books are tangible.

It's amazon. They probably burn the books to generate excess CO2, and us the heat from that process to run large noisemaking fans to annoy anyone within three miles of the facility. There's probably a kitten killing machine involved as well for no clear reason.

Every single article about Amazon is pretty much Dr. Evil level nonsense.
Why do you people keep buying stuff from them?

From the ones I've seen , aren't they just barely usable and generally don't contribute much at all to your electricity needs? I looked at some a few years ago, they may have become better. But at the time it felt like "pay hundreds or thousands of dollars for something that saves you $5 a month.":

They ragebaited you, didn't they?

Looks like someone fell for the ragebait.

I know for me, if I read something I disagree with, I may snark at it-- willingly, as I know it's driving my algorithm. But I generally don't get angry and view much of it as useless fluff I can effectively ignore.
One of my past best friends, however, was a hard left Bay area resident, and she eventually got pissed off and "officially" dropped me as a friend because I wasn't angry enough about some thing that occurred which I can't even remember. It was literally " I can't be friends with someone who isn't angry enough about [insert thing here]". I probably can't remember because she was angry about all sorts of things.

We now have a NUMBER for the value of these data breaches. Time for the Lawyers to use this metric to go after every single data breach.

Depending on rarity, importance, and jurisdiction, at some point, it becomes a crime.
Certain manuscripts, incunables, only editions, codexes and such. Also, artifacts of historical relevance (for example Thomas Jefferon's Qur'an)...

Again, depends on Rairty, importance and Juristidiction.

And ONLY for this vuln.

This patch came just nine days after apple published a record breaking patch set of more than a hundred security patches (depending of OS version).

Apple took the PR egg on face, and the extra load on the update servers, to emit a patch for just that security vuln, instead of just waiting for the next regular patch (expected right after MscOS 27 is emitted, on Oct~Nov this year)

I did update. I did recommended people to update.

If people is too sttuborn to update, what can you do?

On AUg 7, nine (9) days right after emitting a security update with more than 100 security patches (depending on OS version), Apple emited a lonely patch just for this vulnerability.

They took the PR hit, and the extra load on the update servers, instead of waiting until the next patch cycle (expected when MacOS 27 lands in Sept or Oct).

If people do not apply security patches 5 days after they are emited, that's another thing entirely.

nazism is back in fashion, it just picks on "zionists" now.

Investors are chasing a company that achieves some kind of AI singularity. Let's set aside the fact that there's no reason to believe there is anything but diminishing marginal returns by making marginal refinements to current frontier models. Let's imagine someone hits the jackpot and gets, not even AGI, but a system that's as far ahead of today's frontier model are ahead of 2020's GPT 2.0 in performance.

Globally AI revenues are 150 billion, against a cumulative burn rate of 450 billion. A model that is a generation ahead of others would almost certainly capture the lion's share of that revenue.

If AGI magically appears as a Sam Altman has promised investors it will, a hundred million is way too low. Add, maybe, another zero to the revenues.

Conservatively, a safer assumption is that frontier models will get marginally better based on refinements in training and reinforcement and the other bits and bobs that go into these systems. The nobody is winning the lion's share of anything, at least overnight. But you have to define "safe". By "safe" I mean unlikely to lose money. But some investors are clearly defining "safe" as "having the greatest chance of owning a piece of the biggest thing ever."

I'm not following this super-closely, but if Anthropic is pursuing adding multi-step model based reasoning to their system, that could be the basis of a generational leap in capability. But if that is an approach that looks like it has a chance of working, then their competitors are no doubt pursuing the same thing. In that case you'd expect the revenue pie to grow as the scope of model utilty increases, but that growth to be split among several competitors. This could credibly result in a revenue stream for some of them that is as big as the entire industry's revenue stream today. But there's going to be hell to pay on the data center impacts end of things.

Which sounds like what they may be attempting.

Its not racism or prejudice in the sense of judging people by immaterial qualities (skin color, sex/gender/ethnicity/etc) , it is the prejudice of Elitism. They think ONLY their elite compatriots are or should be eligible to doing the six figure job. There was a cute 80s movie that took this Elitism to task, The Last Starfighter.

It fits this pretty well.