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    Bandages made of medical waste cost Medicare $10B last year—limits are coming

    Silver and copper are the better anti microbial agents. But not to worry, they sell you those for the price of gold and simply pocket the difference.
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    NASA has a new interim administrator: the Secretary of Transportation

    This entire administration is Homer Simpson in the episode where he becomes sanitation commissioner. In the end he sells Springfield as a garbage dump for other cities to balance the budget. A move so mad, it could have come from this current administration. At least in the end of that episode...
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    In a wild time for copyright law, the US Copyright Office has no leader

    It has me worried how many German words you folks borrow these days.
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    All 17 fired vaccine advisors unite to blast RFK Jr.’s “destabilizing decisions”

    As a medical doctor I would say that vaccines are by far, the absolute main, number one, most successful invention modern medicine and pharmacy has ever produced. It simply dwarves everything else. Of course the day to day medical procedures we are used to today, antibiotics, modern radiology...
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    IBM is now detailing what its first quantum compute system will look like

    The main goal is for as many people as possible being bamboozled and unbamboozled at the same time until you take a measurement of their bamboozledness.
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    Current SEC chair cast only vote against suing Elon Musk, report says

    Compared to this shit show the Ferengi Commerce Authority is a heaven of strong government oversight. With only a hint of corruption.
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    Bird flu continues spread as Trump’s pandemic experts are MIA

    If they did that these people would develop and triple inject everybody with a vaccine within a week. Beware of people with brains!
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    White House may seek to slash NASA’s science budget by 50 percent

    Leading up to, and during, WW2 there was huge exodus of scientists from Nazi Germany. Some because they were Jewish and simply needed to fear for their lives, others because funding was cut and they just couldn't continue their work. Before all this happened, Germany was a science power house...
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    Trump announces $500B “Stargate” AI infrastructure project with AGI aims

    Musk has his own AI company and doesn't like Altman. Guess that's where this is coming from. Well, maybe they cancel SLS then and reallocate the funds to this. Turning government pork into private-sector pork.
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    Trump announces $500B “Stargate” AI infrastructure project with AGI aims

    What kind of infrastructure buys half a trillion dollars? And we is this needed? So that the inaccurate models can be inaccurate a little bit faster? I thought many experiments had already shown that the results do not get better by adding more parameters, in fact many smaller nets outperform...
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    There was a straight shot from Earth to the Moon and Mars last night

    Great Scott!
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    Hackers infiltrate Rhode Island benefits portal, forcing state to shut it down

    For a second there I was a bit confused on how the hackers got their hands on nuclear submarines (read that in Checkov's accent), until I figured that SSN might be an ambiguous. That's the fun of abbreviation isn't it?
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    8 dead, 2,700 injured after simultaneous pager explosions in Lebanon

    And might also coincidentally involved in almost every single supply chain for almost every single product these days
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    The PS5 Pro brings the game console’s disc drive era to an end

    I agree. I also trust Steam or GOG much more than any vendor store. Maybe it’s time for some legislation in lieu of trust which sets clear boundaries on how long and in what way content needs to remain accessible. Even if that means Apple is going to even hold more features hostage in the EU.
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    The PS5 Pro brings the game console’s disc drive era to an end

    Let's hope this also leads to a "Steamification" of their App Store. Although I'm a millennial and own a record player and some serious vinyl, I never cared much about physical media when it comes to gaming. However, at least in the PS4 era, they never dropped the prices for the games in the...
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    Hackers infect ISPs with malware that steals customers’ credentials

    Since when is Lumen, formerly CenturyLink, a security company? Yes they have the Black Louts Labs and do other cyber-security related stuff, but first and foremost I would describe them as an IP carrier/business ISP?
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    Metropolis 1998 lets you design every building in an isometric, pixel-art city

    Did you check out Anno 1800? The city building is great, the logistics can be extremely complex with all the different DLCs and there is also decent technology progression, not rivalling Civ, but still you go from sail ships to steam ships, from manual labor to electrified factories.
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    Metropolis 1998 lets you design every building in an isometric, pixel-art city

    I just started reading Building SimCity: How to Put the World in a Machine, so this game fits quite nicely. Might give it a try. I can also recommend the book, it has very interesting insights into the game mechanics and how they pulled it all off in the early days.
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    Chinese space firm unintentionally launches its new rocket

    To boltly go where no-one has gone before. I'll show myself out.
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    Windows 11 24H2 is released to the public but only on Copilot+ PCs (for now)

    Do I understand this correctly that my three year old gaming PC won’t be able to use the latest AI stuff but would still get this update? If that is the case and “old” hardware is the kill switch for the AI creep I’d consider this a feature. Nothing against AI assistants, I use GitHub copilot...