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This is happening on the mobile version of Edge where users are being offered a referral scheme. If you can get a friend to switch to Edge via a referral link, you'll receive 500 Microsoft Rewards points (with the ability to accumulate up to 7,500 points per month if you're feeling ambitious).

You can redeem a $5 gift card for Microsoft for 5,500 points, or a $5 gift card for Amazon for 6,500 points.

So basically they're giving you $0.39 - $0.45 per referral with a maximum of $5.77 - $6.81 per month.

The article never mentioned LLMs. LLMs only make up a small part of all AI tools. The AI in this sense is referring to machine learning models used to help digitally unroll the scroll and then another machine learning model that's used to detect the letters.

Looks like an interesting article, but this feels more like "News" material, rather than "Technology" material.

As far as where theyve chosen to post instead (from the article):

Starting July 6, City of Waterloo announcements will be communicated on municipal websites and other social media already used by city hall such as Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube and Vimeo.

City hall will maintain an X account but only to direct people elsewhere, Abbott said.

[...]

The city does not plan at this time to communicate on alternate platforms that have been established as alternatives to X.

AI is the larger umbrella term. LLMs, Machine Learning, CNNs, DNNs, RNNs, etc. all fall under that umbrella "AI" term.

For those wondering what was exposed:

The Model Capability Initiative, which was implemented in April and strongly opposed by staff, has been paused following an incident in which employee data became accessible to the entire company.

[...]

Citing an internal security notice and information from three Meta employees, Wired reported that private conversations, prompts, transcriptions and performance reviews were exposed to "anyone inside the company."

Thanks! I didn't realize we could change that.

What kind of apps were you using that didn't work very well?

Congrats! However, it's worth pointing out that gas prices affect the cost of pretty much everything in the end; transportation/logistics, electricity, etc.

Quick recap of what's been happening recently:

• The Ryzen 7 5800X3D is one of the best performing chips for gaming on AM4 motherboards that also supports DDR4. Demand has been high for this CPU even after it ran out of stock and even used units are sold far above MSRP.
• Micron announced that they would stop providing RAM to consumers due to increasing demand for datacenters.
• RAM prices skyrocket (especially DDR5)
• Consumers turn to older DDR4 RAM since prices haven't gone up as much as DDR5
• Demand for older Ryzen AM4 chips increases even more.

A little more context as to when the engineer declined to continue the discussion:

Kilpatrick then brought up something especially awkward. He reminded Lendacky of a comment that the engineer had made back in 2020, confirming that a Ryzen 3700X, a consumer CPU, “should support TSME.” In a later 2025 comment in the same discussion, Lendacky again recommended using TSME, while noting that the motherboard BIOS provider had to expose the option. So there it was, AMD's own engineer, years earlier, acknowledging the feature working on exactly the kind of lower-end chip now stripped of it, proving that Ryzen support was not some fantasy users invented.

After some more back-and-forth, Kilpatrick asked bluntly whether the flag being set to FALSE on consumer chips was a silicon-level limitation or a firmware policy decision — since one is permanent and the other is potentially reversible. Limonciello’s reply effectively closed the chapter. “My apologies, but I don’t have any more information to share on this topic,” he wrote.

To be fair to AMD, there is no clear indication that the company ever publicly advertised TSME as a consumer Ryzen feature. AMD has long said that a related memory protection, Secure Memory Encryption (SME), is available only in the Pro and EPYC CPU tiers. SME is OS-managed, using a single key and allowing the OS to selectively encrypt individual memory pages. TSME, by contrast, is firmware-managed, encrypting all RAM with no OS involvement.

Sounds to me like he had originally wanted to have it enabled for consumer CPUs, but some decision was later made to make this a feature only for higher end chips, even if lower end chips could technically support it. I can't really blame the engineer for wanting to stop the discussion at this point. He's most likely not the one making these decisions and the questions would be best asked to someone higher up.