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A new report suggests that very few people are using AI and that it's all hype. On the one hand
These three stories are yet another excellent example of how it really depends on:
- who you ask
- where you ask
- how you ask
It's almost like there are echo chambers in our industry or something... 
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A new survey from Stack Overflow reveals that even though many companies all across the globe are rapidly adapting AI tools in their workplaces, there are still concerns about accuracy and productivity of those AI tools. On the other hand
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Just a year-and-a-half after ChatGPT was announced — changing the world as we know it — 65% of organizations are regularly using AI, according to a new report from consulting firm McKinsey. On the other-other hand
I'm having to put these in reverse order so that it works in the newsletter. Fingers crossed I finally have it figured out.
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That's a lot of hands! Maybe we should put them on pizza?
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Powering off your phone regularly, disabling Bluetooth when it's not needed, and using only trusted accessories are just some of the NSA's security recommendations. The solution to all of life's problems
Turning yourself back on again is a wee difficult though.
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AI chips revenue will continue to see double-digit growth through at least 2028, according to a new report from Gartner. And in 100% of the computers you don't buy
With apologies to Wayne Gretzky
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A planet thought to orbit the star 40 Eridani A—host to Mr. Spock's fictional home planet, Vulcan, in the "Star Trek" universe—is really a kind of astronomical illusion caused by the pulses and jitters of the star itself, a new study shows. Or...Nero has already destroyed it
Beware the red matter
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In some eye-opening new results, the James Webb Space Telescope has found and confirmed the discovery of a very bright galaxy that existed just 300 million years after the Big Bang. Based on their observations, astronomers believe the galaxy is 1,600 light-years across and has a mass several hundreds of millions of times the mass of the Sun. Shouldn't such an old photo be in sepia?
Or black & white?
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Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency urges affected users to update ASAP. More eyes fixing the bugs, even more eyes finding the bugs
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Quote: A deep-dive write-up of the vulnerability reveals that these exploits provide “a very powerful double-free primitive when the correct code paths are hit.”
Double-plus ungood!
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Microsoft warned customers on Thursday that the May 2024 non-security preview update for Windows 11 is causing taskbar crashes and glitches. It's good that no one depends on the Taskbar
"He tightens and loosens a few spare parts. One things fixed, another falls apart."
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"The ultimate streamlined UI is no UI at all!"
Microsoft: "This is just another small step towards perfection."
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Google blames ‘data voids’ and edge cases for its bad AI-generated search results. You're searching it wrong
Just cancel it and move on, you cowards!
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For this year’s Microsoft BUILD conference, we are thrilled to announce significant updates to WSL. Because it's...well, you know
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Because it's the year of everybody being geniuses? 
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The company said that its newest LLM is fluent in over 80 programming languages including Python, Java, C, C++, JavaScript, Bash, Swift, and even Fortran which came out in 1957. It's like the other coding assistants, but this one adds more accents and silent letters
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A recursive function just isn't complete until the umlaut (pronounced um-lout).
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ya everyone says they know everything...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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As part of the latest Windows updates, Microsoft fixed the broken drag-and-drop on the address bar, finally allowing you to move folders and files to a folder or few above the current one (Microsoft calls that "breadcrumbs"). When the new features are just old broken features coming back
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Pfft! We wish. Maybe Windows 15.
TTFN - Kent
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(That is an unfortunate check mark, mind you... Damn you for probably being right. (Or optimistic.))
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So when will it come in a non-preview update?
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Supposedly it's in this month's dump of carp fixes. So, whenever you're brave enough to try installing that. I hear it breaks some people's taskbars though (more on Monday's newsletter)
TTFN - Kent
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GPT-4o UNCHAINED! This very special custom GPT has a built-in jailbreak prompt that circumvents most guardrails, providing an out-of-the-box liberated ChatGPT so everyone can experience AI the way it was always meant to be: free And every phone on this planet rings in unison
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