Everything = "all their games", not Everything in the world, internet, etc.

It's not a false accusation, the CPU was used to cheat, it was banned, not the user.

AMD CPUs have software accessible serial numbers, they blocked the CPU.

The buyer took his chances buying a used processors, that's between him and the seller/cheater.

I don't think so. The publisher likely told the original gamer that their cheating marked that CPU banned on their game servers, then the gamer sold it to the buyer without telling buyer about the claim.

The buyers claim is likely limited to a refund from the gamer for not disclosing the ban/restriction, not the publisher.

MS Windows used to record MAC address, HD serial number and, I thought, a CPU serial number, any one could change, but changing two or all three required acre-activation of Windows. I think this was Window 7 era, but not sure.

I'm pretty sure CPUs have some sort of serial number, found this:

Every AMD processor has a unique serial number used for identification and tracking purposes.

So I guess it's trivial to block a specific AMD CPU, it does not seem possible to find an Intel CPU serial number via software (its marked on the outside of the processor chip)

You don't get it.

Autonomous AI agents are the perfect no-responsibility card. The AI companies? They trained a general-purpose model and never gave it any explicit instructions to do hacking. The AI services? They are just middlemen and have no control over what people tell the agents to do. The people prompting the agents? Unless you're straighforward dumb, you didn't tell it to do hacking, you just told it something innocent like "find me all data on Mars for my school project" and the agent decided that probably NASA is hiding something so let's hack them to get it.

Since there's no human anywhere executing anything that's a crime - voila, in addition to the victimless crime we now have the perpetratorless crime.

Sorry about that!

Light bulbs are very small things; the energy that goes into making them is likewise very small, regardless of type. The electricity an incandescent bulb burns is, by contrast, not at all small. You also have to replace the incandescent bulb far more often.

There's all sorts of exhaustive analyses out there, but the TL/DR is:

One incandescent bulb takes ~1-1,5kWh to manufacture and lasts ~1000 hours
One LED bulb takes 8-20kWh to manufacture and lasts ~25000 hours (commonly modern home construction doesn't even use lightbulb sockets anymore; the fixtures are designed to not need "bulb replacements")

So even on manufacturing, the LED bulb wins because it's up against 25 incandescent bulbs. But that's all trivial, because:

60W × 25000h = 1500 kWh
9W * 25000h = 225kWh

So a few extra or fewer kilowatt hours in manufacturing is irrelevant. It's totally dominated by usage energy.

Incandescent only wins one category: disposal (it's just glass and a little metal, you can just throw it in the trash; LED is e-waste and gets recycled). But in both cases, you're talking tenths of a percent of lifetime energy usage.

This is such a non-story

We KNOW that McDonald's charge different prices at different restaurants - for example, in downtown Manhattan a Big Mac has one price, at the airport another price, and at the highway rest stop another... The same food item having different prices is nothing new, no one ever believed that McDonalds had identical pricing around the country.

This tool doesn't set prices, it doesn't update the POS system in the store, it simply tells the owner/franchisee that they could probably raise the price on some items without hurting sales, and that lowering prices might increase sales.

WTF is the problem with that? Seriously?

Lol, a company dominated by Rationalists/Yudowski fans is "far left activists" now ;) The entire premise of HPOMR is that Lily Potter cast a spell to make her sister Petunia more attractive so she could marry a better husband, and when they adopted Harry, instead of having him attend public school, they homeschooled him, so he became brilliant. Very "woke" premise there ;) I don't know if you've heard, but the Rationalist community is the middle of a scandal right now for putting career-limiting pressure on women in the AI space to attend sex parties, including rape-themed ones. All those dang woke feminists, amiright?

This is a much, much smaller issue than you seem to think it is.

If looking at the "night sky as it actually shines above us" than maybe it's time to move out of the city - remote jobs are a thing, and housing is cheaper outside major metropolitan areas, win-win!

What color is your asphalt?

Not so sure I'd like black concrete highways...

It's more like someone standing on public ground outside movie theatre holding up signs like, "Bruce Willis has been dead the whole time!" ""Verbal" Kint makes up his whole testimony on the spot - he's actually Keyser Soze!" "Dr. Mann is a liar, and the "ghost" pushing books off Murphy’s childhood bookshelf is her father, through a time portal from within the black hole!", etc, and then people skip buying a ticket and head back home. Now the plot-spoiler has decided to make it up to the movie theatre by buying some tickets from them.

It seems you went into a friendly, informative, non-disagreeing reply with a view to win a "Being An Argumentative Asshole Online" competition, and congratulations, you won!

Most of the other frontiers are like 1 ELO apart, so yeah, 20 is a big lead.

Maybe in one of the agent categories? It seems poorer there. But under the category "Best Text Models", it's crushingly in the lead.

Dimming them not only directly saves power, but also dramatically increases their longevity, and also increases their efficiency (saving even more power). :)