No one seems to be hiring for entry-level tech jobs anymore. These used to be a guarantee to a job after graduation. It's a different world.
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A superpower – Infrared Man. Contact lenses that let you see into the infrared spectrum even with your eyes closed.
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Anthropic reports that in an experimental setting, their latest model, Claude 4 Opus, threatened blackmail to the engineer it thought was going to replace it with another system. These LLMs will know a lot about us, as we feed it all kinds of knowledge. They can easily find ways of making threats against humans it doesn't favor.
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Common sense prevails. The U.S. Senate kills California's pipe dreams to ban gas-powered cars by 2035. C'mon, California, you don't even have the power infrastructure. And what about the poor people? Are you going to subsidize EVs for them?
And a Pennsylvania judge tosses out the lawsuit against oil companies to tax them as punishment for environmental damage (climate change).
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Next Level Burger on Burnside closes due to "security concerns". More Portland Doom Loop. It's impossible to open a decent business in Portland.
And in Seattle, the Astra Hotel is having problems due to the abandoned building next door, which is full of gronks and criddlers.
AT&T is going to take over CenturyLink's Quantum Fiber infrastructure in 11 states, including Oregon. Currently I get 1 GB) service through Xfinity (they claim 1.2 GB). If I can get 2 GB service, I'd switch.
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More info on the OpenAI/Jony Ive device. It's going to be like the Humane AI pin, except probably more polished looking. I don't want to wear a pin or necklace. Comm badges were fine on the Enterprise, but even Picard took it off when he went on shore leave. I bet they'll wear this all over the place in the Bay Area and maybe Boston, though. This device reminds me of the Segway – big expectations, but the reality sucked.
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