You have freedom of speech to advocate for your politics. The rest of us have the freedom of association to not want to be involved with you in any way.
These are not contradictory - they are both essential freedoms.
> Can someone with DMA legal knowledge translate and separate the spin?
The EU wants third-party providers to have access to the same features and UX that Siri has. When Apple says "the DMA requires Apple to give any AI system nearly unlimited access [...] That includes the ability to read and send messages, make purchases, access files, and execute actions across any app." they conveniently leave out that Apple's own AI has those abilities, which is what the DMA regulates against.
> The SDK’s config ships a flag “use_netifs”: true. That flag triggers code in the SDK binary that constructs its NWConnection with a specific required interface: en0 (WiFi) or pdp_ip0 (cellular), rather than using the system default route.
> On iOS, this bypasses any configured VPN’s tun0 interface entirely. The peer tunnel does not cross a user-configured VPN, even when the rest of the app’s HTTPS traffic does.
What's a legitimate use case for this API? When/why should an app be allowed to bypass a user-configured VPN?
Which protected characteristic does "personal relationships" fall under? It's vague enough to mean almost anything you want it to be, and I struggle to imagine any sort of successful prosecution.
Excellent article. I'm sad that SpaceX effectively seem to have given up on Mars, but even their much less ambitious "orbital trucking" business seems unrealistic. From the article:
> Finally, there is the launch cadence SpaceX actually targets in their S-1, a million metric tons a year to Earth orbit. That frankly preposterous figure implies 25-30 Starship launches a day, with the exact number contingent on how much payload the final version of the rocket can carry.
> Launching Starship on the hour would also mean permanent no-fly zones for aircraft and a likely environmental backlash against SpaceX, who would be putting significant amounts of water vapor in the stratosphere. Overnight the company would become one of the country’s biggest consumers of methane, electric power, and liquid oxygen. And since a failure rate of 1/200 at this cadence would have Starships falling out of the sky every week, the rocket would have to improve in reliability by at least two orders of magnitude.
> However much you may love SpaceX, there is no number of bong rips that makes this scenario feel real. It’s in the S-1 is to try to prop up the company’s astronomical valuation, but the sooner we can all move past it, the better.
It's hard to disagree with any of that, but I'm sure someone will, just like with datacenters in space.
> Due to organizational policy constraints, we are unable to release the full production-trained model weights. To support the research community, we plan to release a foundation checkpoint with a small number of layers removed from both the LLM backbone and the diffusion head (flow head). The remaining layers and all other components (vision encoder, projections, embeddings, etc.) are fully preserved. With a short fine-tuning pass on your own data, the removed layers can be quickly re-learned and the model restored to full quality.
When the machine wakes up, systemd checks the timer's schedule and when it last ran. If one or more runs were missed due to the sleep, it's executed immediately.
[1] https://bladerunner.fandom.com/wiki/Voight-Kampff_test