... Who is using this in 2026? ...

Kids who grew up using Turbo Pascal?

Qilin battery holds 140 kilowatt hours of energy. I.e. it can deliver 1000 watts continously for 140 hours!

... ads were deafening ...
I have sensitive ears. That is why I always put those wax plugs in my ears at movies and concerts. And, actually, I don't mind the trailers, I usually find them informative and entertaining.

"_spikes in frequency_ — signals unlikely to be produced by natural astrophysical processes..."
Then how are we able to detect lightning spikes on an extrasolar planet 124 light years from Earth?
https://www.snexplores.org/art...

... for their contributions to Mozart and Beethoven?

I prefer https://www.wiktionary.org/

// Isn't Cobol actually spelled COBOL? // Only if you want to be pedantic.

Actually COBOL is an acronym. Acronyms are almost always fully capitalized. Even Wikipedia upholds this tradition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I say "almost always" because there have been some acronyms that have been 'anachronized' and have become common nouns like "radar"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....

Copyright law protects the author for 100 years, but there is no expiration date on a trademark as long as it is continuously in use and renewed every 10 years.

// .... the price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a _paradise_ in this life - we went soft, we lost our edge ...

So, imagine a world where athletes are not allowed to "train". All athletes must be out-of-shape, pudgy and short of breath. I believe this world would be the antithesis of paradise.

Of course all life on Earth is "carbon based". So what is all this "phosphorus-based" nonsense about.

Actually, It's a reference to the structure of DNA itself, which is sequence of nucleotides linked by sugar-phosphate bonds:
https://www.genome.gov/genetic....

So replacing the little Ps with arsenic, but research now shows that life cannot exist without the phosphate bonds.

... I hear tapping daily from red-headed woodpeckers, banging their beaks on a hollow metal lamplight cover across the street. They are certainly not tapping to find bugs. These sounds travel for hundreds of feet and seem to be a kind of communication to their community.

"I legitimately laughed at the hashtag"

Just remember that these LLM's are not literally creative. They just rearrange stuff to optimize various cost functions. That #hashtag would not have been used unless it was in the LLM's training data. Yes, computer "intelligence" is just a series of calculations, but it is very well 'crafted' in human standards.
Sure enough, google "#FightMsinfo" and you'll see it seems to come from a 'Brett Labach' on TikTok.
   

Subglacial volcanism is impacting the flow of the Thwaites Glacier. Subglacial volcanism and other lithospheric processes have increased basal geothermal heat flux and basal melting.https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adf2639

"How does a machine reading a book fundamentally differ from a human, and why would the act of reading constitute a copyright violation?"

Interesting question. It is well known that there are tons of copyrighted intellectual property (IP) embedded in the datasets used to train LLM's. And I think it is also known that some clever users of these LLM's have figured out ways to coerce the models to regurgitate significant portions of this IP verbatim (more or less), which could (theoretically) violate the "fair use" standards of copyright laws.

So the administrators and governments will probably see the need to create additional regulations, rules and laws to minimize the impact of this problem.

... if you actually want to understand what this research is all about:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.039...

No, it does not work "just like the human brain", in which neural activations across synapses consist of streams of ions activated by molecules known as 'neurotransmitters'.

Instead, this research deals with something entirely different called 'ferroelectricity', which is a property of some materials that have a spontaneous electric polarization. This polarization can be reversed by applying an external electric field.

This is new research in this area which is expected to have applications in using digital computers to mimic human intelligence.