Last night at Night Visions film festival.
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Putting the d’oh! in Adobe: ‘Years of photos’ permanently wiped from iPhones, iPads by bad Lightroom app update
Adobe is offering its condolences to customers after an update to its Lightroom photo manager permanently deleted troves of snaps on people’s iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches.
First reported by PetaPixel, the data annihilation was triggered after punters this week fetched version 5.4 of the iOS software. Netizens complained that, following the release and installation of that build, their stored photos and paid-for presets vanished. Adobe acknowledged the issue though it didn’t have much to offer punters besides saying sorry.
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So long, Top Gun… AI software waxes US F-16 pilot’s tail 5-0 during virtual dogfight drills
Video An AI bot defeated a human pilot in a series of virtual dogfights that unfolded in skies albeit within a flight simulator during a competition held by the US military research arm DARPA.
You can watch the showdown in the video below, and skip to 4:35:55 if you want get straight into the man vs machine matches. It’s worth watching.
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UK national debt hits 1.46 Apples – and weighs as much as 2 billion adult badgers
Reg Standards Converter British national debt has topped £2tn – meaning the country is now collectively in hock for 16.9831 yearly NHS Budgets, just under 22,442 Paul Pogbas, or, if you’re really smart and original, close to 1.46 Apple Incs.
If you can’t understand how Instagram ‘influencers’ make millions, good luck with these virtual ones doing even better
Comment While the number of so-called “influencers” on Instagram has rocketed a new trend may leave you scratching your head even harder: the arrival of “robot” or “virtual” influencers.
What are we talking about? CGI-created characters – some cartoonish, some strikingly realistic – that have their own accounts on the social media network and are the new hot earners, making upwards of $6,000 per post, usually for holding or wearing something from a sponsor.
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“Thoughts and prayers for your photos.”
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The money, at first glance, appears to be obscene. Ariana Grande, for example, makes around $500,000 for each sponsored post. But then, with an estimated 1.55 per cent “engagement rate” for each post for her 197 million followers, that means that over three million people actively interact with or respond to pictures featuring a company’s product. And that, marketers have decided, is a good return on investment.
Yeah, I know the real story was about the virtual ones, but good lord. “actively interact with or respond to pictures featuring a company’s product” doesn’t even mean buying anything.
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One day, I might figure out why companies push collaboration so hard. Working by committee is rarely efficient (or productive). I suspect the section on sensors reveals the real reason behind open plan - management wants to keep an eye on every move employees make. This is why corporate-provided equipment for people who work from home is loaded with spyware.
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Hopefully this pandemic will make companies rethink this open office bullshit trend. Even before the pandemic I went from getting sick maybe once a year when I had a private office to getting sick at least 4 times a year once I was moved into a cattle pen.
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Almost as if the physics of RF can be really difficult.
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From here.
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Ship’s wreck containing thousands of tons of explosives in the Thames Estuary could cause Beirut-style explosion
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Two big oddities here!
#1: a police officer opting out of the police union. That doesn’t seem like a good career path move. It might be legal, because union-busting plutocrats paid for those laws, but police unions are a big part of the blue wall. It seems like someone opting out of union is going to be an outsider.
#2: involvement by the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation. They swoop into disputes like this with a high power team of very expensive lawyers to represent the poor worker against the oppressive unions through the goodness of their hearts. Oops, that last part is a lie. They’re a Koch Bro front, part of the State Policy Network, funded by those very union-busting plutocrats. (It’s suspected that they engineer some of the disputes that they jump into.)
What’s their game here? Do they really want to treat police unions like other unions? (Defund the police so that there can be more tax cuts for rich?)
Police take note: You can be replaced by a private security force with considerable cost efficiencies. (Laws? They buy the law.)
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I wonder if a screenwriter would be willing to take on this comedy of errors, Too Much Office Space & Not Enough Chairs. 
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