Comment Re: 2TB SSD (Score 1) 70
or do something without toxic $#!@ from chemical fertilizer which is what most of the world did for centuries https://www.regenagnation.com/...
Comment Re: Perfectly understandable. (Score 4, Interesting) 82
agreed, this is one of the truly useful and beneficial uses of AI so far. give doctors wherever they are an incredibly powerful tool for patient diagnosis so they can focus on triage and care. alleviate some of the pressure from being a walking Gray's Anatomy and let doctors be empathetic healers instead.
Comment Re: And this is why (Score 2) 159
"...file on disk remains unchanged...while the in-memory version has already been tampered with..."
immutable memory would be a neat trick
Comment Re: Note that this is a local exploit (Score 5, Funny) 159
My other computer *IS* your computer ;-)
Comment Re: McKinsey (Score 1) 26
Chatbots cannot (yet) bribe government and industry alike with lavish "networking dinners" and "complementary passes" and "attendee awards" in exchange for outrageous consulting fees with conditional clauses which ensure all parties involved get ridiculously wealthy. McKin$ey has the edge for now. Surely Zuckbot is working this gap, though.
Submission + - Using ChatGPT to write essays may be eroding critical thinking skills (phys.org)
alternative_right writes: ChatGPT users also struggled to recall or quote from their own essays shortly after writing them. Across all measures—brain activity, language analysis, and essay scoring—participants who relied on ChatGPT performed worse than the Brain-only group
Submission + - JD Vance joined Bluesky - was banned 11 minutes later. (x.com) 7
RoccamOccam writes: U.S. Vice President JD Vance joined Bluesky with the post "Hello, Bluesky, I've been told this app has become the place to go for common sense political discussion and analysis. So I'm thrilled to be here to engage with all of you." His post included a screenshot from the United States Supreme Court Decision that upheld Tennessee's law barring "gender-affirming" treatments on minors.
He then wrote "To that end, I found Justice Thomas's concurrence on medical care for transgender youth quite illuminating. He argues that many of our so-called 'experts' have used bad arguments and substandard science to push experimental therapies on our youth. I might add that many of those scientists are receiving substantial resources from big pharma to push these medicines on kids. What do you think?".
He was banned 11 minutes later.
He then wrote "To that end, I found Justice Thomas's concurrence on medical care for transgender youth quite illuminating. He argues that many of our so-called 'experts' have used bad arguments and substandard science to push experimental therapies on our youth. I might add that many of those scientists are receiving substantial resources from big pharma to push these medicines on kids. What do you think?".
He was banned 11 minutes later.
Submission + - NOAA scientists need permission to speak to external colleagues now (www.cbc.ca)
sandbagger writes: Travelling for international meetings or even joining a call with Canadian counterparts has become impossible for some U.S. government scientists, under new directives since U.S. President Donald Trump took office.
Comment This is what you get... (Score 2) 21
This is what you get when you are acquired by Bain: https://www.powerschool.com/ba...
Long and tortuous history of ethics problems, "value extraction", big bonuses for do-nothing execs, etc.
- https://fortune.com/article/ba...
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/m...
- https://archive.ph/hrjOD (https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2012/01/28/bain-or-blessing)
and many more
Long and tortuous history of ethics problems, "value extraction", big bonuses for do-nothing execs, etc.
- https://fortune.com/article/ba...
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/m...
- https://archive.ph/hrjOD (https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2012/01/28/bain-or-blessing)
and many more
Submission + - Energy Prices Drop Below Zero in UK Thanks to Record Wind-Generated Electricity (ecowatch.com) 1
AmiMoJo writes: Record wind-generated electricity across Northern Ireland and Scotland Tuesday night pushed Britain’s power prices below zero.
Wind output peaked at a record high 22.4 gigawatts (GW), breaking the previous high set Sunday evening, the national system operator said, as Bloomberg reported. The record output provided more than 68 percent of the country’s power.
From 5:30 to 6:30 a.m. on Wednesday, the half-hourly price fell to 6.57 pounds per megawatt-hour, according to data from European power exchange Epex Spot.
Wind output peaked at a record high 22.4 gigawatts (GW), breaking the previous high set Sunday evening, the national system operator said, as Bloomberg reported. The record output provided more than 68 percent of the country’s power.
From 5:30 to 6:30 a.m. on Wednesday, the half-hourly price fell to 6.57 pounds per megawatt-hour, according to data from European power exchange Epex Spot.
