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or you could read more. i was more of a fan until recently.

‘Is university still worth it?’ is the wrong question The graduate earnings premium isn’t really measuring what most people think

its more about the state of the uk than the degree. thats why the headline 🙂. article and its comments worth a peep.

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he reformed recently. check the date on the actual donation. vs crockett whos more recently welcomed big business and crypto and votes in support of israel. she choose the establishment.

A $10K Bounty Awaits Anyone Who Can Hack Ring Cameras to Stop Sharing Data With Amazon The Fulu Foundation, a nonprofit that pays out bounties for removing user-hostile features, is hunting for a way to keep Ring cameras from sending data to Amazon—without breaking the hardware.

Want to make a quick $10K? Just hack a Ring camera
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America must share the benefits of AI leadership We cannot allow the adoption gap between advanced and developing economies to grow

„The writer is the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.“

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from comments: „How the heck does the FT give this dude a platform for this imperialist nonsense?“

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Ethiopia EV Boom Sparked by ICE Car Import Ban The East African country is making use of cheap hydropower and Chinese electric vehicles to ditch the internal combustion engine.

ICYMI: Fascinating dive by @fasikat.bsky.social & @akshatrathi.bsky.social into what we can learn from Ethiopia successfully banning gas-burning cars and sparking an EV boom, something many developed countries struggle to do

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welcome news! (side lol for rap defense wtf.)

fyi. this brand sells renewable energies to stateside alphabet, amazon, microsoft. in capacties they dont have access to = fossil fuel.

yes, vertical is straightforward. i admit to personal bias for another architecture that may involve less rework at this stage of ai.

also wonder re the weights convergence of the better models. the core llm is the big cost so i wonder if training costs in general will keep decreasing. i know data centers are also resource grabs but. facepalm.

yeah its a quick norm bc its free. according to tech review, its 7x more energy efficient. cant rem if that was before or after excising censorship. regardless, removing that logic carveouts was big speed boost.

ive read the french young are fed up with their pols and doing their own thing. i dont know how true that is but usains do think about post-macron and we dont wish her on anyone.

also, govts need to own the hardware stack. the hardline and ip known as the internet. thats infrastructure and private business in infrastructure is capture. or looting, your choice of term. a/k/a security risk.

Researchers Hack DeepSeek to Speak Freely About Tiananmen Square Researchers claim to have found a workaround to AI model DeepSeek's Chinese censorship, slimming it down in the process.

ah. ai. wouldnt it be awesome if china produced these spiffy efficient opensource models and european physicists hacked their weights? (this and mittr)

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heard that.

greece and the uk might like to have a word here.

that didnt cone from nowhere.

hello hello usain congress

Bill Bramhall cartoon.

protein folding out? ads (back) in? surprise.

these idiots setting up their risk boards. „spheres of influence“. as if all of us mere citizens didnt live here, werent ok with it.

„techkrieg“! sure is!

lets hope they are beach front. no reason not to since he opposes climate change.

oh. were you talking about kid rock?

how about the year 1984?

this is public-ish at last. open secret of the ages.

algorithm? i thought it was some guy in a red hat under the table. mechanical maga.

my dad taught me how to drive and he always brought popcorn. instead, my best driving test was showing up in stick shift and the guy checking all the boxes and letting me go asap.

well the are not resource hoarders so thats a big plus.

theres four years of adams working with cuomo. thats a lot of deficit. he held several public meetings on this. did you watch them? i watched them. he has already said hes going to appeal directly to the statehouse to recover funds.

afaik no technology has ever been regulated in its release unless you count elizabeths delay of the factory loom. ai is more railroad robber baron resource grab of the commons. and then there is the tech itself.