I'm not entirely convinced; the interest from the security industry and governments on the news of OpenAI's initially reported slip up and the capability it suggests has been great so far. I've seen both companies outright lie in response to each other over capability before so I'm naturally cynical here.

Then I guess ours did FIVE!
--OpenAI, probably

[insert 'feels bad' pepe meme here]

Mate... I feel that way after a solid 8 hour day of code archeology even without AI assistants. Must be nice to not experience fatigue ever. To me this sounds like the AI tools just made you actually do a full day's work for once.

I was pretty grateful that Horizon; Zero Dawn and Horizon: Forbidden West were ported. I'll be pissed off if the third game isn't. Not enough to go make me buy a console though, just a lost sale for Sony.

Cool... cool. So can you up those usage limits on Pro yet? Not that I mind taking a 4 hour break in the middle of the work day but my managers kinda do.

It's interesting that Slashdot posts this mention of Microsoft firing this small fraction of staff, but there was never coverage of Twitter firing more than 50% of its staff.

Gentlemen! You can't fight in here this is the War Room!

The motivation to mine and process rare earth materials has existed for many years. If it were just that easy, then China wouldn't have such a strategic dominance in this resource. For instance, most geologists think the minerals deal floated for Ukraine is ridiculous on multiple levels, but to distill it down, if those minerals were feasibly available to mine and process, private enterprise would have already set up shop there. In reality, Ukrainian rare earth mines are in abject disrepair and not even running and that is a reflection of the commercial viability of Ukrainian rare earth metals resources.

The capital investment required to launch a new lithium mining / processing operation is gargantuan. Nobody is going to take that step when China could sweep away its relevance by simply dropping this export ban.

Correct. They removed the ability to connect to anything but an Azure VM instance (of various kinds). There was talk of them 'working' on 'adding this functionality' as if it was never there in the first place and removed by a dickwad product manager to force people into the Azure ecosystem, but even if they did put it back in you'd still need either a corporate or educational - not personal - MS account to launch it.

The 'Remote Desktop' app in the app store, which is the product 'Windows App for Windows' was directly forked from, at first merely rebranded and then feature locked, does allow you to connect to local machines and does not require a corp or edu ms account to use. But that's dead now, so your only option from a Windows desktop is mstsc, which doesn't handle live desktop resizing etc etc.
Kind of weird how they treat Windows Desktop users as second-class citizens for their shiny new RDP app, but let IOS, Macos, and Android enjoy the nicer experience. Fucking weird. Which is why I'm thinking they're going to gimp those too at some stage soon.

Ackshually it's called 'Windows App for Windows', which is a COMPLETELY different product to Windows App for IOS/Android/Mac. The latter support local connections without needing a *corporate*or *educational* MS account login to even run the thing. 'Windows App for Windows' is a very particular kind of retarded. The other Windows Apps are very useful and I dread the day MS decides to fuck with those as well.

advanced geothermal techniques could unlock 90 gigawatts of clean power in the U.S. alone, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.

This statement was made just seconds before Elon Musk marched right up onto the stage, slapped the DOE across the face, and shouted, "You get 'clean energy' out of your mouth!" The problem was resolved with the Musk administration re-branding the agency "Department of Petroleum."

Why print in color? Get a black and white laser printer. Most economical cost per page printing there is. No problem with ink drying up in the print head if not used for a while, etc. If I need to print a photo, I upload it to Walgreens and they have it ready to pick up in 30 minutes at the cost of nickels per picture.

You write from an informed perspective on this topic (ST:NG), yet I think the godlike fault you cite is inaccurate in the context of Next Generation. The series OFTEN dealt with the problem of a comparatively advanced civilization encountering a primitive civilization. This was so much woven into the fabric of ST:NG they built the "Prime Directive" as a best practices for these scenarios. The introduction of the Borg illustrates the importance of the Prime Directive as it turns the table on the Federation being primitive and the Borg representing an advanced civilization with zero respect supporting the natural development of an alien culture and society.

While ST:NG is classic SF wrestling with frontier mythos, I think it's less "Wagon Train to the Stars" (that's Battlestar Galactica) and more Christopher Columbus to the Stars. The enterprise is an exploration ship, not a colonization vessel.

To do that, you'd need to insulate the AI in an information ecosystem that reinforces the conspiracy and shuns contradicting information.

Exactly. Musk has prioritized Twitter content in training GrokAI in order to perpetuate the misinformation flourishing on that platform.