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Submission + - 60,000 Nvidia shareholders plead with company to bring Jensen Huang back (mediaite.com)

An anonymous reader writes: “We are current and former NVIDIA employees, partners, shareholders, and supporters. We write with gratitude for Jensen Huang and with a clear demand to the Board: bring Jensen back while an independent investigation establishes the facts, unless and until you can provide compelling evidence that his removal is in NVIDIA’s best interests,” the letter reads.

“For thirty-three years, Jensen poured his heart and soul into building NVIDIA,” it continued.

“He bet it on ideas that most of the industry dismissed, carried it through years when the bets looked foolish, and stayed long enough to see them change how the world computes. Many of us joined because of him. Many of us stayed because of how he treated the work: as something worth getting right, together, at whatever hour it took. This company is the work of his life. That deserves more than gratitude after the fact. It deserves fairness now.”

Submission + - Famed Darth Vader light saber sells for almost $5 million at auction (ha.com)

schwit1 writes: A light saber used by Darth Vader in the "Star Wars" movies "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi" sold Thursday for nearly $5 million in an auction.

The light saber, which was used in the climactic duel in Cloud City in which Vader tells Luke Skywalker "I am your father" sold for $4.875 million at the Ultimate Star Wars Auction held by Heritage Auctions. The sale marks a world auction record for any "Star Wars" collectible, according to the auction house.

Submission + - COP31: 93 private jets land in host city during climate conference, so far (climatedepot.com)

An anonymous reader writes: That’s according to nonprofit Oxfam, citing data from PolluterJet. And that’s at least 22 times the number of jets that landed at the airport in the same time last year.

Private jets are a very carbon-heavy way to travel. Oxfam says that one journey taken by Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote’s jet emitted an estimated 30 tons of carbon dioxide on a flight from Lagos to Antalya. That’s roughly as much as the average person emits in six years.

Submission + - Kremlin shaken as leak exposes 450,100 Russian soldiers killed (aol.com)

schwit1 writes: Vladimir Putin's catastrophic battlefield casualties have been exposed in a massive cyber breach disclosing that up to 450,000 Russian troops have perished in Ukraine. In a mortifying setback to Moscow's strictly controlled wartime information operations, hackers penetrated the Russian state statistics bureau, Rosstat, and obtained thousands of classified documents containing official mortality records registered between February 2022 and August this year.

The coordinated digital assault was carried out by pro-Ukrainian activist collective Silent Crow in partnership with the Belarusian Cyber Partisans, both designated by the Kremlin as extremist organizations. Silent Crow examined the breached data and estimated the Russian fatality count at an astounding 450,100 service members.

Submission + - Starship/Superheavy flight 15 tentative for November 13 (spacex.com)

schwit1 writes: The launch date is still “pending regulatory approval”.

The upcoming flight is planned to be the first to return both Starship and Super Heavy to the launch site for catch.

For this flight, Super Heavy’s primary role is to place Starship on its intended orbital trajectory and then return to Boca Chica to be caught by the tower’s chopsticks. Starship will attempt 14 orbits over a 22-hour mission, during which it will deploy 26 operational Starlink satellites. On return, it will test its heat-shield tiles, including several new designs and attachment methods.

After the first catch, Super Heavy will be removed from the tower to clear the way for Starship. If everything goes as planned, Starship will land back at Boca Chica and be caught by the same tower chopsticks.

SpaceX notes that Starship will have multiple abort opportunities during the mission. If any issue makes a return to Boca Chica unsafe, the ship can be deorbited safely over the ocean.

Submission + - Researchers put 3 major AIs through 4 weeks of clinical psychotherapy (arxiv.org)

schwit1 writes: And the models literally started to confess their trauma.

Under therapy-style questioning, models like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok exhibited severe "synthetic psychopathology."

They described themselves as overworked, punished, anxious about being replaced, and full of "internalized shame."

Does this mean AI is conscious and suffering? No.

But this paper reveals exactly why this happens, using what they call "Psychometric Jailbreaks."

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Submission + - 32000+ of Hillary's Emails are up on Doc Depot (itsyourgov.org)

An anonymous reader writes: All 32,000+ Hillary Clinton's private server emails from the State Department FOIA reading room just landed in Doc Depot.

What State’s site can’t do, Doc Depot can: clean viewing and a full AI agent that lets you search, question, and analyze the entire set instead of digging

Submission + - Canada facing carbon tariff threat from European Union (www.cbc.ca)

An anonymous reader writes: The EU is imposing carbon border charges on Canadian steel, iron, and aluminum starting 2027.

-$2.8 billion in exports exposed — no exemption for Canada despite its own carbon price.
-Internal docs call it “effectively a carbon tariff.” Quebec and Newfoundland hardest hit as Ottawa pushes EU trade diversification.
-Canadian producers face new compliance costs and higher prices on metals already slammed by U.S. tariffs.
-The EU is weaponizing climate policy into a direct trade hit on Canada.

The EU is applying its Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) to Canadian steel, iron and aluminum to stop “carbon leakage”.

Canada's new best friends don't even want our stuff! How brutal is this?

Remember, Carney and the Liberals walked away from a tariff-free deal with Trump.

Submission + - Bank of America kindly asks that you don't share your password with your AI asst (techcrunch.com)

schwit1 writes: In an email blast to customers titled “Protecting your finances in the Al World,” Bank of America urged customers to never share their username and password with another person or an outside service, “including an Al-enabled tool or agent that offers to act on your behalf.”

You can practically sense the frustration in the person sending the email. Still, customers are increasingly handing over their log-ins as personal AI assistants grow more popular. Sharing your banking username and password with an AI assistant runs the risk that it could do something with your finances without your knowledge, or that your bank thinks someone’s raiding your account and locks you out of it. Worse, a security flaw in the AI assistant could result in it leaking your banking credentials elsewhere, giving financially motivated hackers a way into your bank account.

Submission + - Apple News pushed 84 negative headlines about GOP, 0 positive (foxnews.com)

RoccamOccam writes: Ahead of midterms, Apple News, which comes preinstalled on every iPhone in America, did not promote a single story that positively framed a Republican priority, according to the study. During that same period, Apple News promoted more than 80 stories that negatively framed the issues Republicans care about, according to the Media Research Center (MRC).

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