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By skinnyJM · Posted
Whatever happened to offering a desirable product is what lead to profit? -
By notta · Posted
2 articles down "more gamers are switching to Windows 11, according to Valve." -
By eilegz · Posted
After 4 years, the w11 adoption should be huge, but thats not the case, you see adoption dropping in another post. there are so many valid reason why people stick on w10, microsoft need to stop the whole support end at october. XP and 7 had extended support until a good version of windows released that people moved on to. right now w11 its a mess, its unreliable, unstable, buggy and the forced usability downgrades. Now more than ever people have alternatives even now M$ have a version with support until 2027 and 2032. its not that hard to keep supporting 10 until then. Hopefully by then w12 release and its a good option -
By Fiza Ali · Posted
Data (Use and Access) Bill faces pushback over AI and creative rights in UK parliament by Fiza Ali Image via: BBC In recent months, a series of high‐profile controversies has highlighted growing tension between technology platforms, content creators, and regulators over how artificial intelligence is trained and used. Previously, LinkedIn admitted sharing private messages to train its models, Meta was sued in France for using copyright‐protected content without authorisation, and OpenAI is paradoxically urging US lawmakers to expand "fair use" for AI. Meanwhile, several leading publishers, among them The New York Times and The Guardian, launched a "Support Responsible AI" campaign, accusing Big Tech of profiting from unlicensed journalism. Against this backdrop, the UK’s Data (Use and Access) Bill, which would allow AI firms to use all published content unless rights-holders opt out, has stalled in Parliament, with over 300 peers demanding AI companies disclose and license any copyrighted material they employ. Baroness Beeban Kidron has proposed an amendment requiring the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation, and Technology to report on the bill’s impact on the creative industries three months after it becomes law, unless the bill is amended first. Supporters of the government’s position, including Sir Nick Clegg, former president of global affairs at Meta, argue that requiring individual licences from all rights-holders would impose an unmanageable administrative burden and could deter AI investment in the UK. They say a broad opt-out regime is necessary for innovation. Opponents counter that unlicensed use of creative content risks harming writers, musicians, filmmakers, and other creators by allowing AI tools to produce similar work without compensation. Prominent artists such as Sir Elton John, Sir Paul McCartney, and Dua Lipa have warned that unrestricted access to their work could undermine their income and legacy. The debate traces back to early AI development, when large technology firms scraped substantial amounts of text, images, and other media from the internet without paying rights-holders. In 2022, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that "data scraping" does not constitute hacking, meaning it was not illegal to harvest publicly available website content so long as no defensive measures were bypassed. Those scraped datasets were then used to train generative models capable of producing text, images, and music in the styles of established creators. The Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology is conducting a broader consultation and will not amend the bill unless changes are deemed satisfactory for creators. If the bill cannot be agreed upon, it risks being withdrawn. The current impasse reflects a wider tension between supporting AI-driven innovation and protecting the economic interests of the creative industries. Until both Houses reach a compromise or one side concedes, the bill’s future remains uncertain.
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Hey. I have an xml file that I find myself constantly tweaking. The only problem is that it's stored in utf-16, because, well, that's what the framework defaulted to when it serialzed it. I have no issues with the encoding, except for the fact that it's a small pain for Visual Studio to open it, when I do it so often to so many.
Basically, if I just open the file, I get a bunch of asian characters. If I right click the file and choose to open it with the XML Editor (With Encoding) and pick 'auto-detect' for the encoding, it works. I mapped the XML file format to the XML Editor (With Encoding), but I still get the annoying 'pick your encoding' window. Any way to get rid of it?
Small annoyance really, I can live with it...but I'd rather not.
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