He should have pivoted to "Ha! This obvious AI-generated paper fooled so many researchers! THAT was my actual research into fake AI-generated papers!".

We see these ideas that are obviously nonsense all the time. This one has been picked apart by multiple people with industry experience already.

What these things are is essentially the venture capital version of the scam mails you get in your mailbox every day. If you make it big enough and insane enough, someone with more money than brains will think he spotted an opportunity that everyone else missed and will invest.

Why is it, you think, that 99% of these things vanish without a trace after an initial storm of publicity?

It would have been quite spectacular to watch the collision.

JPEGXL really does everything webp does and so much more, and it's well thought out.

WebP isn't terrible; they are smaller than I would have guessed given that they have the container overhead, but there's no stunning argument for it. "Better than PNG for what we used PNG for." OK, true, but.

Google should just let AV1 be AV1 and focus on pushing HEVC out of the market with it. The real opponents of progress have left the image space and are mucking around with video and VR now. Google has the capability to do something about this and foster innovation.

When they discover that their files can't be recovered when there's a problem with their account then they'll learn what bitlocker is.

Where's the OneDrive functionality? I installed Zorin OS and have yet to find OneDrive as an app or a plugin of the Files app.

in anticipation of fees to be earned from class action lawsuits. Win or lose these parasites will come out on top.

Because Microsoft will just allow Windows access from a thin client to an Azure (or what it will be called then) server that provides your personal Windows instance that you'll pay $563/month for in currency of today, miss one payment and you'll lose all your data.

That's more a Broadcom issue than a Linux issue.

On my case it's older Logitech equipment that's quirky.

Then it's 2026... it's always next year.

Zorin has been featured here on Slashdot a few times before, and this initiated my interest.

The strong UI resemblance to Windows would make the change smooth for people used to Windows, and this is important since I plan to transit my 80+ year old parents to Linux by using Zorin from them having been on Windows 7 so far.

> The failure of successive COPs to agree to get rid of fossil fuels means that this is going to become necessary

Nobody believes this anymore.

Global temperatures are cyclical and the current trend is very close to the normal periodic cycle. All the "models" have failed. Sure, 95% of "Climate Scientists" believe their funding should continue but the jig is up.

If they actually attempt to blot out the sun there is no limit to what normal thinking people will do to stop them.

Fortunately they are very unlikely to get any real support for this harebrained scheme.

The Grand Canal of China is 1776 km. California Aqueduct is 640 km. Los Angeles Aqueduct is 375 km. Rasht known as the "City of Rain" (Shahr-e BÄrÄn) is about 300 km from Tehran. Start digging the aqueduct!

Dark Energy is to explain an observed effect, so it might be that our perspective is insufficient.