#tech — Public Fediverse posts

Callandor, a Los Angeles startup founded in February, has signed Sassuolo forward Cristian Volpato to licence his digital likeness and voice, then monetise AI clones through brand deals. Sydney-based Hyperknown is chasing the same contracts as deepfake content outruns athlete consent. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/25/synthetic-twin-why-socceroo-cristian-volpato-is-the-latest-footballer-to-license-his-ai-clone #Tech #Startup #News #AI

How long until wearable brain‑computer interfaces become mainstream?
#Health #Science #Tech #AI #Brain #BrainComputerInterface #NeuroTech #WearableTech #Healthcare #DataPrivacy #HumanAugmentation
https://the-14.com/how-long-until-wearable-brain-computer-interfaces-become-mainstrea

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Previews, Pre-Season, Betas, and Opening Nights

There’s an old saying in the theatre biz. No show is ever really ready on opening night. It’s a cliché that has seen it’s time pass in the big money commercial circuit because so many producers run lengthy preview weeks, charging essentially, but not quite, full price to avoid reviewers publishing their criticisms until the show is officially open. The preview process began lengthing after the days of out-of-town tryouts came to an end, although we see that still happening occasionally as larger regional theatres will debut a work, allowing it to still be worked on, hoping that it will one day make it to Broadway.

There was a famous production of Eugene O’Neil’s play Hughie, starring and directed by Al Pacino, that ran in previews for almost a month before finally opening. That led to a critic from Daily Variety breaking the only after opening night embargo a week early since the announced limited run would end up with less “real” performances than those in previews after the show officially opened. The show would go on to extend the run a couple of times.

In smaller circuits the cliché still lives on, simply because of a lack of resources to run many preview performances in front of audiences to really gauge reaction before it officially opens. A show can look great in final dress rehearsals, but it’s never complete until there’s a paying audience of strangers sitting in the dark to tell if it works or not. The ever-present lack of time still breathes life into the cliché in ways that offer both hope and anxiety behind opening night curtains around the world.

In the professional sports world teams play in a pre-season or spring training games that don’t matter while the players tune up for the real thing. Although in most of those types of meaningless games it’s really more like watching players audition than it is anything else. Occasionally a budding star emerges, but that’s atypical. Early “real” season games that do count (at full price) are when teams find out what they have, leading knowledgeable sports viewers knowing when it is time to pay real attention to a team’s chances or not.

Those are two interests in my life. I’m a theatre professional (and geek) and I watch sports. Another is my interest in tech. In tech we have betas. Or we used to, when that was mostly for software. Now we’re just in previews, pre-season, or perpetual betas forever for both software and hardware. Which is somewhat understandable, yet weird, perhaps ironic, but ultimately a joke on the paying public, given the pace in which things are always advancing in tech, including the pace and price of advancement.

We never seem to reach opening night, opening day or the end of a beta period in tech. Instead products and software are released incomplete, occasionally followed immediately by “leaks” that suggest the company that just took your money for it’s latest best product ever is working on fixing the things they knew were wrong for the next version when they released the product you just payed for.

But you’re going to love it.

It’s easier to swallow with software. It’s a bigger pill that sticks in the craw with hardware.

It used to be that betas were for working out bugs. They still are to a degree, but now they’re just the next show in a never-ending season, or the latest minor-league call up. But you still pay full price for the game when the team needs to put a not ready for the big leagues pitcher on the mound just to fulfill its obligation to play the announced season.

You can argue that there’s nothing wrong with the way things have evolved in tech because the financial equations are different. It requires a substantial upfront investment to create, produce and deliver new technology. You’d be mostly wrong, but you can argue it. Most of the costs in show biz happen upfront before a show even gets close to an audience, hopefully a large enough one in a long enough run to recoup the initial investment. It is a different equation in sports.

The release of Apple’s iPhone Duo strikes me as an interesting entry in this evolution of consumer dynamics. Soon, perhaps too soon, before the product was released to the general public, leaks popped out that Apple was working on tweaks to two of the major criticisms of the device for the next generation — a larger model and adding FaceID. That followed criticism from reviewers.

