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@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-06-04 10:21:16

Google pauses the rollout of Photos' AI-powered Ask Photos feature due to issues with latency, quality, and user experience, per a Google product manager on X (Hayden Field/The Verge)
theverge.com/news/678858/googl

Google quietly paused the rollout of its AI-powered ‘Ask Photos’ search feature
Google paused the rollout of “Ask Photos,” its Gemini AI-powered natural language search feature in Google Photos, citing problems with speed and quality.

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-06-05 14:18:45

The IRS open sourced much of its incredibly popular Direct File software as the future of the free tax filing program is at risk of being killed by Intuit’s lobbyists and Donald Trump’s megabill.
Meanwhile, several top developers who worked on the software have left the government and joined a project to explore the “future of tax filing” in the private sector

The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced
Direct File has been open sourced, and its creators have left government to continue working on the "future of tax filing."

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-06-05 18:04:17

Why NFL flag football participation at the 2028 Olympics risks sport's future espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/454542

2028 Olympics: Why NFL in flag football risks sport's future - ESPN
NFL players in flag football at the L.A. Olympics poses challenges to the sport's future and dismisses the contributions of those who helped it grow.

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-06-04 16:06:33

You can find America’s future in El Salvador
prismreports.org/2025/06/04/yo

@johnleonard@mastodon.social
2025-06-04 11:07:24

In a quiet corner of southern France, an international mega-project is forging ahead with its mission to demonstrate industrial-scale nuclear fusion. We got to take a look.
computing.co.uk/feature/2025/f

Fusion finish line is in sight: Inside ITER’s giant tokamak
In a quiet corner of southern France, an international mega-project is forging ahead with its mission to demonstrate industrial-scale nuclear fusion. Computing got to take ...

@mszll@datasci.social
2025-06-04 14:58:53

Nice results and talks at the E-bike City event at ETH: ebikecity.baug.ethz.ch/en/even
Summary report [pdf]:

@tante@tldr.nettime.org
2025-06-04 08:30:14

It's interesting how the "I use AI and it's great and the future" blog posts have escaped LinkedIn and now just pour fire on an overheated discourse.
Question is a bit: Why now?

@knurd42@social.linux.pizza
2025-06-04 07:05:19

How to prepare for a 8h train ride: go running.
Now of to Prague to #FlockToFedora; looking forward to meet a lot of old friends there and make new ones.
Ohh, and I give a talk there, too: When and how to use upstream Linux kernels to fix or improve Fedora –

When and how to use upstream Linux kernels to fix or improve Fedora Flock to Fedora 2025
This talk will show you how to cleanly install the latest vanilla Linux kernels on Fedora, as sometimes you'll need one to get upstream to act on something – like resolving a bug Fedora's kernel package maintainers lack resources to tackle. Going upstream in situations like that is in your own and everybody else's interest, as fixes and improvements usually will reach Fedora Linux and its users quickly through regular updates. Thorsten will describe various ways to install upstream kernels a…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-06-05 11:35:38

Lime and Uber sign a new multiyear deal to let Uber feature Lime's shared bikes and scooters on its ridehail app; the deal was set to expire in 2025 (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
theverge.com/news/679783/lime-

Lime renews vows with Uber ahead of busy summer season
Lime is renewing its deal with Uber to feature its bikes and scooters on the ridehail company’s app.

@tante@tldr.nettime.org
2025-06-04 09:37:17

With so much hype and recent articles on "AI for coding" and how everyone not doing it is dumb maybe this is a good time to relink my article on "Vibe Coding".
Which I think focuses purely on "output" when developing or creating something is not just about the output.
tan…

On "Vibe Coding"
The hype about the potentials (it’s always future potential, never real current use) of AI has discarded its last cycle (“reasoning models”/”deep research”, both terms being factually untrue and deeply deceiving at best) and moved to a new double whammy of “agentic AI” and “Vibe Coding”. Now “agentic AI” basically just means that some LLM […]