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Japan approves up to $3.9B in subsidies to chip venture Rapidus, as the company tries to close the gap with TSMC in cutting-edge fabrication technology (Yuki Hagiwara/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Japan OKs $3.9 Billion in Aid to Chip Venture Rapidus to Catch Up to TSMC
Japan approved up to ¥590 billion ($3.9 billion) in subsidies to chip venture Rapidus Corp., committing more money to its ambition to catch up in semiconductor manufacturing.

💙 Sherrod Brown (D-OH),
Jon Tester (D-MT),
Jacky Rosen (D-NV),
and Bob Casey (D-PA)
are all up for re-election in 2024.
Each one is a toss-up race where the winner will be decided with just a few votes!
We’ve got tough races ahead of us. The GOP has already poured 𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 into defeating these democratic champions, and we’ve got to make sure we not only catch up, but out-raise them.
Our mission is clear:
if Dems don’t hold onto these seats, th…

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Ever wondered about the highs and lows of a tech career? 📈📉 Join us as we catch up with Chet Haase in our next episode. We're diving deep into the world of tech from start to farewell. A must-watch! https://cwti.link/twitch

So....I want to migrate from Mastodon to Sharkey. The catch is, I would LIKE to end up back on my current domain....is this possible at all?
I have a domain I could park a Sharkey instance to migrate to, but if I make a new Sharkey instance on my current domain after I shut the Mastodon instance down, will I be able to migrate back with little issue?🤔
#Fediverse

#today I have (re)submitted my manuscript to a new journal, and will now catch up on the splurge of New Scientist pieces, maybe after a spot of lunch.

Dieser Artikel teilt meine Prognose, dass in den Medien und Gesellschaft die seit kurzem sich rapide beschleunigende #H5N1 Epidemie mit allgemeinen Beschwichtigungen ("pasteurisierte Milchprodukte sind sicher !1") und falscher Abgeklärtheit ("die COVID Maßnahmen waren völlig überzogen !1") quittiert wird.
Objektiv haben wir aber unter den Rindern aktuell die Kontrolle ver…

Worried About Bird Flu? Welcome to The Party, Pal. You're Late.
Everyone's talking about bird flu now. It's an evolving situation. Right now, the mainstream news media is desperately trying to catch up on a story that's been happening for two years now. It would be funny if so many lives weren't at stake. The public reaction? Look at the discourse:

Good Tuesday morning to everyone here in the #Fediverse today!
It's a new day, so let's all discuss what the day has in store for each of us.
I have work stuff as always, and I also have a meeting at 12pm and then at 2pm. Both should be decently good meetings so nothing too boring.
Afterwards, I'm hoping to catch up on the two episodes of American Idol that…

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2:
#OJBorg
- Post Wild Boys Of Radio 2 Handover
OJ reflects on his weekly catch up with Trevor.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001yj9d

Can Jalen Tolbert catch the third-year receiver lightning in 2024? https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/can_jalen_tolbert_catch_the_third_year_receiver_lightning_in_2024/s1_17100_40006758

Can Jalen Tolbert catch the third-year receiver lightning in 2024?
2024 Roster Review: Back-up wide receivers – Part 6 of 17. Click here to view all articles in this series. It has long been a known strategy in fantasy football to keep an eye on a wide receiver entering his third year. For whatever reason, a switch is thrown and they ignite. Dallas' Jalen Tolbert will be entering his third year when the 2024 season kicks off. With the likely departure of Michael Gallup later this year, Tolbert's path to a breakout season seems clear. Even if Gallup somehow s…

None of this is a moral failing on your part. None of this makes you a bad person. It just makes you a person with a lot of laundry to catch up on. https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/podcast-ep-137-ho…

Did you miss NVIDIA's recent livestream? No worries, this video will help you catch up on what happened /s
https://youtu.be/XWqycBMUFA0