In general, most tech reviews I read, watched, or listened to made it very clear that the iPhone Duo was a first generation device with some rough edges that wasn’t for everyone, especially at the entry price. I can’t judge those reviews myself since I haven’t seen the product, but they mostly seemed very similar and to my mind fair. Some, sounding more like theatre critics or sport writers I’ve known, were more harsh, delivering criticism that might have prompted a closing notice being posted before intermission or an early game benching.

Here’s where my three interests diverge a bit. In theatre the show can close early if it’s savaged or not enthusiastically endorsed by reviews. In sports a pro team can retool a bit by trading or signing free agents midseason. Tech companies have to play out the run with tech hardware until the next generation is ready.

Given the leaks following the reviews I find it sort of funny that I’m in a place of feeling a bit sorry for the carriers that are offering great deals on the iPhone Duo subsidized by a three year contract. That’s a tough sell to anyone who pays attention, though admittedly most won’t if they’re hot to trot for the new shiny folding phone from Apple.

It’s my hunch, and only a hunch, that Apple knew these criticisms were coming. Even so, it’s one thing to prepare the next version hoping to make changes that advance a platform, it’s another to make them in reaction to negative press once the product is unveiled. It sets you up in the next round for being congratulated for fixing what was wrong the last time.

In the theatre if a joke doesn’t land, you can replace the joke in previews. In sports you bench a player or fire a coach. With tech hardware it’s not that easy changing things before it becomes a punch line. (See the Vision Pro.)

My second hunch, only a hunch, is that the iPhone Duo will eventually become a successful part of Apple’s lineup and get past what feels like a rough opening. I don’t think it will enter into Vision Pro punchline territory. Critics of all human endeavors need something to criticize as much as companies need to produce the next thing. It’s a symbiotic relationship that feeds on itself. And the always distracted general public has short-term memory bordering on amnesia.

It’s my wish that tech companies, like theatre companies and sports teams, would figure out a better path to the success they seek. Sure, you might be able to fool some of the people all of the time. But for the most part folks figure it out on their own. Some of the time. And that some of the time is what everybody on the producing end of things counts on.

Thanks for reading. You can subscribe to this blog if you care to. You can also find more of my writings on a variety of topics on Medium at this link, including in the publications Ellemeno and Rome. I can also be found on social media under my name as above. This site does not use affilate links.

Personal AI agents that live inside your text messages are multiplying, and TechCrunch has mapped two dozen of them. Instinct leads on funding, raising 1B USD at a 10B USD valuation, while Tab emerged from stealth at 300M USD and Town raised 55M USD. Most remain in beta, and agents acting on your behalf still raise privacy worries. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/24/all-the-ai-agents-that-can-live-in-your-text-messages/ #Tech #Startup #News #AI

Leaked video exposes how industrial-scale Chinese factories are dismantling RTX 5090s by the thousands to fuel AI servers — GPU die and memory desoldered and transplanted to blower designs; custom cards to Nvidia Founders Editions on the chopping block

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/leaked-video-exposes-how-chinese-factories-are-stripping-rtx-5090s-to-fuel-ai-custom-partner-cards-to-nvidia-founders-editions-on-the-chopping-block

#news #tech #technology #AI #china #aislop #nvidia #AIPsychosis

Jack Dorsey's Block has released Dessa, a full-duplex speech model trained entirely on human speech on a single Nvidia GPU, running locally on consumer hardware. Unlike rivals that bolt emotion on with voice tags, Dessa builds nuance into the voice itself. No public access yet, and Block has asked safety researchers to test whether it can deceive callers. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/24/blocks-new-voice-model-sounds-eerily-human/ #Tech #Startup #News #AI

Internet subcultures: Tulpamancers #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/internet-subcultures-tulpamancers/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Internet subcultures: kin communities #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/internet-subcultures-kin-communities/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Anthropic partners with British private equity firm to launch consultancy arm

Friday 23 October 2026 4:10 pm  |  Updated:  Friday 23 October 2026 5:38 pm Dario Amodei is the CEO…
#EuropeSays #Britain #Europe #EU #London #advisory #ai #anthropic #bigfour #Business #Consultancy #consulting #News #PrivateEquity #Professionalservices #tech
https://www.europesays.com/britain/150648/

https://www.europesays.com/britain/150648/ Anthropic partners with British private equity firm to launch consultancy arm #advisory #ai #anthropic #BigFour #Business #Consultancy #consulting #London #News #PrivateEquity #ProfessionalServices #tech

My sister had some coffee spilled on her laptop. A local repair shop got it working for about $100.

