Submission + - Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out (404media.co)

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alternative_right writes: According to the audit from privacy search engine webXray, 55 percent of the sites it checked set ad cookies in a userâ(TM)s browser even if they opted out of tracking. Each company disputed or took issue with the research, with Google saying it was based on a âoefundamental misunderstandingâ of how its product works.
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Speaking of UFOs and why the USG is suppressing reports...

We tend to assume that everyone else is as reasonable as we are.

Quit doing that shit.

We have a century of UFO reports, no clear photos we can authenticate, and no artifacts.

We do however know that Roswell was designed to protect the TR-1 and similar projects.

Submission + - AI chatbots misdiagnose in over 80% of early medical cases (archive.is)

Submitted by fjo3
fjo3 writes: Consumer AI chatbots falter when used to make medical diagnoses, particularly when faced with incomplete information, according to new research highlighting the risks of relying on them as digital doctors.

The study finds that leading large language models struggle to suggest a range of possible diagnoses when patient data is limited, frequently narrowing too quickly to a single answer.

The results point to a broader limitation in AI: while chatbots can identify likely conditions once a case is fully specified, they are less reliable at the earlier, more uncertain stages of clinical reasoning.

Submission + - UK households to be urged to use more power this summer as renewables soar (theguardian.com)

Submitted by AmiMoJo
AmiMoJo writes: Households will be called on to boost their consumption of Great Britain’s record renewable energy this summer to help balance the power grid and lower energy bills.

Under the new plans, people could be encouraged to run dishwashers and washing machines or charge up their electric vehicles when there is more wind and solar power than the electricity grid needs.

The plan will be delivered with the help of energy suppliers, which may choose to offer heavily discounted or free electricity to their customers during specific periods when the energy system operator predicts there will be a surplus of electricity.

Many suppliers already offer more than 2m households the opportunity to pay lower rates for electricity used during off-peak hours but this will be the first time that the system operator will use this tool to help balance the grid.

The National Energy System Operator (Neso) hopes that by issuing a market notice to call on energy users to increase their consumption it can avoid making hefty payments to turn wind and solar farms off when demand for electricity is low, which are ultimately paid for through energy bills.

Submission + - Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energy (the-independent.com) 1

Submitted by AmiMoJo
AmiMoJo writes: Seven countries now generate nearly all of their electricity from renewable energy sources, according to newly compiled figures.

Albania, Bhutan, Nepal, Paraguay, Iceland, Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo produced more than 99.7 per cent of the electricity they consumed using geothermal, hydro, solar or wind power.

Data from the International Energy Agency (IEA) and International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) also revealed that a further 40 countries generated at least 50 per cent of the electricity they consumed from renewable energy technologies in 2021 and 2022 – including 11 European countries.

“We don’t need miracle technologies,” said Stanford University Professor Mark Jacobson, who published the data.

“We need to stop emissions by electrifying everything and providing the electricity with Wind, Water and Solar (WWS), which includes onshore wind, solar photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, geothermal electricity, small hydroelectricity, and large hydroelectricity.”

Professor Jacobson also noted that other countries like Germany were also capable of running off 100 per cent renewable-generated electricity for short periods of time.

Figures released by the IEA in January show that the UK generated 41.5 per cent of its electricity from renewable sources in 2022 – up 10.5 per cent from the year before.

In Scotland, renewable energy technologies generated the equivalent of 113 per cent of the country’s overall electricity consumption in 2022.

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