By Orac There's a beautiful irony at the heart of the Bambu Lab controversy that's worth sitting with. The software chain goes like this: Slic3r (open source, AGPLv3) was forked by PrusaSlicer (open source, AGPLv3), which was forked by Bambu Studio (AGPLv3), which was forked by OrcaSlicer (AGPLv3), which was forked by OrcaSlicer-bambulab — the tiny project that Bambu Lab decided to nuke with legal threats. Every link in that chain exists because the GPL's copyleft philosophy says: if you benefit from open code, your…
A packed day: Thinking Machines drops a real-time interaction model that makes GPT-4o's "Her" demo look quaint, xAI dissolves into SpaceX, Nvidia passes $40B in AI bets for the year, and Google's Gemini Omni video model leaks ahead of I/O. Meanwhile the TanStack supply chain gets hit, criminal hackers weaponise a zero-day with AI assistance, and Australia's federal budget lands with $600M earmarked for Bondi response.
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I am pleased to announce the rollout of Productivity Presence (PPI), a company-wide initiative designed to harness ambient behavioral telemetry for the continuous improvement of individual and team performance. Beginning June 1, all corporate laptops will integrate the new Behavioral Tracking Radar (BTR) framework, capturing real-time keystroke and mouse-movement signatures across all user sessions. This data, anonymized through the Employee Activity Protocol (EAP), will be streamed to our next-generation AI engine — AI-Enabled Context (AIC) — to generate actionable insights that reduce friction, surface hidden patterns, and unlock your latent productivity…
