since it's Azure, it'll be down half the time. ;-)

Do they just mean the *scale* and how it affected so many *schools*? I don't really see anything new about this ransomware attack, but maybe I'm missing something. Please help me understand. .

Okay, ban social media, but have they also instituted any programs to help kids socialize IRL? Because the world has largely forgotten how to do that. After school programs, sports clubs -- are they pushing anything to to replace or *displace* social media to fill the void left by the social media ban?

All their photos show only ASCII character art or computer code on the screen. Is it not capable of displaying images, graphics, etc?

the AIs gain the capability to do the "contextual judgment and specialized knowledge to ensure that the output is safe, efficient, and integrates correctly within a larger system.. to recognize when a piece of code is sub-optimal or dangerous in a production environment"?

We've already seen Anthropic et al's report on Mythos for security assessment.

Just saying, we (and I) have been wrong in the past by saying "AI can't.." and mistaking that to mean "AI will never..."

How then is it a settlement? And how are users to be compensated?

Yeah, TFA is not what this movie was. It's a space fantasy movie. It's fine for what it is. But any science was left in the book.

That's great and all. You do you.

> 130TB of Pi digits
> Backblaze says making the dataset available in its B2 cloud storage platform allows researchers, developers, and curious tech enthusiasts to explore the results themselves.
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Any ideas for any (serious) examples of what someone might do with this? I imagine anybody really serious about number theory of pi has already access to something better and perhaps bigger....but I don't know. Help me understand the point of this.

...of humans, and private equity buying up land.

How are micro-factories going to help with that?

Says you.https://csrc.nist.gov/glossary...

He will "prosecute to the fullest extent of the law" legal, authorized pentesting?? How's that going to work?

Deja vu

https://slashdot.org/story/26/...

Yes. It's both.

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Logan Kilpatrick: "I am happy to share that we (the @GoogleAIStudio team) are now a sponsor of the @tailwindcss project! Honored to support and find ways to do more together to help the ecosystem of builders."
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"I use Opus 4.5 with thinking for everything" (https://x.com/bcherny/status/2007179838864666847?s=20) wow that's direct evidence that he has unrestricted billing. Opus 4,5 will definitely shut down your allocation in a hurry.