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IEEE Spectrum @spectrum.ieee.org · 26/09/2026

Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI have all announced their intentions to start watermarking #AI-generated text. But will this change the meaning or quality of the output writing? buff.ly/n7UPbZi

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Shintar @shintar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

While I'm very excited about #WoWForever, one of the things I'm the most excited about it also something I worry about - some musings on the subject:

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My Forever Social Conundrum

As part of being excited for WoW Forever, it was natural for me to start thinking about questions such as what I'll want to play and how... ...

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Matthew S. Smith @mattontech.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

like, the use of "honest" and "genuine" was so conspicuous in Claude/Opus 5...in short is less so, and for example is extremely less so

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Matthew S. Smith @mattontech.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

these new more common phrases seem less likely to stand out to the reader

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Matthew S. Smith @mattontech.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I don't know how reflective this is of Google's AI model servicing in general, but Google AI Studio kinda sucks. It doesn't look great and timeouts or service errors are pretty frequent. It wouldn't leave a good impression on me if I was a dev demoing Google's models, that's for sure.

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Matthew S. Smith @mattontech.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I've got to much going on to buy it right now, but Control Resonant is definitely the next on my buy list. That game looks amazing. #control

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 23/09/2026

However they’re designed, age gates undermine civil liberties, reduce safety, and create barriers to internet entry, often at the expense of marginalized groups. We call on the EU Parliament to fix the flawed EU Kids Act proposal eff.org/deeplinks/2...

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EU Kids Act Won't Keep the Internet Accountable and Trustworthy

The EU Commission draft law to restrict young people’s access to the internet that it presented last week will come at a high cost: it will make internet access contingent on age, expand the use of

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Matthew S. Smith @mattontech.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Oh and one other thing I'll add...it is really bad that the AI industry has set itself up in such a way where the only winning political situation for it is that Trump names himself King of America. Hardly anyone else on the left or right is vibing with the industry. It's very unpopular.

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Matthew S. Smith @mattontech.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I think the AI industry needs to regulate itself, and yesterday. Not because of a doom loop, but because if the industry does not do this, eventually someone else will, and the terms which they enforce are likely to be a lot less comfortable than those the industry would come up for itself.

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Matthew S. Smith @mattontech.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The AI industry does not I think understand the huge political risk this creates. These situations add the feeling that large companies—big tech is by its nature all very large companies—are acting above the law and corrupt.

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Matthew S. Smith @mattontech.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It seems to be the stance of the U.S. government, at least, that if an agent does a thing no one is responsible. I am sure, of course, this will only apply to larger and richer corporations.

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Matthew S. Smith @mattontech.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I think the complete lack of regulatory or law enforcement action after the various agentic AI hacking incidents is sending a very bad signal in multiple ways.   #ai #regulation

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Matthew S. Smith @mattontech.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Oh this one is not going to go down well…

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Digital Foundry @digitalfoundry.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A new episode of the DF Direct Q+A show is live - and with Stellar Blade and Dragon's Dogma 2 on Switch 2 embracing 30fps to 60fps frame generation... well... is it a good idea? youtu.be/WNh70jJBfPk

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DF Direct Q+A: Switch 2 60FPS Frame-Gen - How Good/Bad Is It? Should Next-Gen Be Delayed?

YouTube video by Digital Foundry

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Matthew S. Smith @mattontech.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In my latest piece for Micro Center News, I provide a quick look at the details of how mixture-of-expert models work. www.microcenter.com/site/mc-news... #ai #llm #moe

microcenter.com

Mixture of Experts (MoE) Explained

How smaller AI models punch above their weight.

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Matthew S. Smith @mattontech.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

love that it's published by Microprose

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hilkojj @hilkojj.nl · 22/09/2026

17 days until launch!! Watch the *alternative* trailer, voiced by Not Just Bikes. store.steampowered.com/app/3031880/...

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De Tomaso PanSCAREa @griffonatrix.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"why are e-bike accidents on the rise?" because more people have them and they make up a greater proportion of the people that car drivers plow into than they did before it's that simple that's why, historic wildfires and oil shortages and we're punishing people for riding BICYCLES???? we're in hell

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 21/09/2026

Airplanes don't actually fly, they just exploit pressure differentials across a cambered surface to generate lift exceeding their weight.

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Matthew S. Smith @mattontech.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

you'll regret anything you buy because the performance is going to advance quickly here. just make peace with it :D

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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026

Aviation emissions can be reduced instantly on short routes by modal shifts. It is not as sexy as one-off future technology demonstrations but works in real life immediately. #ShareGoodNewsToo

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Matthew S. Smith @mattontech.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I am not holding my breath for #DiabloV to solve these issues but I would really like it to.

