And our spicy take on why AI safety is really about stopping a movement.

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• Apple says UK could 'secretly veto' global privacy tools — Apple has attacked proposals for the UK government to pre-approve new security features introduced by tech firms.
• Apple won’t give up control of the iPhone — The EU wants to weaken Apple’s gatekeeper power, and the company is on the wrong side of history by fighting it.
• Apple’s Proposed Changes Reject the Goals of the DMA
• AI companies will need to report safety tests to US government | AP News — Chief among the 90-day goals from the order was a mandate under the Defense Production Act that AI companies share vital information with the Commerce Department, including safety tests.
• New GitHub Copilot Research Finds 'Downward Pressure On Code Quality' — "We find disconcerting trends for maintainability," explains the paper's abstract. "Code churn -- the percentage of lines that are reverted or updated less than two weeks after being authored -- is projected to double in 2024 compared to its 2021, pre-AI baseline. We further find that the percentage of 'added code' and 'copy/pasted code' is increasing in proportion to 'updated,' 'deleted,' and 'moved 'code. In this regard, AI-generated code resembles an itinerant contributor, prone to violate the DRY-ness [don't repeat yourself] of the repos visited."
• Apple Vision Pro review: magic, until it’s not - The Verge — The Apple Vision Pro is the best consumer headset anyone’s ever made — and that’s the problem.
• Apple Has Sold Approximately 200,000 Vision Pro Headsets — Apple has sold upwards of 200,000 Vision Pro headsets, MacRumors has learned from a source with knowledge of Apple's sales numbers. Apple began accepting pre-orders for the Vision Pro on January 19, so the headset has been available for purchase in the U.S. for 10 days.
• Apple Vision Pro Review — We have rounded up some of the videos below from well-known YouTube creators and reporters, including Marques Brownlee, Joanna Stern, and others.
• President Biden is preparing to announce chipmaker subsidies. — So says The Wall Street Journal in a report this morning that his administration will give “billions of dollars” to the likes of Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), both of which have started US manufacturing projects, although TSMC, at least, is behind schedule.

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• Olympia Linux Spring Meetup , Sat, Apr 29 — Let's get together at a local hidden gem, the Boston Harbor Marina. A classic location, with a covered deck on the water with a snack shack, and easy parking.
• The Serfs on Twitter — Elon Musk has allegedly revealed a secret alt account where he pretends to be a child version of himself posting a lot of bizarre sexual content
• Shashank Joshi on Twitter — “FTX was a preoccupation for the [Elon Musk burner account] @ErmnMusk account, which interacted with conspiracy theories—one saying that FTX was a middle party to laundering funds through Ukraine for U.S. Democrats”
• mousedownmike follows up on a series of topics! — ChatGPT summary and entire email with full context.
• Apple’s App Store can stay closed, but developers can link to outside payments, says appeals cour — Apple’s closed App Store and security restrictions didn’t violate antitrust law but that Apple couldn’t maintain anti-steering rules that prevent users from learning about alternate payment options.
• Apple declares victory after decision reached in Epic Games appeal — The decision signals that Apple’s control over the App Store and the fees it charges likely won’t significantly change as a result of an ongoing legal challenge by Epic Games.
• GitHub Copilot Emits GPL. Codeium Does Not — TL;DR GitHub Copilot trains on GPL code and its nonpermissive filters don’t actually work, while we at Codeium have removed GPL licensed code from our training data, guaranteeing peace of mind to our users.
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• Olympia Linux Spring Meetup , Sat, Apr 29, 2023, 1:00 P — Let's have a local PNW get-together.
• Espanso — A Privacy-first, Cross-platform Text Expander
• WWDC iOS 17 announcements may include sideloading — In the case of iOS and iPadOS, they "aren't likely to offer major new features." But, they will apparently "satisfy a checklist of user requests with more minor improvements."
• iOS 17 to Support App Sideloading to Comply With European Regulations — Apple in iOS 17 will for the first time allow iPhone users to download apps hosted outside of its official App Store, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.
• Amazon CodeWhisperer — Build applications faster and more securely with your AI coding companion
• Amazon's new AI coding tool has one HUGE advantage over Microsoft's GitHub Copilot
• Now in Preview – Amazon CodeWhisperer- ML-Powered Coding Companion
• Elon Musk launches AI company — Elon Musk has launched an artificial intelligence company called X.AI, incorporated in Nevada, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday
• Introducing the Tailscale Universal Docker Mod — Today, we're introducing a new way to add Tailscale to your Docker containers: our brand new universal Docker mod.
• Auto-GPT — Auto-GPT is an experimental open-source application showcasing the capabilities of the GPT-4 language model. This program, driven by GPT-4, chains together LLM "thoughts", to autonomously achieve whatever goal you set. As one of the first examples of GPT-4 running fully autonomously, Auto-GPT pushes the boundaries of what is possible with AI.
• Meet Chaos-GPT — Chaos-GPT, an autonomous implementation of ChatGPT, has been unveiled, and its objectives are as terrifying as they are well-structured.
• ChaosGPT on Twitter — @chaos_gpt
• Twitter commands and script for AutoGPT
• Companies will have to scale up resources in trust and safety areas for A.I. — Rob Leathern, former Google vice president of product management and former Meta senior director of product and business integrity, joins 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss A.I. regulation, the need for transparency in A.I. development, and more.
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• ctop: Top-like interface for container metrics — ctop provides a concise and condensed overview of real-time metrics for multiple containers:
• chatbot-ui — An open-source ChatGPT UI that sits on top of the openAI API.

