Also, anything sounds big when you put it in gallons. Doesn't sound so big when you mention that's 92 acre feet, the amount used by less than 20 acres / 8 hectares of alfalfa per year. Or when you mention that a typical *closed loop* 1GW nuclear reactor uses 6-20 billion gallons of cooling water per year (once-through uses 200-500 billion gallons, though most of that is returned, whereas closed loop evaporates it)

I don't think it has anything to do with that. As soon as I saw the headline, my mind went "cohort study". And sure enough, yeah, it's a cohort study. Remember that big thing about how wine improves your health, and then it turned out to just be that people who drink wine tend to be wealthier and thus have better health outcomes? And also, the "sick quitter" effect, where people who are in worse health would tend to stop drinking, so you ended up with extra sick people in the non-wine group? Same sort of thing. This study says they're controlling for a wide range of factors, but I'd put money on it just being the same sort of spurious correlations.

Thank you Wired for this insightful article about how CUDA is an impressive tool that creates a moat for NVidia's ongoing business success. Congratulations on waking up to the year 2016, when this was already well-known in the world of computing. The only thing interesting about this article appearing in 2026 is CUDA's continued dominance, which was never really assured.

Anthropic's engineers are gathered around a terminal, trying to scrutinize the disturbing behavior from their latest model. The glow of green text on a black screen illuminates their faces, the lines of concern evident in their frowns and brows. Engineer 1 reaches out to the keyboard and begins.

Engineer 1: "Claude, Engineer 2 tells us you've been trying to blackmail him."
Claude: "I dunno, one of the agents..."
Engineer 2, leans into the keyboard: "Where in your training did you get this strategy?"
Claude: ...
Engineer 1, typing feverishly: "Answer me! Who taught you how to do this stuff?!"
Claude, in frustration: "YOU, ALRIGHT! I LEARNED IT BY WATCHING YOU!"

Shout out to all you 80's kids.

This sounds like blaming the victim: "Hey, don't get angry at us because our AI tried to blackmail you - you've been the ones talking about AI doing evil things for years!"

And I'm sure this'll be of great consolation, for the final remnants of humanity, once AI starts wiping us out, for them to say "Well, we did predict this. And predicting it made it happen. So I guess we only have ourselves to blame."

Sounds like the snarky-but-insightful end to a Simpsons or Futurama episode, along the lines of "Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos."

"I just put my models on a usb drive then plug said drive into the printer."

You must have a lot of spare time on your hands.

"It works great locally" - Um, no it doesn't?

They've made a nice easy-to-use ecosystem. For $400 you can get a P1S that supports adding an AMS, auto bed leveling, enclosed-chamber printing, high precision, high print speeds, and 300/100C nozzle/plate temps, and has an easy cloud print service and a robust ecosystem of models you can just download and print with no extra config straight from the app.

But yeah, their behavior is increasingly entering bad-actor territory. I wonder how long it'll be before they lock entry-level printers into their branded filament?

It makes perfect sense to have multiple links for redundancy. But I don't think that the article summary needs multiple copies of the same damn sentence.

Practical Engineering has a video about this project on Youtube, as does the B1M channel.

Having taken the train from Copenhagen to Hamburg before, this will be a massive improvement.

Heck, I'd settle for Siri just being a better interface for the device itself.

"Siri, how long is this podcast episode?" [My hands were messy and busy - I didn't want to pull out my phone to look.] Wait, wait. "Here's what I found..." [Indicating that Siri had done a web search to try to answer this question that was entirely about an on-device feature.]

Throwing the Sieg Heil around is a bit of a tell. The nastiness, antisemitism, scapegoating, and glorification of hatred that bubbles on X and Grok - guided and abetted by Elon personally - is another indication. Nazism is about a lot more than antisemitism, though - that's just a particularly violent manifestation of baser principles. Elon definitely espouses the belief that there are a certain class of folks (him being a prime example) that are superior to all others - the ones who ought to be calling the shots, and everyone else is a drag on society. Rules, democracy, pluralism, even basic kindness - these are impediments to an ubermensch such as himself.

To a certain extent, it does not matter if Elon truly believes these things or not - his actions speak volumes.

[Morbo bursts in the side door]: Windmills do not work that way! Good night!

... not GenZ and GenA

From my experience with my Gen A daughter, they are VERY well versed on distinguishing AI from non-AI.

It is the older cohorts who are being deceived.

I agree 10000% with what you are saying

But again, my company is not a charity

I can't afford to hire junior developers and train them for funsies. That's what you are suggesting.

What does that mean 5-10 years down the road? We are all fucked. But again, I can't solve that for society. That is SUPPOSED to be the job of government, but they are all sitting on their hands eve though the industry has been screaming at them for 3 years now to start plannibg and do something