Based on the audio analysis of sound captured on an Iphone thousands of feet away.

I'm sceptical.

One instruction set computer? Most computers have one instruction set. Article is paywalled so all we get is the almost useless synopsis.

Not that there isn't some use for a cheap 25Khz microprocessor that runs on picowatts. It would just be nice to see more specifics, especially production costs for the device being commercially available.

Everybody likes a little ass. Nobody likes a smart ass.

If you make an outrageous claim like that, you could at least put up a link.

Who are these asshats that bought the company and what other companies are they contaminating?

But after 40-50 years of listening to fusion energy promises, I'm pretty cynical.

"We were just following orders"

A far better description would be an electromechanical system.

I've designed and sold embedded controllers for 25 years. The controllers have as many as ten thru-hole pin header cable connectors held in place only by solder. In roughly 45,000 boards shipped I've never seen a failure with these connectors.

Which is certainly a metric of use.

That every few years there's a new crop of mass spectrometer/gas chromatography instruments with 10-100 times the sensitivity of the previous generations of instruments. Of course, one of the very first uses of these new instruments is to find toxic materials in the parts-per-billion range and do a shock story about them. Nevermind that the levels have no know correlation with health hazards other than the toxic materials being toxic.

Nothing of value was lost...

All 3rd world countries sell most any antibiotic over the counter with no prescription.

It's also worth noting that people with suppressed immune systems also take some of the most powerful antibiotics most of their lives.

I'd argue that if the data is used for AI learning, there is no need for it to be more than a couple weeks old. I'd also argue that given the general shitification of Wikipedia, images 10 years old would be more useful than the current data. Alternately, with some programming work, the crawler could look at the Wikipedia page change log and only download pages changed since the last crawl. This would work real time or locally updating from a new image. But then what do I know. I'm just a cynical old fart used to programming in assembly language.

Why you would crawl the on-line copy of Wikipedia when you can download an image of it and crawl it locally?