Maybe I haven't seen it, but there's something not being considered...just how fantastically long it would take to do all this. Getting the thing looping back to Earth? How about just catching up to the darned thing first. Remember it's got a 48-year head start and it's about 13.3 billion (with a 'b') miles from here and continuing to move away from the sun.

Nothing says “innovation” like buying a useful, growing product at a distressed valuation, firing the people who built it, hiking subscription prices, crippling the free tier, and calling the resulting rent-extraction machine now “sustainable.”

Bending Spoons claims they're rescuing businesses, but what they really do is fuck anyone who bought into a platform they've purchased.

It’s applying the private-equity model to existing infrastructure: user lock-in, cut labor, reduce service, and monetize the inconvenience of leaving... but they cut out all of the innovation aspect by not even providing the value associated with the initial lock-in. They just skip the first step and buy companies to screw.

" As the article correctly notes, much of the data that AI companies can scrape from the internet today is likely to include AI generated text, which could result in "model collapse," a process by which AI models that are trained on AI generated data results in worse models that are more prone to errors."

Sounds like AI is subject to the same issues as biological in-breeding.

I use it anywhere I can tap to pay, even if the Apple Pay logo is explicitly shown...I can only think of a very rare time when it didn't work.

I'd also be OK with upgrades via USB. Let me download the update from the manufacturer's website and install (or not) at my leisure.

A shitty harbor may run a Taco Bell better than some people.

And they are starting to lose confidence. They only work for Vizzini to pay the bills, not a lot of money or revenge.

As far as I can figure, it's because at best we have a mishmash of electronic means that don't talk to each other. I wish we had a universal method but we don't because we are overall a stubborn society that sometimes needs to be dragged kicking and screaming into the present. Which is somewhat ironic, the country that (at least used to) lead the world in technology innovation can't be bothered to keep up with the rest of the world unless there is a profit to be made.

But "Murica! Yeah haw!"

Ok he managed to lie and bluff his way up, but at some point he had to have gone through an FBI background check for a security clearance, right??!

Yeah you might get something past Eunice in HR, but a security clearance background investigation??

i would generally agree that recomputing a contract is generally good, IF the competing entities have the experience and expertise in executing the terms of the contract. I think the thought process here is that the contract will be steered towards one of Trump's political allies that has no experience or business running JPL.

I was about to make a comment that you had to prove you are a US citizen to get a RealID, but then found that it is for identity only, not citizenship.

https://factually.co/fact-chec...

"The REAL ID regime sets federal minimum standards for state-issued driver’s licenses and ID cards and requires applicants to present documentary proof of identity and lawful status, but the card itself does not definitively prove U.S. citizenship because compliant REAL IDs may be issued to noncitizens with lawful presence [1] [2] [3]. Practical proof of U.S. citizenship remains specific documents — U.S. passport, Certificate of Naturalization or Citizenship, or state-issued enhanced driver’s licenses in some states — and those documents, not the REAL ID star, are what federal and administrative processes treat as evidence of citizenship [1] [4] [5]."

Let's call them "Gooboo"

This will get kicked down the road again, just like RealID (so important to airline security after all) was kicked down the road 20+ years.

Only idiots would think that the biggest troll on the world stage wouldn't use a Nazi salute.

Hold on, did a journalist make Musk do a seig heil?

A news reporter took over Musk's twitter and called a rescue worker a pedo?

It was totally CNN that forced Musk to mockingly run around with a chainsaw as he was cutting off the livelihoods of countless people!