It's about time they deployed PDCs on space stations. They can shoot a stream of ice pellets at space debris to slow it down or deflect it. Radar would tell it what's approaching from thousands of miles out.

I imagine it's actually acrylic, not silica glass. But acrylic can crack in the same way. Scratches are stress risers and cracks can propagate from areas where they're under unequal pressure.

Gold is what all the Chinese-run scammers are pushing now. They can set up a fake gold trading platform with more credibility than a real cryto exchange would have.

The only reason to use WhatsApp is so you can chat to the scam bots that lurk on Tinder as Asian models pretending to be 1 mile away and looking for a long term relationship who immediately ask to switch to WhatsApp or Telegram so they can send you pictures they harvested from Chinese dating sites in order to get you to give them money to invest in gold CFDs for you.

"we will remain at the forefront of vigorous antitrust enforcement," said Gail Slater
I don't recognize this DOJ. Is this from 2023?
Looks to me like RealPage is one of the few grift engines that didn't bribe Trump in time to have the DOJ forget about it.

Valid point. That's actually what I did with the previous tower. Created a then-supercomputer at relatively low cost. Used it for a year like that, upgraded things like the graphics card, ran linux on it because Apple didn't support the hardware anymore. But then I got tired of debugging linux audio problems and bought the Mac Studio, which was way more powerful and had zero issues to troubleshoot.
I am complaining about being in that hardware transition phase where a really powerful Intel machine looks like a toaster compared to a mid-range Apple silicon chip with fewer cores. I mean the Mac Studio is idling at super low buffer size/latency where the supercomputer struggled even with 4-5x the buffer size and more latency/time to process.

He's betting on becoming immortal through science, having his wife thawed, cured and brought back to life also with the immortality fix applied. But he knows that's way off in the future. I'm sure he's planning to be iced until the technology exists to make all that happen. They'll both wake up to a very different world and be happy of course because love is infinite.. But until such time as he's ready for the freezer, he needs a romantic partner to continue living his best life...
  oh wait -
"a severe gout attack which left him unable to move for two days began to change his mind about the benefits of living alone."
"the love was only "utilitarian" and that she hadn't "entered" his heart

WTF dating app is this guy using. Profile:
"I'm looking for a utilitarian relationship because my gout is terrible, and I want a nurse with benefits who I can do as I wish with"

Yeah he's a wealthy and unhealthy person with a terrible lifestyle who needs a nurse that he can get handsy with. I'm disgusted.
Maybe do something about the gout, like having something other than scotch and steak stuffed lobster for dinner.
The trans-humanists will likely be the worst kinds of people by the average standards of good and bad.

I have a Mac Studio. I also have a Mac pro from the last Intel era that is full of memory, cores, SSDs and is basically a brick now.
There's no reason for a computer to take up more space than a Mac Studio.

Things businesses have to hide from unauthorized access or making public accidentally:

Direct Identifiers
Name
Address
Social Security number (SSN)
Other identifying number or code
Phone number
Email address

Indirect Identifiers
Gender
Race
Birthdate
Geographic indicators

We can't even log these identifiers together internally. If we see First Name, Last Name, Phone Number in HTTP access logs and they're not replaced by ***** characters, we have to fix that right now.

I don't know what good zip ties are unless you tie the hands behind the back. There are a lot of people who would not be able to bite through zip ties anyway. It's unlikely the biting through zip ties works when there's someone monitoring you and making you stop biting through zip ties by kicking your face.

I hope the Tolkien estate sues all of them. You know a company is associated with Peter Theil if it has a LOTR name.

Meta called the exposed information "basic publicly available information"

Uhm, what it's called by everyone else in the tech industry is "personally identifiable information" or PII.
And the security rules around PII is that it should not be exposed under any circumstances to anyone not authorized by the Person in question to view it.
Basically publicly available for fox snakes.

Good take. Amodei and others left OpenAI because (I imagine) Altman is intolerable, and because they know they're smarter and don't want to share revenue with a sales pitch guy who suddenly thinks he's the AI messiah like Jared Leto' Wallace character in Blade Runner 2049.

It's not cost effective or usually plausible to go after them once the data has already been encrypted. Important files are suddenly unreadable, and a popup says that you need to post a certain amount of money to a crypto exchange. There's intentionally nobody to contact, no person with a disguised voice on a telephone giving elaborate cash drop instructions.
Paying criminals off incentivizes more criminals to engage in criminal behavior. The cost of good security is much lower than the cost of having government agencies come in after the fact to clean up and attempt to catch criminals who are long gone and untraceable. They don't really operate like that, because the chances of catching a criminal actively is pretty low. It would not be a good use of taxpayer's money. They go after organized crime by setting up honey traps, using informants, undercover agents, working the human angles.

True, and I agree, but they need to be funneled to a new school for kids who don't read so good or learned math wrongly. Remedial school. This is not a new thing in most education systems. Students need to move along, not repeat grades. If you get held back a year, it's just a repeat in a system that failed. If you put these students in a training program that fixes the fundamentals of math and reading/writing/comprehension, depending on their needs, there's a better chance of some kind of positive outcome. In a lot of countries you can't assume you graduate and go into university. A large percentage of students belong in a trade school or "post-secondary facility"
University is not for everyone automatically at age 19. Most cities have vocational education or technical schools (public and private). There are also community colleges where remedial courses are taught. The courses don't count towards a degree, but "095 algebra because you slept through high school" courses are better than having to repeat a whole year of the SAME shit. People think of students like spawning fish. You either make it upstream to spawn on time, or you fail and get eaten by bears. The stream needs more branches to handle students who might have gotten stuck somewhere and need alternative approaches.
I was a pretty bad student, so I experienced a lot of the different ways the school systems deal with problem students. A lot of it is a struggle, a lot of it is mental and environmental factors that parents and school staff can't control.