Peter O'Rourke

Random personal musings. Assistant Director, IT Operations University of Sussex. Liverpool FC fan, wannabe geek, photographer, and Aldi fine wine connoisseur

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10,416,666,666.66 = The number of pay monthly Blue Tick subscribers needed by Elon Musk to get his $44bn back in the next twelve months | About 3.5% of the alleged 300M Twitter subscribers | Easy?

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@KirstieMAllsopp Still a lot of debate about 'screen time' | What screen time really does to children's brains | Screen time has become synonymous with bad news, blamed for rises in depression in young people, behavioural problems and sleep deprivation | BBC News

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Brits think AI in the workplace is all chat, no bot for now | Despite hype, most UK workers see more discussions than implementations | The Register

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This new AI tool centralizes workplace searches and reduces time spent searching for files | Dropbox’s Dash for Business wants to be more than just a search tool | TechRadar

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Today in Apple history: Too little, too late for Apple III | Apple relaunched its ill-fated Apple III, hoping to address some serious problems with the original model | Cult of Mac
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Why Everyone Wants to Partner with ServiceNow | “Our one-platform approach gives us a significant edge over competitors who rely on acquisitions to piece together solutions" | It's really about most expedient route to market?| Analytics India

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Elon Musk Moves to Stop OpenAI From Becoming a For-Profit Company | Musk seeks to 'preserve what is left of OpenAI’s nonprofit character, free from self-dealing,' but it comes as Musk is supercharging his own AI chatbot via his xAI startup | PC Mag
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To stop its 'strip-mining of journalism,' some of the biggest Canadian news companies are suing OpenAI to the tune of $20,000 for every article fed to ChatGPT | A number of media companies have been challenging OpenAI on copyright grounds | PC Gamer

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Thousands more cyber scammers nabbed by Interpol operation | Also, script kiddies still a threat, Tornado Cash is back, UK firms lose billions to avoidable attacks, and more | The Register

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There's a new king of online shopping, and it's built an unstoppable monopoly | I have 17.5 billion reasons why you need to pay attention to this new king of online shopping | ZDNET

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This new method could reduce the energy needs of AI applications by 95% — but may also need whole new forms of hardware | Linear-Complexity Multiplication could apparently reduce the energy needs of AI applications by 95% | TechRadar

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Google India probed as Maps route led over unfinished bridge | Plus: 95 percent of Chinese broadband tops 100 megabits; Yahoo Japan photo album privacy breach; and more | The Register

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Bluesky wakes up to impersonation nightmare with strict rules | “Impersonation and handle-squatting accounts will be removed,” the company’s safety team wrote in an update on Bluesky | Digital Trends

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How Insights From Alan Turing Help Us Understand Supercomputing | The race to build powerful AI data centers is accelerating, with tech giants vying to be key players in AI’s future | Forbes

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As ChatGPT Turns Two, AI Innovation Is Thriving | OpenAI’s ChatGPT is celebrating its second year of general availability on Nov. 30 | Are we about to enter the "Terrible Twos"? | Forbes

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The ultimate list of free AI tools for creating jaw-dropping images | Advancements in AI technology have made it easier than ever to create stunning images for free? | Have they really? | Geek Sided

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It’s ChatGPT vs. everybody | There’s Google’s Gemini, Anthropic’s Claude, Meta’s Llama, Microsoft’s Copilot, and Perplexity’s...Perplexity (they kept it simple), just to name a few | Morning Brew

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Games industry in 2024: The obstacles facing indie developers | Widespread lay-offs and studio closures that rocked the industry last year have continued into 2024 | BBC News

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Microsoft preps big guns for Copilot skirmish | IT admins be warned: 13,000 tech suppliers coming for your employer's checkbook | Microsoft strategy for addressing investor concern about slow AI payback? | The Register

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DOJ’s break-up plan for Google risks collateral damage | Remedies should be refined with an eye toward broad platform rights and responsibilities | The Register

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Chinese Ship Surrounded Over Alleged Undersea Internet Cable Sabotage | The Russian and Chinese governments have both denied any involvement with the incident, though sources claim the damage is consistent with an intentional act of sabotage | PC Mag
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