#writerscoffeeclub
29. What are your grammar rules to live by and grammar rules to break?
I wrote, "She hopped ahead, then waited for them to catch up."
A critiquer commented:
"Writers often make similar errors when attempting to show temporal
progression, but 'then' is an adverb and cannot be used as a conjunction."
If …

Really big congrats to the JRuby team! Prism is fast, but I think the real win is that all Ruby implementations will get syntax updates at the same time. Implementers don't have to play "catch up" with CRuby https://mastodon.social/@enebo/111982276642844225

There is no “away”.
https://sketchplanations.com/there-is-no-away

There is no "away"
It's a phrase I always grew up with: you throw rubbish and trash "away" and take what you don't need to "the dump" or "the tip." However, a comment in a nature documentary made me reevaluate: "You can't throw anything away. There is no 'away'." Unless we're throwing a leaf or some grass cuttings back on the lawn, it matters where what we've used ends up. It doesn't go away—it goes somewhere, and eventually, that somewhere will catch up with us. This is why I think "the garbage dump" is bett…

Good Tuesday morning to everyone here in the #Fediverse today!
It's a new day, so let's all discuss what the day has in store for each of us.
I have work stuff as always, and I also have a meeting at 12pm and then at 2pm. Both should be decently good meetings so nothing too boring.
Afterwards, I'm hoping to catch up on the two episodes of American Idol that…

OpenAI says it hasn't yet set a timeline for the release of Sora, as the company tries to catch up to other text-to-video AI startups like Runway AI (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-0…

Open AI’s Sora Video Tool Tries to Keep Up With Runway
Software that can create convincing video from text prompts is progressing fast, raising questions about disinformation as well as the economics of AI.

Thank you so much for all the responses—I appreciate every one. I’m going to bed early, but I’ll catch up with you all tomorrow. XOXOX

The Long and the Short of It
https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-52ab17e6-0f2cf86f87d05e37
The Long and the Short of It Last weekend was Hackaday Europe 2024, and it was great. Besides having some time to catch up with everyone, see some fun new …

At the risk of being crude or flippant...
Well duh! What the fuck did you think people would do with really good LLM image generation, make pictures of cookies? It's a disinformation-generator. That's what it is. That's what you've built. Don't pretend like you didn't see it coming. We know you're not that stupid, just that self-absorbed.

Google pausing AI portrait tool after complaints of historical inaccuracies | CBC News
Google is pausing an AI tool that creates images of people following inaccuracies in some historical depictions the model generated, the latest hiccup in the Alphabet-owned company's efforts to catch up with rivals OpenAI and Microsoft.

I'm still wondering what would be the best approach towards unique #eMail addresses with my domain.
For a long time, I've been using the " " approach with #GMail but that sucks because:
• A fair number of sites reject e-mail addresses containing a " ", and at this point it's no longer a matter of copy-pasting poor snippets, but people explicitly blocking cheap unique addresses.
• It's quite obvious, and so people can easily take the "base" address out of it.
I'm considering three alternatives:
1. The catch-all, or opt-out approach — just grab mail from all possible addresses. Easy to set up, and lets me dynamically get unique addresses with no effort. On the minus side, it's going to get lots of #spam, and I'll end up having to block a lot of commonly used usernames.
2. Prefixed catch-all — grab mail from all possible addresses starting with a specific prefix. Somewhat similar to the " " approach, except without special characters and less obvious. Would combine being able to quickly make new addresses up, while filtering out most of the generic spam. On the minus side, I don't think most of the mail providers would actually support something like that.
3. Explicit addresses, or opt-in approach — create aliases explicitly whenever I need one. Lots of work, but probably the cleanest solution. I'd probably also have to have a handful of "free" aliases on me, in case I needed to quickly give someone a unique e-mail address.

⚮⚮⚮The Sun is rising earlier and earlier faster and faster; what subjectively was 7ish is now 6ish.
⚮⚮⚮A very full day what with blood panel results, two #Osher with the engaging Dr. Bell, and catch-up gallivanting.
⚮⚮⚮Pulling two or three weeds at a time is cumulative.

