The Chinese AI companies have been starved of resources in a way the western companies haven't and so they have in a lot of cases produced models that are more efficient and better designed instead of brute forcing their way bigger model to make them better. Companies like Deepseek have a model that is pretty close to the western models but its about 1/100th the price to run. Z.AI with its GLM model has quite a small model which is also very efficient to run and is also competing in the top models. Qwen is not there yet but its next AI will also use the same techniques to reduce running costs. These companies already drastically undercut the American companies and they provide their weights open so that other hosts can run it and in some cases they can be run at home. Their cloud services are much cheaper than Anthropic and OpenAI anyway. The price wars have begun.

We have been trying to use Bacteriophages for treatment of bacterial infections for about 50 years. The Russians have gotten the closest they have a giant bank of phages available and a variety of mixed phage products. The issue is phages are highly particular about the bacteria they attack there are thousands of different ones for just Staph Aureus for example and getting the right one involves culturing the bacteria and then seeing if the phages help. The problem is patients with such infections don't have the many days this process takes. Antibiotics that destroy a lot of different bacteria have been used in preference because its something you can take right away. With chronic issues however phages are used, but mostly just in Russian medicine, they are the only people to have access to a big bank of the biologics are a reasonable safe process for making and testing them. If we can identify which phage will help or even better print one on an RNA/DNA printer then we might be able to use these to treat serious concerning conditions like sepsis with them. This has real potential as an approach, phages have been very interesting for a long time and there is little concern about biological impact here because every bacteria has phages in nature already and they inert in animal cells they only go after the bacteria they are designed to deal with. Being able to create them as needed will eliminate the need for big banks of storage of phages and identifying the right one solves the speed of treatment. This could unlock a new way of dealing with problematic infections that only destroy the bacteria that are a problem leaving your various microbiomes alone. Most western people have lost some key bacteria in their gut due to the use of antibiotics so we definitely need something better than the generic antibiotics we have today.

We blew past 1.5C with barely a noise from the press and governments and we will blow past 2C in the early 2030s. 1.8C is not going to be met, that is absurd at this point. We are increasing the amount of CO2 we release every year, we are accelerating the problem faster than ever before. 3C is going to happen well before 2050.

The problem is there isn't any difference between a phone you cleared before you travelled or just before landing compared to one that is cleared with a duress pin. They can't prove a duress pin was used only that the phone is now indeed empty and there is no reasonable law requiring people to have their entire lives documented in their phone. Given the state of the USA right now I would fly with an empty phone too, not that I fly to countries run by dangerous dictators.

I feel like one of the things that changed with social sites is many of us have found our crowd and we "socialise" online. What used to happen was we socialised in person with people near us but they weren't necessarily the right group they were the available people. Plenty of what people do on social networks isn't social but I think research needs to understand better what is happening here as its a change in how people socialise, if anything people are putting more time into it as we can see with how many hours they spend on social media.

Its severely weakened already and there is a cold spot that has been growing that scientists fear might be the death of it. We might not even be decades away from AMOC collapse, its very possible its years.

Its a pretty dystopian framing that its enabled him to work instead of being able to speak to his family and friends and do more with their time. Work isn't the purpose of life but its a marker of the times that this is how this is framed.

I have seen the same thing with every tool that scans code for security problems. Inevitably it raises a potential issue but in practice it can't be exploited because there are barriers at the edges where user input comes into the system that stop the exploit, which is the entire point of parsing all user input and limiting what it can do. These reports aren't coming with an active exploit of the system, they are theoretical problem and are leaving all the work to the project to figure out if its real or not. Its potential CVE slop.

First they came for the new accounts but I did not speak up because mine is an old account. Then they came from the edgy accounts but mine was not an edgy account. Then they came for the frequent posters but again I did not speak out because I posted just the right amount. Now they have asked me to prove I am human and provide government issued ID and there is not one left to speak for me.

Linux already won on the server and Unix with Mac OS X is already taking chunks out of the Windows world in laptops its not a stretch to see that now gaming is approaching parity that gamers will be switching to Linux. I don't know if we are going to end up with Linux as the primary desktop operating system for gamers and then most users but if we do its going to harm more than just Microsoft, a lot of proprietry software is going to fall. Its all a bit too late when the market is already shifting.

The USA is no longer a safe country, for Europeans it is viewed much like a trip to Iran or North Korea or Russia would be. Its a place where we could be illegal detained and held without having done anything wrong. Its just not worth it.

$122 is getting kind of high when a home Solar system is delivering the same MWh for $50. Solar takes up more space but it's also a lot cheaper per MWh now.

Indeed NAT and the need for port forwarding is a big part of the problem that has made the cloud so much easier to use. The default for any firewall is still going to be to block even on IPv6 but a lot of people would just deploy PnP anyway and then things would just work. What we really need for the IoT that moves about, like phones, is our own address ranges that can be dynamically routed so that we can move and traffic still finds us but our IP is always the same, whether joining from the mobile network, the cafe wifi or home wifi. IPv7 is going to be required for that one.

Its not really any different for the IPv6 device, it gets its own IP out but any attempts to communicate it will by default be blocked by the firewall just the same. The big difference is you can have multiple devices behind the firewall all exposed on the same port and there is no translation. IPv6 isn't perfect but it is just a better solution than NAT. NAT has delayed the need for migration of IPv4 but with CGNAT being deployed increasingly and it being a bit of a problem for a lot of people IPv6 is going to become more and more necessary as time goes on and more devices join the internet.

The number of people behind all this is relatively small, if we could simply ban the influence of a few thousand people all this fake far right "news" would disappear. This is a coordinated attack on democracy and the weaknesses in social and traditional media has allowed a few elites to start to wrestle control for their own enrichment.