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    LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy

    Or, use this technique to identify posts from bots. It appears we may now have the technology to separate posts from bots from posts by real people, if so, and if used, this would actually be a beneficial use of this technology. Yes, a potentially good use of LLMs :flail::flail::flail:
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    Former NASA chief turned ULA lobbyist seeks law to limit SpaceX funding

    Good point, but the 50% limit is the start of negotiations. He is just drawing a line in the sand, and this attempt to change the rules may well go nowhere. I don't think the Dems will be too resistant to kneecapping SpaceX, because of Elmo, otherwise this attempted rule change would be dead...
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    Under a Paramount-WBD merger, two struggling media giants would unite

    Two companies who currently can't turn a profit, are adding a massive amount of debt, which has to be serviced, further driving down their existing losses. What sensible lender would lend them tens of billions of cash to make this merger happen? The merger only might make financial sense if it...
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    Tesla slashes Cybertruck prices as it tries to move (unpainted) metal

    The X was a good design, badly implemented. The users of the X that I've talked to, love them and love those doors, despite the maintenance required. It was a real shame that Tesla never properly built on the the X platform and produced a good EV SUV, but Elmo was probably bored with it.
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    Tesla slashes Cybertruck prices as it tries to move (unpainted) metal

    It is very difficult to turn a concept car into a production vehicle.
  6. J

    Have we leapt into commercial genetic testing without understanding it?

    Height is primarily determined by childhood diet.
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    Meta’s flagship metaverse service leaves VR behind

    The PalmOS devices that preceded the iPhone had touch screens.
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    Hallucinogen DMT an effective antidepressant in small clinical trial

    With a 5 minute half-life, any effects would pass very quickly
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    Google’s Pixel 10a arrives on March 5 for $499 with specs and design of yesteryear

    If you are the Google Product Manager trying to maintain the price point of $499, these are the kind of decisions that you have to make.
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    When Amazon badly needed a ride, Europe’s Ariane 6 rocket delivered

    Plus none of the Hydrogen-related problems of ULA' s rocket
  11. J

    Alphabet selling very rare 100-year bunds to help fund AI investment

    The UK pound sterling is significantly overvalued, and at some time that'll kick in.
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    Waymo leverages Genie 3 to create a world model for self-driving cars

    If anything, that would be one of the easier parts to implement, since they have access to ice/snow/mud roadways. What this appears to do is to be able to construct a test environment to verify a low probability edge case. And while snow on the Golden Gate bridge is possibly too rare an...
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    Neocities founder stuck in chatbot hell after Bing blocked 1.5M sites

    We found the reference very "amusing"
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    Stellantis swallows $26 billion costs as it rethinks its EV strategy

    Corporations frequently land up sitting on a mass of overvalued IP in their balance sheets, and face continual pressure from their auditors to clean up the balance sheet. Choosing when to clean up the balance sheet is both strategic and tactical, and usually is triggered when the CEO can find...
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    A century of hair samples proves leaded gas ban worked

    Not just the "driving public", all urban residents, and even suburban and rural residents living adjacent to busy roads.
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    SpaceX acquires xAI, plans 1 million satellite constellation to power it

    To do this after the IPO would be doing it to a public company, which exposes Elmo to massive shareholder lawsuits, and SEC scrutiny. Since the companies are notionally private, albeit with outside investors, Elmo has a lot more flexibility and a lot less legal exposure. Having said that, I...
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    LG joins the rest of the world, accepts that people don’t want 8K TVs

    This is really the point. Getting a better color range is far more important than 4K, never mind 8K.
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    Inside Nvidia’s 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android device ever

    Of all the streaming devices, this is the best. It is also better than the cost-optimized hardware in TVs.
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    Here’s Volvo’s new EX60 $60,000 electric midsize SUV

    The price will be actually be "around $75K" Compare against the Rivian R2 and the Lucid Gravity, and the Volvo doesn't fare well.
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    Scott Adams, Dilbert creator, dead at 68

    Hint: They were already racists.