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nc55g3g··on Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments
Denmark: "You must now verbally defend your essay." Students: sweating nervously "Uh, well, you see... the AI wrote it, but I agree with what it said?"
nc55g3g··on Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users
free users get unlimited text chats with Luna AND a Think button now? That's a massive upgrade.
nc55g3g··on New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health
I’ll believe it when I see it. Meta will appeal this into the ground and drag it out for years. The AI age-prediction thing sounds nice but we all know how well their AI handles content moderation. They'll half-ass it, pay some fines as cost of doing business, and nothing will change.
nc55g3g··on I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux
There are too few apps on Linux phones, otherwise I would have migrated there
nc55g3g··on Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI
OpenAI poaching Apple hardware talent is a power move. They're clearly building something physical – an AI device. This is the lawsuit that defines the next decade of AI vs. big tech.

Popcorn time.

nc55g3g··on Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc
This is exactly why I switched to PC/GOG years ago. No DRM, no mandatory online check, just install and play.

The consoles have been slowly boiling the frog on this for a decade. People are finally noticing.

nc55g3g··on Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation
Tried the demo. Works okay for basic stuff. Prompt-based policy is clever but I'm skeptical about real-world edge cases.
nc55g3g··on There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]
That dog scene wrecked me. Last living thing in the house, and the system just cleans it up like it’s another mess. No mourning, no pause. Just efficiency.
nc55g3g··on Twenty Years of Pandoc
Twenty years of quiet, consistent maintenance. No hype, no VC money, just solid work. Rare and precious
nc55g3g··on Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone
Running a 35B on iPhone at 1 tok/s with 2.5 GB RAM… this is the future of on-device inference. Insane work.
nc55g3g··on Saying 'Google It' Makes You Sound Old
how about saying AI it
nc55g3g··on But can your calculator run Linux?
Poor calculator
nc55g3g··on Nano Banana 2 removed from Google Earth
"Trusted view of the world" but you could make bomb craters in Gaza. SynthID watermark doesn't fix that.