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Submission + - Elon Musk's Grok Goes Haywire, Boasts About Billionaire's Pee-Drinking Skills (mediaite.com)

Submitted by fjo3
fjo3 writes: After the AI assistant praised Musk’s physique and claimed he ranked “among the top 10 minds in history, rivaling polymaths like da Vinci or Newton,” social media users quickly discovered that Grok was programmed to say positive things about Musk, no matter the topic.

But according to 404 Media, in a series of deleted X posts, Grok boasted that Musk had the “potential to drink piss better than any human in history,” that he was “the ultimate throat goat” whose “blowjob prowess edges out Trump’s,” and that he should have won a 2016 porn industry award instead of porn star Riley Reid.

Submission + - An ancient planet smashed into Earth. We now know its origin (dw.com)

Submitted by alternative_right
alternative_right writes: Space scientists are largely agreed that about 4.5 billion years ago, Earth, then a hot ball of molten iron and other elements, was hit by another Mars-sized protoplanet. This hypothetical world is called Theia, named for a titaness of Greek mythology.

Theia was completely destroyed by this impact, but likely lives on beneath our feet, as fragments from this doomed world fused with the early Earth.

Comment Re:Sigh... fine. (Score 1) 307

"This isn't who we are!" Sorry, that rings hollow now. It is, in fact, who you are.

And you would be wrong. It is a few very wealthy people manipulating the masses. It is who THEY are, not who WE are; although to be fair, we are finding out more and more who we are... and a surprisingly large number of folks are full of hate and selfishness. Regardless, the government does NOT represent the typical person.

Comment Re:Citation required (Score 1) 307

The conspiracy theorist in me thinks there is a faction that wants to intentionally erode the public's trust in government services. To dismantle a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. And replace it with a very different sort of government; one that eschews pluralism, reserves individual liberty to those with power(money), and establishes a rigid hierarchy with a unitary executive at the top.

Um, why does only the conspiracy theorist in you think that, when Project 2025 actually explains what you are seeing? It doesn't take a theory to understand what is going on, it merely takes reading comprehension. No shadowy conspiracy, it is written down for you to read. The project is working wonderfully, thank you for asking.

Comment Re:I know Trump voters will avoid this thread (Score 1) 307

Meanwhile I have the entire Republican party telling me that fucking 15-year-old girls doesn't make you a pedophile. What a fucking world we're in.

Technically, that statement is true. Words have precise meanings and when we distort them for our own purposes, insanity rules. You can be a rapist without ever once having sex with a person. Is the word rape poorly defined or are we trying to cover other acts adjacent to rape with the same umbrella as the term rape? It is all intellectual dishonesty and people like you feel justified in the performance.

Trump is a sick man who used defenseless young women under the age of majority. Isn't that bad enough without distorting the truth? Or are you afraid of what you might find when you look at the truth?

Comment Re:In my experience (Score 1) 63

by strikethree (#65809611) Attached to: As Windows Turns 40, Microsoft Faces an AI Backlash

The AI is not to solve your problems; rather, it is to solve Microsoft's problem of not having enough control over your wallet. Make no mistake, if you saved your credit card info in your web browser, the AI agent they will install will be able to use that and will purchase 'needed' 'services' for you without your input.

(weird, CAPTCHA is nexact, but it supposed to be inexact... is AI doing this?)

Submission + - CERN can now produce antihydrogen atoms eight times faster than before (home.cern)

Submitted by fahrbot-bot
fahrbot-bot writes: CERN is reporting that a new cooling technique means that the ALPHA experiment at their Antimatter Factory can produce antihydrogen atoms, the simplest form of atomic antimatter, eight times faster than before – over 15,000 antihydrogen atoms in a matter of hours.

Producing and trapping antihydrogen is an extremely complicated process. Previous methods took 24 hours to trap just 2,000 atoms, limiting the scope of experiments at ALPHA. The Swansea-led team has changed that.

Using laser-cooled beryllium ions, the team has demonstrated that it is possible to cool positrons to less than 10 Kelvin (below –263C), significantly colder than the previous threshold of about 15 Kelvin. These cooler positrons dramatically boost the efficiency of antihydrogen production and trapping—allowing a record 15,000 atoms to be trapped in less than seven hours.

Alternate article in Phys.org.

Submission + - OnlyFans Institutes Criminal Background Checks for US Creators (xbiz.com)

Submitted by alternative_right
alternative_right writes: OnlyFans will screen creators in the United States for criminal convictions, CEO Keily Blair has announced in a post on LinkedIn.

“I am very proud to add our partnership with Checkr Trust to our onboarding process in the US,” Blair writes. “Checkr, Inc. helps OnlyFans to prevent people who have a criminal conviction that may impact our community's safety from signing up as a Creator on OnlyFans.”

Checkr is a screening service that bills itself as delivering “instant criminal and public record checks covering 99% of the U.S. population.” The company lists Uber, Instacart, DoorDash and Netflix among its clients.

Submission + - Moss spores survive 9 months outside International Space Station (phys.org)

Submitted by alternative_right
alternative_right writes: To find out, Fujita's team subjected Physcomitrium patens, a well-studied moss commonly known as spreading earthmoss, to a simulated a space environment, including high levels of UV radiation, extreme high and low temperatures, and vacuum conditions.

They tested three different structures from the moss—protenemata, or juvenile moss; brood cells, or specialized stem cells that emerge under stress conditions; and sporophytes, or encapsulated spores—to find out which had the best chance of surviving in space.

The researchers found that UV radiation was the toughest element to survive, and the sporophytes were by far the most resilient of the three moss parts. None of the juvenile moss survived high UV levels or extreme temperatures. The brood cells had a higher rate of survival, but the encased spores exhibited ~1,000x more tolerance to UV radiation. The spores were also able to survive and germinate after being exposed to 196C for over a week, as well as after living in 55C heat for a month.

Comment Re:Electric engines are golden... (Score 1) 126

by strikethree (#65803353) Attached to: EV Sales Are Still Rising. They Have Not Slumped

Did you even look at your link? Here is a quote from your "source": Wales â" 75% of households have â" or could have â" off-street parking and EV charging

Or could have... interesting.

Maybe don't rely on watching rando YT videos of police chases of teens on e-bikes

I said EUCs and e-scooters. They are real people going real places. The videos are not AI, so I can see with my own eyes what it looks like there. I have spent less than 24 hours in the UK, but what I saw with my own eyes also covers what I saw through the camera lens. The cop chases and such are random videos, but are also "real", not AI.

We can focus on the fact that lots of people won't be able to benefit from home charging off-street, or we can focus on the fact that substantially more people *will*.

"Will"? Really? I am from the USA, promises are utterly fucking worthless and to be derided as the lies they are. Let me know when there is sufficient infrastructure and we can talk again.

Submission + - NASA Is Tracking a Vast Anomaly Growing in Earth's Magnetic Field (sciencealert.com)

Submitted by alternative_right
alternative_right writes: For years, NASA has monitored a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the skies, stretching out between South America and southwest Africa.

This vast, developing phenomenon, called the South Atlantic Anomaly, has intrigued and concerned scientists for decades, and perhaps none more so than NASA researchers.

The space agency's satellites and spacecraft are particularly vulnerable to the weakened magnetic field within the anomaly, and the resulting exposure to charged particles from the Sun.

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