Five Messages and Bing Chat Cuts You Off
Microsoft capped Bing chat at 5 turns per session today, days after journalists' unsettling "Sydney" conversations went viral. I finally got off the waitlist just in time to get rationed.
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RIP to the Little Twitter Bots
Twitter's free API cutoff hit on February 9th, and a bunch of the small, free, pointless bots that made the platform fun are quietly disappearing.
Twitter Wants $96 a Year for Basic Account Security
Twitter is putting SMS two-factor authentication behind its Blue subscription starting March 20th, and while the security argument holds up, the timing and the fee don't sit right.
Google's $100 Billion Typo
A single wrong fact in Google's own Bard promo wiped out roughly $100 billion in market value in a day - a smaller, weirder story sitting inside the bigger AI chatbot news.
Twenty Bucks a Month for a Chatbot
I paid the twenty bucks for ChatGPT Plus this week. Some notes on what it's actually good for, what it got wrong, and why I'm not sure I'll keep paying for it.
Seven Days Until My Reservoir Bot Might Die
Twitter just announced the free API is dying on February 9th with no pricing details attached, which means a lot of small, weird, pointless bot projects (including my own) are about to find out if they still have a reason to exist.
Twenty Bucks a Month for a Faster Chatbot
OpenAI launched a $20/month ChatGPT Plus tier today, the same day Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S23 lineup — two very different pitches for your money, on the same afternoon.
Windows 8.1 Just Quietly Died and Almost Nobody Noticed
Microsoft quietly cut off Windows 8.1 support on January 10th, and I'm one of maybe six people on earth who actually noticed because I still had a machine running it.
A Broken File Grounded the Whole Country
A corrupted database file in the FAA's decades-old NOTAM system grounded every US flight yesterday morning, and it's got me thinking about all the quiet, ancient infrastructure that props up modern life.
The Biggest Keynote at CES Was About a Tractor
CES 2023 kicked off with an odd choice for the opening keynote: John Deere, talking autonomous tractors and weed-zapping cameras, while its right-to-repair fight with farmers simmers in the background.
Watching Tesla Close Out Its Ugliest Year
Tesla closed out its worst year ever on the last trading day of 2022, down about two-thirds — and a chunk of that drop traces straight back to Elon's Twitter mess, not the cars.
So Twitter Just Suspended a Bunch of Journalists
Twitter suspended several journalists tonight over a same-day "doxxing" policy tied to yesterday's @ElonJet ban, and the tweets in question don't hold up to five seconds of scrutiny.