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Cake day: March 31st, 2026

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/48515139

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/48515135

What could go wrong with forcing a data hungry AI company like Anthropic to force it’s users to do ID verification?

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/22/anthropic-says-claude-may-want-to-see-your-id

Meanwhile asylum-seekers are a great source for biometric data for the UK government: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/the-uk-will-scan-asylum-seekers-faces-for-age-checks-despite-knowing-the-tech-is-flawed

As the West is trying to imitate totalitarian states as of late, they might be better advised to imitate their exports instead.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/48515135

What could go wrong with forcing a data hungry AI company like Anthropic to force it’s users to do ID verification?

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/22/anthropic-says-claude-may-want-to-see-your-id

Meanwhile asylum-seekers are a great source for biometric data for the UK government: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/the-uk-will-scan-asylum-seekers-faces-for-age-checks-despite-knowing-the-tech-is-flawed

As the West is trying to imitate totalitarian states as of late, they might be better advised to imitate their exports instead.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/48190865

A very very senior game developer recently told me how he is changing specialization because AI is much better than him at what he does already.

I asked him if it was just the speed and mass of code, to which he replied that Claude 5 Fable/Mythos is just so advanced, it comes up with solutions he would never have thought of, not even requiring good prompts anymore.

He further said in some areas like Unity it’s not perfect yet, but improving drastically.

Honestly this is pretty different to what I read in many articles regarding AI code.

They mentioned errors, bad performance & such.

However if it is already used in production and he as a professional evaluating it, is saying it’s better than him…

That same day I also talked to somebody that got hired to train an LLM. His interview was with that companies chatbot, that offered him over 120$ per hour, a roughly 500% increase from his previous job 🤣

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47871545

🌐 Many companies now block older browser versions from accessing their websites!

This follows many browser makers ending updates 4 older operating systems, leaving legacy devices unable to use web services without an OS upgrade.

This kinda reminds me of the Java website block by browsers a few years ago, just in reverse. (Revenge? ;)

Old Android versions are also increasingly blocked from accessing the Google appstore.

Truly about security or perhaps Planned Obsolescence?

Update: “old devices can only use old os > old os can only use old browser > old browser cannot use web> poor uneducated people = screwed once again!”

“Only suggesting corporate browsers, kinda like an ad.”