... and then to secure Ukraine into the European economic and defence structure as firmly as possible. At this point they're far ahead of NATO on how to use drones and robots in war, and they're clearly getting very, very good at building them too. European military and aerospace people both will have a lot to gain from cooperation with Ukraine after the war is over.

As cadets were so memorably told a generation ago: remember always, your duty is clear - to build and maintain those robots!

Sounds good - DDG is pretty bad lately, it typically just returns a list of AI generated SEO slop pages, so I've been switching back to Google in a private tab for a lot of things. Might be worth trying this one now!

If they leave them there, the next administration might be able to switch them back on and start gathering woke climate science data again.

Not to mention most of those "college grads" are probably stuck with their heads in the phones, instead of actually be productive.

Just doing some checking, using google earth map, 3,000 acres for one solar farm, 2500 acres for another one, and this one will use up 2,400 acres of land. From the locations, this is FARM LAND that was used for GROWING FOOD. I have no problem setting these things out in barren land, but FARM LAND? That's around 9,000 ACRES of farm land that will now not be able to grow food.

ANYTIME humans tinker with "nature" it usually does not end well for the humans. One of these days they are going to bio-engineer something that will collapse the world.

Long ago, the UK courts ordered all the major consumer ISPs to block The Pirate Bay along with various other popular services. Ever since, we've had to keep up to date on what the latest proxy address might be.

Of course, thanks to the new censorship laws introduced more recently, we're all on VPNs now, so as to avoid having to hand our ID to the wallet inspector for every last website we ever use. And once that was set up, it was nice to discover that the original is still in play!

The jokes about Darth Jar Jar were everywhere of course, but it could have worked. Star Wars lifted a few ideas from classic SF sources including Asimov's Foundation series - in which, we might recall, the terrifying, unstoppable galactic warlord known as The Mule was hiding in plain sight as a clown, who seemed to be merely a harmless entertainer at court. His military success was chiefly thanks to his psychic ability to manipulate others' minds to his liking - Darth Jar Jar could have done very well that way!

I saw three Star Wars movies when I was young. They were great. Mainly because I was a child and this stuff was new and fresh and exciting to me. Even the Ewoks.

I saw three more when I was not quite so young. They were... poor.

I saw a couple more when I was older. One was great, the other was okay but a retread of one of the old ones, and I never got round to seeing the rest. Didn't care enough.

Now they've got more, and apparently they're based on a TV series they did, which I didn't watch because I wasn't subscribed to that streaming platform at the time. So I'm not going to see those either. Same reason I've not seen a Marvel superhero film since the first Avengers one - just too much homework required with all the backstory. Every scene is a shout out or reference that I won't get. Every character seems to be getting ever louder and angrier and more and more of them have access to time machines. I just don't have it in me to care anymore.

I like the sound of these horror films, though. They're going to tell a complete story? In one film? With a beginning, middle and end, that don't ask me to be up to date on an entire Cinematic Universe? Sounds great, time to check where they're showing!

A modern version of GTA London would be the absolute dream. Been long enough now, you could set it in the nineties and have the same retro value to it!

... why unions aren't much more common among technology workers. Especially given what you hear about the videogame industry in particular, with that mad 'crunch time' culture in which workers are ruthlessly, well, crunched. I'd always ask, well, what does your union say about it? And what do you know, there isn't one, how about that.

Nice to hear of some progress being made, then. I suppose the risk with this for the rest of us is that GTA 6 might be late to release, but, uh, at this point I think we're over that

Polymarkets are commodities.
Insider trading on Polymarket and similar prediction markets is illegal. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) considers prediction markets to be commodities markets, meaning traders are subject to federal commodities fraud and anti-manipulation laws.

Trading based on material nonpublic information can lead to severe civil and criminal penalties - Michele is facing 10 years for insider trading, 20 for money laundering (crypto-swapping to hide source and profits), and 20 years for destruction of evidence to hide major financial crimes.

Here is the official sealed statement signed by Judge detailing the particulars of the crime.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-s...

Polymarket bets are commodities. Inside trading of commodities is illegal.
Michele Spagnuolo was clearly well aware his actions were criminal, as the court document details his efforts to hide identity and obscure the financial transactions through use of ethereum, USDC, and crypto-swapping services, as well as deleting accounts after online speculation that the gains were the result of insider activity.

He has brought shame on the Google Security team, though it appears Google's Security Team did assist in identifying him and assisting the investigation.

Disney destroyed what was left of the Star Wars universe. Best thing they could do would be to NEVER make anything related to star wars for about 10-20 years, THEN come up with something new and refresh.

With all the junk floating in space, https://upload.wikimedia.org/w... Aliens would probably think we have a "space shield" and leave us alone. LOL