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Researchers at the Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence in Abu Dhabi say they developed an AI tool that can pretty closely copy a person's handwriting. Doctors still considered safe
edit: changed the blurb. There was too much concern originally.
modified 16-Jan-24 15:41pm.
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Their AI would asplode if it ever saw mine.
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In today's world, handwriting is not so common. Most of what was written in yesteryears, is today replaced by keystrokes.
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Likely not mine. Every signature is different. And sometimes I draw stick figures.
Hogan
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A Phemedrone information-stealing malware campaign exploits a Microsoft Defender SmartScreen vulnerability (CVE-2023-36025) to bypass Windows security prompts when opening URL files. Defender defend yourself!
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The Supreme Court has denied both Apple and Fortnite maker Epic Games’ request to appeal a lower court’s ruling on the alleged anticompetitive nature of Apple’s App Store. Coming soon: stories about people downloading bad apps from the web
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Good. Alphabet will be forced to allow this for Android apps as well.
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Managing dependencies on complex projects can be overwhelming. Because with NuGet, YuGetGot
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A deepdive into developer productivity metrics used by Google, LinkedIn, Peloton, Amplitude, Intercom, Notion, Postman, and 10 other tech companies. Ask everyone if they're working hard or hardly working
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JetBrains’ Developer Ecosystem 2023 report shows where C++ developers stand on C++ language versions, IDEs, package managers, build tools, code analysis tools, and AI-assisted development. Let’s dive in. On the stack?
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A new $20 subscription will unlock Microsoft’s AI-powered Copilot inside Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Clippy goes pro
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There is a robust debate ongoing in the scientific community. At least we still have Bob
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Media and entertainment, banking, insurance, and logistics lead the way. Not for them (obviously)
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CEOs are probably the easiest job to replace with an AI.
At the CEO level of a large company, there is relatively little they can do to affect the minutiae of day-to-day operations. All they do is outline "policy", which is their best guess as what would maximize shareholder value. The rules of thumb that they use could be encoded in an expert system that would probably do the right thing about as often as a human CEO. The maintenance costs would be much lower than the CEO's salary, perks, golden parachute, etc.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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All very true, but also the job least likely to have someone decide to replace with AI. Although I suppose the Board of Directors could decide to try.
Speaking of which, the BoD would also be easy to replace with AI.
TTFN - Kent
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On second thoughts, the biggest impediment to replacing a CEO (or the Board of Directors) with an AI is the legal requirement that a corporation have "Responsible Officers". I doubt that an AI is considered a "person" under the law.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Scrum makes peace when there is war, bringing together business people and developers. Defined like that, it sounds like a win-win situation. Not all of them - some probably have never met one
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I've never met one. But then I've never seen a company's non-IT business units ever buy into Scrum enough to participate. I shall spare you my usual 20-minute rant about Scrum. You're welcome.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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I wanted to write about modern graphics APIs at first, how exclusive they are depending of the platform you are developing on (and for), and how difficult to use they are. However, after (over-)thinking about this blog post, I came to the conclusion that this problem could be generalized to all software. A semi-regular reminder
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Which is pretty much the reason I switched to web development, though granted, it still pushes the problem elsewhere to some extent. But with numerous platform-agnostic languages supporting server-side stuff, and more-or-less browser-agnostic front-end and with a good framework to handle mobile, the problem of what hardware on what platform is less of an issue, IMO, unless you need real performance. 
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Marc Clifton wrote: what hardware on what platform is less of an issue, IMO, unless you need real performance.
Ah, but that, IMO, is where the real challenges lie. Writing performant code for a resource-intensive task is the kind of challenge that I really enjoy.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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FedEx is planning to launch an ecommerce platform called “fdx” later this year. What are the shipping choices?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: What are the shipping choices?
Dog and pony show.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: What are the shipping choices?
Pony Express.
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The CAMM2 spec was recently finalized, and memory makers are testing the waters. You mean we'll soon be able to bend the pins on our memory chips again?
Great times!
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