All posts tagged: Infuriating

Apple Is Blocking Vibe Coding Apps From the App Store, Infuriating Developers

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech There’s unrest brewing in the world of vibe-coding startups. Apple is blocking AI coding apps on the App Store, sparking complaints among AI companies that believe the tech giant’s rules are outdated and draconian, the Financial Times reports. Apple’s resistance here could remain a huge roadblock for the AI industry, as coding tools have become one of the most popular — and potentially profitable — use cases for AI. The rule in question is App Store Guideline 2.5.2, which blocks apps from downloading, installing, or executing code that changes their functionality. This is a safety measure that Apple argues prevents unvetted software from running on users’ phones, per the FT. That’s quite clearly a problem for vibe-coding AI tools, whose purpose is to design and build entire pieces of software for you; when you use one of these apps’ preview functions to test your vibe-coded creation, that’s downloading and executing code. Among the aggrieved startups is Replit, which …

It’s giving… lack of social skills: Why Gen Z has adopted the infuriating silent scream

Published by Daniella Wilson

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more “I’m literally screaming,” my friend tells me — except she’s not. I’ve just told her about my promotion at work. She raises her hands in front of her mouth as if to unleash a fearsome howl, but no sound comes out. She scrunches up her nose like a sneezing cat and lets out a hoarse cry. To the uninitiated, she may have seemed distressed — or in need of some urgent medical attention — but in Gen Z-code, I knew she was actually excited for me. This is the Gen Z silent scream: the new behavioral motif used by the young to convey a muted kind of elation. The gesture has been picked apart endlessly online, with many filing it among a growing lexicon …

Best science books of all time: Why Watson’s The Double Helix is an infuriating book

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James Watson’s The Double Helix was first published in 1968. How does it stand the test of time? There’s a strong case to be made that The Double Helix by James Watson is one of the greatest science books of all time– but I can’t recommend that anyone actually read it. Many parts of it are distasteful, especially in light of the odious old man that Watson became. “The Double Helix reinvented the scientific memoir. Watson rendered science not as a bloodless march from Fact to Fact, but as a passionate adventure whose direction depends on the individual personalities of scientists,” says Nathaniel Comfort at Johns Hopkins University, who is writing a biography of Watson. “That was really new, and it drew countless young people into science, men and women alike, which was a big part of his intent with the book.” The Double Helix is Watson’s account of how, between 1951 and 1953, he came to work on the structure of DNA with Francis Crick. The pair eventually cracked it with the help of …

Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere review – An infuriating failure of a documentary

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter There’s something unnatural about legacy media colliding with the modern internet. It’s like a dog having sex with a giraffe. All that’s left is an unpleasant mess spun through with shame. Which brings me to Louis Theroux, the most eminently watchable representative of TV’s old guard, but a man whose methods of gentle, observational needling prove no match for an online culture defined by its apathetic immorality. In his latest documentary – the first under his new deal with Netflix – every wry question is met by TikTok-brained obfuscation; every attempt at a gotcha is blocked by a wall of protein-shake sociopathy. Inside the Manosphere, then, is a failure, one in which Theroux is repeatedly, depressingly bested by a swarm of ugly men with Bitcoin wallets and chin pubes. Inside the Manosphere explores what could be termed The New Sexism, a …

I finally found a way around the infuriating YouTube fullscreen bug

Published by skeptic

Add another reason to the growing pile of reasons why it might be a good idea to shill out $13.99/month to pay for YouTube Premium: if you use the free version of YouTube and have to watch ads before and during some videos, you may have been bedeviled by an annoying bug over the past few months. If you open the official YouTube app on either your Apple or Android mobile device and blow up a video so it takes up your entire screen, you may see persistent ads in the lower corner that don’t go away no matter how many things you try. A lot of people have been reporting them lately, and while there are ways around it, none of them are foolproof. The problem As if there weren’t already enough ads Credit: Posted on Reddit by SadSubz_24 A number of people have posted about this problem on Reddit starting in early March, although there are reports about it going back to May of 2024. Nonetheless, the issue seems to have increased in frequency recently. …

Infuriating Video Sums Up How Microsoft Is Ruining Windows With AI

Published by José Betancourt

If you were already skeptical — if not livid — about Microsoft’s ongoing campaign to drown Windows 11 with useless AI features, you’re really going to hate this video. In a 30 second clip uploaded over the weekend, programmer Ryan Fleury demonstrates how even using Window 11’s purportedly AI-powered search bar to do exactly what it tells you to do doesn’t come close to working as advertised. At the start of the video, the settings page search bar, with its gleaming AI icon, recommends searching “My mouse pointer is too small.” This goes against the common search function wisdom that you should look up using keywords, not entire sentences, but whatever: AI magic can take care of that for you, right? But as it turns out, when Fleury searches “My mouse pointer is too small,” as exactly phrased by the search suggestion, nothing turns up. He waits around ten seconds with no luck, either. But when he looks up “test” afterwards, he gets three results. “This is not a real company,” Fleury fumed. He was …

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