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    All federal agencies ordered to terminate remote work—ideally within 30 days

    They also underestimate how slowly pissed off workers can work. There is after all no lower bound on effiency.
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    Americans are living longer—but most of the extra time is spent being sick

    I just wanna add in that this is not a special Republican or Democrat problem. Neither of those parties give a sheet about the average american health. They both fawn over their healthcare oligarchs. You americans make such a fuss about the differences in the two parties. You almost go to war...
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    New BadRAM attack neuters security assurances in AMD Epyc processors

    Would not this DIMM-tampering trigger a configuration / hardware change warning? Your server used to have 4x 128GB ram, it now suddenly has 3x128GB and 1x256. I expected that in a secure system, hardware changes would be a thing you actively monitor for. If the server actually tries to write to...
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    Intel targets budget-friendly 1440p gaming with $249 and $219 Arc B500 GPUs

    Assuming Intel's claims about the performance is correct, it still seems a bit ... meh. Sure, it can beat the RTX 4060, but it needs 50-70% more power to do so. Intel seems to borrow a trick from its CPU business; boost the board power and clock the sheet out of it to gain those few last...
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    CERN will expel hundreds of Russia-affiliated scientists by December

    This isnt really a Putin thing... its really a Russia-thing. Ever since Catherine The Great some hundred years agao (or even before that) Russia has been strong-arming or simply invading their neighbors. The "true" enthic russian are those around Moscow and the St.Petersbourg ... the rest of...
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    Cops bust website crooks used to unlock 1.2 million stolen mobile phones

    Its a trade off ... yes, it puts your phone easier up for for a loss, but having emergency medial information available might save your life. Dunno about you but I value my life more than a phone. I can always buy a new phone and part of the cost is recovered by insurance.
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    Researchers spot largest black hole jets ever discovered

    One immidiate problem with that image is that gravity acts as a stabilizing factor. Add more mass to a black hole = add more gravity => add more stability. And with stabilty, you exponentially add more lifetime. A universe sized black hole would also be fantastically long lived. If you compare...
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    Amazon kills remote working, tells workers to be in office 5 days a week

    Many report that they get more stuff done when working from home; its fewer disruptions, easier to concentrate etc. I find that quite sad ... the place of work is less suited for actually working than your living room. That's kind of piss-poor performance. A place of work should beat a...
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    Australian government trial finds AI is much worse than humans at summarizing

    AI generated text will follow the same route as Google Translate. Humans will after all still be humans... lazy. If you are "so lazy" you dont wanna do a certain task, you're probably also "too lazy" to verify it too. You're unlikely to spend the time saved to verify that the AI made it right...
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    Ukrainian drones now spray 2,500° C thermite streams right into Russian trenches

    Conscript, smonscript. Russia has lots of ways to make conscripts "volunteer" to sign contracts and regulary uses them. Especially if said conscript are from the non-ethinc russian regions.
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    Military driver arrested for creating fake AI sex abuse images—but using real kids he knew

    This case highligth the old saying that to ensure security you have to succeed every time; the bad guys only have to succeed once... except that in this case, the roles have been reversed. If you are targeted by a suffiently skilled and determined opponent, one slip up can cause the whole card...
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    Court: Section 230 doesn’t shield TikTok from Blackout Challenge death suit

    I agree and I would put the divider on what type of information the system uses to present, list or show other content. If it uses basic meta data about the content, like newest, most viewed, most comments per minute, shortest, longest etc then it would be fine. You can read meta data without...
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    Pavel Durov indicted as prosecutor cites Telegram’s refusal to work with police

    The point about Telegram is to have actually secure communications. People might have very legitimate reasons for why they do not want goverments to be able to read their messages. Dont need to be a crimial to wish for a truely private communication system. Law enforcement and goverments...
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    Electric vehicle battery fires—what to know and how to react

    Naah, you dont need to run around with a container full of water. Just bring an emty container and fill it with the regular firetruck AT THE SITE. A bigger problem would be to actually pick the car up and put it in the dumpster. You would need some kind of crane or fork lift that could take...
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    AMD explains, promises partial fixes for Ryzen 9000 performance problems

    Why didnt AMD realise this before? It all seems to me like a big "It works on my computer"-joke we usually make agains developers. Internal testing and QA seems to be rather relaxed in my humble opinion. Such a small detail threatens to derail an entire product range. Billions upon billons in...
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    AMD Ryzen 9000 review: Impressive efficiency, with bugs and so-so speed boosts

    Same. Last year a made a fully passive computer with both CPU and GPU passively cooled, While it was a fair deal faster than the computer it replaced, it is no speed monster. I'd say it's a decent mid-tier performing computer. However, going for power effiency, I could passively cool it with a...
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    OpenAI has the tech to watermark ChatGPT text—it just won’t release it

    OpenAI : We want to make AI models in a safe, open, ethical and transparent way to service all mankind. Also Open AI: ... the money though.
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    Data centers demand a massive amount of energy. Here’s how some states are tackling the industry’s impact.

    One practical solution would be to place the data centers in cold locations, near big population centers. Not only do you get easier cooling, you could also use a lot of the heat produced to heat nearby buildings, homes and businesses. Let Chat GPT heat you local greenhouse to produce vegetables...
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    Logitech has an idea for a “forever mouse” thatrequires a subscription

    What could you even update via software on a mouse? Only thing I can think of what action a mouse button click launches ... but that's controlled by the driver / software on the computer ... not the mouse itself. The mouse only send "button 1 clicked" to the computer and let Windows, drivers and...
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    Lavish The Rings of Power S2 trailer debuts at San Diego Comic-Con

    I wondered the same thing countless times. One would think the smart money grabbing bosses at the top of Hollywood would be smart enough to see that good writing is a key essetial for a good show. That the relatively cheap investment of a good script more than pays for itself and that it is...