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Netflix says roughly 300 titles used generative AI this year, mostly in post-production, "to deliver higher quality output more quickly and at a lower cost" (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/streaming/966633/netflix-ai-titles-q2-2026-earnin…

Netflix says around 300 titles used generative AI
Netflix says around 300 titles have used generative AI to create “highly complex scenes.”

Today, The Little Tractor That Can and I have been mostly topping thistles.
Yes, I'm late in the year for it, and it has set seed; but I also got most of the ragwort, which hadn't, so it was worth doing.
#TheJoyOfCrofting

Microsoft's Co-Pilot unearthed the flaw.
Microsoft has mostly repaired a flaw in Surface hardware that allowed unprotected devices to be bricked by a single packet
https://www.theregi…

Microsoft has mostly repaired a flaw in Surface hardware that allowed unprotected devices to be bricked by a single packet
And it was Microsoft Copilot that unwittingly revealed the longstanding vulnerability

The problem of course is that The Clash gave the world London Calling in 1979, and bands have been struggling to and mostly failing to achieve this level of album excellence ever since

In 2022 I drove across Canada from Ottawa to northern BC. I remember driving for three full days around the top of Lake Superior with a wall of mostly dead trees on either side of the road the whole way, thinking, man when Ontario burns, there's going to be no stopping it. And here we are.
Via Bluesky:

Netflix says roughly 300 titles used generative AI this year, mostly in post-production, "to deliver higher quality output more quickly and at a lower cost" (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/streaming/966633/netflix-ai-titles-q2-2026-earnin…

Netflix says around 300 titles used generative AI
Netflix says around 300 titles have used generative AI to create “highly complex scenes.”

I always hate the "it could never be made today" comment. Any story could be re told today with mostly ascetic and tonal changes.

Rescuers were still searching for three missing people on Wednesday
after a boat involved in a memorial service sank in the cold, fast-moving waters of San Francisco Bay near Alcatraz Island, authorities said.
At least one person died and 16 people were rescued after the boat capsized on Tuesday afternoon in what witnesses described as “rough seas”,
San Francisco’s fire chief, Dean Crispen, said.
He said the passengers on board were mostly family members, and that a …

Search continues for three people missing after Alcatraz boat disaster
One person dead after pontoon boat involved in memorial service capsized in San Francisco Bay on Tuesday

This #Yubico #YubiKey Standard from approximately 2012 was on my personal key ring ever since on a daily basis. It has been my first FIDO2 token.
It now ceased to work after approx. 14 years as it's no longer recognized by a computer when plugged in.
Fortunately, it's been mostly replaced…

Sources: Tata plans India's first large-scale chip fab in Dholera, Gujarat, mostly using 90nm nodes, a far humbler start than the 28nm node it touted earlier (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-17/tata-g…