Elon Musk and his company have tweaked Grok, the A.I. powered chatbot, to make its answers more conservative on many issues, according to a New York Times analysis of thousands of its responses. nyti.ms/462hBye

#JUnit 6.0.0-M1 is ready for testing!

✨ Require Java 17 and Kotlin 2.2
🌄 JSpecify nullability info
🚟 Kotlin suspend function support
🛫 Integrated custom JFR events
🚅 FastCSV-backed Csv{File}Source
🧹 Remove deprecated APIs and behaviors

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Love having faster #Java apps by doing nothing other than upgrading to the latest #JDK! Coming in JDK 25 (from @pminborg.bsky.social):

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It's not a connection made in this @mims.bsky.social piece explicitly but my understanding is that this is also why LLMs require so much actual energy, for training and for returning 'answers'

Both inefficient and inaccurate -->>

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“If the government can disappear anyone it wishes, dump him in a Salvadoran dungeon and prevent any court in this country from providing relief, we all should be very, very afraid,” two constitutional scholars write in a guest essay.

I'm going to repost this every time @kevlin.bsky.social does, because it's just that important.

If null was the billion-dollar mistake, mutability-by-default was the 100-billion dollar mistake.

Yeah, that second number gets bigger every time I say it.

I absolutely guarantee we are only at the very start of discovering how deep the fabrications of generative machine learning tools have already infected all fields involving human-created text content.

It spits out plausible-sounding but frequently-false outputs. A recipe for slow disaster.

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Just last year, @coveringclimatenow.org named me ‘Journalist of the Year,’ my Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) family awarded me ‘Member of the Year,’ and I got to speak at several events, including a handful at the UN. 3/

Google announced its new quantum chip Willow.

📍It made calculations in 5 minutes that would take our currently fastest classical supercomputers much longer than the age of our universe (10 septillion years).

I love this practice. Having been on the receiving end of some of Beth’s code review compliments I can confirm that it’s remarkably energizing.

Mar-a-Lago becomes the new de-facto White House

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The power Alan Jones wielded had less to do with respect than with fear, according to investigative journalist Chris Masters, author of the bestselling biography, Jonestown: The Power and the Myth of Alan Jones.

the road to @SpringBoot 3.4.0 is amazing and it's been one heckuva week indeed!

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I think the phrase "Having escaped the lion’s den, Mr Lehrmann made the mistake of coming back for his hat" has just passed into Australian folklore.

My latest column is about how the UK, with its "sovereign" post-Brexit regulatory system, is becoming a dumping ground for toxic chemicals.
Brings a lump to the throat, this patriotic self-reliance, doesn’t it? Or perhaps to the breast, stomach or liver.
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if you ever wondered what it would have been like to live in the Weimar Republic as obvious madness overtook the nation, wow do I have great news for you

Whoops! Shoulda taken the deal. Not so Proud now, huh Boys?