In his latest newsletter, the venerable Steven Levy unpacked the background for the kerfuffle surrounding Sarah Wynn-Williams’ book. While there…
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Barefoot sage on steps of the UN addresses wishful agency – holds up lantern, not smartphone
Summary press release A modern-day Diogenes on the UN steps used a lantern to challenge AI CEOs, asserting that commodified data yields no authentic man. Like Midas or a Djinn, machines mimic humanity but strip spirit, exposing alignment failures and lost authenticity. NotClosedAI’s CEO advocated a coordinated slowdown; Diogenes called it liability protection masking runaway…
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Last week I received a panicky call from a client. The Windows 10 Upgrade was being installed without her permission! She’d not done anything different for the last months — in response to all the nagging to Upgrade, she just clicked on the “X” button in the pop-up. She didn’t want Windows 10 on her current Windows 7 PC. Well, PC World’s May 22, 2016, article “How Microsoft’s tricky new…
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Microsoft announced this week that the free Windows 10 upgrade offer would end on July 29, 2016. What will the Upgrade cost after that date? Well, that’s not clear yet. The current price for a single Windows 10 PC license on Amazon — Microsoft Windows 10 Home USB Flash Drive — is $119. PC World notes in their “Microsoft says it will stop pestering users to ‘Get Windows 10’ in…
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Already this year there’s been a lot of news about ransomware, a particularly nasty type of malware. Stay informed and follow best practices to protect your PC and personal data from this threat. Here’re excerpts from an alert by the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT), part of the Department of Homeland Security, published on March 31, 2016. In early 2016, destructive ransomware variants such as Locky and Samas…
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One of the most common requests from my clients is how to print from their smartphone. First I check if their printer is compatible; then configure any settings on their mobile device. Most of the printers are from HP. But other manufacturers’ printers work as well. This HP Technology at Work (April 2016) article “Tap, tap, print” discusses mobile printing. Wireless printing is the single most requested feature in new…