She bought a macbook and said I could keep it.

I scored myself a laptop with pretty decent specs.

Core 7 150U
16GB DDR5
15" Acer Aspire

I have a better laptop I use for work, but this can be a good "beater" laptop so I don't risk my main laptop to theft or accidents when I'm just messing around.

So far, it has been running great on Fedora Plasma.

#linux #lucky #tech #acer

The datacentre next door: on the frontline of tech’s latest David v Goliath battle.

The AI boom is pitting local residents against corporate giants seeking to power their energy-hungry networks – but one Welsh city is fighting back.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20261024-the-datacentre-next-door-on-the-frontline-of-techs-latest-david-v-goliath-battle?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#AI #Datacenters #Tech #Wales #BigData #UK

Types of online scams #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/types-of-online-scams/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

This headline makes me laugh. The lede makes me laugh more.

OpenAI says it will no longer train its AI models on the live internet, citing “significant risks” | TechCrunch
#AI #Tech

https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/23/openai-says-it-will-no-longer-train-its-ai-models-on-the-live-internet-citing-significant-risks/

BYD has launched its B12e03 electric bus in Israel, where local importer Shlomo Motors expects dozens of the 12-metre vehicles, seating up to 105 passengers, to reach public transport operators by end of 2026. The bus runs on BYD's Blade LFP battery with 491 kWh capacity and up to 600 km of range, charging at 200 kW on one connector or 336 kW on two. https://www.technologynewschina.com/2026/10/chinese-automaker-byd-launches-new.html #China #Tech #EV

Britain's datacentre boom is pitting residents against US tech giants: 315 hyperscale sites are queued for grid connection, together needing 73GW, above the 45GW winter peak. Wales hosts the largest capacity outside London, and campaigners want tougher rules and publicly owned compute rather than more US-built halls. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/24/the-datacentre-next-door-on-the-frontline-of-techs-latest-david-v-goliath-battle #Tech #Startup #News #AI

📝 New Blog Post: Living Closer to the Internet

https://kmcd.dev/posts/living-closer-to-the-internet/

#blog #tech

Daily Prompt: What is the longest you've ever been stuck on a single problem?

https://kmcd.dev/prompts/2026-10-24/

#prompt #writing #tech

How much protein is too much? | FT #shorts – YouTube

How much protein is too much? | FT #shorts  YouTube‘You need double as you age’: Why you’re (probably) eating…
#NewsBeep #News #Nutrition #AU #Australia #Brexit #Business #businessnews #ChinaTrade #Finance #financeanalysis #financenews #FinancialTimes #globalnews #Health #India #InternationalNews #Markets #Tech #UsEconomy
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/939205/

When are they gonna stop selling them in the US?

Tesla says it will no longer release the Cybertruck in Australia and New Zealand - Engadget

https://www.engadget.com/2295058/tesla-will-not-release-cybertruck-in-australia-and-new-zealand/

#Tesla #Cybertruck #Australia #NewZealand #EV #Tech

Version 1.7 of the free node-based image editor ArcBrush has been released, with lots of improvements and fixes. I love it, and I'm using it more and more lately.

What's new video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp_DI740Kv4

ArcBrush site:
https://arcbrush.com

#ImageEditing #CGI #graphics #editor #app #apps #tools #software #tech #technology #apple #Mac #macOS #linux #windows #tip #tips #FreeSoftware #free

How much protein is too much? | FT #shorts – YouTube

How much protein is too much? | FT #shorts  YouTubeHow much protein do we actually need? Cambridge scientist settles…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Nutrition #brexit #Business #businessnews #Chinatrade #finance #financeanalysis #financenews #FinancialTimes #globalnews #Health #India #InternationalNews #Markets #Tech #USeconomy
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/892944/

https://www.europesays.com/videos/117298/ Keep physical copies of documents to protect against cyber threats, AI minister advises #ai #artificial #breaking #coding #intelligence #language #live #news #PHP #sky #SkyNews #tech #technology

Alibaba's personal agent Qwen Go! can now build working apps from a plain description, no coding needed. Built on Alibaba Cloud's Meoo platform, which writes the code, sets up the database and deploys the result, the apps keep updating their data and can be shared. Invite-only beta for now. https://pandaily.com/qwen-go-my-apps-no-code-shareable-apps-alibaba-cloud-meoo-invite-beta #China #Tech #AI

