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Another day, another move from the Trump administration that will benefit Elon Musk — shocking. The US Department of Commerce has announced an overhaul of 2021's Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program and its $42.5 billion that will funnel work to Musk's Starlink.
The BEAD program was originally designed to give states funding for fiber-optic cable installation, increase Wi-Fi networks and free broadband internet access for some individuals. Fiber-optic broadband provides the fastest internet speeds, but the new mandate will get rid of BEAD's preference for it.
"The Department is ripping out the Biden Administration's pointless requirements," said US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick in a statement. "It is revamping the BEAD program to take a tech-neutral approach that is rigorously driven by outcomes, so states can provide internet access for the lowest cost."
The writing on the wall is clear: Musk, the richest person in the world, leader of a department to reduce government waste (read: cut many critical jobs and programs) and an unelected right hand to what can best be described as an authoritarian government, is about to make even more money.
Under the Biden administration in 2023, Starlink received a rejection from the Federal Communications Commission for nearly
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Reddit has announced several new tools that seem like they were designed to encourage more lurkers to participate in discussions on the website. One of the new tools called Rules Check will make it easy to see if what you're posting potentially goes against a subreddit's rules. Before submitting your post, you can click the wand icon in the lower right-hand corner of the post composer, which you can see in the photo above. Doing that will highlight anything in your post that may be breaking a subreddit's rules. Reddit will start testing the feature on iOS and Android before giving it a wider release.
Another new tool called Post Recovery will show you a prompt if your post has been removed due to community rules. The prompt will contain a notice of removal, along with a link that will enable you to quickly share your deleted post to a more appropriate subreddit. To make sure you're posting in the right community in the first place, Reddit will now suggest relevant communities based on what you write through a drop-down menu on the upper left corner of the composer screen. It will now also show you if a community has requirements, such as account age or minimum karma points, before you can post.
The last tool is perhaps most useful if you promote products and services on Reddit. Post Insights will show you how many views, upvotes, shares and crossposts your posts have gotten, giving you an idea on what works when it comes to post engagement. All these tools other than Rules Check are now available on Reddit's website and mobile app.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/social-media/reddits-rule-check-feature-will-help-users-avoid-breaking-subreddit-rules-160001398.html?src=rss
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But here's the good news: GeForce's RTX 50 Series GPUs serve as a great hardware platform to explore generative AI right on your own PC. From running large language models to playing AI-enhanced games, RTX 50 GPUs make generative AI more accessible than ever before.
Follow along as we explain Generative AI, show you how it's being used to transform science, and then help you get started with AI on your GeForce RTX 50 Series powered PC.
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What is Generative AI?
Generative AI has become an umbrella term for various AI technologies. When you type a prompt into your AI engine of choice, a bunch of highly specialized AI programs called "models" spring into action.
These models individually excel at specific tasks, such as recognizing patterns in language, images, audio, computer code, and more. But they can also work together to solve more complicated problems. The models typically run on enormous computers in data centers, though that's changing with PC hardware running GeForce RTX 50 Series graphics cards.
The models excel in breaking up problems into individual components, and then work together to generate helpful results
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Check out the pros and cons of each Game Pass tier, and how much each costs.
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Less than ten minutes after the 9 AM EST launch, Best Buy, Newegg, and B&H all showed every single RTX 5070 card as out of stock or otherwise unavailable. Between high demand from PC gamers (and the scalpers who want to take advantage of them) and apparently very low output for the card launches, things are looking pretty grim for anyone who wants to get a new card, especially at retail prices.
Nvidia's manufacturing partners, like Asus and Gigabyte, also seem to be loathe to sell these cards at the retail prices announced at CES 2025. Several "enhanced" models of the RTX 5070 are going for almost $750, closer to the next-level-up RTX 5070 Ti's suggested price.
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