ELI5, whi is every large tech company laying off swaths of employees?

Incoming recession so shrinking expenses before it happens?

Do you know what's really cool about living in Texas? Your furnace.

Problems that only happen in Texas right

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Starting to sound like collusion to lower salaries at this point

One week huh? ( moves goal post back). Try again next week.

The sooner Austin Powers back up, the better.

Yet servers seem to be on a 3 month+ backorder

Texas is a real shit hole

Almost as if a state that chooses to disconnect from the national power grid and not adequately tax to support its shitty state only power grid is a state wide issue. Of which governor and legislature is chief to blame

All these comments are from people that have never had a major multi-day ice storm evert where they live.

Unchecked corporate greed.

If you you rely on conspiracy theories and delusions for your information, you will ignore the facts and never know what’s real.

Whoa there! Texas is a diverse state and has more to offer than just gun fetishism.

There's also trans omniphobia, misogyny, anti-Semitism, anti-intellectualism, and good 'ol fashioned racism.

If the people who ran Texas cared as much about the power grid as they do about making guns more available, you folks might have electricity during times like this.

I think I had this show upp when creating a new user. Had no issue bypassing it though.

Wow. That's really abusive. Microsoft is really making the case that they can't be trusted with OS development anymore. Something like this should have never left the testing phase, and in fact probably would have been killed then and there had Microsoft not killed its in house testing process years ago. Instead, new features are pushed out to windows insiders and pre release testers in the wild, and Microsoft relies on telemetry to tell it about bugs. Its clearly a process that's not working, but since its much cheaper, Microsoft wont go back to in house QA teams.

So what's a computer user to do? You could get a Mac, and modern Mac OS is very usable and feature complete. Its also not polluted with as many ads as Windows. They still exist on MacOS, but they're all first party and relatively rare. Downside is you have to pay Apple's exorbitant hardware costs and obnoxious upsell strategies.

What about Linux? Its great except for productivity and production software (I'd argue gaming too, but that's greyer area than most). If you need Office or Photoshop, you're basically SOL on Linux. Browser based alternatives really arent there either.

As much as I dislike Abbott and Co, this problem is due to power lines being down and the COA not being able to keep up. They city council and CoA utilities are to blame here

Haha, take that Texas. Keep voting those idiots into office that don't really give a sh!t about you. They should have learned two years ago (and so should have the voters) from the last incident.

Not a GD thing has changed since then.

Enjoy your rustic living.

If the reality you are shown isn't the whole picture could that not influence how you are perceiving said reality?

It is when Google hasn't found how they want to monetize some of it and more importantly doesn't want their AI to risk brand damage. ChatGPT routinely gets things wrong or semi wrong which is expected with any AI that you have to train with data online and all it takes is their bot to say the right thing that is off base to damage Google's brand image. Google's spent $120 billion on AI in the last 6 years, just look up deepmind and alphaGo and you'll see just how much they've advanced it

Would it be better to just ignore them since we can't possibly have a human examine them all?

It could also be doing its job perfectly. It reads a bunch of signals and points out the ones that look weird. A human then examines these signals to see if there is something to be learned from them. This is useful since we're constantly being bombarded with radio waves from all over the universe. Having an AI sort through them and tell us which ones are interesting is a good tool to have.

Hmm, this sounds like such a familiar and important problem and request, hmm… maybe there needs to be accountability and regulation?

I called something like this happening years ago. It was obvious that mandatory automatic updates on the operating system had only one endpoint. This will probably end with Microsoft declaring that the only secure OS is one that has a subscription to their Microsoft security suite and they can't in good conscience let your computer boot without one.