This is great! Mythos = lots of eyeballs. Now tell us how many of each severity level were found, how many of those could be fixed automatically, and how many fixes both auto and manual then were found to introduce a vulnerability upon reanalysis. Though if there was even one critical severity bug found out of 271 that makes it worth it.

p.s. for people saying it is a good way to need rockets, okay. And I am definitely all for going to space. But you can also build megarobots that can shrug off Antarctica and be self-driven / self-walking. Personally they are both cool to me. And both would be useful for building a Moon base too.

Just wondering why not just build the data centers somewhere really cold? Antarctica has got to be easier than working in space.. at least you can get there without a rocket, and you can dig underground. I am not sure I understand the economic argument for space-based data centers as opposed to ground-based data centers. Space might have more solar flux than the poles but has anyone actually compared the costs?

This is really creepy / nauseating to me, and also creates a high value target at World. You can reset leaked passwords, but you cannot reset your retina. If you choose to believe 100% in this service and willfully ignore implementing patterns to combat social engineering this could end up worse. From what I can gather (from Gemini), deepfakes take advantage of organizational social pressure, like a CEO demanding something instantaneously, or hackers being inside your email system for a long time. Perhaps this could be short-circuited by an organization actually requiring people to always call back officials on a secure phone number, confirm with shared personal knowledge, and never respond to a demand without out of band verification. I also wonder what if Zoom just calls the participants in such high-stakes meetings, instead of allowing participants to click on a link they trust because someone emailed it to them. Then the corporate security office can just verify the Zoom server. And iPhone/Macbook already have biometric sensors too but have Secure Enclave.. yes there is a big value in being able to identify someone for sure but putting it all in a single company's hands sounds like waiting for them to be attacked.

I used to have a workstation that had a sliding cover for the camera. Maybe it was an SGI Indy? I forget. I think only some linux laptops have hardware covers / kill switches for camera and mic? I would *really* like such for MacBook Pro, how about a physical low-profile sideways cover / toggle switch that disables camera and mic together? As for biometrics, I was always against it. But then.. iPhone Face ID, so useful. And kind of necessary with the default settings though maybe we should just keep them unlocked for longer? And then the Macbook's finger print scanner button. Actually super useful. Mainly to get around system password prompts. And local keychain fine. But then I tried Google's passkey. Also quite useful though scary, it seems to use a passkey Apple hands out if your fingerprint works. The only thing is, if your fingerprint ever is allowed one day leave your machine (probably it has already) then your biometrics are in somebody's cloud, and in a year or two someone could deepfake it. That's the obvious part. Retinas? Don't get me started. I'm guessing it probably will be robust even after laser surgery.

AGC used to be called Asahi Glass and has been one of the world leaders in functionality glass for a long time and though I don’t know a ton about them have admired their innovations.They’ve been making glass antennas of one kind or another since at least 2022 according to Google. Here is a page I found that discusses this product. https://www.agc-automotive.com...

Since this is news for nerds, is there a simple way to use these European or latin American gateways SaaS / AIaaS type services? Or is everything dependent on a merchant account with the local Visa gateway or Google Pay? Not a fan of crypto stuff, just curious about the state of OSS payments and whether usable for time based or token/API based billing.

Deere has been the most famous poster child of sticking it to the consumer and locking them in for a very long time. So it is startlingly good news that anything is happening... but it sounds like very little compared to their gains and damage caused. Also I don't get why just 10 years, these things last a long time. This kind of equipment can cost a lot of money per hour of downtime. (Caveat: I've worked on afterservice parts software for a big mining and construction machinery manufacturer... afterservice parts is like the razorblades business model multiplied by lots of expensive time constraints and logistics) Tldr; but what is needed is a law about afterservice parts. Are the owners of the equipment going to be able to buy parts from based on like Cummins parts catalog and run telemetry if that is a thing in Deere? After 10 years if their model's parts and software is no longer supported will they open source it, provide 3D design files or equivalent parts in major catalogs? Will they be able to only provide windows binaries that work with windows 11? Can machines and support packages be transferred? New machines need to become as maintainable as old machines, for as long as the materials last. Probably, they probably have a lot of ways left to fuck with people and still have a big incentive to do so. Not doing so will cut into potential profit.

I've been through a few Kindles, honestly would be surprised anything lasts that long. Mainly Kindle Unlimited is an amazing deal. But, if there was a better ereader that is light, book dimensions, e-ink and has big letters with similar library even if I have to pay for each book I would switch. The two main glaring issues besides KU being really addictive are: 1) DRM, and 2) absolutely miniscule system font size. They allow very large text font size, but the fonts used in the file list, UI, About this book etc. are so tiny it is painful to read. They also keep messing with the UI without delivering much that is useful while continuing to ignore that e-ink users might need larger text.

I have Google Maps and Apple Maps next to each other on my iPhone. I really tried to give Apple a shot but it has always been a sub-par experience for me. And I already highly detest ads (goodbye iTunes). This has to stop. Like forcing an iOS upgrade that throttles my phone to being far less usable than before, while I am simultaneously budgeting to buy the highest end Mac hardware I can, before rampocalypse, is so frustrating. And you know what? I am finding my M2 Max MBP and iPhone 11 Pro Max are.. maybe.. enough. I did buy AirPods Pro but you know what? I hate em and will likely spend more time on over the ear headphones. If you want to kill the excitement, just keep on shitting everything up, Apple.

