It's an interesting dynamic where the ransomware groups have to be reliable and professional for their business model to work.
This is a bit of cliche, but still relevant to our current times:
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.
Antonio Gramsci (Italian Marxist philospher from the turn of the century)
Their subscription service costs $24 a month? This is madness.
I am guessing this because the processing is done in the cloud? But then why the $700 price for the "AI Pin" device; what exactly does it do justify a $700 cost if processing is done in the cloud?
Google had a privacy chief?
What exactly was he doing? Jacking off Pichai?
I wouldn't go as far as making a big deal out of it, but it is funny.
Gemini is "AI" which is good for the share price and executive bonuses. Product development does not necessarily offer such benefits.
Android OS updates have been somewhat lackluster since Android 8/9. The OS and smartphones in general are increasingly becoming mature products with little true differentiation.
They will try to leverage "AI" to accelerate upgrade cycles, but we'll see how that goes.
Read this via another source.
This is how you know Google (and other gigantic companies) are little more than criminals. Not every criminal is a street gang member.
I would say a good base assumption is that all content on the public internet is scrapped and used for AI schemes.
It's the other factors that matter.
Why the /s though? :)
Good find, I honestly didn't notice that this was from Dec 2023.
For movies/TV shows, try rutracker.org. The interface is in russian, but the torrents almost always include english audio tracks for US/UK movies. Movies from other countries typically do include the original audio track and english subs.
They have a tone of older torrents, with some relatively rare content. There are some strange nuances such as SD rips are often posted with Xvid encoding (even new ones) and HD releases have a rule where they need to include all known russian Dubs/MVO/DVO/AVO audio tracks, so a large part of the file is audio.
But the good thing is that, even low health torrents often eventually have a seed appear. They have a massive networks of seeds/peers that are actually "federated" with lots of other trackers).
For relatively high seed/peer content you can also basically stream the release via "Download in sequential order" and "Download first and last piece first". I regularly essentially stream movies via this method.
They are decent for music too. Video games will likely be challenging if you don't speak russian and many releases actually don't include the original language.