I was going to post a question on Reddit about what two or three comics I should start reading that would be relatively easy to get caught up on and have good characters with little to no triggery stuff in them and have some fantasy or space opera elements, but then I realized that literally any subreddit I would post in would immediately ban my post for failing to follow some obscure rule about asking research questions and I’d be admonished by some mod for failing to have already ingested seventeen years of that specific /r/‘s culture and mores.
EDIT: because this is getting all the right kinds of lovely folk boosting—stuff I love in comic books would be things like Catherine Asaro’s Major Bhaajan, steampunk elements (god I don’t have the energy to catch up on Girl Genius but I used to love it), Honor Harrington, Xena Warrior Princess, anything hopeful future like Star Trek, the anime series Trinity Blood, no fae sexy shit because I already know how to find ACOTAR on Libby and I don’t need an illustrated guide, and whimsy eg a Psalm For The Wild-Built.

i might just watch the tubi version and deal with the ads, since i’ve seen this before and can skip ahead post-ad-break to catch up. otoh it’s been a while so i don’t remember much. hmm 🤔 #monsterdon

An interview with studio owner Tyler Perry, who says he's putting an $800M studio expansion in Atlanta on hold after seeing the capabilities of OpenAI's Sora (Katie Kilkenny/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Tyler Perry Puts $800M Studio Expansion on Hold After Seeing OpenAI’s Sora: “Jobs Are Going to Be Lost”
The actor, filmmaker and studio owner is raising the alarm about the impact of the tech, saying, "I feel like everybody in the industry is running a hundred miles an hour to try and catch up, to try and put in guardrails."

Why the Las Vegas Raiders Aced First Round With Brock Bowers https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/why_the_las_vegas_raiders_aced_first_round_with_brock_bowers/s1_17213_40294502

Why the Las Vegas Raiders Aced First Round With Brock Bowers
For the Las Vegas Raiders, first-round picks are not a specialty, so drafting an absolute Dawg like Brock Bowers outside the top 10 was a breath of fresh air. Forget six quarterbacks in twelve picks, all Raider Nation will be talking about is how their team didn’t overthink the 13th overall pick by stealing Bowers. Brock Bowers was a projected top-10 pick in this year’s draft and for good reason. He is proven to be able to line up and catch from the slot, out wide, or put his hand in the di…

Been trying this out secretly for the past few weeks — a "catch-up" timeline page. Did whole bunch of iterations, where I myself is the guinea pig, but this time reaching a point where I just got to share it out in the public.
- NOT final design, still very experimental, only on my local machine
- Instead of algo timeline, this is focused on data-grid-like UI for configuring exactly what I want to see.
- This honestly could be another full-fledged app/client by itse…

It was 80 degrees in the office this afternoon. I packed up “early,” went home and crashed for an hour. Then realized I’d forgotten my laptop at work. So I got to drive back in to pick it up. There were people still working there, of course. I’ll catch up tomorrow.

“‘Being told that it can do all of these things is one thing, but actually seeing the capabilities, it was mind-blowing,’ he said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter on Thursday, noting that his productions might not have to travel to locations or build sets with the assistance of the technology.
“As a business owner, Perry sees the opportunity in these developments, but as an employer, fellow actor and filmmaker, he also wants to raise in the alarm.”

Tyler Perry Puts $800M Studio Expansion on Hold After Seeing OpenAI’s Sora: “Jobs Are Going to Be Lost”
The actor, filmmaker and studio owner is raising the alarm about the impact of the tech, saying, "I feel like everybody in the industry is running a hundred miles an hour to try and catch up, to try and put in guardrails."

@… Just want to say: I love that you went through with putting up a site of your own for this.
It sits nicely in my RSS reader for me to catch up on.