I have worked with game designers, have been a translator, and am a developer. I have been a professional translator and had a friend who only did game translation. Yes I know designers hate AI and I understand it. I translated patents, corporate docs, scientific papers, manga, etc. Translation business has probably gone poof by now due to AI. But.. manga translation is actually really hard. Not only did the margins shrink to impossible due to lack of interest / budget for quality, it is also like translating film subtitles and sometimes even required historical research.

These days, I use Claude to check my Japanese before sending and sometimes to figure out obtuse emails sometimes. My written Japanese has improved. Claude is really good but I wouldn't use it for a final production film subtitle, game, or manga. For this purpose though, it would be amazingly fantastic as the sheer volume and the purpose of research means nobody overseas would be able to ever grasp a fraction of it or translate it all manually. As noted in the Ars Technica article: “Famitsu alone is over 1,900 issues, each with [a hundred-plus] pages,” journalist and author Felipe Pepe noted. “That’s one magazine from one country. [Human translation] would be ideal, but it’s impossible.”

I skimmed the GPL'd code, after 1500 lines got tired and got Claude to quickly scan it. It sounds like a really cool scanned document viewer with side translation viewer, but is not a translator at all. The guy in TFA apparently used some of the project's funds for translation of the scanned magazines which he mentioned were like $1 per issue which honestly, it is like 1000x cheaper than a human. No human could ever do it unless it was their lifelong hobby maybe. But, there must have been a lot of issues so I guess he racked up some charges and AI haters gunned him down, apparently.

If you really were learning Japanese (like I did long ago) you might try all kinds of scanning, OCR, online and offline dictionaries, and still not understand everything due to made-up fantasy words. You might have to corral some Japanese gamers to answer questions you cannot figure out. So this is not as good as having a Japanese otaku next to you but still pretty great and you could improve the translations too, couldn't you?

It looks like Nichols who hates anything AI deleted his post, and the person who spent tokens to translate is paying back to the project with his own money. And he made a GPL'd viewer which sounds nice. So it sounds like in the end, we have butt-hurt and afraid people, one honestly kind-hearted guy, some new OSS software, a free archive at archive.org, and a lot of translations this guy paid for. Hopefully other people might contribute translations either automated or not, so that people do not *at home* each pay for tokens to just translate their own copies of magazines that could have been just translated once and posted on the archive. I have no idea about copyright though I think one was from 1992. Nobody mentioned anything about that and if it is for historical research it sounds like fair use..

Okay enough searching.. way to get us excited. Apparently it is not done yet or at least no photos are shown of the finished building just a crane outside (off a LInkedIn page) and something being set up in the DC Hall (on the Astoria progress site) which is otherwise empty. The Interconnect site shows a cool photo of the European project so I guess we can imagine, it looks like a big substation..

Okay maybe they are talking about the DC Converter Hall mentioned on
https://chpexpress.com/ ? Seriously Google gemini overview is giving more interesting info. ..

The DC Hall is a key component of the Main Converter Building at the TDI CHPExpress Astoria HVDC Converter Station. Part of the 31-45 20th Avenue facility in Queens, it houses equipment for converting high-voltage direct current (HVDC) to high-voltage alternating current (HVAC). The station, including the DC Hall, is designed with GridLink Interconnector HVDC technology to efficiently transfer power.

TDI CHPExpress doc https://chpexpress.com/wp-cont...
GridLink https://gridlinkinterconnector...
note this site shows UK and France hall schematics

Function: The DC Hall, often part of the larger Valve Hall/Reactor Hall complex, is essential for the conversion process.
Location: Located within the Astoria Converter Station, a 2-story building (69 feet high) in TDI CHPExpress Queens.
Project Context: The station is part of the TDI CHPExpress Champlain Hudson Power Express (CHPE) project, designed to convert renewable energy for NYC.
Status: The converter station is in the final stages of construction, with installation of high-voltage equipment underway as of early 2026.
Design: The structure is part of an TDI CHPExpress Electrical Generation (Occupancy Group F-1) facility.
Technology: Uses YouTube Voltage Source Converter (VSC) technology provided by Hitachi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The www.northsea-link.com converter station is crucial for connecting the 525 kV DC transmission lines from Quebec to the New York ISO grid.

Cantaloups, Dinosaurs, small humpback whales, Star Wars.. even the guy running it (who is that guy anyway?) says it is "mind boggling". This is a site for nerds. Is there a non-paywalled place to see this amazing room they are talking about? That's all I want to see! And how about using metric units for things? It's a thing! I am really worried that things being impossible to understand, mind boggling and far beyond human capabilities, is even a thing these days. Also for people running CUDA they might like to know if rates will drop toward what Canadians pay, ever.

I would certainly welcome a national fund (could even be multinational and accept donations) for an open weight AI with full ecosystem even including hosting, that is fully open source and available for local LLM use as well. Not a Canadian but just by building it, could benefit from network effects.Including info about the training set, training methods and system prompts and allowing it to be configured freely could usher in a eave if experimentation and support the growth of centers of excellence, and a Canadian respect for ethics and personal information protection while operating with an open and welcoming attitude would be a very nice way to express Canadian values while supporting side projects that leverage it for industry and academia.