Yes well Harrogate Town Council was never really impressive when I was growing up there and North Yorkshire Country Council was no different so this does not surprise me at all. In Harrogate though there were a lot of street names with apostrophes in the neighbourhood I grew up in, all named after saints: St Helen's Road, St Leonards's Road, St Winifred's etc. probably due to the nearby convent although I always thought the touwn council was responsible for street signs, not the country council.

If their computer security is this poor though XKCD has a great exploit for anyone looking to name their kids - and the country council is generally responsible for the schools (or at least used to be).

What helps even more are strict drunk driving laws and advertising that makes drunk driving both socially unacceptable and removes licenses/impounds cars. In fact in the UK you can permanently lose your license and have to requalify again after the exclusion period which is no joke with the UK's driving test. As a result the UK has about half the alcohol accident rate (16%) of the US and Canada (31%) and Germany's rate (9%) is almost half that of the UK's.

As long as the US and Canada treat drunk driving as a minor offence unless someone is actually hurt/killed people will keep on drunk driving until that happens so the law does little to nothing to prevent it.

My point is that it is not a news story, it's an opinion piece. News stories generally inform the reader of the news in as neutral and balanced way as possible. This was a badly written opinion piece. Going to the sources is the job of the journalist. The fact that even you are suggesting that this is needed means that clearly the so-called journalist did not do their job.

The promise to only have nuclear weapons controlled by humans is worthless even if given in writing if those humans are going to end up being controlled by AI. We already have algorithms controlling a lot of what people see and hear online and if that trend continues AI will control a lot of \people's view of the world giving it, if not actual control, then at least incredible influence over humans....and good luck if you think we are going to be able to stop that from happening given the economic interests of huge companies like Meta, Google etc.

Well I doubt whoever passed the law regard it that way so just because you might be unable to see another way to describe it does not mean that others can't. That's the great thing about talking to people you may strongly disagree with: you learn how others see things and have someone challenge your own thinking, helping to make your own opinions far more informed.

Good journalism requires that the jouirnalist report on the facts in an unbiased manner as possible. What would have been far more helpful here is a factual description of what Utah's bathroom bill actually says for all of us who do not follow the laws that Utah passes and so have never heard of it. That way I can form my own opinion instead of just hearing what the author's opinion is about something I have no knowledge of. Indeed, even if you insist on sharing your opinion you at least need to inform the reader what the opinion is about!

Batteries are typically rated in units of energy i.e. joules or more typically MWh. While they do have a maximum power drain (and charge) raiting that's generally not a helpful number to quote since there is a huge difference in a battery that provides 500MW for 1s vs. 1 day whereas a 500MWh battery can easily be configured for multiple different power draws.

So either you mean 500MWh or else the company you quote are releasing meaningless numbers either because they do not know any better (and this is high school level physics) or are deliberately trying to mislead and neither option suggests anyone should have any confidence in the number.

It does if you are in somewhere like Canada but it actually says something slightly, but importantly, different if you are in the US. Instead of stating it as a right, the US constitution only prevents the US congress from passing a law that abridges freedom of speech. The key difference is that this only binds the US government from resgtricting it whereas an actual right binds everyone, including companies, from restricting it.

In today's world where companies have considerable power this is becoming an incresingly important difference.

That's nothing, we had Exabyte tapes back in the 1990s.

The summary only mentions vulnerability to physical access so disconnecting it is not enough - did you wipe any account information as well? Generally it is much harder to protect something when you have physical access to it and I suspect most Android devices would fail under those conditions. However, by the time someone else has physical access to your TV they are in your home and have access to a lot of sensitive information.

The logical conclusion of this arms race is that eventually they are going to make things so hard that no human will be able to get in without an AI algorithm at which point the only people accessing the site will be the scammers.

...if the allgenations are true the Chinese government might disagree.

Market share is based on the number of active phones in circulation which is effectively the number of activations over several years. The new activations data above is a snapshot of the market share over a just one year. Even if Apple sold zero iPhones last year it would still maintain a reasonable market share because most people do not replace their phone every year.

What about an Early Access game that promises several features you really want and then abondons those promises and just releases as-is? It's easy to see how the new rules can be abused by game devs just like the old rules could clearly be abused by players.

Perhaps with early access games half the purchase cost should be held by Steam and when the game is finally released purchasers can choose whether to get a half-refund and lose access to the game or keep the game and release the held money to the devs. That way it discourages abuse by either devs or users and also provides a lot of encouragement for game devs to actually complete games as promised.

Really? Why? There is no uncertainty given on the measurement and they only quote it to one significant figure which implies that the uncertainty is at least 0.1 making that 0.3 gap less than 3 sigma from zero. Scientifically speaking that's not clear evidence of anything and signficances less than 3 standard deviations disappear all the time due to missing systematic effects or sometimes are even just statistical fluctuations.

It is critical to know the inner reasoning in order to determine whether something understands. A parrot can speak but I do not think anyone believes that it understands what it is saying.

If you understand the concepts behind the words rather than the pattern the words make then you can use logical reasoning to determine new information. An AI trained on word patterns cannot do this and so, faced with a new situation has no clue how to respond and is far more likely to get things wrong. This is why ChatGPT performs so poorly on even simple, first-year university physics questions when asked to explain observations or results...and this is with situations that are known and have happened before. Being able to take concepts and using them to logically extrapolate what will happen in different situations is a key hallmark of intelligence and that is something that current AI simply cannot do.