Submission + - WI Voters Were Unswayed by $3.3B AI Data Center Announcement by Microsoft, Biden
theodp writes: Back in the day, one could influence voters for as little as $1 or with food or liquor. Today, however, even Microsoft's widely-publicized $3.3B Wisconsin AI Data Center announcement by U.S. President Joe Biden and Microsoft President Brad Smith (who Biden called out for helping his campaign just days later at a WA fundraiser) — at a politicized Racine County (WI) event last May where Biden slammed now President-elect Donald Trump for a failed Foxconn project on the same site — wasn't enough to convince Racine County voters to favor a Democrat for President in the 2024 election. Trump won 52.5% of the 100K or so Racine County votes compared to Vice President Kamala Harris's 46.3%, a one-point improvement over his performance there in 2020, en route to a victory in the swing state.
Interestingly, in his 2019 book Tools and Weapons, Microsoft's Smith — who supported the Harris campaign after Biden bowed out of the 2024 race — revealed that Microsoft led other tech giants who successfully used the promise of $300 million in pledges to support K-12 CS education to secure then First Daughter Ivanka Trump's assistance in persuading President Trump to sign a $1 billion Presidential order "to ensure that federal funding from the Department of Education helps advance [K-12] computer science," a key objective of the Microsoft-led Computing in the Core advocacy coalition and Microsoft's National Talent Strategy.
On the day after the Presidential election, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella joined other tech CEOs who took to social media to congratulate Trump on his victory. "Congratulations President Trump," Nadella tweeted. "We're looking forward to engaging with you and your administration to drive innovation forward that creates new growth and opportunity for the United States and the world."
Interestingly, in his 2019 book Tools and Weapons, Microsoft's Smith — who supported the Harris campaign after Biden bowed out of the 2024 race — revealed that Microsoft led other tech giants who successfully used the promise of $300 million in pledges to support K-12 CS education to secure then First Daughter Ivanka Trump's assistance in persuading President Trump to sign a $1 billion Presidential order "to ensure that federal funding from the Department of Education helps advance [K-12] computer science," a key objective of the Microsoft-led Computing in the Core advocacy coalition and Microsoft's National Talent Strategy.
On the day after the Presidential election, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella joined other tech CEOs who took to social media to congratulate Trump on his victory. "Congratulations President Trump," Nadella tweeted. "We're looking forward to engaging with you and your administration to drive innovation forward that creates new growth and opportunity for the United States and the world."
Comment Re: SLS is achieving its purpose (Score 1) 155
in reality, the New York Times didn't support Stalin, it employed some columnists https://www.npr.org/2022/05/08... who were among many fascinated by https://depts.washington.edu/d... the "Communist" movement.
however, Stalin and "Communism" was simply another brand of Fascism, which sadly https://cambridgeblog.org/2023... America has always dabbled in for a long time.
Submission + - Netflix fails users during Tyson vs Paul boxing match (reuters.com)
SonicSpike writes: Streaming platform Netflix was down for thousands of users in the United States late on Friday, outage tracking website Downdetector.com said, just as viewers tuned into a highly anticipated boxing match between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul.
The number of users indicating problems was 85,021, by 10:35 p.m. ET (0335 GMT Saturday), according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from various sources.
Downdetector reported that the outage primarily impacted users in major metropolitan areas, including New York, Seattle and Los Angeles, with scattered reports from other regions.
Netflix said it had no immediate comment in response to a request from Reuters.
The platform has faced outages during live or highly anticipated events in the past, with spikes in user traffic often being a contributing factor.
The number of users indicating problems was 85,021, by 10:35 p.m. ET (0335 GMT Saturday), according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from various sources.
Downdetector reported that the outage primarily impacted users in major metropolitan areas, including New York, Seattle and Los Angeles, with scattered reports from other regions.
Netflix said it had no immediate comment in response to a request from Reuters.
The platform has faced outages during live or highly anticipated events in the past, with spikes in user traffic often being a contributing factor.
Submission + - Ok, which one of you still hasn't updated log4j?? (cisa.gov)
dlasley writes: CISA published their 2023 top exploits report. Citrix, Cisco, and a couple from Microsoft, but #8 on the list is still log4j. smh y'all
Comment Re:Makes no sense (Score 3) 26
Google handles transactions for millions of consumers around the world so the concern is probably something like https://www.consumerfinance.go...
For example, if Google Pay on NFC-enabled phones is hackable and Google doesn't make some effort to provide security measures or compensation for exploits when they occur in the US, it's a US consumer protection concern.
FTFA the "exact scope of the CFPB's concerns is not clear, and its order does not appear to be final" so better to wait to see if they even move forward and, if so, what is that scope before jumping to any conclusions about Google's relative guilt or innocence. After all, they "do the right thing" for themselves first, everyone else second.
