The government's deal with Full Support Healthcare was one of the most wasteful of the pandemic.
Train operators cancelled 875 trains a day on average in the year ending April 2024, compared with 804 per day the year before
I’ve ordered various things from AliExpress before, I’ve never had any major issues. One item was DOA, and another never arrived, but In both cases I got refunded quickly and easily.
It seems no worse than any other online marketplace now.
I assume these 3DS units are some sort of refurb. Are they Chinese region units?
Cabinet Office fears difficulties faced by Atos could have 'severe implications' for public services, including PIP assessments, NHS appointments, tax refunds and tech for student loans
Exclusive: Leaked recordings reveal chancellor ‘trying to achieve some of the same things’ as former prime minister
Schools and health services forced to offer crisis help in the form of food, clothing, money and advice
Former assessors say Labour and Conservatives must listen to disabled people’s despair over the 'cruel' process
A BBC investigation has uncovered potentially thousands more illegal sewage spills on dry days.
The economy failed to grow in April after particularly wet weather affected spending.
The window tiling and new continuity features like iPhone Mirroring and drag and drop look useful.
Some of the AI stuff seems to be have limited geographic availability.
Shareholders?
Some of it looks maybe useful. Other parts look gimmicky. The image generation stuff could be a powderkeg moment with creatives after the hydraulic press ad.
Ofc, Apple being Apple, I wouldn’t put it past them to artificially “break” things or arbitrarily introduce limits between RCS and iMessage
I’m guessing RCS support will be as barebones as possible while still technically functioning. All of the fancy bells and whistles will remain exclusive to iMessage.
Some iMessage features might not be possible to implement with RCS I suppose. Maybe RCS messages will get a different colour. All Apple said in the WWDC keynote was RCS would be supported, they didn’t elaborate any further.
Ian Gribbin, the party's candidate in Bexhill and Battle, also wrote online that women were the "sponging gender" and should be "deprived of health care".
Crikey. Farage’s new crop are making the likes of Godfrey Bloom look tame.
It’s the ones that are thinking it but managing to not say it aloud that we really should worry about.
Apple today introduced Apple Intelligence, the personal intelligence system for iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
Schools are struggling to address social issues unrelated to teaching - as the BBC has found in Telford.
The content is being uploaded to Adobe's servers, they likely have the right and may even be legally required to moderate it to some degree.
This yet another reminder that the cloud is just somebody else's computer. Somebody who might want to impose some degree of control with what is done with their computer, for whatever reason.
A lot of open source graphics software is made by programmers who also need to edit images sometimes. Both the lack of UI polish and featureset choices make more sense when looked at from that angle.
However, a lot of the criticism that gets thrown at these programs is also a bit unfounded. I regularly see people dunking on GIMP for not being a pixel-perfect clone of Photoshop for free. There is more than one way to design an image editor, and inability of some to learn another is really a user issue. GIMP could be better, but it still can and should be GIMP.
Humane is reportedly trying to sell itself for $1 billion after receiving just 10,000 orders for its confuddling, expensive and ultimately pretty useless AI Pin. The device was savaged by reviewers.
Countryside and wildlife conservation groups want a judicial review of government action on nature loss.
The KX100 design caused controversy when it replaced the classic red phone box – but now a handful may be given listed status
Control your home with an AI powered Assist, conditional sections and cards for your dashboards, amazing new media player commands, and so much more! 🚀
The format excluded any proper discussion and left space only for the pre-rehearsed soundbites we all expect anyway. Combined with the ineffective moderation and the whole thing was a tedious watch, shambles over substance.
ITV took 70 minutes of my life and I want them back.
Well it shuts up the conspiracists claiming Farage had himself milkshaked by a Reform supporter as some of 5d chess false flag thing I suppose.
Small and medium-sized firms badly hit as huge drop in apparel sales helps fuel 18% slide in all-non food exports
13 TOPS for $70 has PiBoss Eben Upton predicting an ML explosion
A BBC project investigates the election content promoted by social media by tracking dozens of phones.
Visits to high streets, shopping centres and retail parks fell by 3.6% in May, continuing downward trend
Just put the extra napkins in your pocket/bag, now you never need to buy tissues.
Proposals to limit fines for struggling water companies are branded 'out of touch' by environmentalists
The BBC can reveal insulation fitted under government schemes could have failed in hundreds of thousands of homes.
The military part of the proposed new national service is going to be optional however, those “conscripted” can choose a civilian volunteering path instead. So I’m not sure how this scheme would help with the threat of future conflict when nobody chooses the military option.
It’s a ridiculous gimmick to distract from the Tories failures in areas people do care about.
I’d say it’s more that parents (companies) should be more responsible about what they tell their kids (customers).
Because right now the companies have a new toy (AI) that they keep telling their customers can make thunder from clapping. But in reality the claps sometimes make thunder but are also likely to make farts. Occasionally some incredibly noxious ones too.
The toy might one day make earth-rumbling thunder reliably, but right now it can’t get close and saying otherwise is what’s irresponsible.
Generally you want to the reference material used to improve that first version to be correct though. Otherwise it’s just swapping one problem for another.
I wouldn’t use a textbook that was 52% incorrect, the same should apply to a chatbot.
Seems a hard sell to go subscription on such a niche platform. I wish anyone luck that could challenge the Apple/Android duopoly though.
As an aside, can we get back into desktop cubes again? With all the upheaval in Windows land it’s the sort of eye candy that can win over new Linux users.
Surprised to see Gove go, like him or loathe him he’s always seemed a survivor.
At this rate there’s going to be a real vacuum of senior figures to take the reins once Sunak goes.
Any distro should be fairly stable and supported on an older Thinkpad.
I’m currently using Debian stable on my X220 and it’s rock solid.
I think it’s becoming fair to label a lot of commercial AI “scams” at this point, considering the huge gulf between the hype and the end results.
Open source projects are different due to their lack of commercialisation.
Might be worth looking into LoRa for longer range, it’s got quite cheap to play with now.
