The blog post’s conclusion suggest an answer:
If police want the power to track a person’s movements, they must be required to convince a judge with evidence and probable cause. They should not be able to bypass the Constitution with a search for “haha.”
The rise in coal use was largely driven by the growth of data centres
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Good point, the limited range does make laser system more expensive for covering the border of a country.
It probably make more sense to use laser systems as an extra layer of protection around specific strategic locations, ie transportation hub, large power stations, military bases, large city centers…
Drones incursion are a growing problem. I suspect the development cost is worth it. A laser firing system may cost more than a jet. But shooting an extra drone cost 5-10 EUR of energy, vs 10-200kEUR for the missile and jet fuel.
When someone puts out new stuff every hour, it will get seen by many more people…
Has any social media tried grouping/folding posts per author and day? If an account write a 12-posts rant or marketing push in a single day, the feed could show the first 1, with a button to “see 11 more posts by Account123” similar to how large threads are folded by default.
I’m avoiding big tech social media and don’t know if any have tried that recently.
Security companies termed the incident the “GemStuffer campaign”, while also noting confusion at the purpose of the attack. The malicious packages uploaded were used to retrieve … data that was available to the public. One news outlet writes: “It’s not clear what exactly the end goals are, as the information appears to be publicly accessible anyway.”
Wasting everyone’s time, scrapping agressively while disrupting online services, that’s on brand for LLMs.
I wonder if RubyGem is now blocking LLM agents and scrappers, by technical means and by policy. It may be inconvenient for vibe coders while helping protect the service, so only positives.
It lacks a comparison to other apps…
Yes. Would love to see this compared to XMPP, maybe Signal.
And does it actually matter? What is important to encrypt?
It matters a lot! Here’s one dramatic example:
Some may find this acceptable, considering the army is rightfully targetting terrorists. However the same techniques are used by autoritarian states to target political opponents, journalists, human right defenders…
It’s strange that the server shares the IP to other servers. That’s not really useful for another server.
Even if there’s a technical reason, it shows the protocol or implementations lack good metadata protections. Hopefully the matrix foundation can fix this soon. If not, people should look for more secure options.
while unlikely, we cannot rule out that de-identified data derived from their usage of our products helped improve our models.
So either they don’t track what goes in their training data, or they do but their LLM is unable to precisely credit sources. Maybe a bit of both. That’s convenient, this way they claim great discoveries without crediting all prior work they’re relying on.
LLMs are a great plausible deniability generator. These allow one to plagiarize while saying with a straight face no one knows what source material the result are based on.
La CNIL ne fait pas suffisamment peur quand on voit les fabricants se torcher à se point de la vie privée.
If these videos are good for user engagement, then Meta will continue dragging its feet to moderate.
It doesn’t matter if users find this revolting, as long as they continue using Meta/Facebook to express how revolting the videos are.
Mistral lève trois milliard…
C’est lourd 3 milliards d’euro ?
In some countries, FM Radio is one of the official channels for alerts and information in case of crisis.
People are expected to have a FM receiver that runs on battery, ideally one that can be recharged with a crank or solar panel.
If Internet goes down, either during a small or large-scale outage, it’s good to have a way to get broadcast and information.
Let’s try daily penalty, that increase with the number of devices sold and with time.
This is a symptom of a regression in the democratization of general purpose computing. An extreme case for sure.
Machines are getting increasingly expensive, and the number of person who can affort a computer decreases. Reversing decades of progress in computer availability, thanks to AI and techbros.
Julien Odoul is a member of the far right National Rally (RN), so this doesn’t come as a surprise.
He was found gulty, along members of his party, of misappropriation of public funds. He appealed. The appeal court gave suspended sentences, including 8 months of jail, and barred from elections for 1 year.
This is documented in the wikipedia article linked above. The article mentions other affairs he’s either been convincted or is merely accused. Including a formal complain for heinous incitement by SOS racisme.
Superhot fluids carry vastly more energy than standard geothermal steam […]. The Newberry field alone holds an estimated thermally recoverable capacity exceeding 10 gigawatts of electricity
Sounds like boiling water driving a good old steam engine, but without fossil fuel involved.
That’s great. I hope it’s possible to recover some of leftover heat for district heating, before pomping the fluid back underground.
The issue is larger than a single incompetent clown.
He was elected twice, with the support of the republican party and many big donnors. What prevents another narcisist, corrupt, incompetent clown from being elected?
Over the next week, we’ll be looking back at some of our past global health and development stories to see “whatever happened to …”
This is a great and absolutely necessary format. It’s refreshing to take a break from the fast news cycle, even if the topic is serious and progress is slow.
Network segmentation can reduce exposure for ordinary Internet of Things (IoT) devices, but it is not a complete answer here
Folks who buy shady streaming boxes probably wouldn’t do network segmentation anyway.
These already contribute the rise in coal use.
https://www.thechemicalengineer.com/news/us-coal-biggest-contributor-by-far-to-rise-in-global-emissions/
Most of this could be avoided by making polluters pay, ie collect a carbon tax than represent the real cost of pollution. The alternative is to keep having everyone else pay for the damages and cleanup (more illnesses, higher income/sales tax, higher insurance premiums, …).