• Microsoft's LinkedIn chief is running Office as part of an AI reorg.  (The Verge)
  
  Abort, abort, abort.
  
  WordPerfect is still available if you're allergic to free.

• Sydney cockatoos have learned to operate drinking fountains.  (Science)
  
  Oddly, I see far fewer cockatoos now that I live out in the country than I did in the suburbs of Sydney.
  
  
  
• If you're tired of gigabit Ethernet, why not try terabit?  (Serve the Home)
  
  1.6 terabit, in fact.
  
  Networking is the one area where if you pay enough money you can get whatever speed you like.
  
  
  
• How much energy does it take to think?  (Quanta)
  
  More than I have right now.  It's been a long day.
  
  
  
• The court handling the New York Times lawsuit against OpenAI - which I suspect is baseless though neither party has behaved exactly admirable - has ordered the company to preserve all logs for all users, including data that the user has nominally deleted, creating a privacy nightmare.  (Ars Technica)
  
  Or rather, none of the three parties including the court itself has behaved admirable.
  
  
  
• Reddit has filed suit against Anthropic, alleging that the company has accessed the site 100,000 times in the past year despite a big sign on the tree fort saying "NO GIRLS ALLOWED".  (The Verge)
  
  The one thing keeping Reddit alive right now is charging huge amounts to AI companies for human-generated content.
  
  Reddit itself is increasingly overrun with AI generated content.
  
  Oh no.
  
  
  
• ChatGPT can now ready your Google Drive and Dropbox.  (The Verge)
  
  No it fucking can't.

Posted by: Rick C at Friday, June 06 2025 05:24 AM (zISgv)

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