Bing’s API is down, taking Microsoft Copilot, DuckDuckGo and ChatGPT’s web search feature down too
"In this particular case, it’s interesting to see the increasingly important role of Bing’s API. While Google still dominates when it comes to web search, many services are now reliant on Bing’s API."
Relying on one company doesn't seem like a smart idea.
"A global outage is affecting a variety of Microsoft services, including its Bing search engine and Copilot AI tool.
Users turned to social media on Thursday to complain about the outage, which is also impacting third parties, including the search engine DuckDuckGo, which relies on Microsoft’s infrastructure."
@noellemitchell I guess I live the life of a digital hermit as this is the first I’m hearing about a large outage online. To be fair, I also didn’t know about the large Facebook outage a couple weeks ago.
Diese Nachricht ist nicht für Microsoft bestimmt und darf nicht auf Windows-Rechnern mit aktiviertem "Recall"-Feature geöffnet werden. Datenschutzauskunfts- und Löschungsersuche hierzu bleiben ausdrücklich vorbehalten.
@Paxxi@poppastring So like Apple’s Find My. Like Recall, there are creepier third-party alternatives available like, Snap Maps or Life360. Find My has its uses and saves devices all the time, but unfortunately it opens up victims to be tracked everywhere they go.
Example aside, I do think privacy is going to get worse and worse, and abuse victims will be among the ones who suffer the hardest. It’s grim looking ahead and I don’t know how the industry’s gonna be fixed.
@nebula@poppastring I haven't read enough about the design of Find My to know what mitigations Apple has and if they're good enough but I agree that it's also a technology that's inherently problematic.
As for fixing it, being vocal and organizing.
Contact your politicians about privacy issues.
Generate a PR shit storm for companies.
Unionize.
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This tiny PC is now packing the most powerful laptop chip AMD makes!
Funnily enough, Microsoft threw AMD and Intel under the bus.
NONE of the current selling "AI" PCs qualify for the "CoPilot" branding.
Who knows, maybe you don't want that new Microsoft Recall feature on your system anyway?
@airwhale absolutely yes, It gave me all the sources that It considers to extract the info of the reply. Furthermore, Copilot in One drive working specifically on a file reduce dramatically its bias because It really refers the file you are referencing.
There are just so many reports of AI failing in spectacular ways these days, but I guess all those billions of invested funds are starting to find practical use cases now.
JFC now you need to use a browser Microsoft approves of in your operating system to be able to disable its on-by-default continual surveillance of your every action while using it 👀
@adnan I don't get how companies are expected to be fine with "Recall", either. Surely the information security ramifications are staggering in a corporate environment. Or maybe they're hoping firms will buy it for the opportunity to be able to retrospectively snoop on staff.
@tokyo_0 Remote Recall? 😱 the most abusive employers and bosses will definitely use it. They already have the ability to run arbitrary programs on corporate laptops. Surely they would also be able to run the Recall feature.
@ErikJonker “AI is for a large part opensource” means nothing. Which AI? Which tools? Which models?
Llama 2, Bard, Claude 2, GPT-4 are not open source at all.
It’s time to be lucid: this type of tools don’t help users, kill the planet and are based on stolen materials only to make some companies earn more money. That’s all.
@pylapp ... we can't enforce that this technology can and will not be used, that's a fantasy. A lot is closed source but also a part is opensource, everybody can implement and use it on their own.
The #Windows11 era:
We decided to ruin our image and any reputation we had as an industry standard operating system in the name of innovating with #AI and "changing the way you compute" (or something like that) #Windows#Microsoft#copilot#recall
AI is not a passing fad, just like cloud computing wasn't. Yet they seem to be going through pretty similar hype cycles, a decade+ apart.
When Satya Nadella mentions #Copilot 3 times in his first 7 words of a social post about #msbuild2024 announcements, I can't help but be reminded about the classic #Dilbert cartoon.
If you hire a consultant to help evolve your products to age of AI, surprise them by saying "Copilot, Copilot, Copilot" at the start of your workshop.
You get spied on by Microsoft, any asshole in the world knows what to do: you get a Distro with a 25 year reputation, an indestructible economy shitbox laptop, you update once a week and that's your base, get me? That's your fortress of fucking solitude. That puts you, for the rest of your life, at a level of fuck you. Somebody wants to install malware, fuck you! Own your laptop. Have a couple flatpaks. Dont drink. That's all I have to say to anybody on any social level." #linux#debian#copilot
Microsoft #Copilot+ Recall feature 'privacy nightmare'.
The UK data watchdog says it is "making enquiries with Microsoft" over a new feature that can take screenshots of your laptop every few seconds.
#Microsoft says #Recall, which will store encrypted snapshots locally on your computer, is exclusive to its forthcoming Copilot+ PCs. #news