If you can't be the author of a mostly AI-generated book, then maybe you can be recognized as the arranger of AI-generated sentences.
Near the end, the article quickly scratches an important topic, that probably will become relevant in the near future: If you use #AI tools to compensate for a disability, where does your work end and the AI's begin?
What if an author couldn't …

:gitannex: #gitAnnex's built-in file deduplicationis is not only useful to save disk space, but also to catch certain errors in your data pipeline:
If after several days of automated data processing and producing new files from others, git-annex says everything is already synced up, it's an indication that you messed up - like hard-coding the input file path in the script, causing a…

#AIvsCopyright
"The USCO’s does not recognize her as author of the whole text as is conventional for written works. Instead she is considered the author of the “selection, coordination, and arrangement of text generated by artificial intelligence.” This means no one can copy the book without permission, but the actual sentences & paragraphs are not copyrighted and could theoreti…

How One Author Pushed the Limits of AI Copyright
Elisa Shupe was initially rebuffed when she tried to copyright a book she wrote with help from ChatGPT. Now the US Copyright Office has changed course—but there’s a catch.

@…, my favourite Mastodon web client, released a great new beta function: the catch-up window.
You can choose the time window you want to catch up on, and you get a nicely organised list of posts that you can browse by author, by whether it's an original, a boost, a reply, and order by date, replies, boosts, etc. All done with a very pleasant and intuitive …

Dems gear up for final stretch on judges -- worrying they won't catch Trump (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/05/biden-trump-judicial-nomination-record-00139286

Artists’ AI dilemma: can artificial intelligence make intelligent art? https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/apr/08/artists-ai-dilemma-can-artificial-intelligence-make-intelligent-art?CMP=Share_iOSA…

US cases around copyright and AI: author Elisa Shupe asked for copyright on a book that was created with the help of generative AI. She stated not giving her registration would be disabilities discrimination, since she was unable to create her work otherwise. On appeal, partial copyright protection for “selection, coordination, and arrangement of text generated by artificial intelligence” was granted, without referral to the disability argument.

How One Author Pushed the Limits of AI Copyright
Elisa Shupe was initially rebuffed when she tried to copyright a book she wrote with help from ChatGPT. Now the US Copyright Office has changed course—but there’s a catch.

We're back on Mondo Radio for our pattern club hour tonight from 6pm BST (utc 1) ! https://www.mondo.radio/
Catch up here: https://patternclub.org/podc…

Towards identifying and minimizing customer-facing documentation debt
Lakmal Silva, Michael Unterkalmsteiner, Krzysztof Wnuk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.11048

Towards identifying and minimizing customer-facing documentation debt
Software documentation often struggles to catch up with the pace of software evolution. The lack of correct, complete, and up-to-date documentation results in an increasing number of documentation defects which could introduce delays in integrating software systems. In our previous study on a bug analysis tool called MultiDimEr, we provided evidence that documentation-related defects contribute to many bug reports. First, we want to identify documentation defect types contributing to documentat…

Thank you so much for all the responses—I appreciate every one. I’m going to bed early, but I’ll catch up with you all tomorrow. XOXOX

Cowboys draft a wide receiver with the 216th pick https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-draft-a-wide-receiver-with-the-216th-pick/

Cowboys draft a wide receiver with the 216th pick ⋆ Inside The Star
Catch up on the latest news from the 2024 NFL draft. Learn about the Dallas Cowboys' picks and discover who they selected for wide receiver.

Trump insiders worry as critical small-dollar donors abandon his campaign: report - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/lara-trump-rnc-2667543002/

Trump insiders worry as critical small-dollar donors abandon his campaign: report
While Donald Trump's team may be courting big-dollar donors like Elon Musk to catch up with President Joe Biden's war chest, the warning bells are sounding for an erosion in small-dollar donors. Trump's campaign team is quietly vexed about the lack of the smaller donors that buoyed the former presid...

Queues are cleared from phpc.social coming back online after the cert fix. Now we just have to wait for federation retries to happen to catch up our view of the fediverse.