Blogue de la Révolution Verte : Les ressources marines https://www.revolutionverte.fr/p/les-ressources-marines.html?spref=tw
#marin #marine #mer #ocean #algues #cosmetique #medical #medicament #applications #tech #technologies #coiffure #cheveux #pollution #lowtech #sobre #sobriete #innovation #ressources #protection #bio

Smartglasses erkennen: App Zuckoff warnt vor heimlichen Aufnahmen mit Meta Ray-Ban. ▹ eicker.TV » https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tNOsSNllBQ8 #eickerTV #Technik #Tech #Kurzvideos

🎨 ICYMI: Generative #AI can mimic human brushwork, #watercolor textures, and anatomical quirks, making digital fakes difficult to distinguish from genuine fine #art.

In this News Literacy Project #video, host Dan Evon outlines practical ways to evaluate suspected imagery by analyzing proportions, reviewing garbled text, and running reverse image lookups.

👉 https://seethis.tv/post/which-painting-is-ai-generated-news-literacy-project-video

#activities #art #arthistory #history #criticalthinking #culture #diy #howto #information #media #medialiteracy #literacy #news #paintings #tech #technology #tksst

*shocked pikachu face* surely there is no way Nvidia would do that ... right? and 100% doesn't smell of cartel agreement?

'Amazon, which spent $54 billion in capex last quarter — is taking $3 billion worth of GPU deliveries every month “for the foreseeable future,” despite having such a supply glut that it cannot install them'

https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-had-better-work-out/#we-already-have-an-oversupply-of-gpus-with-amazon-warehousing-billions-of-dollars-of-gpus-%E2%80%9Cwith-no-clear-forecasted-path%E2%80%9D-for-them-to-be-installed

#Nvidia #Gaming #Videogames #Tech #Technology #Hardware #GPU #Semiconductors #Amazon

iFLYTEK used its Developer Festival in Beijing to unveil Agent OS, APA and the XFYUN CLI for its open platform, bundling over 700 atomic AI capabilities and more than 200 agent adaptation features behind a single command. The company says cross-system collaboration efficiency rose 90 percent in deployments, and the platform now counts 11.87 million developers. https://pandaily.com/iflytek-open-platform-agent-os-apa-xfyun-cli-700-ai-capabilities-taas #China #Tech #AI

Unfortunately I use dating apps and the amount of AI transformed and genAI photos is very depressing.

Using them should grant insta ban but instead it's allowed, to the detriment of all normal users.

It's just fucking gross.

#tech #technology #internet #dating #romance #internet #love #sex #friendship #ai #slop #genai

Bug Google Home : un haut-parleur a englouti 3 To en 2 semaines 😱 Google confirme une mauvaise config serveur, corrigée. Mais d'autres appareils restent suspects (22 Go pour un détecteur de fumée ?). Vérifiez votre conso si vous avez un plafond. #GoogleHome #ViePrivee #Tech

https://www.wired.com/story/google-home-speaker-bug-oct-2026/

🔄 Aktualizován článek:

Jak AI model Qwen-Image 3.0 umí obarvit staré černobílé fotku?

https://infoek.cz/jak-ai-model-qwen-image-3-0-umi-obarvit-stare-cernobile-fotku-2026/

🔄 Article Updated:

How can the AI ​​model Qwen-Image 3.0 colorize an old black and white photo?

https://infoek-cz.translate.goog/jak-ai-model-qwen-image-3-0-umi-obarvit-stare-cernobile-fotku-2026/?_x_tr_sl=cs&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=cs&_x_tr_pto=wapp

#Qwen #History #Photography #Tech

The downfall of Palmer Luckey - from creating positive worlds in new emerging VR niche to creating destruction and misery. What an utter disappointment of a human being.

https://www.wired.com/story/cool-cool-cool-palmer-luckey-made-a-genetically-modified-military-dog-startup/

#tech

Recently met a tech industry friend whose team got hit by significant layoffs in the past few months. The team hired on some (lower cost?) fresh faces who were tasked to work on their code with Claude #AI. One of the new folks prompted Claude to implement some new feature, and Claude extruded a response which recommended first getting advice from one of the engineers who was laid off.

