An AI is only as good as the material which it was trained on. Teaching children CS basics is more important so they can have a foundation to teach themselves coding. Consider what happens when bad coding becomes the new material to train the next generation of AI. An AI is only as good as the data which it is fed. Until general AI comes about, current AI LLMs and such cannot think. They have clever internal programming, but throw them a problem outside of their sphere of training and you get garbage out. Ask an AI the calculate the value of the cube root of PI to 1 quadrillion places. All math wizards know that PI is an irrational number as well as a transitional number. But AI does not truly understand those facts. AN LLM can only spit out what has been written by a human.

What the EV evangelists gloss over or fail to recognize is the fact that states depend on the tax revenue generated when ICE vehicles purchase fuel. As such, they have implemented (or will implement) an "Alternative Fuel" tax to recoup the loss of tax revenue from EVs. So while EV owners can grin while they drive past the gas stations, they get hammered with the "Alternative Fuel" tax every year when they renew their vehicle tags.

I have personally dealt with retires who used Windows most of their computing career. They felt at home when using Linux Mint MATE since it closely has the look and feel of Windows XP. The more recent retires liked the Cinnamon desktop.

I agree with previous replies. The AI won't replace good musicians / composers. However, I believe the target is for background music for a video creator (like a Youtuber). For Linux folks interested in exploring the AI ... https://github.com/tkocou/Audi...

If the AI is trained with really crappy software coding, then it will generate crappy software.

The number one problem with telemetry: once the cat is out of the bag, there is no retrieving the data regardless of who holds the data. There are other proven ways to help with bug fixes, shortcomings, etc. ('bugzilla' and 'github reporting' come to mind) Adding telemetry to Audacity - if you owned the rights to audacity, would you add telemetry if it suited your needs? Would you make telemetry an opt-in or opt-out option? One should put one's self in the shoes of the people who make these sort of decisions. Audacity is open-source. If you don't like the telemetry, why not create a fork of audacity?

The highest probability of detecting "civilization" signals would be from relatively quiet stellar neighborhoods away from the center of the galaxy. The shear amount of energy radiating from the relatively close stars at the center of the galaxy would swamp any potential signals. Add in gamma ray bursts from smaller black hole objects, magnetars, neutron stars, etc. and the probability of a civilization being there drops dramatically since the distance between stellar systems is insufficient to suppress such energy. We need to be looking at stellar systems which are out in the arms of the Milky Way galaxy.

I looked at the web.dev site. My impression of Web Bundles: 1) is a solution looking for a problem 2) has no way to unsign a signed bundle (big security risk) 3) has no way to detect embedded malware/adware (bigger security risk) 4) the example for using web bundles as shown on the web site is a lame excuse (my opinion only) 5) is bloatware at it's finest

First off, the possibility of a lab accident is NOT zero percent. Being close to zero percent is not the same as being precisely zero percent. Secondly, the article downplays the possibility of the virus being intentionally released. Release it to the animals and let it expand on it's own. Possibilities?

The major "representatives" of the financial world object to anything which is beyond their control. No telling how much wealth has been transferred from the people of the world to the banking industry and their respective controlling governments. All fiat currencies eventually go to zero value - i.e. fail as a store of value. When governments print more base currency than there is actual value (or wealth) to back up the currency, the currency goes into inflation. In our current times, do some research on what has happened to Venezuela and their financial problems with their fiat currency.\n Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are outside of the banking system, Thus they are outside of the control of the central banks. The only way the governments of the world can stop bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is to shutdown the Internet. And that won't happen since the Internet is too valuable as a source of propaganda and spying by the governments.\n Lastly, while the governments of the world can outlaw cryptocurrencies in general, all they will accomplish is to deny the good citizens access to the benefits of cryptocurrency and have little or no effect on illegal activities.