Good morning and happy Sunday #Fediverse
How is everyone doing today and what do we all have planned for today?
It's very possible the wife and I might head to the mall today, but not sure. We definitely need to catch up on some TV shows that we are behind on, so maybe that too will happen today as we keep putting it off.
Other than, just a relaxing day hopefully.…

i might just watch the tubi version and deal with the ads, since i’ve seen this before and can skip ahead post-ad-break to catch up. otoh it’s been a while so i don’t remember much. hmm 🤔 #monsterdon

I see "Killing Eve" is on Netflix. Not sure how long it's been on there, but good time for me to catch up with Season 4.
#netflix #shows #entertainment

I never watched anything Star Trek.
I feel I should catch up, and maybe that's a good idea, but I don't even know where to start and whether I should watch everything there is.
If I were to start Star Wars today, I'd have been big time confused because there's gazillion different chronologies and most stuff beyond first two trilogies shouldn't have been produced at all, but well, Disney happened.
About Star Trek I don't know what to expect.
(th…

saturday #comix catch-up no. 1: 2nd issue of jeffrey lewis's "statics" (as in the opposite of "movies"), sweet mix of autobio & family history, plus a few absurdist sorta-superhero stories, all in the classic style. any ongoing #indie

Statics: Issue #2 (comic book, 32pp)

After being at a conference in Birmingham all day I was hoping to have done some catch-up work on my laptop on the way down to London. Except I'd forgotten that the West Coast Mainline uses Pendolinos. The technology behind them is great, but my travel sickness on them doesn't agree. Spent most of the hour-and-a-bit breathing deeply and looking straight ahead. I always forget about the #Pendolino !

“This sort of move—rewriting history to suggest she has always been critical of various firms or trends in Silicon Valley—is employed consistently throughout the book as part of a desperate effort to catch up with the critical consensus.”
https://thebaffler.com/latest/the-mise

The Miseducation of Kara Swisher | Edward Ongweso Jr.
Kara Swisher made a career of dumbing down tech reporting and criticism. She’s a little sorry!

“I’m on Mastodon but I don’t see anything in my feed”
Follow people.
Just go nuts (you can always unfollow)
I didn’t do much reading on Mastodon since this morning and now I fire up Mona (iOS Client) and I have…
1,100 posts to catch up.
I’m following 400 accounts.
Oh and that 1100? That doesn’t include any of the news sites I follow, which are in a separate list, that doesn’t show in my main timeline.
Just follow.

How one author gained a limited copyright for the "selection, coordination, and arrangement of text" from AI, as the US Copyright Office wrestles with AI law (Kate Knibbs/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-copyright-office-loosens-up…

How One Author Pushed the Limits of AI Copyright
Elisa Shupe was initially rebuffed when she tried to copyright a book she wrote with help from ChatGPT. Now the US Copyright Office has changed course—but there’s a catch.

If you’re new to Bluesky, here’s a quick guide to help catch you up.
One post is called a Scorb. It is customary to end each day by posting how many scorbles you managed that day. Sometimes with an appropriate emoji.
Your followers are “Your Cloud”. If you are asking them for money you are “making it rain.”
Your timeline is your Skyline. Standout Scorbs are “High-Rise”.
Enjoy yourselves and may all your Scorbs be High-Rise.

Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
COMMANDER: Then we can't possibly catch her. And I thought we had them for sure.
AVON: [Liberator.] Used up half our energy reserves. Reading is forty-five percent of capacity.
https://blake.torpidity.net/s/208/100 📺 B7B9

gotta catch up on house cleanup debt.

good article, especially like the warnings towards the conclusion of the article on #LLM in production: https://arstechnica.com/information-te…

Google debuts more powerful “Ultra 1.0” AI model in rebranded “Gemini” chatbot
Confusing name shuffles aside, "Gemini Advanced" vies to catch up with ChatGPT-4.

