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Comment we're all gonna die... (Score 1) 54

An important point is that the weight of the internet follows the daily usage pattern -- internet activity is much higher on the daylight hemisphere as many more people are awake so their internet traffic increases the weight.

This means: the ever-heavier daylight burdens will cause an unbalanced wobble in the planet as it rotates. Because the weight of the internet increases year by year, the wobble will worsen and the Earth will eventually escape its orbit. We're all gonna die...

Comment "negative day" attack on Microsoft CoPilot+ Recall (Score -1, Offtopic) 10

If a "zero-day" attack is when an attack comes on the same day a vulnerability is found, what is it called when an attack emerges before a product has even shipped?
Somebody has posted code to dump out the contents of a CoPilot+ Recall database:
      https://github.com/xaitax/Tota...

Submission + - Cray-1 vs Raspberry Pi (roylongbottom.org.uk)

bobdevine writes: "In 1978, the Cray 1 supercomputer cost $7 Million, weighed 10,500 pounds and had a 115 kilowatt power supply. It was, by far, the fastest computer in the world. The Raspberry Pi costs around $70 (CPU board, case, power supply, SD card), weighs a few ounces, uses a 5 watt power supply and is more than 4.5 times faster than the Cray 1"

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