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Magnetson OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision

The announcement itself is pure AI slop

Magnetson Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models

They probably started working with gooogle before claude started moving ahead or was on the radar

Magnetson Gov.uk has replaced Stripe with Dutch provider Adyen

If £8m/year is a fraction of a mid-size company cloud budget, I don't think you can class them as "mid-size"

Magnetson Tell HN: docker pull fails in spain due to football cloudflare block

BT used to block the entire streamable.com site during football matches

Magnetson Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables

how does the wholesale price of gas explain how the UK is the most expensive in the world/europe?

Magnetson 90% of Claude-linked output going to GitHub repos w <2 stars

Everyone too busy arguing about the stars issue and not noting how claude really took off since Jan 2026

Magnetson CXMT has been offering DDR4 chips at about half the prevailing market rate

This is just marketing. Why would you sell at 50% of market rate? Chinese production of NAND and DRAM is not significant, it's single digit %

Magnetson How AI labs are solving the power problem

you didn't consider the 18+ years we have with almost no productivity and the extra resources required to sustain life

Magnetson NVIDIA frenemy relation with OpenAI and Oracle

75% margin means they have around $79.2bn of potential revenue sitting in inventory. Next quarter revenue is projected to be $65bn, so 110 days of stock.

Magnetson Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright

animals and other objects on the road, and potholes

Magnetson YouTube Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm'

like they did during COVID

Magnetson The Onion buys Infowars

are the families the seller or just the beneficiary?

Magnetson ArchiveBox is evolving: the future of self-hosted internet archives

Lots of private groups on facebook too

Magnetson It's still easy for anyone to become you at Experian

I have an early/obvious gmail account and get around 3 messages per day from unauthorised signups to legit sites. facebook and google (as recovery account) are the only ones that allow you to de-link your address from an account

Magnetson Bank of England expects UK to fall into longest ever recession

Governments used QE to soften the shock from covid lockdowns and basically subsidise the economy. We are now seeing the consequences of that decision.

Magnetson Google could face class action lawsuit over free G Suite legacy account shutdown

It is possible to have a google account without gmail

Magnetson Old TV caused village broadband outages for 18 months

I used to monitor SNR on my DSL line and my neighbours old diesel engine 200ft away would cause it to drop slightly but enough to notice

Magnetson Facebook security app used to 'spy' on competitors (2019)

https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/24/21336946/google-android-l...

Magnetson Facebook security app used to 'spy' on competitors (2019)

Didn't google get caught doing this recently?

Magnetson Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experience miserable

Reddit is completely infested with politics too, many subs that you wouldn't expect to be political are clearly aligned a certain way.

Magnetson Why did the A-level algorithm say no?

https://www.ucas.com/file/292726/download?token=wswAnzge

"In 2019, 21% (31,220) of accepted 18 year old applicants met or exceeded their predicted grades, a decrease of 3 percentage points. In addition, 43.2% of accepted applicants had a difference of three or more A level grades – an increase of 5 percentage points (7,190 applicants more) since 2018."

Teacher predicted grades are almost useless.

Now Scotland has caved to political pressure and wants to inflate grades

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-537...

"However, these grades, taken overall, would represent a significant improvement on previous years - including a jump of 20 percentage points in the pass rate for pupils from the most deprived areas."

"If the results had purely been based on the estimates from teachers, pass rates at grades A-C would have increased by 10.4 percentage points for National 5, by 14 percentage points for Higher and by 13.4 percentage points for Advanced Higher.

These estimated results would have led to a higher annual change than had ever been seen before in Scottish exam results if they had not been moderated by the SQA."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-53636296

A really difficult situation when what you have to work from is already inaccurate.

Magnetson The world should think better about catastrophic and existential risks

It's compounded because of the interdependance of companies and countires.

Magnetson Detecting a 2.4 GHz transmission for under 1 EUR

NRF24l01 + ESP8266 (or arduino) + OLED screen can do the same for less all-included

Magnetson Google bans my events app for referencing Covid-19, or related terms

>Please remove all metadata and In-app mentions of COVID-19 or its related keywords such as stay home, social distancing, etc.

that is just crazy

As usual they are just using a hammer to crack a nut.

They can't pull this shit with youtube because creators have a direct line to draw attention to it. With developers they know it will go largely unreported

Magnetson I got my first $50/mo customer

Work email addresses are considered personal data under GDPR

https://www.cognitivelaw.co.uk/gdpr-issues-do-work-emails-co...

Magnetson Google users in UK to lose EU data protection – sources

Only recently have they added the popup (last 6 months or so), they previously used google analytics with no consent and made themselves exempt from the law

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180605/22253339978/eu-co...

Magnetson Amazon can’t end fake reviews, but its new system might drown them out

I've not ordered from Amazon for 3+ years now. You can buy the same products at the same price elsewhere or generally always from ebay.

The only real advantage Amazon have is prime (if you pay for it) and simple returns, but you have to deal with a drone if anything goes wrong aside from that. Most other retailers have actual people that can make decisions answering queries

Magnetson In 2019, Americans went more to the library than to the movies on average

I would guess that low-income families go to the library to use the computers or wifi.

Possibly even for IT classes - especially the older generations

Magnetson Amazon Is Accused of Forcing Up Prices in Antitrust Complaint

As I read it, they are using their dominance to force sellers to use their logistics service while increasing the price sellers pay for that logistics service with threat of being de-ranked if they don't use it.

All they will say is that buyers prefer amazon logistics and will pull out some user surveys and delivery rate statistics to prove it.

Magnetson Open-source apps removed from Google Play Store due to donation links

You can't just freely receive donations and not pay any tax. There is definitely an argument that you are donating to ensure future development of the software, essentially quid pro quo.

Edit: Wireguard literally make that case while soliciting donations

>We're extremely grateful for all donations, which enable us to continue developing WireGuard as free open source software. We are happy to receive donations from interested companies who would like to see WireGuard development continue and thrive, as well as individual donations from folks who would simply like to say "thanks".