Friday, May 16

Daily News Stuff 16 May 2025
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- Netflix will show ads created with generative AI mid-way through shows and movies. (Ars Technica)
No it won't. Not to me anyway, because I already cancelled my subscription.
Not over this, specifically, but because it's awful.
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- The launch of the first all-Australian orbital rocket has been delayed because the front fell off. (Ars Technica)
- ChatGPT will soon record, transcript, and summarise your meetings. (Bleeping Computer)
No it won't. See the item on Netflix.
- Harvard Law paid $27 for a copy of the Magna Carta. Turns out it's not a copy. (New York Times) (archive site)
Well, it is a copy, but it's a very authorised copy. Authorised by Edward I in the year 1300, and subsequently lost in 1762, and likely worth over $20 million.
- I stubbed my toe on the coffee table I left sitting in the hallway after spending the night in a drunken stupor. I blame Trump. (The Verge) (archive site)
The Verge having another normal one I see.
- Google has agreed to release the Nextcloud app from permissions prison. (Nextcloud)
Some good news for a change.
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Yeesh, I haven't seen that version of the video. Holy cats, that's naughty.
Posted by: normal at Friday, May 16 2025 08:11 PM (bg2DR)
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Could the U.S. please borrow Clarke and Dawe for a few months? (The front seems to have fallen off our comedy ship).
Laura Branigan - check; now how about a Pat Benatar?
Posted by: Joe Redfield at Saturday, May 17 2025 03:18 AM (KOtXO)
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