Even the summary said the match was only 93% probable. That's a LONG way from any reasonable certainty. (Out of 1000 people you'd have 70 matches. If you don't do other steps of elimination, what is the size of the population you're screening?)

You know the old saying: believe half of what you read, none of what you hear, and the opposite of what you see on the internet.

Perhaps not, but they are designed to *attempt* to only target the things they are aimed at.

I don't think that's a well defined term. Historically you can only figure out which actions were war crimes after one side has won, and decided to set up trials. The rest of the time different sides pick different actions.

No. They say "sinister".

Batteries are not a sufficient answer here. But when you add in a grid connection they work. The weather will be different in different places, so some places it will be windy, some places it will be rainy, and other places the sky will be clear. I think this works even in Britain, and that's North of Ontario.

Well, and FWIW, there has been a huge increase in the number of
"security fixes" Debian has been downloading recently. I assume the same is true of other Linux distros and probably for Apple, though I don't think those are made public. Perhaps the BSDs haven't seen a large uptick.

Oh, AI will stay with us. After all, people use it to make porn - a sure indicator of a technology's success.

But I expect the current bubble to pop before it is adopted with more reasonable expectations. (Both of its capabilities and of its profitability.)

I'm daydreaming about the data center I'm going to buy at firesale prices after the bubble bursts.

I'll sell the computers for boat anchors, and use the building and the cooling system to create a year-round indoor ski resort.

Once I see it doing what I want, I'll be interested. But in order to do that, it needs to be able to understand the action of the fiction I'm asking it to read. E.g. if it's reading "Alice in Wonderland" it needs to use a proper voice for Alice talking to herself as she falls down the rabbit hole. (And for the editorial comments interspersed.)

O,. and it needs to be able to do this without an internet connection.

You said "Open Source development." Which in the grand scheme of things is pretty small.

I think the possible adverse impacts to society would not be outweighed by something that small.

of production made the USSR what it is today!

While your points are good, this looks like negligence to me. So, yeah, our "justice" system needs reform, but that facility should be made to change it's practices. (Not that I'm sure this decision will cause them to do that.)

The problem is that TMI was NOT a really bad disaster. It was frightening, and could have been bad. Actually, though, it was quite contained. But the more reactors you have, the greater the chance of a really bad disaster. If one of these is small enough to be thrown around by a tornado, you have new possibilities of a really bad disaster. (I didn't check. I assume it's too heavy. But perhaps it could be broken open.)

OTOH, smaller reactors have a smaller "worst possible case". I'm not really convinced that they're a good idea, but I could be. (If it's intended for use in space, what happens if there's a catastrophic launch explosion? That might be a good use, if they can handle the heat, but I'd prefer that the fuel be mined on the moon.) Low probability accidents that are possible WILL eventually happen. (Or at least one should plan that way.)