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The UV index is not the warm sensation of sunlight on bare skin.

Astronomers detect radio signals coming from an exoplanet for the first time.

Tiny beach-dwelling crustaceans are big-time sand movers, shaping the California coast.

Acer CEO says memory makers are hyping 2030 shortage fears to protect margins.

Big Banks Say Theyโ€™re Uneasy About People Shopping via AI Agents.

$6.53 Diesel US Average, $8.25 in California, Worsens Already Hot Inflation, amid Record US Diesel Exports. Gasoline & Jet Fuel Prices also Spike.

Ray cat.

America gave up its rare earth edge. China took full advantage.

Disney+ and Hulu raise prices by up to 13 percent after doubling profits.

โ€˜Taxes arenโ€™t really high enough for them to be sensitiveโ€™: the fears of the wealthy fleeing New York and California were just that.

So Very Secure

Chill Amusing, Tech

Please help 2 DCs no longer are opening AD users and computers!

Please help 2 DCs no longer are opening AD users and computers! : sysadmin

I am going to ignore the moronicism of whatever the OP clown did1 and focus on this comment I’ve screenshotted.

Yes, that makes the server vastly more secure, to disable the NIC. It’s perfect security, in fact: it becomes nearly impossible to hack or to exfiltrate data short of visiting the data center to do some dirty deeds on premises or to lug the machine out the door.

Flawless security.

  1. Which I could fix in 15-20 minutes.

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Taiwanโ€™s Status Is Ambiguous. U.S. Policy Shouldnโ€™t Be.

Tech, Science, Social Media Jobs in San Francisco & Silicon Valley Plunge to 2019 Level: AI Magic-Money Boom Is Paper Thin.

The Metric Is Not The Mission: History Rarely Announces Itself.

All roads lead to cable. In their fight to win the war for our attention, streamers are re-creating cable from first principles. Ugh. Piracy is the only answer.

Effective Altruism is evil.

Trump Officials Eject 750,000 From Obamacare Markets, Claiming Fraud.

The Climate May Have Some Surprises in Store.

New Anthropic, OpenAI models make same promise: A little more for a lot less money.

Cities across US oppose Trump FCC plan to preempt local broadband rules.

Data-Only Attacks Are Easier than You Think.

How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?

โ€˜I wish Apple would just stop that crap': Apple has added persistent โ€˜adsโ€™ to iOS, and itโ€™s driving users crazy. Less reason to use Apple. Evil.

Bits Are Not What Matter

Chill Amusing, Annoying, Clowns

And yet it answers nothing because you do not need a high bitrate channel to pass useful signals between nodes. In fact, if you already have an existing payload resident, one bit might be enough. Jesus Christ, I can’t even with these people who pretend to be smart but just know nothing about anything.

Also, her math is way wrong by several orders of magnitude. Which tracks.

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The data center backlash is reshaping American politics โ€” one community at a time.

Apartment Landlords Have a $2 Trillion Debt Problem That Is Only Getting Worse.

Marsโ€™s Ancient Clay Holds the Same Organic Molecules That May Have Sparked Life on Earth.

Spymarks, not Watermarks.

Transformer Explainer: LLM Transformer Model Visually Explained.

Turn off and restrict access to Apple Intelligence features on Mac.

People Hooked on Vapes Try a New Way to Quit: Cigarettes. Uh, what?

Hereโ€™s What California Is Learning From Solar Panels Built Over Irrigation Canals.

The Incredible Journey of a Migratory Shorebird.

The End Of Upward Mobility. Artificial intelligence is coming for the meritocracy.

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T. rex teeth indicate it ran as warm as an elephant.

A Necessary History of the Oddest Letter: W. HAVE YOU SEEN “Q?”

Give your ideas some legs: the positive effect of walking on creative thinking.

College Is Coming Apart.

Treat AI Like a Normal Crisis.

AI chatbots give wrong answers to financial queries โ€˜most of the timeโ€™.

Gas prices are about to take a big jump, analysts say, with the worst still to come.

Dollar General CEO says consumers making $100,000 a year donโ€™t feel like high-income shoppers anymore as high gas prices and inflation reshape habits.

โ€˜Crisis even bigger than Covidโ€™: American business owners are barely getting by.

A Shortage of Oil Tankers Is Threatening to Keep Gas Prices High.

What Itโ€™s Like to Work in One of Americaโ€™s Data Centers.