Following on from ShuttleBytes last month, we made a video so you can catch up!
The topic of this video is implementing JWT authentication in Rust.
Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNoy1mBJEaw

I'm pretty bad at actually reading my timeline after being afk. Similar to twitter, I find 250-300 follows is where I start feeling overwhelmed and don't really want to follow anyone else. That said, #phanpy has an intriguing new feature called "Catch-up" and I'm still trying to figure out how to use it. I'm curious how others are using it? Just plow through (or skim…

After watching #scotland get robbed it looks like #wales are making sure they don't have to play catch up this time. #6nations

Artists’ AI dilemma: can artificial intelligence make intelligent art? https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/apr/08/artists-ai-dilemma-can-artificial-intelligence-make-intelligent-art?CMP=Share_iOSA…

Twitter/X
I have checked in on Twitter this morning to catch up on friends and wrestling tweets and the level of Transphobia on there is unreal.
Fake ads depicting Michael Martin too about some "scandal"
And a serious amount of fearmongering regarding the referendum tomorrow.
There is more and more of this content surfacing and pushing out my friends posts. Thankfully I created a list to follow me on their own page, but my god it is _bad._

I've started watching One Piece #anime today. With my usual rate of 1 episode a day, this means I'd catch up in roughly 3 years. Except that I'll probably be switching to something else between seasons.

Always good to get a hug from an old friend, and to catch up with an acquaintance who has been out of town for a while too!
#Neurolux

#PSA: If you're even remotely interested in good #PuzzleGames, do yourself a favor and play #Paquerette by @…

Save 20% on Paquerette Down the Bunburrows on Steam
The buns... you HAVE to capture them!! Think outside the bunburrow or get outsmarted by bunnies in this cute pathfinding-based puzzle game!

Biden crossed a new threshold this last week, notching his 175th confirmed judge and eclipsing former President Barack Obama’s numbers under his first term.
It reflects Democrats’ focus on refilling the federal judicial ranks, but they’re scrambling to catch the record set by former President Donald Trump.
And election years only get harder.
Typically reliable judicial votes like Sens. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) will be unwilling to make any risky move…

Even though I know there's nothing I can do about it, it still frustrates me immensely that my invisible #disability can completely cripple me mentally as well as physically. I could REALLY use the time to catch up to work right now, but my brain and body say "Nope." It's really bad for my stress levels, and when I'm stressed, symptoms get worse. I try not to beat mys…

@… @… I'm playing catch-up here, did what's below coincide?
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At a tech and media conference, Bob Iger says Disney is working to catch up with Netflix's tech capability and downplays the effects of activist investors (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/disney-streami…

Disney Working to Be on Technical Par With Netflix, Iger Says
Disney CEO Bob Iger acknowledged the company is behind Netflix in terms of technical capabilities -- and that it's in the process of catching up.

'Trump is running out of options to raise $$$ needed for legal representation in multiple jurisdictions & running a campaign. He can tap into his pool of small donors, or he can raid the RNC's coffers. However, pursuing either of those avenues will make it even harder for Republicans to catch up to Democrats in the money race in competitive House and Senate races.'
Trump’s mounting legal bills are bankrupting his PACs — and could bleed the RNC dry - Alternet.org
<…

Trump’s mounting legal bills are bankrupting his PACs — and could bleed the RNC dry
Former President Donald Trump has already spent more than $50 million in donor contributions on his own legal bills in 2023. Now, his four upcoming criminal trials are threatening to empty out his PAC accounts with still nine months to go before election day.In a Wednesday article, Bloomberg reporte...

gotta catch up on house cleanup debt.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio2:
#OJBorg
- Post Wild Boys Of Radio 2 Handover
OJ reflects on his weekly catch up with Trevor.
Relisten now 👇

BBC Radio 2 - OJ Borg, Post Wild Boys Of Radio 2 Handover
OJ reflects on his weekly catch up with Trevor.