#FunnyAndSad #tech #ai #siliconValley

China's CAICT reports daily token consumption hit about 500 trillion in June 2026, nearly four times the December 2025 level. Domestic model throughput doubled to 78.23 tokens per second, yet average prices rose almost 100 percent to 13.46 yuan, ending two years of cuts. 47.8 percent of monitored models now support 1 million tokens. https://pandaily.com/caict-token-service-performance-report-2026-domestic-model-prices-double-500-trillion-daily #China #Tech #AI

UK chancellor John Healey will use Wednesday's budget to commit hundreds of millions of pounds to a distinctively British approach to AI. The plan backs the AI Security Institute, adds AI chip design in Edinburgh, opens an AI Centre of Excellence in Manchester and funds an AI Biosecurity Lab with up to 300M GBP. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/oct/24/john-healey-pledges-to-use-budget-to-harness-power-of-ai-to-bolster-britains-security #Tech #Startup #News #AI

https://www.europesays.com/ch-fr/363494/ « Taxe sur la liberté d’expression » : condamné à 25 milliards de dollars d’amende, Meta revoit son capital #2026 #25 milliards #Business #Capital #condamné #d'amende #d'expression » : #Dollars #Économie #Economy #liberté #Meta #revoit #Suisse #Taxe #Tech&IA

https://www.europesays.com/people/277471/ Wall Street is urging Anthropic, OpenAI to do their IPOs in a hurry — here’s why #Anthropic #Business #IPO #OnTheMoney #OpenAI #Politics #SamAltman #tech #WallStreet

On my Android, I tried Niagara Launcher. It rocked so much I bought a lifetime membership. Minimalist to the extreme. No BS from my apps.

#Android #Tech

https://niagaralauncher.com/

I guess illegal clear-cutting and national outrage are just standard price tags for keeping the world's algorithms running now. 😖🌲 #environment #google #ecology #ai #datacenters #tech

☁️ Capital One didn’t just move to AWS. It rebuilt how engineering worked.

Cloud transformation is more than migrating servers. It means rethinking software delivery, automation, security, and operational resilience.

Explore the lessons for AWS DevOps engineers and cloud practitioners.

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#AWS #DevOps #CloudComputing #tech #migration #data

Featuring an authentic VALORANT-Inspired Design, stay in the game and power through work with the Anker x VALORANT Limited Edition 100W Laptop Smart Display Charger.

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https://www.europesays.com/unitedstates/62200/ AI agents accessing US bank accounts is budding ‘nightmare’ for banking industry: report #ArtificialIntelligence #BankOfAmerica #Banking #Banking&Finance #Banks #Business #citibank #finance #JpMorganChase #MorganStanley #tech #WellsFargo

US-designed chips are set to make up roughly 65 per cent of China's AI computing capacity as total access doubles in 2027, new research shows. Capacity for Chinese entities is forecast to rise from about 4.6 million to 8.8 million H100-equivalents, combining domestic output, legal imports, smuggled chips and offshore cloud access. https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3371929/chinas-ai-compute-surge-heavily-reliant-us-chips-offshore-cloud-access-report #China #Tech #AI

#Industrial #Tech #World #Asia (#ITWA) #Shenzhen 2026 will bring #interconnected #exhibitions covering #displays, #electronics #manufacturing, #robotics, #automation and advanced #materials to the Shenzhen World Exhibition & Convention Center from October 27–29, 2026. The #exhibition #event program includes C-TOUCH & DISPLAY SHENZHEN, FILM & TAPE #EXPO, NEPCON, AUTOMOTIVE WORLD, the Embodied Robotics Technology & Application Expo and several other specialist #events. https://chinaexpohub.com/itwa-shenzhen-2026-displays-robotics-materials/

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China's AI compute is set to double in 2027, from 4.6 million to 8.8 million H100-equivalents, but US-designed chips will still cover about 65 per cent. A Washington report says remote access via overseas clouds will reach 2.8 million H100-equivalents by end 2027, and urges tighter controls on chip smuggling and cloud use. https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3371929/chinas-ai-compute-surge-heavily-reliant-us-chips-offshore-cloud-access-report #Tech #Startup #News #AI

Worth checking before it's gone.

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