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OpenAI uses a cross-site cookie to link users' ChatGPT accounts with their browsing activity on advertiser websites.
Thread centers on whether this is standard adtech or uniquely troubling on an AI chat product.
Google releases AX, an open-source agentic orchestrator built on Agent Substrate.
Skepticism over Google's track record with open-source support and product quality.
No Snowden archive documents have been published since May 2019.
Desensitization and shifting Overton window blamed for stalled outrage.
Pirate Face mirrors Hugging Face models as checksum-verified torrents for censorship-resistant distribution.
Torrents are widely endorsed for model distribution, with historical parallels to game and data delivery.
Samsung plans to more than double HBM4 and HBM4E output next year.
Two camps: those expecting higher consumer DRAM prices from capacity reallocation, those betting on market correction.
Spain blocked Archive.today domains without a court ruling, via the Intellectual Property Commission.
Split between those who say archive.today is unreliable or an intelligence operation and those who rely on it for paywalled news.
ZuckOff is a mobile app that detects nearby camera glasses by listening for their Bluetooth signatures.
Debate on legal risk from Meta and spoofability of Bluetooth signatures.
Senator Warren introduced a bill to ban private equity from owning medical practices.
Two camps formed: those favoring a ban on PE in essential care, those defending the right to sell to any investor.
A product leader describes his six-step iterative problem-solving framework and embracing being wrong.
The thread splits on whether the framework is useful or condescending corporate process.
Singapore pays people small micropayments to read books via a gamified pilot program.
Thread splits between amusement at the tiny payout and criticism of Singapore's exclusionary public services for foreigners.
Tim Schafer's original puzzle design document for the 1998 adventure game Grim Fandango is shared online.
The thread splits between praising the game's atmosphere and story, while criticizing its clunky controls and frustrating puzzle design.
Disney+ updated its subscriber agreement to allow ads in all tiers, including those marketed as ad-free, starting in January 2025.
Viewers see this as another example of streaming enshittification, with many considering cancellation or piracy.
EPA repeals 2024 limits on power plant carbon emissions, gutting climate pollution rules.
The thread splits between critics of the repeal and those pointing to China's coal use as hypocrisy.
A free app detects Meta smart glasses via Bluetooth signals to warn of nearby recording.
Two camps formed: those doubting the app's Bluetooth detection method works reliably versus those arguing Meta's LED safeguards are adequate.
Human communities of expertise must be preserved as AI creates more oversight jobs than people can fill.
Two camps: those accepting AI-created oversight jobs and those arguing AI will ultimately replace them.
Sherline Tools, a US manufacturer of precision micro-machining equipment, is shutting down operations by the end of 2026.
Commenters debate Sherline's failure to innovate versus broader market shifts killing small USA manufacturers.
AI training on public code and content breaks the social contract of open sharing.
Tech's pattern of breaking social contracts under 'disruption' is now hitting AI itself.
MCP is obsolete because modern LLMs can call APIs directly.
Two camps: those who see MCP as a security layer and those who see it as obsolete overhead.
An Anthropic engineer used Claude to orchestrate GPU-based factoring of RSA-896.
Debate centers on GPU efficiency for factorization and implications for 1024-bit RSA security.