Final train of the day was a London Northwestern for one stop down to Birmingham International.
Finally checked in to the hotel after nearly 40 minutes of them trying to find the payment details from the booking agency in their new computer system.
Anyway, I'm here now. I can settle in, catch up on stuff I've missed and relax a bit.

Report: Cowboys to pick up Micah Parsons 5th-year option as DE, save $2.7 million in salary cap space https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/report_cowboys_to_pick_up_micah_parso…

Report: Cowboys to pick up Micah Parsons 5th-year option as DE, save $2.7 million in salary cap space
The Dallas Cowboys are set to pick up Micah Parsons’ fifth-year option, according to The Dallas Morning News’ Michael Gehlken. It’s not a surprise considering the former Penn State star’s performance to start his career. But there’s a catch. The Cowboys are placing his option as a defensive end instead of a linebacker, Gehlken reported. By doing so, the franchise will save about $2.7 million. According to Over The Cap, the fifth-year option for linebackers who have made more than one …

Slack rolls out AI features to summarize threads, offer channel recaps, let users ask questions, and more to Enterprise users, after testing Slack AI in 2023 (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/14/24070590/slack-ai-launch…

Slack AI is here, letting you catch up on lengthy threads and unread messages
Slack is rolling out a bunch of new AI features, which are supposed to help you summarize threads, get recaps on discussions within channels, and search through previous messages.

#today I have a huge backlog of #NewScientist articles to catch up on again, then will actually try to do my research planning...

Amazon's Prime Video basic ad tier, which began on Jan. 29 in the US as a downgrade to subscribers, quietly cut Dolby Vision HDR and Dolby Atmos sound support (John Archer/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnarcher/20

Amazon Prime Video’s New Ads-Based Subscription Has A Surprise Catch
It’s not just ads you have to put up with; key performance features are lost as well.

I Prosecuted Donald Trump and Won. Here's How It's Done. (Tristan Snell/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/i-prosecuted-donald-trump-and-won-heres-how-its-done

I Prosecuted Donald Trump and Won. Here’s How It’s Done.
It might seem like justice will never catch up to the former president. But it has at least once, and it can again.

Final train of the day was a London Northwestern for one stop down to Birmingham International.
Finally checked in to the hotel after nearly 40 minutes of them trying to find the payment details from the booking agency in their new computer system.
Anyway, I'm here now. I can settle in, catch up on stuff I've missed and relax a bit.

@… @… I'm playing catch-up here, did what's below coincide?
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Amazon's Prime Video basic ad tier, which began on Jan. 29 in the US as a downgrade to subscribers, quietly cut Dolby Vision HDR and Dolby Atmos sound support (John Archer/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnarcher/20

Amazon Prime Video’s New Ads-Based Subscription Has A Surprise Catch
It’s not just ads you have to put up with; key performance features are lost as well.

#today finshed my #WebVTT #transcripts, now lots of unrelated admin to catch up on. Drinks this evening...

Former GM explains linking Giants' Saquon Barkley to Cowboys https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/former_gm_explains_linking_giants_saquon_barkley_to_cowboys/s1_13132_39993426

Former GM explains linking Giants' Saquon Barkley to Cowboys
Former NFL general manager and current analyst Mike Tannenbaum explained during Tuesday's edition of ESPN's "Get Up" why he's convinced the Cowboys should target Saquon Barkley assuming the Giants let the star running back reach free agency in March.  "He can catch," Tannenbaum said about Barkley during the show segment, per Ed Valentine of Big Blue View. "He can run. I think his pass protection has actually gotten better. Based on the way Tony Pollard played I actually think [Barkley] would i…

Good morning and happy Sunday to all of you here in the #Fediverse today!
Let's talk about our plans for the day to round out the weekend.
I'm not sure I have anything planned other than to just rest and relax.
The wife and I have two TV shows with one episode each to catch up on and then we'll be totally caught up until new episodes air tonight.

