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thorbutt··on OpenAI breaches Medicare, Albanese reveals
Perhaps, yes, you could argue that "accessed" and "hacked" have a different intent.

However, Australia is showing itself to be one of the few countries to have a backbone against big tech. Still open to investment and setting policies towards new data centres, starting to debate copyright law reform, already implemented R16 social media bans.

Truly no place I'd rather be.

thorbutt··on Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare
That doesn't seem unique to Cloudflare though
thorbutt··on California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law
Can you name an OS that's licensed as public domain?
thorbutt··on How does IKEA come up with names for its products?
I believe you, but that site reeks of LLM generated SEO junk
thorbutt··on Kaiser nurses say AI, surveillance are making their jobs and patient care worse
See: Samsung selling "AI" vacuum cleaners and washing machines
thorbutt··on CarPlay Is Additive
Most OEM infotainment sucks, and it's taken a while for things to improve. I'd be willing to say your older car has a resistive touchscreen and physically couldn't support multitouch

CarPlay is definitely an improvement if you're comparing it to something like Ford Sync for example

thorbutt··on CarPlay Is Additive
This wouldn't be a solution to the argument in the article: Rivian and Tesla don't want to support phones projecting to infotainment

As it is, CarPlay is implemented as a h264 video stream which receives touch, microphone, and metadata from the vehicle, the protocol is fine albeit proprietary

thorbutt··on Leaked financial docs show OpenAI is losing billions of dollars a year
The AI providers will experiment on their users, and keep going until they lose users

It'll be like Facebook; they're not losing money but it's awful to use