsonst spricht man von internationalen Fachcommunities.
Micky Lindlar (TIB – Leibniz-Informationszentrum Technik und Naturwissenschaften und Universitätsbibliothek)
#math #physics #arXiv #unplugtrump @TIB
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Ned Yeung

I have used the contact link in the email.

"You recently sent me an email announcing a new Liberal cabinet.

However, your link sent me to your X post, which is NOT a public post accessible publicly by the Canadians who would want to read it.

I, along with many other conscientious Canadians, have deleted our accounts off Twitter (mine was over 14 years old) or later X, because of the incredible data insecurity created by Musk, and hostile anti-humanitarian environment under Musk. It is incredibly irresponsible for our government to make public announcements on such a platform.

Regards,
Ned Yeung,
A Concerned Public Citizen of Canada"

Subject: Please do not send me links on X. Comments and Questions: You recently sent me an email announcing a new Liberal cabinet. However, your link sent me to your X post, which is NOT a public post accessible publicly by the Canadians who would want to read it. I, along with many other conscientious Canadians, have deleted our accounts off Twitter (mine was over 14 years old) or later X, because of the incredible data insecurity created by Musk, and hostile anti-humanitarian environment under Musk. It is incredibly irresponsible for our government to make public announcements on such a platform. Regards, Ned Yeung, A Concerned Public Citizen of Canada 598 of 600 max characters CAPTCHTA I'm not a robot Submit ->
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