My layman’s understanding is that manufacturing like this needs to be run constantly due to the cost associated with the production. Apple would have to sell their stuff to competitors at that point to have the foray make sense. Current manufacturers can make things for lots of different companies so they can ensure their line is always fulfilling an order. I’m not sure if Apple would want to do that.
It really only makes sense if you buy a new phone or computer every year/lease term.
This is good though, so it might not be that bad of a deal if you could use the credit anyway:
Buy the iPhone outright by paying an amount equal to the device’s retail price minus any lease payments made.
I don’t generally click on random YouTube videos unless more information is provided, but I give this one a gamble. It was pretty well done and I appreciate the creators overall point and evidence. For anyone else in the comments, I think there are two couple of second long clips of Hank Green that are used to make a larger point about what are essentially attempts at normalizing AI.
I don’t browse Reddit since I switched entirely to Lemmy the day the API migration happened, but I did still reluctantly have to reference reddit on occasion. Now I can’t even do that for niche issues I run into. I am so upset that millions of people donated their time and energy into making Reddit the place it was just to have all of that entirely gated off. I know we’re likely all in the same boat, but there really are no words for what spez did. He ruined a really great place for community and knowledge and turned it into a slop fest.
I certainly didn’t mean to indicate csuite went to jail or anything, but it’s fair to disagree with my classification. I’m not super involved with that sort of thing. Will edit my comment to reflect that so that no one takes away the wrong thing.
Appreciate the wiki link. I kinda just clicked around on site and didn’t bother to search elsewhere.
I’m totally open to the idea that higher ups got away with a lot. They tend to, and likely even in this case where people are doing time they still got off way too lightly.
James Baugh, of San Jose, California, who was eBay’s senior director of safety & security, and David Harville, of New York City, who was eBay’s director of global resiliency, are charged with conspiracy to commit cyberstalking and conspiracy to tamper with witnesses. The other former eBay employees charged are Stephanie Popp, former senior manager of global intelligence; Brian Gilbert, former senior manager of special operations for eBay’s Global Security Team; Stephanie Stockwell, former manager of eBay’s Global Intelligence Center; and Veronica Zea, a former eBay contractor who worked as an intelligence analyst in the Global Intelligence Center.
Seems like senior managers and directors. I don’t think these are fall guys. They seem like they were personally responsible for these things. I know corpo speak invents fancy job titles, but I don’t think it’s a situation where someone’s personal assistant is being used as a scapegoat. These people should have known better and had other options. I did see that one upper exec had to pay but I didn’t see any outline for what exactly they were charged with. I wish the articles did a better job of going into the details of punishments vs charges but I was just pointing out that actual time is being done since the title doesn’t mention it.
Company doing this:
Imperial Valley Computer Manufacturing — the owner of the 330 MW AI data center
Lawyer heading the project:
Sebastian Rucci
From a different article linked below:
Rucci has so far sued government officials, the local utility, an activist and a public television station over the dispute. Several of those legal claims have recently been dismissed.
Prior to joining the data center push in Southern California, Rucci was charged, though not convicted, of money laundering and promoting prostitution in relation to his former Ohio cabaret; he ended up serving 30 days in jail for selling beer without a license. Rucci was not charged in the rehab center case, which prosecutors said focused on Medicaid billing issues.
“Just give me my damn data center,” he told the Journal.
https://therealdeal.com/la/2026/07/21/southern-california-data-center-project-faces-opposition/
Most of the defendants pleaded guilty to charges including conspiracy and cyberstalking and were later sentenced to prison terms or home confinement.
The above includes several management and director positions. Glad individuals are being held responsible. Hope they are radioactive to companies going forward. As pointed out below, execs at the highest level are not doing time for this though.
Edited for clarity.
This is my take as well. I will add that I think I’m more likely to notice an issue with the type if the type is first though since it preps me to expect a certain thing after it.
int firstName will likely trigger more alarms than firstName int but maybe thats just my perception due to familiarity. I feel like once I see the type my mind is looking to make the next part make sense whereas if I see the name first then I just assume what comes next makes sense and mentally move on.
