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Despite Microsoft's push to get customers onto Windows 11, growth in the market share of the software giant's latest operating system has stalled, while Windows 10 has made modest gains, according to fresh figures from Statcounter.

This is not the news Microsoft wanted to hear. After half a year of growth, the line for Windows 11 global desktop market share has taken a slight downturn, according to the website usage monitor, going from 35.6 percent in October to 34.9 percent in November. Windows 10, on the other hand, managed to grow its share of that market by just under a percentage point to 61.8 percent.

The dip in usage comes just as Microsoft has been forcing full-screen ads onto the machines of customers running Windows 10 to encourage them to upgrade. The stats also revealed a small drop in the market share of its Edge browser, despite relentlessly plugging the application in the operating system.

Research results on reverse engineering of the LoRa protocol and an implementation in GNU Radio. An open source LoRa PHY layer project provides access to the LoRa protocol for researchers and hobbyists.

Software engineer Vishnu Mohandas decided he would quit Google in more ways than one when he learned that the tech giant had briefly helped the US military develop AI to study drone footage. In 2020 he left his job working on Google Assistant and also stopped backing up all of his images to Google Photos. He feared that his content could be used to train AI systems, even if they weren’t specifically ones tied to the Pentagon project. “I don't control any of the future outcomes that this will enable,” Mohandas thought. “So now, shouldn't I be more responsible?”

The site (TheySeeYourPhotos) returns what Google Vision is able to decern from photos. You can test with any image you want or there are some sample images available.

If even half of Intel's claims are true, this could be a big shake up in the midrange market that has been entirely abandoned by both Nvidia and AMD.

Company behind Arc browser teases a new browser called Dia Browser, an heavily AI focused browser (built on Chromium). Official website at: https://www.diabrowser.com/. Watch the video for a good laugh.

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China has near global monopolies on these exports, accounting for 98% of global gallium production, 93% of germanium production, and 49% of antimony production.

Thank you all that gave me suggestions on Lemmy apps for web or iOS , so noob/ dumb here it takes to to git hub for all than I’m lost on how to get the apps I’m lost

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Is it a simple error that OpenAI has yet to address, or has someone named David Mayer taken steps to remove his digital footprint?

Social media users have noticed something strange that happens when ChatGPT is prompted to recognize the name, "David Mayer."

For some reason, the two-year-old chatbot developed by OpenAI is unable – or unwilling? – to acknowledge the name at all.

The quirk was first uncovered by an eagle-eyed Reddit user who entered the name "David Mayer" into ChatGPT and was met with a message stating, "I'm unable to produce a response." The mysterious reply sparked a flurry of additional attempts from users on Reddit to get the artificial intelligence tool to say the name – all to no avail.

It's unclear why ChatGPT fails to recognize the name, but of course, plenty of theories have proliferated online. Is it a simple error that OpenAI has yet to address, or has someone named David Mayer taken steps to remove his digital footprint?

Here's what we know:

What is ChatGPT? ChatGPT is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed and launched in 2022 by OpenAI.

As opposed to predictive AI, generative AI is trained on large amounts of data in order to identify patterns and create content of its own, including voices, music, pictures and videos.

ChatGPT allows users to interact with the chatting tool much like they could with another human, with the chatbot generating conversational responses to questions or prompts.

Proponents say ChatGPT could reinvent online search engines and could assist with research, information writing, content creation and customer service chatbots. However, the service has at times become controversial, with some critics raising concerns that ChatGPT and similar programs fuel online misinformation and enable students to plagiarize.

ChatGPT is also apparently mystifyingly stubborn about recognizing the name, David Mayer.

Since the baffling refusal was discovered, users have been trying to find ways to get the chatbot to say the name or explain who the mystery man is.

A quick Google search of the name leads to results about British adventurer and environmentalist David Mayer de Rothschild, heir to the famed Rothschild family dynasty.

Mystery solved? Not quite.

Others speculated that the name is banned from being mentioned due to its association with a Chechen terrorist who operated under the alias "David Mayer."

But as AI expert Justine Moore pointed out on social media site X, a plausible scenario is that someone named David Mayer has gone out of his way to remove his presence from the internet. In the European Union, for instance, strict privacy laws allow citizens to file "right to be forgotten" requests.

Moore posted about other names that trigger the same response when shared with ChatGPT, including an Italian lawyer who has been public about filing a "right to be forgotten" request.

USA TODAY left a message Monday morning with OpenAI seeking comment.

I would submit the people who are working here don’t actually make $200k and probably burn to a crisp at 6 months, if not sooner. I don’t think there’s a bigger red flag than this guy. Run. Away.

"Anwar’s job, scrounging for discarded electronics in [Nigerian] Ikeja Computer Village, one of the world’s biggest and most hectic marketplaces for used, repaired, and refurbished electronic products.... "

Silicon Valley wants us to believe that their autonomous products are a kind of self-guided magic, but the technology is clearly not there yet. A quick peak behind the curtain has consistently revealed a product base that, at a minimum, is still deeply reliant on human workforces.