Notes

After 5 months of silence NASA engineers have reestablished communications with Voyager 1, which is currently 15 billion miles away (or 22.5 hours travelling at the speed of light)

Streaming service customers are churning at an ever increasing rate. Read Subscribe. Watch. Cancel. Repeat. from the NY Times

The Devin AI software engineer introduction video, was a lie

My favourite paper from this years SIGBOVIK — The Ballmer Peak: An Empirical Search

'The Line', as is inevitable with most enormous public sector projects, has been cut back and vastly reduced in scope. Could there have been any other outcome? Read End of the Line

GetAround suspends service in the UK — insurance, amongst other things, makes it hard for car-sharing in the UK so it was not surprising to see another operator cease operations here.

Right now almost 95% of the energy production in the UK is being provided by zero carbon sources, with all time record low emissions of 21 gCO2/kWh. As we move to electrification of all the things, everyone benefits from the reduced emissions. Watch in real-time at the National Grid ESO Dashboard

Brute-forcing a macOS user's name using mDNS https://fingerprint.com/blog/apple-macos-mdns-brute-force/

Will ChatGPT make your job obsolete. No, probably not. Not directly anyway

Some nifty macOS command line tools that you may have not heard of.

Create your own ‘Joan Is Awful’ Streamberry show with youareawful.com

It's 2023 so, of course, McDonald's have released a Game Boy Color game

Aza Raskin & Tristan Harris of the Centre for Humane Technology talk about The AI Dilemma

Twitter falsely designated NPR a ‘state-affiliated media organisation’, in response NPR quits twitter with their CEO saying he has “lost faith in the decision-making at Twitter”

The authors behind the 2021 Stochastic Parrot paper on the dangers of large AI models, release a statement on the recent letter suggesting a moratorium on training more powerful AI models

The Washington Post published this, at times difficult to read, powerful article showing the enormous damage assault rifles do to the human body.

Kirby Ferguson has released an updated, complete and final (?) version of his wonderful video series Everything is a Remix

AI is getting good at a lot of things, except perhaps understanding how to eat spaghetti

The much-loved Dark Sky was shut down at the beginning of this year after Apple acquired it and rolled it into iOS. While the data sources and algorithm may live on, the app was more than just it's data. A Eulogy for Dark Sky digs in to the little design details that really made it so loved.