Documents: Adobe offers its photographer and artist network $120 for videos of people engaged in everyday actions, or ~$2.62 to ~$7.25 per minute, to train AI (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Adobe (ADBE) Is Buying Videos to Build Its AI Text-to-Video Generator
Adobe Inc. has begun to procure videos to build its artificial intelligence text-to-video generator, trying to catch up to competitors after OpenAI demonstrated a similar technology.

Filings: ByteDance-owned entity Picoheart is now the third-largest shareholder in InnoStar, a Chinese state-backed ReRAM chips maker, with a 9.5% stake (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tik…

TikTok Owner Boosts China Ties, Invests in State-Backed Chip Firm
As the Chinese government races to catch up in advanced computer chips, it has found anally in ByteDance, the owner of TikTok. The Chinese tech company has quietly bought a stake in InnoStar Semiconductor, a Shanghai-based memory chip firm backed by the Chinese government, according to corporate ...

Filings: ByteDance-owned entity Picoheart is now the third-largest shareholder in InnoStar, a Chinese state-backed ReRAM chips maker, with a 9.5% stake (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tik…

TikTok Owner Boosts China Ties, Invests in State-Backed Chip Firm
As the Chinese government races to catch up in advanced computer chips, it has found anally in ByteDance, the owner of TikTok. The Chinese tech company has quietly bought a stake in InnoStar Semiconductor, a Shanghai-based memory chip firm backed by the Chinese government, according to corporate ...

Documents: Adobe offers its photographer and artist network $120 for videos of people engaged in everyday actions, or ~$2.62 to ~$7.25 per minute, to train AI (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Adobe (ADBE) Is Buying Videos to Build Its AI Text-to-Video Generator
Adobe Inc. has begun to procure videos to build its artificial intelligence text-to-video generator, trying to catch up to competitors after OpenAI demonstrated a similar technology.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001wxxb

Good morning and happy Sunday #Fediverse
How is everyone doing today and what are your plans for the day today to round out the weekend?
No plans here for me at all other than to just rest and relax. Might watch some TV and try and catch up on some shows we're behind on.
#MorningMoments

Documents: Adobe offers its photographer and artist network $120 for videos of people engaged in everyday actions, or ~$2.62 to ~$7.25 per minute, to train AI (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Adobe (ADBE) Is Buying Videos to Build Its AI Text-to-Video Generator
Adobe Inc. has begun to procure videos to build its artificial intelligence text-to-video generator, trying to catch up to competitors after OpenAI demonstrated a similar technology.

Sources: OpenAI is developing two types of agent software: one to automate tasks by effectively taking over a user's device, and the other for web-based tasks (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/op

OpenAI Shifts AI Battleground to Software That Operates Devices, Automates Tasks
OpenAI’s first major product, ChatGPT, proved so popular that it sparked a generation of wannabes. But as rivals like Google catch up, OpenAI is hustling to release a product that could prove almost as revolutionary. OpenAI is developing a form of agent software to automate complex tasks by ...

Good morning #Fediverse
How are we all doing on this great Wednesday so far? Let's talk about our plans for the day and what we all hope to accomplish.
For me, it's just the usual work stuff but with no meetings today, so that makes the day better in most cases.
The wife and I will be playing Fortnite with friends tonight and maybe even try and catch up on some…

Good morning #Fediverse
How are we all doing on this great Wednesday so far? Let's talk about our plans for the day and what we all hope to accomplish.
For me, it's just the usual work stuff but with no meetings today, so that makes the day better in most cases.
The wife and I will be playing Fortnite with friends tonight and maybe even try and catch up on some…

Hugging Face launches HuggingChat Assistants, allowing users to create customized AI chatbots with specific capabilities using LLMs like Mixtral or Llama2 (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/hugging-fac

Hugging Face launches open source AI assistant maker to rival OpenAI’s custom GPTs
The arrival of Hugging Chat Assistants shows how fast the open source community continues to catch up to closed rivals such as OpenAI.