I read last night that some airlines had already finished their software updates yesterday and are flying today as normal.
This will be over soon, but of course it is not fun for those who had their flights right in the middle of it.

Meanwhile Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being "AI free". (non-paywalled link)

(BTW. "Sweeney" sounds like the Swedish word "Svinig", which means: disgusting, pig-like, often used to refer to someone's behaviour rather than their appearance.)

There are however some carbon dioxide-producing industrial processes which are difficult or impossible to replace with carbon-neutral alternatives.
For those specifically, you could install a carbon capture device in the flue.

And then you have to store that somewhere, only for it to seep out slowly. But it will seep out.

Installing carbon capture devices in oil, coal and gas-burning power plants is contemptible and ineffective, and will only prolong the problem.
And ... anyone who tends the proposition that you could capture carbon from thin air should be locked up in an insane-asylum.

How about: trying to get your money when you are the seller, nobody did anything wrong and nobody complained. I have heard plenty of stories throughout the years of artisans selling sculpts, casts and machined items to tens of other hobbyists and getting their accounts suddenly locked because they had too many sales in too short time.

In the country I live, they enabled a mandatory 2FA system without testing that it worked. It had interpreted the country code in my phone number as an area code, so I could not log in.
And you could not contact support unless you were logged in.
There was a phone line, but nobody was there to man it for over a year. When eventually I got through to someone, it was a new hire: a young girl who had only ever used cell phones and did not know what an area code was, so I had to explain it to her.

Also: Bitcoin.

Every time any action of mine has led to Google doing any AI "computation" has been unintentional. I never asked for it. Google just chose to bundle it with my search.

I usually use an address bar keyword that uses an URL with &udm=14 to avoid this, but sometimes I slip up.
And I've also noticed that Google have added an AI summary to image search has well... I never asked for a textual description of an image, that contains factual errors or pure guesses half of the time: I have my own eyes, and I'm not blind. And I can make uneducated guesses myself.

The catastrophe begins already at 2.0 degrees C.

That's when our food supply is going to start break down.

In my view, religion has often been used as a convenient excuse for committing atrocities when it has served the perpetrator's purposes. But those purposes have not stemmed from religious core itself.

For example, the crusaders raped and plundered their way to Jerusalem, paying little heed to which religion their affected had, including the sacking of Constantinople (which was Christian) in 1204.

North American slavers found entitlement to own slaves from some Bible text wherein some important figure had had a servant with dark curly hair.

It will hurt to pop the bubble, but it will hurt more the longer we wait.

Remember: Microsoft always lies. Microsoft does not even speak the same English as regular people.

Driving is a social activity.

You stop for someone who wants to cross the road. You don't just follow traffic laws and keep traffic flowing.

This requires a small amount of direct communication. Eye contact. Hand gestures.

As a bicyclist and pedestrian, I have often had to wave cars along when they've stopped for me. I can't do that to a self-driving car.

You also have to assess potentially dangerous situations, that are out of the ordinary.
AI is notoriously bad at being useful at handling situations they have not been trained on.

Ferrari is working with Italian fintech Conio

The name checks out ...

Last time these rumours went around in June, it was said that the SoC would have been an A18 Pro. It supports 8 GB RAM and 512 GB storage.

But we'll see.

No. We are in the middle of a warm period of the current cycle.
Anthropomorphic global warming is only making things worse.

It is not normal for ice caps to completely melt.
Ice-age cycles last around 100 000 years, and this has been seen in ice core samples from glaciers that are multiples of 100'000 years old.

Santa Claus is a blend of the legend of Saint Nicholaus -- a bishop, and Father Christmas -- from English folklore.

Each has been depicted in many garbs and colours throughout the centuries, including red, before the traditions blended together.
In the Dutch Sinterklaas tradition, he is definitely a bishop wearing red with gold trim, with a red bishop's mitra and staff.
When people have dressed up in the English tradition specifically, they have often chosen other colours, such as green, to as not be mistaken for Saint Nicholaus or the more modern Santa Claus.

So, no, Coca Cola did not make Santa Claus red. But their image of Santa Claus has been the most influential.

This was yet another of a myriad cases where police had trusted the image-recognition software without any manual review of the footage.

This can't go on. Would legislation have to be necessary for preventing it from happening again?

Even if this was actually useful and did not mess up people's code, this comes from a company that has no credibility for not doing so.

And BTW, there is already an AI project named Aardvark, used for predicting the weather.
You'd think they could have done a simple google search before announcing it...