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Phone 3a: NothingOS 4.0 bringt optionale Werbung auf dem Sperrbildschirm
Das Tech-Start-up Nothing ändert seine Strategie für seine Budget-Modelle: Auf dem Sperrbildschirm zieht mit Android 16 künftig optional Werbung ein.
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Phone 3a: #NothingOS 4.0 bringt optionale #Werbung auf dem Sperrbildschirm
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Microsoft says its Gaming Copilot feature, which recently hit Windows 11 as a public beta, uses screenshots to understand in-game events, not to train AI models (Jowi Morales/Tom's Hardware)

Microsoft responds to Gaming Copilot controversy, says it uses screenshots to understand in-game events, not for training AI models — optional feature can be turned off, but not easily uninstalled
Microsoft says it isn't using your data to train its AI.

NFL DFS: Optimizer reveals Week 8, 2025 daily fantasy football picks, strategy, advice on DraftKings, FanDuel

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-dfs

Cooper Beebe injury update for Cowboys-Broncos in Week 8 dampens optimism for OL https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/cooper-beebe-injury-update-dallas-cowboys-broncos-week-8-dampens-optimism-offensive-line

The whole thing is optimized for scams, deception and other criminal behavior:
- user interface that deceptively pretends it's a human you're talking to
- claims from companies highly exaggerate capabilities
companies and "experts" constantly hype "AGI" which they (funnily enough) do to both make investors greedier and spread fear and as a distraction because these algorithms can't actually do what they keep promising
- large-scale accounting and financial fraud (e.g. what Nvidia is doing with circular selling)
- biggest case of copyright infringement in history
Note: I think the underlying technology is really cool, and definitely has use cases and can be used for actually good things. But: some technology just has more downsides than upsides, and some should only be used by experts in controlled environments. Leaded gasoline, asbestos and chlorofluorocarbon are also all really cool technology.
In this case perhaps the techology itself doesn't do anything inherently bad, however the people making it are lying about what it can do, the people selling it are motivated purely by greed and the people using it (often forced to do so) are being deceived.

Android-Terminal: Hinweise auf GPU-Beschleunigung
Versteckte GPU-Option entdeckt: Android testet offenbar Beschleunigung für Linux-Apps. Das experimentelle Feature bietet Potenzial für Developer.
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Sources: JPMorgan Chase is giving staff the option to use its in-house LLM to write year-end performance reviews, a shortcut to the often painstaking process (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/84308936-e277-4ae0-b384-502d60375456

heise | Günstiger Wärmepumpen-Strom: So halten Sie die Energiekosten klein
Ein Zähler oder zwei? Pauschaler oder prozentualer Rabatt? Wir vergleichen die neuen Optionen für Wärmepumpen-Strom und zeigen die Vor- und Nachteile auf.

A Google support page in Hindi says the company plans to roll out an option to let users change their Gmail addresses while retaining all data and services (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/12/24/google-change-gmail-addresses/

Google says it is ‘gradually rolling out’ option to change your @gmail.com address
Google says on a support page that it is "gradually rolling out" a new change allowing users to change their Gmail address.