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I will say, the security risk increases with right-to-repair. Also, Apple really could dedicate resources to harden these areas.

LOL. Inspire is nothing close to inspiring. Additionally, if Amazon was doing so well, it would not have struck such a lucrative deal with Tiktok to push Amazon product content on Tiktok platform. Amazon is losing its footing. It is grossly dated, and they fire anyone who can bring actual innovation to its services.

"They've really made it almost impossible to use as a privacy-respecting browser that lets you pick your search engine."

Brave Browser let's you customize.

Ah, yes. The dream of company towns is alive and well for Amazon. Wish we could get some strict regulatory standards to block Amazon from obliterating cities and towns like that of Walmart. One was enough.

Discussion of "energy transfer" is particularly troubling. IMO, it's very much a brush off in ownership to "whoever" (e.g., "small economic actors"). It's hard to be an economic superpower when there's no stable power grid, USA.

QQ: Is this within LinkedIn's TOS? I ask because it's against TOS to scrape profiles/services (see Dont's #2 and #4): https://www.linkedin.com/legal/user-agreement#dos.

For responsible scientists and researchers who've disclosed to Google how this is being used to execute large-scale phishing attacks, and Google opting to not fix it, this news warms our hearts.

Spam on!

The odds are not in favor of whistleblowers. We need better protections against malicious companies such as Amazon.

Is this Amazon leaking their own codename project to try to remain relevant in LLM-land? Yikes.

Anything to push their Games division to success. Sounds about right for Amazon; it's their business model. Make a deal with 3rd party, learn about them through legal and illegal means, then kill them.

Isn't Amazon being sued by SEC for this exact thing?

More than those others? Yea...

Amazon cut majority of the team working on Astro.

The legacy system is the system. Amazon fired a bunch of people this time last year because it was supposed to have Titan. Titan is completely underwhelming, and so they had to wait. Hence the PR around "democratizing LLMs." Unless Amazon is using Llama2 (because Titan utterly failed), there is no alternative. GPT-3.5 (the free version) can easily out perform anything Amazon has, and anything Alexa can do.

An utter failure by Dave Limp and company.

And then people can hack into it (because it isn't that difficult), and you don't know your data/service is compromised because Amazon nor Ring discloses that to you.

FYI, it listens.

Exactly. The data is "cooked." We are literally told to make the numbers work, or else.

"Many of the people running Alexa had been there since 2012. Its was tyranny by those who started in that organization first. Backstabbing, politics, bad engineering, nepotistic promotions. The scientists were so far behind, almost all models were off the shelf implementations pulled from Github. Huge amounts of capital flushed down the drain."

Wholeheartedly agree. Any time a team or individual had a good implementation that deviated from that core Alexa group, they stole it and fired the people who designed and implemented it. Nevermind the amount of personal customer data they leaked in the process. Embarrassing.

People who left Alexa to go to places like Meta actually showed return on investment. The people who ran them off? They're still at Alexa, they probably aren't the ones being fired, and you can easily recognize their work in projects like Amazon Music and Prime Video. Some of them even have the nerve to boast working on "AGI," as if the echo of their Titan flop was not loud enough.

I'm guessing this is how Disney VR offerings will surface.

Cop City? Oh yea, Amazon is funding that effort.

Sudden self-awareness of bias?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36508656

Do you find it weird/alarming that you assert a female assignment and a status of "poor technical understanding"? Where do you work? What is your role? Are you in a leadership position? Asking on behalf of everyone who does not want to work near your flagrant bias.