Latham worked at the IBM UK Scientific Centre in Winchester, the computer artist working with the software engineers to create an "organic" type of art. This was not realtime or interactive, at least not at the start and for a few years, but might have got there eventually. IBM had just started producing their Unix workstation (the RS6000) that could have some 3D capability. They were overshadowed by the SGI's they also brought in at the time. I worked there very briefly in the 80's (Occam/transputers).
I think the possible age restriction on VPN use will be problematic in many ways. The direction of travel here is a worry even though I agree that children need some protections from social media use. The site ISP Preview [0] has an article about this as well :
'The UK Prime Minister, Kier Starmer, has today proposed last minute amendments to two Bills that will enable the Government to set a minimum age limit for social media (i.e. greater use of Age Verification), as well as options to age restrict or limit children’s use of Virtual Private Networks (VPN), where it “undermines safety protections and changing the age of digital consent".'
I have visions of the book scanner in Vernor Vinge's SF novel "Rainbows End" (a book I love). A machine rips the books up into small pieces, photographs are taken and "AI" software then reads and assembles the pictures to digital files. Vinge didn't write an instruction manual for this process.
The page says this thing will be opt-in. As it also says, they can't ignore the effect AI is having in the world. I'm not much of a fan of a lot of this effect, but see some benefits in places.
They could ignore it. Why not? I switched from Chrome to FF and FF hard-locks 3x a day for me now. Force quit, start over. Is an AI window going to stop me going back to Chrome? Who cares if FF has an AI window if FF is too janky to be a good web browser... It's just lipstick on a pig.
That's not normal, and certainly not a typical reason people avoid Firefox. Have you given it a try and investigated if this is solvable? Sounds like one of those issues that if you ignore, it'll just pop up elsewhere with some other program.
Well, they won't say what they see yet and they won't know what it is until they actually excavate. So, let's hope it's worth the expectation they've built up. At least it also appears that "Time Team" are involved to document the dig. A great team and a great program for those interested in archaeology. It's on YouTube now.
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