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Friday, April 11

Daily News Stuff 11 April 2025

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Google is challenging Anthropic's Cursor AI programming assistant with its new Firebase Studio, pushing "vibe coding" to a whole new level. (Bleeping Computer)

"Vibe coding" is the modern equivalent of giving your credit card to a group of North Korean hackers and telling them to build you an app.
Firebase Studio is a great example - of why AI can't replace humans. (The Register)
"The AI part of the app is basically useless," wrote UK-based developer Oscar Molnar, in a Hacker News post. "After two hours of 'vibe coding' a chess clock Flutter app, I got basically nothing in the end. It broke more and more [with] each message. I tried fixing stuff myself but it would mess it up again. I would not recommend anyone to use it."
I've worked with people like that.

Tech News

Microsoft's Recall - a.k.a the Telescreen was behind the operating system - is now part of the latest "insider builds". (The Verge)

Ave atque vale, insiders. We hardly knew ye, but pretty soon we'll know your credit card numbers and search history.
The USA can't manufacture phones. It's a fantasy. Also, here's how the Liberty Phone is manufactured in the USA. (404 Media)

It's overpriced because nothing in it is sourced from or assembled in the third world, and pretty much everyone gave up on that idea years ago. Including China.
Speaking of which new Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan has investments in 600 companies in China including some linked to to the Chinese army. (Tom's Hardware)

Yeah, good fucking call there Intel.
The founder and former CEO of shopping app Nate has been indicted on fraud charges over using actual intelligence instead of the artificial kind. (Tech Crunch)

His app promised to find and buy whatever you wanted using the latest AI services.

It was actually a call center in the Philippines.
China is retaliating against reciprocal tariffs imposed by the US by - you're not going to believe this - reducing the number of insufferable woke communist Hollywood propaganda films it allows to screen in the country. (The Guardian)

"Oh no," President Trump is reported to have said.

(Actually he said "I've heard of worse things.")

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: It's the only way to be sure.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 06:21 PM | Comments (3) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
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1 Phic Lollins - You Can't Bury Hugs.mp3

Posted by: normal at Friday, April 11 2025 06:26 PM (bg2DR)

2 Fortunately, Recall (preview)* will only--so far--be "available to" Copilot+ PCs, which (mainly) means Arm. But it does include Core Ultra 200 and Ryzen AI 300 CPUs.

Posted by: Rick C at Saturday, April 12 2025 02:55 AM (1zWbY)

3 "(Actually he said "I've heard of worse things.")"
And he got a pretty hearty laugh in response from the audience.

Posted by: Rick C at Saturday, April 12 2025 03:02 AM (1zWbY)

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