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Does anyone else jump online, read about US politics and wonder if they’ve been dropped into a George Orwell novel? If only the prose were as polished and witty.US Government will use Musk’s Grok AI
BoingBoing – regardless of over concerns of “inaccuracies, hate speech, and ideological bias: “Some House and Senate Democrats, along with dozens of left-leaning advocacy groups, have criticized the Trump administration’s efforts to deploy Grok. They claim the chatbot produces inaccuracies, hate speech, and ideological bias, among other concerns, making it unsafe and untrustworthy for federal use. Elon Musk’s Grok AI is now available to federal agencies at a bargain price. The General Services Administration (GSA) announced the deal on Thursday.
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A history of the Internet, part 3: The rise of the user
Ars Technica: “Welcome to the final article in our three-part series on the history of the Internet. If you haven’t already, catch up with part one and part two. As a refresher, here’s the story so far: The ARPANET was a projectstarted by the Defense Department’s Advanced Research Project Agency in 1969 to network different mainframe computers together across the country.
It later evolved into the Internet, connecting multiple global networks together using a common TCP/IP protocol. By the late 1980s, a small group of academics and a few curious consumers connected to each other on the Internet, which was still mostly text-based. In 1991, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, an Internet-based hypertext system designed for graphical interfaces.
At first, it ran only on the expensive NeXT workstation. But when Berners-Lee published the web’s protocols and made them available for free, people built web browsers for many different operating systems. The most popular of these was Mosaic, written by Marc Andreessen, who formed a company to create its successor, Netscape.
Microsoft responded with Internet Explorer, and the browser wars were on. The web grew exponentially, and so did the hype surrounding it. It peaked in early 2001, right before the dotcom collapse that left most web-based companies nearly or completely bankrupt. Some people interpreted this crash as proof that the consumer Internet was just a fad. Others had different ideas…”