You seem to be assuming everything age restricted is only available for adults. What about say content restricted for ages under 13?

This whole faffing around with scanned photos etc. will never work well and is a privacy/identity theft disaster in the making. The EU age verification app is better, since it doesn't transfer private information to the online service, other than the minimal "yes, I am at of least the required age". Pass tokens are not reused which prevents tracking and unused passes are renewed automatically every three months.

But to use it, you need to have set it up with a passport, electronic ID, bank account codes etc. Will everyone have access to such a trusted provider (obviously no)? Will everyone have a smartphone whenever they might need to verify their age? No matter how good the technical solution, there are still issues with having this in place at all and there is a host of problems waiting down the road also for the EU implementation, starting with actual children and immigrants not having access.

Which is no surprise, if you are working on a civilian ship and get asked if you want to have a go at it and that there is only a 30% chance you die trying, chances are you'll say no thank you.

Well technically to capture the heat you have to move the heat away from the chips to heat up something you want to heat up instead. The first part of that process, capturing heat from chips is in fact the same as cooling them. So the data centres are already doing half of the job (at least half of their part).

What remains is to channel the captured heat into a medium that can transport the heat away to where it's needed. E.g. something hot liquid in pipes moving the heat to nearby apartment blocks and the cooled liquid back to the data centre for another round. Of course those apartment blocks have to be changed to use capture the heat from the water, but overall you can really make this work.

The biggest challenge is the usual issue that in summer there is often excess heat everywhere anyway, so the whole recycling of heat would work better if the recipient needs it all year round (e.g. some kind of industrial use, like say ovens in the food industry)

There is typically some corporate data security regulations on what public systems you can use to communicate company internal information with. Corporate does not like every team using whatever they want, because this means more systems to keep tracking for security breaches, proper user account closure when people leave etc. Or worse, no tracking because they aren't even aware of them.

So it makes sense to reduce the number of available tools that are acceptable to use. And if Teams is already installed for everyone... why greenlight something like Slack? Why use JIRA if DevOps is already available? Currently they are trying to get everyone on Copilot instead the competition because it's already everywhere for every user.

It's really the same bundling issue that made Microsoft temporarily win the browser wars with IE6 back in the day.

I remember Slashdot before all the whining about American politics in the comments..

It is far more expensive, but there are also some other benefits. Energy production is more reliable because of more dependable wind velocities at sea. There are also fewer issues with available space in some regions (but I guess not really Texas).

Indeed, I wish I will be in such good health when I turn 95. If I make it that far.

But if you look at one of Nvidias examples from Resident Evil: Requiem (first image in article):
https://arstechnica.com/gaming...

and look at the Cigarettes sign on the building on the right, you can see obvious mesh distortions in the DLSS 5 version. How is this caused by lighting alone?

Calling it a rogue AI implies intent, which implies some level of awareness. So why not "Incompetent Engineer Placing Too Much Trust In AI Agent Triggers Serious Security Incident At Meta"?

It's very obviously more than mere lighting, it's clearly changing textures, removing fog, doing the equivalent of changing meshes etc.

I thought he planted potatoes in Martian soil, but I guess I was mistaken.

This looks like cool tech demo, not like something I would actually like to run in most cases. It needs significant control from game developers, for example to only apply the effect on certain objects and only before e.g. lighting and shadows are rendered. Definitely not whole scenes.

but but 0.1 mm thinner

That won't really work at least in the EU where MFA is needed for online credit card transactions.

The whole "upload an ID" idea is extremely dubious. It would be a lot better if there would be a standard system for providing age category verification online without exposing any other personal information. So you get redirected to the verification site, do strong authentication there, and the verification service just sends back something like "this person can view R-rated content" to the site and nothing else. Not their age, true name, address etc.

Sure there is still the age verification service provider to worry about, but that could be much more tightly controlled than people uploading scanned IDs to identity phishing porn sites.