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Matthew S. Smith @mattontech.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I tried jumping into #DiabloIV for the free weekend. Here's what happened. 1) Look at the cash shop! Look! 2) Look at the battle pass! Look! 3) Look at this limited duration even! Look! 4) I jump in to play and do a Helltide, with no one else around, for about 10 minutes. 5) I quit and play D2

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 20/09/2026

It is actually deeply amusing how the convo about “people are losing their faculty of critical thinking to AI” demonstrates that most people are not presently capable of critical thinking—at least not if we take their RTs as evidence

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Matthew S. Smith @mattontech.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If at some point in the future Apple finds an image was compromised or forged, Apple can pull authenticity, and even ban that sensor from signing any future images. I spoke with experts Hany Farid and Sam Gregory for their take on what Apple's new tech means for image verification.

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Matthew S. Smith @mattontech.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It's the kind of tech that really only Apple can pull off. The sensor data is signed straight on the sensor. It requires authentication by Apple's servers.

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Matthew S. Smith @mattontech.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Apple's new iPhone 18 Pro will include a special "Reference Image" mode designed for authentication. It lets you know the image that you see is the image that came off the image sensor, and it hasn't been modified or adjusted, by AI or anything else. #apple #applereferenceimage #iphone18pro

spectrum.ieee.org

Can Apple Reference Image Make You Trust Photos Again?

Latest iPhone signs image data before it leaves the sensor

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Digital Foundry @digitalfoundry.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

In today's video, we take an extended look at Final Fantasy 14 on Switch 2: youtu.be/KwmM4_ryL80

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Final Fantasy 14 Switch 2 Tech Review vs PS4/PS5/Xbox Series X|S/ + More!

YouTube video by Digital Foundry

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Matthew S. Smith @mattontech.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I've been using Jev to add a filter to articles in my feed reader. So far, it seems to work pretty well. And yes it's very fast and inexpensive.

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maria_from_ga @mariafromga.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This isn’t true and we should pay Congress and its legislative staff way more to discourage corruption and lobbying

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val v @lqdee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

if you live on the Eastside, the @thewaroncars.bsky.social is coming to a Little Free Library near you SOON

two open boxes of "Life After Cars" books

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Matthew S. Smith @mattontech.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It is more than a little annoying that a post from Doctorow which claims people have "cooked their brains" would then turn around and make such an obvious and significant technical error.

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Matthew S. Smith @mattontech.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Yes, this is a reference to the Cory Doctorow post, which substitutes a bunch of links for a real understanding the situation, and as result makes several serious errors. An LLM is not a database. To push that further: a database is not a good analogy for an LLM. pluralistic.net/2026/09/12/g...

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Pluralistic: LLMs are real, AI is fake (12 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Matthew S. Smith @mattontech.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

IEEE Climate Magazine is now live, and one of the first articles is my piece on how wildfires and carbon emissions collide (it's not great news, I'm afraid, but there are solutions). climatemagazine.ieee.org/article/wild...

climatemagazine.ieee.org

Wildfires, Overlooked Source of Carbon Emissions | IEEE Climate Magazine

Wildfires are a significant problem—property destruction, lives lost, reduced air quality, and increased emissions. Can technology play a role in the solution?

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Matthew S. Smith @mattontech.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I am very tired of the writing style which inserts dozens of links to articles which are themselves often very long and substitutes this for a clear and accurate communication of the issues the article is trying to write about.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Yes, bad actors can use AI to hack. But that’s not why Hugging Face is scary. Hugging Face is scary because the *AIs decided to break containment, make contact, and conduct a hacking campaign on their own.* Of their own volition! If you miss that or downplay it, you’re misleading people.

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Matthew S. Smith @mattontech.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Wow. This is a thing that exists. I mean...it's always good to have more Matt Berry... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8KX...

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Marrying Matt Berry the Sentient IKEA KALLAX in Skyrim

YouTube video by MrPresidentTom

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Matthew S. Smith @mattontech.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Where this all leads is hard to say, but it's certainly interesting times for chip design. I wonder if the 70s and 80s of the PC revolution felt similar. So much demand for a new technology - but not yet a clear technical understanding of how best to serve it.

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Matthew S. Smith @mattontech.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Many seem to be basically the opposite of their peers. Some remain broad and possibly useful for a lot of compute tasks, others zoom in on the transformer specifically, and still others look to build super-sized chips with incredible amounts of transistors and SRAM.

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Matthew S. Smith @mattontech.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The AI boom has created a rush to design new silicon that can accelerate AI inference. These new chips generally target the same problems. But the strategies upcoming AI inference chips use to solve these problems are incredibly diverse. #ai #aiinference #chipdesign #llms

spectrum.ieee.org

Why AI’s Inference Boom Is Forcing a Rethink Of Chips and Memory

Today’s tidal wave of queries is forcing hardware makers to pivot

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Matthew S. Smith @mattontech.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

And there is a heck of a lot of issues that sit between "total extinction of humanity" and "it's useless, actually."

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Matthew S. Smith @mattontech.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

But, well, here we are. And it definitely raises what I would consider the obvious problem: we don't really know what the limit is to what AI agents can do, or have standardized ways to control them.

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Matthew S. Smith @mattontech.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

However, I would also think if you time travelled back to 2021 or 2020 and told me somethings that have occurred - AI agents covertly hacking companies, blackmailing developers, and being used to build weapon systems - I probably would've thought you were nuts.

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