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    Trump made it cool to hate government spying again, EFF’s departing chief says

    I recommend John Perry Barlow's autobiography, Mother American Night: My Life in Crazy Times. He was (one of) the founders of the EFF. Also, if you appreciate the EFF (as I do) check out FIRE.org.
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    FDA links raw cheese to outbreak; Makers “100% disagree,” refuse recall

    "Raw Farm’s owner, Mark McAfee" Any relation to John McAfee?
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    Explain it like I’m 5: Why is everyone on speakerphone in public?

    Remember boom boxes booming in public - sidewalk, train, etc... - in the 1980s?
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    Webb has given us with a stunning new view of a well-known planetary nebula

    This is not a useful comment, but, the JWST would never have been funded by the current US administration and that freaking sucks.
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    US government to take 25% cut of AMD, NVIDIA AI sales to China

    US Constitution, Article I, Section 9, Clause 5: “No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State.”
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    Judge orders Anna’s Archive to delete scraped data; no one thinks it will comply

    Good legislation follows popular demand. (Evolution is better than intelligent design.) So, piracy is an important foundational step towards good legislation.
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    Conservative lawmakers want porn taxes. Critics say they’re unconstitutional.

    Isn't porn free on the internet? How do "they" tax something that is free? Also, is there any workable definition of porn? Also-also, I sometimes use a VPN to watch content served from other countries. Wouldn't that mean I could just use a VPN to stream porn from a country where it is still...
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    How Europe’s new carbon tax on imported goods will change global trade

    Remember "Dieselgate", when VW was busted for gaming the system, lying to government regulators and ripping off consumers with their rigged diesel engine emission tests? If you thought that was bad, this new CBAM says "hold by beer".
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    “We’re in an LLM bubble,” Hugging Face CEO says—but not an AI one

    At last. The Roomba was AI in it's time, and didn't need a football field of GPUs to navigate my living room. Facial recognition, now about 20 years old, was AI to those who developed it, but doesn't need $100B of data centers to function. Machine learning, neural networks, those things have...
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    OpenAI signs massive AI compute deal with Amazon

    How many years can a GPU be used for AI training before it is too far behind the latest technology GPUs? What about for AI responses? Are the big Cap Ex investments going to depreciate in just 2 or 3 years? How long does a $100B of servers+GPUs generate profit?
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    Research roundup: 6 cool science stories we almost missed

    Those vipers accelerate at about 70 g. Yet another reason I have an irrational fear of any snake.
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    Trump offers universities a choice: Comply for preferential funding

    Don't you think Trump is just a pawn? I don't think this won't end with Trump. Do you?
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    Chinese EV buyers are cooling on Tesla and BYD

    Who needs self-driving cars when we can put a humanoid robot behind the wheel of a regular car? Maybe that's the Tesla plan.
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    OpenAI says it’s “impossible” to create useful AI models without copyrighted material

    Copyright law has to be changed to catch up to modern times. For the past few decades "intellectual property rights" has been the buzzword. That has gotten out of hand. Copyright law has to be changed to reflect that in order to progress much material must be available in a different way than...