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    Nutanix claims it has poached 30,000 VMware customers

    I’ve been working with a few customers on migration to HPE VM Essentials. That product is developing fast but customers are willing to accept a loss of functionality over giving any money to Broadcom.
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    No F-150 in France? US automakers complain the EU blocks big trucks.

    Let me state that when I come across a stupid American pick-up on a road that’s too small, I will not be the one to back up and get out of the way. Suddenly I’ll have all the time in the world.
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    GM idles electric truck factory, lays off 1,300 workers for a month

    You mean like this…. https://www.ford.co.uk/vans-and-pickups/e-transit-courier#intro As usual Ford US are, somewhat behind the curve.
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    Polygraphs have major flaws. Are there better options?

    There are already much better and considerably more reliable options such as goat entrails or picking through some dust touched by individual, looking for patterns to confirm their guilt.
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    RFK Jr. anti-vaccine ally dramatically quits CDC panel, complaining of drama

    Like rats in a sack
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    10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents

    I keep hearing “these tools are not going away” but is that true? Certainly in their current form companies are burning billions to provide these tools. what happens when that inevitably comes to an end? Perhaps locally run, lower capability LLMs could be useful for programmers. Maybe the real...
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    Exclusive: Volvo tells us why having Gemini in your next car is a good thing

    Awh hell no
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    Deny, deny, admit: UK police used Copilot AI “hallucination” when banning football fans

    Yet again what we see is using generative ai for something that matters is not working smarter. It’s outsourcing that work to a guessing machine.
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    Deny, deny, admit: UK police used Copilot AI “hallucination” when banning football fans

    It’s very much about both.
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    LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems

    The displays sold as commercial screens are quite different. They’re designed and warranted to operate 24/7 for multiple years, which domestic TVs are not.
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    The NPU in your phone keeps improving—why isn’t that making AI better?

    It’s more like an extra engine for your car just for going up that one hill in a town you’ve never visited
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    A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions

    “The internet” was fine. Routing to destinations, which is what you’re thinking of, was just peachy. Services offered by a single massive company failed and therefore everybody relying on them to host their stuff suffered that. In principle this is no different from, say, bank A having an...
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    Microsoft’s vision for AI PCs looks a lot like another crack at Cortana

    Oh god no
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    Why does OpenAI need six giant data centers?

    This has been the case for some time and it’s because this is the best way to measure the capacity of a facility. Computing power advances and changes fast but the energy supply capacity for a facility does not. So, yes, computers themselves are measured in compute capability but the DC is...
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    Tesla Model Y door handles now under federal safety scrutiny

    Most manufacturers moved to an electric trunk/boot release 10 plus years ago and that was always seemed a dumb as rocks move given the release solenoid, wiring or button is a new and unnecessary failure point. Aside from the fancy option of self opening tailgate this design appears to offer no...
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    It’s getting harder to skirt RTO policies without employers noticing

    Corp I work for announced RTO which included the team I’m part of, none of us have ever worked I the office. When it was pointed out that for some of us the office was beyond a sensible commute (for me it’s minimum 2.5 hrs each way) it was suggested we move house. After three people have notice...
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    Tesla is the least-trusted car brand in America, survey finds

    Completely agree, but until recently our company car EV offering was a Tesla now or an Audi at some undetermined point in the future. That’s got better but several colleagues didn’t really have much choice.
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    For the first time since 1882, UK will have no coal-fired power plants

    That’ll be positive input ventilation also known as blowing all the heat out of the house. I had a heating engineer say to me recently that if anyone suggests installing PIV I should run them out of town.
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    For the first time since 1882, UK will have no coal-fired power plants

    But the OPs point is sort of correct, much as it pains me to say.
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    For the first time since 1882, UK will have no coal-fired power plants

    The UK energy market pegs electricity prices to the most expensive generation which, for a while now, has been gas. So prices are disproportionately high, but this has nothing to do with coal.