• Anthropic Discovers a Moral Code in Its Smart Software

    Updated: 2025-04-30 09:53:00
    No AI. This old dinobaby just plods along, delighted he is old and this craziness will soon be left behind. What about you? With the United Arab Emirates starting to use smart software to make its laws, the idea that artificial intelligence has a sense of morality is reassuring. Who would want a person judged […]

  • Want Traffic from Google? Buy Ads, Lots of Ads

    Updated: 2025-04-30 09:37:00
    No AI, just the dinobaby himself. When I was working, clients and prospects would ask me, “Do I need to advertise on Google to get traffic to my Web site?” I relayed the “facts” as I understood them at the time. My answer was, “You need to buy ads from Google.” Most of the clients […]

  • France And Germany Form Open Source Writing Collaboration

    Updated: 2025-04-30 09:07:00
    Open source software and AI algorithms are a match made in heaven. You can’t say the same thing about France and Germany when it comes to history, but the countries can put aside their differences (occasionally) to advance technology. The French and German governments came together to design Docs. Docs is described as “Collaborative writing, […]

  • Google Wins AI, According to Google AI

    Updated: 2025-04-29 09:53:00
    No AI. This old dinobaby just plods along, delighted he is old and this craziness will soon be left behind. What about you? Wow, not even insecure pop stars explain how wonderful they are at every opportunity. But Google is not going to stop explaining that it is number one in smart software. Never mind […]

  • Apple and Meta: Virtual Automatic Teller Machines for the EU

    Updated: 2025-04-29 09:37:00
    No AI, just a dinobaby watching the world respond to the tech bros. I spotted this story in USA Today. You remember that newspaper, of course. The story “Apple Fined $570 Million and Meta $228 Million for Breaching European Union Law” reports: Apple was fined 500 million euros ($570 million) on Wednesday and Meta 200 […]

  • China, Self-Amusement, and AI

    Updated: 2025-04-29 09:07:00
    China pokes fun at the United States whenever it can. Why? The Middle Kingdom wants to prove its superiority over the US. China is does have many technological advances over its western neighbor and now the country made another great leap forward with AI says Business Insider: “China’s Baidu Releases Ernie X1, A New AI […]

  • The Only-Google-Can-Do-It Information Campaign: Repeat It, and It Will Be “True.” Believe Now!

    Updated: 2025-04-28 17:41:32
    No AI. Just a dinobaby who gets revved up with buzzwords and baloney. After more than two decades of stomping around the digital world, the Google faces some unpleasant consequences of what it hath wrought. There is the European Union’s ka-ching factor; that is, Google is a big automatic teller machine capable of spitting out […]

  • Japan Alleges Google Is a Monopoly Doing Monopolistic Things. What?

    Updated: 2025-04-28 09:53:00
    No AI, just the dinobaby himself. The Google has been around a couple of decades or more. The company caught my attention, and I wrote three monographs for a now defunct publisher in a very damp part of England. These are now out of print, but their titles illustrate my perception of what I call […]

  • Banks and Security? Absolutely

    Updated: 2025-04-28 09:37:00
    The second-largest US bank has admitted it failed to recover documents lost to a recent data breach. The Daily Hodl reports, “Bank of America Discloses Data Breach After Customers’ Documents Disappear, Says Names, Addresses, Account Information and Social Security Numbers Affected.” Writer Mark Emem tells us: “Bank of America says efforts to locate sensitive documents […]

  • Geocoding Price Data

    Updated: 2025-04-28 09:07:00
    No AI, just a dinobaby watching the world respond to the tech bros. Some data must be processed to add geocodes to the items. Typically the geocode is a latitude and longitude coordinate. Some specialized services add addition codes to facilitate height and depth measurements. However, a geocode is not just what are generally called […]

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