fliptop writes:From New York to California, state renewable electrical power dreams are collapsing. Power demands soar, while the federal government cuts funding and support for wind, solar, and grid batteries. Renewables cannot provide enough power to support the artificial intelligence revolution. The Net Zero electricity transition is failing in the United States:
fliptop writes:With this week's release of Android 16, Google added a new security feature to Android, called Advanced Protection. At-risk people-like journalists, activists, or politicians-should consider turning on. Here's what it does, and how to decide if it's a good fit for your security needs:
hubie writes:A new attack dubbed 'SmartAttack' uses smartwatches as a covert ultrasonic signal receiver to exfiltrate data from physically isolated (air-gapped) systems:
quietus writes:The President of the United States has declared that the 17 million inhabitants of the capital city of a country should immediately evacuate.Republican Congressman (and engineer) Thomas Massie (Kentucky) has stated that he will introduce a war powers resolution today, Tuesday, to prevent the President of the United States going to war without first consulting Congress.
canopic jug writes:The Steve Jobs Archive, Wired, and MacRumors are covering the 20 anniversary of an iconic commencement address to Standford University which Steve Jobs delivered in June, 2005. In it he quoted the Whole Earth Catalog by encouraging the graduates to "stay hungry, stay foolish".
quietus writes:The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform recently (June 5) held a hearing on, ahem, Artificial Intelligence, and its usage within the federal government.
looorg writes:ChatGPT might have many strengths and claims of "intelligence". But in a recent game of Chess was utterly wrecked (their word not mine) by a Atari 2600 and it's simple little chess program. So all the might of ChatGPT applied to chess wrecked by the scrappy little game console that is almost 50 years old.So there are things that ChatGPT apparently shouldn't do. Like playing chess. If anything this might show its absolute lack of critical thinking or thinking ahead. Instead it's a regurgitation engine for text blobs. I guess you just conjure up a good game of Chess from the Internet and apply it ...
fliptop writes:UNFI, North America's largest grocery distributor, halted deliveries after a cyberattack disrupted operations for 30,000 retail locations:
quietus writes:Do you think Internet SEARCH has gone sucky-sucky-so-so? Can you imagine a better experience? Do you have some coding (dis)ability, perhaps even friends-with-similar-benefits?Then you -- yes, you -- might be interested in a project a bunch of European research institutions have been working on for the past two years, and now -- June 6 -- have released to the public.The project -- imaginatively named the Open Web Search Initiative -- offers all elements of a modern day search engine in convenient open source packages; along with 6.61 billion urls, 923 TiB total, and 1 TiB of daily crawled data. The only thing left for you to do is to download a partial index of all that data to your own server(s) and develop your own custom software on top of that. Then ...