In this gripping docuseries social media influencers join a management company accused of acting like a cult
#SocialMedia #TikTok #Netflix #CoSoTV
Dancing for the devil: the 7m TikTok cult
North Korea building cash reserves using ransomware, video games
Microsoft says Kim’s hermit nation is pivoting to latest tools as it evolves in cyberspace
https://theregister.com/2024/05/29/north_korea_using_ransomware_and/
Black Mirror?
China's machine-gun-toting robo-dogs are not unique, nor is its approach to the binary beasts. the US military has explored the same idea and, like China, wants a human to pull the trigger rather than letting robot dogs with machine guns off the leash
https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/30/quadruped_dogs_gun_xm7/
China has shown off a pair of robot dogs – one of them toting a machine gun and the other powered by AI.
State broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) posted news of the digital hounds earlier this week -
@process @thedisasterautist @BlueStateBabe @BreakingNews the deal isn't finalised yet
The deal will still need to be approved by shareholders at IDS’s next annual general meeting in September. The potential sale has attracted considerable scrutiny and could yet be blocked by the government under the National Security and Investment Act.
Government could block it outright
there's more! Microsoft's announcement sneaks in a mention that Intel and Tencent have worked together on an upgraded Android engine that will allow mobile apps running under Windows to take advantage of PC hardware
https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/29/microsoft_tencent_china_appstore_link/
Meanwhile: #Microsoft
Tencent and Microsoft have struck a deal that will see the Chinese gaming giant's Android wares available on the Microsoft Store, and playable on Windows PCs.
/nosanitize
https://news.microsoft.com/zh-cn/%e8%85%be%e8%ae%af%e5%ba%94%e7%94%a8%e5%ae%9d%e4%b8%8e-microsoft-store-%e8%be%be%e6%88%90%e5%90%88%e4%bd%9c%ef%bc%8cwindows-%e5%8f%af%e7%9b%b4%e6%8e%a5%e8%bf%90%e8%a1%8c%e7%a7%bb%e5%8a%a8%e5%ba%94/
A Microsoft China announcement explains the deal means Windows users can install mobile apps on their PCs. It quotes Tencent veep Lin Songtao expressing his enthusiasm about the size of the PC market, and plans to help developers to ensure their products run in Microsoft's OS.
Closing arguments
Lefties losing it YouTube channel is feckin hilarious 😂😂😂
🤨 I'm done caring what people think but some people are just asking to be mocked these days 😂
When the Wall Street Journal tested the big chatbots across a wide variety of criteria, it ranked Google third, after the upstart Perplexity and OpenAI’s ChatGPT.(perplexity is the best IMO it has its own search engine)
https://counter.social/@ecksmc/112103925059642891
The Great AI Challenge: We Test Five Top Bots on Useful, Everyday Skills
OpenAI’s ChatGPT competes against Microsoft’s Copilot and Google’s Gemini, along with Perplexity and Anthropic’s Claude. Here’s how they rank.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/ai-chatbots-chatgpt-gemini-copilot-perplexity-claude-f9e40d26
Google’s AI search setback
The AI Overviews debacle and leaked search ranking documents tell a common story about the web's future — and it's not pretty
https://www.platformer.news/google-ai-overviews-eat-rocks-glue-pizza/
ICYMI
How to stop google AI overviews from showing
Big shift from >> He recently created consternation among Catholic traditionalists by saying priests should be able to bless same-sex couples in some circumstances and has frequently talked of gay people being welcome in the Church.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67751600
some news agencies report that he used derogatory language on more than one occasion
Italian is not the Pope’s first language and he has been known to make mistakes in the past.
Meanwhile: the pope being a dick
When asked at the Italian Bishops’ Conference if gay men should now be allowed to train for the priesthood as long as they remained celibate, Pope Francis said they should not.
He is then believed to have continued by saying in Italian that there was, in the Church, already too much of an air of frociaggine, which translates as a highly offensive slur
Don't be like the pope 😬
E = Mc2 - Energy Milk Coffee
Fáilte Abhaile 🏴 “a nod’s as guid as a wink tae a blind horse”
ta be aff yer heid helps