Kijk wij geloven niet per se in complotten, maar het is natuurlijk wel gewoon waar dat op sommige momenten in de geschiedenis bepaalde dingen nog geheim zijn, die pas later uitkomen. Dus het kan natuurlijk dat Ongehoord Nederland uw foto van uzelf waarin u recht (niet schuin dus) in de camera kijkt en een pleister op uw mond heeft geplakt alleen maar gaat gebruiken voor een brandbrief naar Den Haag om het salaris van algemeen directeur Peter Vlemmix veilig te stellen. Dat kan. Maar wat ook kan. Is dat al deze biometrische informatie wordt gevoed aan een AI-agent die er binnen de kortste keren het fenotype van de gemiddelde ON!-genieter heeft geanalyseerd en op basis daarvan een nieuw virus ontwikkelt dat in een Siberisch lab wordt losgelaten op een onontdekte supersonische rattensoort die er via een samenwerking met Big Zonnebrand, Emile Ratelband en Flavio Bolsonaro voor gaat zorgen dat alle kikkers opeens een Raisa Blommestijnvormige eeltknobbel op hun zwemvliezen krijgen. Dat kan ook. Pas dus op, deel niet zomaar uw privacygevoelige foto waarin u recht in de camera kijkt met een pleister op uw mond met Ongehoord Nederland. Beter wordt u gewoon toenmalig Premium Lid van GeenStijl, de Joost Niemöller onder de weblogs. En anders kunt u nog altijd terecht bij vrije jongens zoals Jonathan Krispijn.
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Barack Obama versus Donald Trump. It is the presidential election that never happened but has come to define an era of US politics.
Obama is back on the campaign trail for the midterms, still electrifying crowds, earning shouts of “We love you!” and skewering his successor. “What’s up with the gold?” he asked a crowd in Detroit. “I mean, he’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory.” This has, predictably, set off a mini culture war involving questions of elitism and the tastefulness of chain restaurants.
Continue reading...Charges against him are unclear after return to Iran despite being sentenced last year for ‘propaganda activities’
An Iranian court has handed the award-winning film director Jafar Panahi a new prison sentence of five years and one month and ordered the seizure of all his assets.
The 66-year-old, who won the Palme d’Or at Cannes last year for It Was Just an Accident, was sentenced in absentia, his lawyer, Mostafa Nili, told the Iranian news outlet Emtedad. The court also imposed a two-year travel ban and barred him from using social media for two years, Nili said.
Continue reading...Prime minister warns cabinet not to express opinions about future relationship with Brussels before review of options
Andy Burnham has warned ministers not to express their opinions about how the government should approach Brexit, as he argued that the Conservatives’ deal with Brussels had been more extreme than that promised in the 2016 referendum.
In another series of announcements connected to his plan to seek closer links with the EU, Burnham told ministers at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday that the current deal was a bad one, before writing to frontbenchers setting out his hopes to address this.
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The FCC has approved (PDF) Amazon Leo's $11.5 billion acquisition of satellite operator Globalstar, giving the Starlink rival additional infrastructure and spectrum to expand into direct-to-device satellite connectivity. Engadget reports: You may not know Globalstar but have possibly used its services, as the company provides Apple's emergency satellite connectivity for compatible iPhones and Watches. Interestingly, Apple also held a 20 percent stake in Globalstar prior to its takeover. As part of the deal, Leo will power satellite services for supported iPhone and Apple Watch models.
Leo, a rival to SpaceX's Starlink, has been active of late. The company recently announced that it has 400 satellites in orbit and revealed last month that it had launched high-quality satellite internet service in Uzbekistan. It's teaming up with Delta to eventually bring satellite internet to flights, as well. Amazon recently added six new Arianespace launches and aims to have more than 3,000 low-earth orbit satellites up in the near future, still well short of SpaceX's 11,000 satellites.
Leo, a rival to SpaceX's Starlink, has been active of late. The company recently announced that it has 400 satellites in orbit and revealed last month that it had launched high-quality satellite internet service in Uzbekistan. It's teaming up with Delta to eventually bring satellite internet to flights, as well. Amazon recently added six new Arianespace launches and aims to have more than 3,000 low-earth orbit satellites up in the near future, still well short of SpaceX's 11,000 satellites.
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Maximize value, not token usage, Amazon has told its engineers, citing concerns about rising AI costs and complexity. Amazon made the strategy shift public on Tuesday in a note to engineering teams outlining the changing role of its software development engineers in the age of AI. “Our most prolific engineers have demonstrated that neither the developer role nor their output is defined by the use of AI,” Amazon VP and distinguished engineer Terk Terkowitz wrote in the note. “We're now in the era of the Renaissance Developer, blending AI tools with human judgment and domain expertise to build entirely new things.” In other words, Amazon wants its developers using AI, but burning through tokens isn't the same thing as getting useful work done. Rather than define the developer role by how AI is used, the memo focuses on what isn't changing so fast: the need to deliver useful software and results for customers and the business. “It is difficult to define, in a way that will stand the test of time, what good AI powered engineering practices look like,” the memo continues. “We have decided to focus on what is not changing as we evolved the SDE roles … the outcomes that matter aren’t changing, even if the inputs, tools, and techniques are changing faster than ever.” What that means for software developers in the present moment is that AI input metrics, even if Amazon has seen some correlation with increased productivity and delivery on tokenmaxxing teams, aren’t what Amazon sees as a measurement of good use of developer time and resources. “We are all aware of how deeply flawed these metrics are, primarily because they are disconnected from what matters,” the memo argues. “[U]sing these metrics could, if used as a target instead of a measure, drive negative outcomes, increasing costs, and increasing complexity,” the memo continues, referring to tokenmaxxing costs and overly complex code that’s at odds with Amazon’s mission to “invent and simplify.” An Amazon spokesperson confirmed that the memo’s intent was to discourage tokenmaxxing, pointing us to comments from AWS CEO Matt Garman from June in which he encouraged developers to measure outcomes, not token consumption, in making proper use of AI tools for software development. Amazon also wants its developers thinking more about how AI can help “improve delivery for customers” and business units, not just trying to find a place to stick it to prove it's working for them. The memo calls out some engineering teams who’ve “become less connected to their customers and business,” and says teams that are more engaged with their products and business roles “are able to take the most advantage of AI and agentic software development,” in essence calling for more teams to take a similar approach. “If your work does not benefit from current AI tooling, that is a finding, not a failing,” the memo said. “An engineer who can explain where AI does not yet help their work is demonstrating the judgement we are asking for.” Amazon's take in the memo is starkly similar to what Microsoft told its own internal development teams in August, right down to stressing a focus on returns for customers and business instead of maximizing input. "Tokenmaxxing is not what we are optimizing for," Microsoft EVP Jay Parikh told developers. "I want all of us focused on maximizing outcomes that move the needle for our customers and our business." With that, the writing seems to be on the wall for the throw-AI-at-everything-and-see-where-it-sticks approach to integrating the tech. When two companies that large start to question whether AI token consumption is a useful measure of productivity for their thousands of software engineers, it's possible the rest of the world will soon start sipping those tokens instead of chugging them. That, or we'll soon see even more enterprises begin to embrace the philosophy of relying on "good enough" open-weight models that can handle many tasks at a fraction of the cost of more expensive alternatives – Garman made a similar case for choosing cost-effective models based on the task back in June. If you're a bubble, that approach looks an awful lot like a pin. ®
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