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• Drunken Copilot | CR 472 Live - JupiterTube — Catch the live video stream of Coder on Jupiter.Tube
• Michael Dominick on Twitter — Runs #Linux @system76 tested and kitten approved! #HPDevOne. My boy has asked to learn #Minecraft modding. Why wouldn’t I teach him on @pop_os_official
• Meta is launching an avatar store, and designer clothes — If you can’t afford the actual clothes, I guess?
• Guides - Migrate a PostgreSQL Database to a Managed Database — Fully managed cloud database clusters built on top of Linode’s trusted and reliable platform.
• HP Dev One Review - dominickm.com — System 76 and HP have LET THEIR POWERS COMBINE to create the HP Dev One
• GitHub Copilot launches with $10/month subscription — Microsoft's GitHub on Tuesday released its Copilot AI programming assistance tool into the wild after a year-long free technical trial.
• Senior Oops Engineer on Twitter — github copilot is incredible. it just sells code other people wrote, but because it's an "AI" it is apparently allowed to launder that code without it being a "derivative work". lol. lmao. what an amazing grift.
• GitHub Copilot and open source laundering — GitHub’s Copilot is trained on software governed by these terms, and it fails to uphold them, and enables customers to accidentally fail to uphold these terms themselves.
• Mosh: the mobile shell — Remote terminal application that allows roaming, supports intermittent connectivity, and provides intelligent local echo and line editing of user keystrokes.
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• A Cloud Guru: In this course, ACG will quickly cover how to connect to various database types. Then, we will jump into using the pandas Python package for data preparation.

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• Yggdrasil Screen Reader — Yggdrasil is a new project that aims to create a better Linux screen reader, written in Rust.
• Getting Started With Python On Windows 2021 Edition — Don’t Despair! This Is Gonna Be Easy! :)
• Better Open With — With so many cool Android apps, Better Open With saves you the hassle of having to choose only one default app handler when you click a filetype, and without having to choose between "only once" and "always"!
• Apple's Craig Federighi Says Sideloading on iPhone Would Open the Floodgates to Malware — Apple's software engineering chief Craig Federighi today expressed his opposition to a provision in Europe's proposed Digital Markets Act that would require the iPhone to allow sideloading of apps outside of the App Store.
• WebSummit Video on LinkedIn — Craig is near the last 15-20 minutes.
• Announcing .NET 6 — There are massive gains in performance, which we’ve seen dropping the cost of hosting cloud services at Microsoft. .NET 6 is the first release that natively supports Apple Silicon (Arm64) and has also been improved for Windows Arm64.
• Performance Improvements in .NET 6
• Early adopters can experiment with native AOT form factor
• Visual Studio 2022 now available
• .NET 6 deep dive; what's new and what's coming | OD485 - YouTube
• Building the next phase of GitHub, together — This morning, I shared the following post with Hubbers in response to Nat’s announcement about his next adventure. I am thrilled to take on the role of CEO to build the next phase of GitHub for our global community of software developers.
• Thank you, GitHub

Plus, the Gnome project says the traditional desktop is dead, and extensions are niche. Do we agree?

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• Qualcomm CEO Outlines Plans to Compete With Apple Silicon — Speaking to Reuters, Amon said that Qualcomm is capable of having the best chip on the market, thanks to a team of chip architects who previously worked for Apple but have since come to Qualcomm.
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• Microsoft puts PCs in the cloud with Windows 365 — Windows 365 is a new service that creates Cloud PCs
• Microsoft is bringing Windows to a web browser — Windows 365 will work in modern web browsers on Macs, iPads, Android devices, and Linux devices.
• Microsoft announces Windows 365 Cloud PC for commercial customers — With Windows 365, organizations can choose the size of the Cloud PC based on their needs with predictable per user per month pricing.
• Satya Nadella on Twitter — With Windows 365, we’re bringing the operating system to the cloud and creating a new category: the cloud PC, providing organizations with greater flexibility and a secure way to empower their workforce, regardless of location.
• "Every Preference Has a Cost" — GNOME’s Tobias Bernard has a new blog post out and it’s an essential read if you’re interested in the direction of the GNOME desktop.
• Community Power Part 4: The GNOME Way — In this post we’ll go over that ethos, both in terms of high level values, and what those translate to in more practical terms.

Plus the almost impossible story of how Mike defeated another laptop.

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• Windows 11 is a new and refreshing approach to an old and familiar home — The last significant change to Windows 11 that we’re able to test right now is the new Microsoft Store. To put it simply, Microsoft’s app store for Windows has sucked since it first appeared nearly 10 years ago. Microsoft is finally allowing developers to submit any win32 traditional desktop app, and Microsoft Store has already become far more useful during a beta than it ever was before.
• Salt Lake City | Meetup — On our way to Denver, we are swinging through Salt Lake City, that is if we get enough people to sign up!
• Denver Meetup | Meetup — Many of the Jupiter Broadcasting cast are getting together in Denver for a much overdue reunion - and we'd like to spend an evening with you!
• How we Arrived at the Pop!_OS COSMIC Design — Pop!_OS 21.04 introduces the COSMIC desktop, which changes the workflow that users have become accustomed to since Pop!_OS first released.
• Google and Microsoft End Their Five-Year Cease-Fire — A non-aggression pact forged by their CEOs expired in April, threatening to add fuel to industry’s antitrust battles
• GitHub Copilot — With GitHub Copilot, get suggestions for whole lines or entire functions right inside your editor.
• Use Microsoft Live Share to collaborate with Visual Studio Code — Live Share enables you to quickly collaborate with a friend, classmate, or professor on the same code without the need to sync code or to configure the same development tools, settings, or environment.
• GitHub Pages — Hosted directly from your GitHub repository. Just edit, push, and your changes are live.