SHOCK.THE.SYSTEM.

Nerd

Han shot first

👤About Me

You're not as smart as me

📻 Music Corner

Member isn't feeling the groove yet...

Accomplishments

Became A Member Of SHOCK.THE.SYSTEM.

Became a member of SHOCK.THE.SYSTEM. on 12-05-2024.

My Wall

LG Discontinues Blu-ray Players(2024-12-12 06:00:06)

FlatpanelsHD: LG has discontinued all Blu-ray players, including the UBK80 and UBK90 UHD Blu-ray players, with remaining units only available while stocks last. The announcement echoes similar moves from Oppo in 2018 and Samsung in 2019, when both companies exited the optical disc player market. L...
Read more

Comments

Harvard Is Releasing a Massive Free AI Training Dataset Funded by OpenAI and Microsoft(2024-12-12 03:00:02)

Harvard University announced Thursday it's releasing a high-quality dataset of nearly one million public-domain books that could be used by anyone to train large language models and other AI tools. From a report: The dataset was created by Harvard's newly formed Institutional Data Initiative with fu...
Read more

Comments

Amazon Says Developers Spend 'Just One Hour Per Day' on Actual Coding(2024-12-12 00:00:06)

An anonymous reader shares a report: Amazon Web Services said in a post earlier this month that developers report spending an average of "just one hour per day" on actual coding. But that doesn't mean these workers twiddle their thumbs the remaining seven hours per day. Instead, developers spend the...
Read more

Comments

Photobucket Sued Over Plans To Sell User Photos, Biometric Identifiers To AI Companies(2024-12-11 21:00:02)

Photobucket was sued Wednesday after a recent privacy policy update revealed plans to sell users' photos -- including biometric identifiers like face and iris scans -- to companies training generative AI models. From a report: The proposed class action seeks to stop Photobucket from selling users' d...
Read more

Comments

Russia Tests Cutting Off Access To Global Web, and VPNs Can't Get Around It(2024-12-11 18:00:08)

An anonymous reader shares a report: Russia has reportedly cut some regions of the country off from the rest of the world's internet for a day, effectively siloing them, according to reports from European and Russian news outlets reshared by the US nonprofit Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and ...
Read more