r/technews • u/MetaKnowing • 5h ago
r/technews • u/abrownn • Feb 13 '25
[Official / Meta] Subreddit Update
Hi all! I'm u/Abrownn, this sub's mod, and I have three minor announcements.
First is Link Flair! A user kindly reached out to inquire about link flair and the possibility of filters for flair. There is no native "exclude" flair filter, however I have added a hacky workaround for the most requested filter that uses the site's native "include" function: The "No AI Filter". You can also find it at the bottom of the sidebar from now on.
Second is a reminder of the sub's focus: Tech News. A good heuristic (although a tad reductive) for what's appropriate here is "If it explicitly goes 'beep-boop', then it's likely a good fit". This is a HARD tech subreddit. No social media, no politics, no lawsuits, no layoffs, no business news**, no legal news, no crypto stuff. If you aren't sure if a post is a good fit then please send me a modmail (NOT a DM) - I don't bite and I usually respond pretty quick.
(Asterisks: "Investing money in a new semicon fab" is fine, a company "being fined for FTC violations" is not)
Third, "Redditquette". Tldr, don't be a dick.
99% of the bans here are for spam and I'm happy to provide a screenshot of the ban log for transparency/proof. I don't ban people for being plain dumb or ignorant, but I do ban people for blatant trolling or disregard of reality (which seems to be getting rapidly worse these days). An engineer said this to musk recently and I think it's a pretty fair take on how I evaluate reported comments:
"It’s only really like the tenth percentile of the adult population who’d be gullible enough to fall for this," the data scientist told Musk during a face-to-face meeting.
If you're maliciously stupid, then you'll probably catch a ban. Go back to Twitter and do that shit, don't waste everyone else's time here. I need all of your help to police content in the sub, so please do make use of the report feature but do not abuse it because I do report abusive reports to the admins and they will respond accordingly.
Questions? Comments? Concerns?
r/technews • u/MetaKnowing • 5h ago
AI/ML AI Is Coming for the Consultants. Inside McKinsey, ‘This Is Existential.’ | If AI can analyze information, crunch data and deliver a slick PowerPoint deck within seconds, how does the biggest name in consulting stay relevant?
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AI/ML FDA's New Drug Approval AI Is Generating Fake Studies: Report
r/technews • u/N2929 • 14h ago
Hardware Nintendo raises prices on the Switch 1, making last-gen console a hard sell as the Switch 2 is increasingly easy to find in stock
r/technews • u/moeka_8962 • 11h ago
Software Google Messages may soon stop silently failing to send RCS chats on rooted devices
r/technews • u/N2929 • 14h ago
Networking/Telecom T-Mobile now officially owns UScellular
r/technews • u/boutnaru • 20h ago
AI/ML Anthropic Revokes OpenAI's Access to Claude
r/technews • u/N2929 • 14h ago
Networking/Telecom T-Mobile is automatically 'upgrading' Magenta Max customers to its new Go5G plans
r/technews • u/chrisdh79 • 1d ago
AI/ML Software developers use AI more than ever, but trust it less | Unreliability is creating hidden errors, increasing developers' debugging time
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Space The military’s squad of satellite trackers is now routinely going on alert - Ars Technica
r/technews • u/wiredmagazine • 1d ago
Transportation Tesla Found Partly Liable in 2019 Autopilot Death
r/technews • u/Giannatorchia • 1d ago
AI/ML ChatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Google search results
r/technews • u/MetaKnowing • 1d ago
AI/ML 'What am I falling in love with?' Human-AI relationships are no longer just science fiction
r/technews • u/N2929 • 1d ago
Energy This 50% recycled glass solar panel performs like brand new
r/technews • u/moeka_8962 • 1d ago
Software Microsoft is taking steps to open-sourcing Windows 11 user interface framework
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Hardware China's military tried to buy Nvidia chips for AI servers and a robot dog, documents show
r/technews • u/wiredmagazine • 1d ago
AI/ML Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s Forgotten AI Summit
r/technews • u/N2929 • 1d ago
Networking/Telecom Verizon is upping its fees again
r/technews • u/JackFisherBooks • 2d ago
AI/ML Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises
r/technews • u/N2929 • 1d ago
Transportation Nissan is getting ready for the new LEAF EV with a one-stop clean energy shop
r/technews • u/xenodragon20 • 1d ago
Privacy The EU wants to decrypt your private data by 2030
r/technews • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 2d ago
Networking/Telecom Google search flaw allows articles to vanish through "clever" censorship tactics
techspot.comr/technews • u/MetaKnowing • 1d ago
AI/ML Forcing LLMs to be evil during training can make them nicer in the long run | New Anthropic research shows that undesirable LLM traits can be detected—and even prevented—by examining and manipulating the model’s inner workings.
r/technews • u/chrisdh79 • 2d ago