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Re:US boy names that became girl names and vice versa on Monday November 02, 2026 @06:19PM (#50345546)
The UK doesn't really use those kind of suffix at all unless you're the king, so I'd imagine it would be quite hard with forms.
Re:Northflank Breached on Friday October 30, 2026 @02:51PM (#50308480)
They're high-value targets, so that's what attackers are pointing the agents at
Re:Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance on Friday October 30, 2026 @01:00PM (#50306775)
You realise that most of the people claiming to be raising money for Gaza via crypto are scammers in Myanmar, right?
Humans never get details of movie credits wrong?
Financial services, film studios, and pharmaceuticals use a lot less energy than steel and shipbuilding. The UK economy is 80% services, and heavy industry has mostly disappeared, aside from cars and aerospace. The UK is far richer than it was in the 1970s, but it doesn't make many ships.
It's aligned. The problem is who it's aligned with.
Re:EmDash uses Clef to moderate the plugin registry on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @02:25PM (#49996833)
We launched the plugin registry last week, and our focus has been on safe, decentralised plugin distribution and discovery. Stats, ratings etc are valuable, but they need careful design to prevent abuse. We will definitely add them later.
Re:Mistral Large 4 on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @02:31PM (#49982249)
No, it doesn't have a first amendment, but it does have ECHR articles 9 (Freedom of thought, conscience and religion), 10 (Freedom of expression) and 11 (Freedom of assembly and association)
Re:Mistral Large 4 on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @02:27PM (#49982217)
The much maligned GDPR gives stronger privacy rights than anything the US has
Re:Remove and Disable Apple Macos27 AI Models Tool on Monday October 05, 2026 @01:35AM (#49961043)
I'd be amazed if even 1% care
It's relevant because it's about TFA! I'm assuming you didn't read it: Netlify uses Unikraft MicroVMs
That provider being Deno
Re:A Brief History of the Bloomberg Terminal on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @02:45PM (#49912735)
They're very involved in web standards. Rob Palmer from Bloomberg is co-chair of TC39.
Re:Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @09:12AM (#49892666)
Which is a war crime
Re:Best of British Design on Monday September 28, 2026 @06:39PM (#49885459)
Not many things make me feel particularly patriotic, but this is doing a pretty good job
Re:GPT-6 Sol and Luna on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @05:15AM (#49813447)
The US labs would lose billions in enterprise contracts if they were found to be secretly training on data when opted-out. It's not worth it.
Re:GPT-6 Sol and Luna on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @05:05AM (#49813401)
You can't compare a subscription to API prices. OpenCode Go is massively subsidised. Unlike the closed labs, we can say that for sure because we can see what they're paying for their tokens.
Re:Claude Opus 5.5 on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @01:20PM (#49804825)
Enterprise, and APIs
Re:Apple Music to open concert venue in Battersea Power Station on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @02:17AM (#49797361)
aka the good Naomi
Re:Don't Be Nice on Sunday September 20, 2026 @10:46AM (#49776395)
There is no definition of "native British", just as is the case for most of Europe. The "native" population has changed repeatedly for thousands of years. This isn't like America where there was a native population that was largely displaced in the past 400 years
Re:Don't Be Nice on Sunday September 20, 2026 @10:37AM (#49776327)
> Politics is really not that serious

Really?

Re:Dropbox's Jan 1st 2027 terms of service on Sunday September 20, 2026 @03:59AM (#49773575)
I heard you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem
Re:DeepSeek v4.1 Flash Uncensored on Sunday September 13, 2026 @11:47AM (#49685293)
Would college biology have let me into a secret world where you can develop vaccines for viruses that don't yet exist? Ones that cover all possible variants, and where an AI can't tweak a protein or two in an engineered virus to avoid them?
Re:DeepSeek v4.1 Flash Uncensored on Sunday September 13, 2026 @11:45AM (#49685269)
Yes, but it can't preemptively develop and distribute vaccines for any possible pathogen created by AI. Once they've infected everyone it's a bit late
Re:An open letter to Dario: if you mean it, open the weights on Sunday September 13, 2026 @04:42AM (#49681549)
And in the meantime, every site in the world gets hacked. It takes far longer to fix every vulnerability than it does to find one unpatched one. Mythos has led to huge numbers of reported vulnerabilities on every kind of software. If those were all dropped as zero days (which is effectively what an open weight model would do), attackers can choose an unpatched on at their leisure while defenders race to fix them all and update everything.
Re:An open letter to Dario: if you mean it, open the weights on Sunday September 13, 2026 @04:38AM (#49681525)
> A usage agreement between two private companies is not considered public access.

Says who? Just write the law so it is.

> Under your current definition, Mythos is currently in public access.

Yes

Re:P(doom) on Sunday September 13, 2026 @02:42AM (#49680731)
Those are not incompatible. He can still be one of the most hated people on the planet, even if lots of people like him. The same would apply to all of the most hated people in history.

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