JD Desmarais
Director of Pre-Sales, ProTech Services Group · Memphis
Twenty-four years in infrastructure. I run AI models on hardware I own, I like teaching people to use them, and I think AI is a tool, not a companion.
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AI news Meta may scrape news sites and Wildwood opposes AI in creative work.
Memphis A star died at seventy-five and a deadly crime left one family in shock.
A free AI model rates every headline from 0, upbeat, to 100, doom. The gauges show the daily average. See the chart on the Hub
Today's big stories
More on the HubPHP2Shell vulnerability affects most of the web
A major PHP vulnerability impacting 70% of the web was discovered, with hackers getting a head start on it.
AI agents gain new capabilities and integrations
1Password allows agents to use passwords securely, agents are preparing to shop, and Claude has a personal agent.
Meta and SpaceX announced a new partnership
xAI introduced the SpaceX Super Intelligence Partner Network, which also involved comments about merging SpaceX and Tesla.
Meta's AI features and news scraping legal concerns
Meta re-enabled Muse sharing, outlined plans for interconnected Muses, and experts noted its AI could still scrape news sites.
Grouped by a free AI model from the last 24 hours of the Wire.
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All 30 days- Turning Database Grading into RL Rewards: Post-Training Agents with ThinkingBoxHugging Face
- Canva’s first AI image model plans designs before generating themThe Verge
- Designing an AI serving harness built to lastMIT Tech Review
- Meta’s AI could still scrape news sites, legal experts sayThe Verge
- Meta turns Muse sharing back onThe Verge
- Sure, let’s smoosh SpaceX and Tesla together, who caresThe Verge
- DE STAAT - FREEDOM (Official Music Video)Simon Willison
- Build more responsive apps with the Decisions APIOpenAI
- Discord now formats Markdown previews rightThe Verge
Who's driving
I've worked in IT since 2002: network manager at Bellevue Baptist, systems engineer at ProTech Systems Group, datacenter and capacity planning at FedEx, and now pre-sales at ProTech Services Group. I run Qwen models on a Mac with MLX and LM Studio, and an NVIDIA Jetson Orin for edge projects. My wife Amanda and I have taught students at Bellevue Baptist for more than ten years.
Why dice81. Dice was my white 1988 Volkswagen Cabriolet on black tires. 81 is the year I was born. The gauges up top are a nod to its dash.