Comment Copyrights? (Score 3, Interesting) 56
More Than Half of New Articles On the Internet Are Being Written By AI
And the copyrights for them go to
Comment Re:Could it be? (Score 1) 15
First post aside, isn't this just static electricity?
Won't really know for sure until someone shuffles across Mars in socks and touches the rover.
Comment 3 billion people, really? (Score 1) 69
OpenAI Needs At Least $207 Billion By 2030 Just To Keep Losing Money
the bank expects OpenAI to reach 3 billion users by decade's end, up from roughly 800 million today
Over 1/3 of the world's population, really? Although, think of how much money OpenAI will have lost by then.
Comment American? Influencers (Score 4, Insightful) 104
Are we sure they're American? 'Cause elsewhere... Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Trolls via new X account location information.
Google: X location feature
Comment Re:USA (Score 1) 14
Well, USA secrets are screwed. You don't even need to directly tap some of the officials as they pass along what they're doing to their family members, including classified info.
Pete Hegseth is concerned enough that he's switching from Signal to SMS to leak battle info
Comment Re:AI or A1? (Score 1) 101
His cabinet doesn't know the difference between artificial intelligence and sauce for overcooked steaks https://www.usatoday.com/story...
Honestly, at this point, he probably just thinks he's giving a job to a guy name Al - "A" "L" - who lives in Manhattan. (*sigh*)
Comment Wegovy weight loss ... (Score 2) 20
Judging from the commercials, weight loss from Wegovy is probably more from all the marching around town than the drug itself.
Comment I've had 3 cell phones ... (Score 2) 164
#1 - Qualcomm QCP-1900, 1998-2015 (17y)
#2 - Kyocera HydroVIBE, 2015-2021 (6y)
#3 - Google Pixel 5a, 2021 - Present (4y, so far)
The Qualcomm was on nTelos (initially PrimeCo) and had to give it up when nTelos in my area was sold to Sprint and they didn't/wouldn't support the phone's spectrum. The Kyocera was on Ting (Sprint) and gave it up when Sprint was bought by T-Mobile and CDMA was deprecated and VoIP required, also Google Play support EOL for KitKat. The Pixel 5a is on Ting (T-Mobile) and I'll probably keep it until forced to get something newer - works great so far.
I'll note that the Kyocera - from 2015 - was IP57 certified *with* a headphone jack and removable battery (along with 32GB MicroSD and SIM) under the removable back w/gasket.
Comment Re:I'm no nuclear engineer (Score 1) 113
But the cost of building this installation sounds like it would be prohibitive
More expensive, sure, but probably way less risky than "dropping" it.
By dropping a nuclear reactor 1.6 kilometers (1 mile) underground
Comment Makes sense (Score 1) 37
As technology progresses we can better handle the dangerous waste power from Gooble Boxes currently being routed to the special disposal volcano.
Comment Re:undeniable (Score 3, Informative) 113
Renewables are undeniably a good idea. The energy is just right there.
Sure they are not without problems, and in a country the size of the UK, there's not enough to be energy independent, but even with that we should build more.
Denying it: Trump - Trump blames renewable energy for rising electricity prices. Experts point elsewhere (and other sources):
Trump called wind and solar power “THE SCAM OF THE CENTURY!” in a social media post and vowed not to approve wind or “farmer destroying Solar” projects. “The days of stupidity are over in the USA!!!” he wrote on his Truth Social site.
So short-sighted... (sigh)
Comment Convenient (Score 1) 42
Magician Forgets Password To His Own Hand After RFID Chip Implant
Now even he won't know where his hand has been.
Comment So... Can't fix the corruption? (Score 3, Insightful) 132
The situation in Tehran is the result of "a perfect storm of climate change and corruption,"
The current Iranian regime seems pretty "Off with their heads!" for the slightest infraction and they can't punish whatever corruption is at play here? Is it because it's being done by those in religious/political/financial (whatever) power rather than rabble?
Comment In (Inevitable) future news ... (Score 3, Funny) 50
Unfortunately, one of the three trustees has irretrievably lost their private key,
The IACR will switch to a two-of-three private key system to prevent this sort of thing from happening again.
Two of the three trustees have irretrievably lost their private keys
Submission + - Putin's most feared missile downed with a song (telegraph.co.uk)
fahrbot-bot writes: The Telegraph is reporting that Ukraine forces are jamming signals for Russia's ‘invincible’ Kinzhal hyper-sonic missile with a song satirizing Russian propaganda.
Night Watch, the group operating the technology, claims to have brought down 19 Kinzhal missiles – described by Putin as “invincible” – in the past two weeks.
The team told technology website 404 Media that it is using a song and a redirection order to knock the “next-generation” missiles, which carry a 480kg payload and cost around £7.7m each, out of the sky.
Kinzhals and other guided munitions rely on the GLONASS system – Russia’s GPS-style navigation network using satellites – to find their targets. Night Watch developed its own “Lima” jamming system that replaces the missiles’ satellite navigation signals with the Ukrainian song “Our Father is Bandera”.
When the song begins, the Lima system feeds the incoming missiles a false navigation signal, tricking them into believing that they are flying over Lima, in Peru, so that they attempt to change their trajectory. Traveling at a speed of more than 4,000 miles per hour, however, the missiles become destabilized by the abrupt and unexpected change of course.
Night Watch said they developed the system after discovering that the Kinzhals used a controlled reception pattern antenna (CRPA), an antiquated type of technology for resisting, jamming and spoofing. The team told 404: “They had the same type of receivers as old Soviet missiles used to have.
“The airframe cannot withstand the excessive stress and the missile naturally fails. When the Kinzhal tried to quickly change navigation, the fuselage of this missile was unable to handle the speed and, yeah, it was just cut into two parts. The biggest advantage of those missiles, speed, was used against them.”
Night Watch, the group operating the technology, claims to have brought down 19 Kinzhal missiles – described by Putin as “invincible” – in the past two weeks.
The team told technology website 404 Media that it is using a song and a redirection order to knock the “next-generation” missiles, which carry a 480kg payload and cost around £7.7m each, out of the sky.
Kinzhals and other guided munitions rely on the GLONASS system – Russia’s GPS-style navigation network using satellites – to find their targets. Night Watch developed its own “Lima” jamming system that replaces the missiles’ satellite navigation signals with the Ukrainian song “Our Father is Bandera”.
When the song begins, the Lima system feeds the incoming missiles a false navigation signal, tricking them into believing that they are flying over Lima, in Peru, so that they attempt to change their trajectory. Traveling at a speed of more than 4,000 miles per hour, however, the missiles become destabilized by the abrupt and unexpected change of course.
Night Watch said they developed the system after discovering that the Kinzhals used a controlled reception pattern antenna (CRPA), an antiquated type of technology for resisting, jamming and spoofing. The team told 404: “They had the same type of receivers as old Soviet missiles used to have.
“The airframe cannot withstand the excessive stress and the missile naturally fails. When the Kinzhal tried to quickly change navigation, the fuselage of this missile was unable to handle the speed and, yeah, it was just cut into two parts. The biggest advantage of those missiles, speed, was used against them.”
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