Notices by AI6YR Ben (ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org)

Hmm... Continental Airlines?! #aviation #avgeek #planespotting

Uh oh

The Verge: Microsoft shuts off Bing Search APIs and recommends switching to AI

"Microsoft is shutting off access to its Bing Search results for third-party developers. The software maker quietly announced the change earlier this week, noting that Bing Search APIs will be retired on August 11th and that “any existing instances of Bing Search APIs will be decommissioned completely, and the product will no longer be available for usage or new customer signup.”

... Wired reports that some big customers of Bing’s APIs will retain access to the service after the August 11th cutoff. DuckDuckGo uses Bing to power its search engine, and it has confirmed that it will still have access. Other smaller developers won’t be so lucky, though."

https://www.theverge.com/news/667517/microsoft-bing-search-api-end-of-support-ai-replacement

#ai #aipocalypse #search

BBC: Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers
(TLDR: there are a lot of embedded computers running things like XP et al)

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250516-the-people-stuck-using-ancient-windows-computers

#windows

Me: "This code doesn't make any sense. Did you use AI to write this?"

Other person's answer: "No, I wrote it."

🤔

#software

@BakerRL75 @amyedge yiiiikes

@BakerRL75 @amyedge are these storm damage or did the gremlins get these?

@jimcarroll test

Post for Jim Carroll, ignore and don't tag him 🤪

@jimcarroll lol sidekick queue diagnoses is the right path (wink wink)

@jimcarroll strange, strange code.

@jimcarroll Looks good to me!

Narrator: despite fortifications, we were overrun by the enemy and decimated. #gardening #squirrels

BBC: Sixteen dead after tornadoes tear through US states
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c70nw7v5ykyo

#SevereWx

"In four of the agency’s 122 weather forecasting offices around the country, there aren’t enough meteorologists to staff an overnight shift, according to the National Weather Service Employees Organization, a union representing agency workers. And at least several more forecast offices are expected to stop staffing an overnight shift as early as Sunday."

https://archive.ph/c6sIy#selection-1081.0-1093.354

#wx #disasters #NWS #weather

@steter So you're saying Meelon is an alien? LOL

@steter <Twilight zone theme plays>
"Imagine, if you will, a world, where everyone has a personal assistant, to cater to your every whim -- to schedule appointments, respond to emails, summarize your news. But, there's something evil lurking underneath... something has gone wrong. The machine keeps telling people the wrong things. Aunt Suzie drove off a bridge listening to the machine. Uncle Arthur electrocuted himself in the bath. Cousin Sam was found dead in the barn. What had possessed the world's digital assistants to start killing their charges?"...

The article should be entitled "CEOS Are Drinking The AI Kool Aid"

https://archive.is/rKCSn

#ai #koolaid #llms

@steter @etherdiver Video production is indeed time consuming!! Even doing audio podcast editing is a chore. (I've tried both, but it's a lot of work, as you know!!)

@steter @etherdiver LOL... Some video forward and back of the marching storm troopers to the time of the music could be fun.

Ah, I see the White Supremacists are starting with the book burnings. Unfortunately, library books. Also, HOW CAN YOU CHECK OUT THAT MANY BOOKS AT ONCE?!?!?!

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/15/ohio-book-burning-response