Local subreddits used to have lists of things like top restaurants or little known museums etc. if your area has a community on Lemmy you might be able to contact the mods and see if they’d be interested in a sidebar link for it or something.
If you’re choosing to do or not do something with someone because of their sex/gender it’s sexist. Simple as that. I don’t care if those beliefs are due to religion or not.
You don’t seem to have read the article because the government admits that there are issues with racial bias and it’s already attempting to mitigate that for indigenous people specifically, but not black people.
Whatever correlation may or may not be present should not be used to justify worse conditions. Worse conditions lead to worse outcomes so it becomes a bit of a self fulfilling issue. We do not know how these decisions are being made and that the problem. Even if race is excluded it could be using a proxy for race. There should be guidelines that apply to everyone or a panel that can be questioned and held accountable. AI cannot be held accountable in this way so it should not be making these decisions.
I’ve mostly seen people take issue when the government puts controls or blocks. I’ve not seen any pushback for parental controls. I don’t hang out on parenting communities though.
It’s more been threatened than actually happened, but I would suggest keeping in mind that the issue isn’t eminent domain or the power companies (though obviously fuck them, they should be nationalized), the issue is the data centers and the government not restricting those. If more power is needed there’s not much to be done other than build more power infrastructure. The issue is allowing these data centers to be built in such an unsustainable and harmful way that puts pressure on the grid.
I appreciate the information.
For what it’s worth, I’m not downvoting you. My server doesn’t allow downvotes so I can’t even see them.
I just want to make sure we’re doing better for people, not worse. Based off the quote it seemed like a bad idea, but I can also understand just being mad at AI taking over your job. I hope you’re right and that this improves outcomes and decreases admin time. Healthcare is so important and is in a disastrous state in the US. I just want everyone to be well.
I don’t know a lot of nurses, but those I have heard from suggest that AI in the medical field will lead to worse healthcare outcomes.
In the article they say “Shuler said her job often requires complicated communications, over things like medication changes and discharge planning, that would be hard to conduct with AI.”
I don’t want AI in charge of medication changes. That doesn’t seem like a checkbox kind of thing. I can see how maybe it could be boiled down to a checkbox or flowchart, but it doesn’t seem like it’s just data entry. Which I still don’t know that I want AI solely responsible for.
As the nurses regularly have mentioned, even if they were kept on doing patient stuff, you still don’t want AI making healthcare decisions or in charge of healthcare documents.
Instacart confirmed that this campaign marks the first time Instacart made its first-party data available for a brand outside of the consumer-packaged goods category to use on NBCU inventory. (Papa Johns is technically in the quick-service restaurant vertical.)
I don’t use instacart, but my understanding is that there is a fee for that service or some kind of minimum purchase agreement with stores. If you’re paying for a service it should be illegal for them to sell your data.
It sucks that the world we live in is the way it is because in theory this would be an ideal model for so many people. Older adults I know really just need a Facebook terminal but are required to buy a whole computer. If anything at all goes wrong with it they freak out and buy a brand new one. So much tech waste and so much hardware not being used for the majority of the time. If they had lightweight terminals there’d be less issues on their end but even if they replaced it at the first issue, it wouldn’t be an entire computer getting trashed. Since all they use is the occasional facebook the mandatory internet thing wouldn’t even be an issue. Plenty of younger people might also be good candidates for this since they basically exclusively use online features too.
Obviously I would never trust this kind of service for a variety of reasons, but in theory the world could really benefit from that model.
He’s apparently under 40 and capable of navigating the Internet. Very strange that he wouldn’t at least bother to look it up online or something. Presumably he had to find the phone number he called so he seems capable of finding information. It really isn’t that hard to set up a free VPN if you’re literate and have Internet access. I’m someone who regularly defends people not using Linux because it’s confusing for them, so I feel like I’m not being overly demanding here or anything. I’m pretty sure Firefox has a free one built in now. So, it might’ve been as easy as downloading Firefox and clicking a button. I’m not sure because I don’t use Firefox like that, but still.