Julia D

A Chrome browser error page displays the familiar “Aw, Snap!” message, indicating that something went wrong while loading a webpage. A pixelated frowning file icon with Xs for eyes appears at the top left. Below, the error code reads “Out of Memory,” suggesting the browser ran out of system resources. The page includes a “Reload” button in blue on the bottom right

behold the "HTML bomb"

It's a counterattack for AI companies that persistently scrape and rescrape your web site, even when you tell them not to

when a scraper grabs it, it becomes a 10-gig HTML page and 💣 goes the scraper

Item #6 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter: buttondown.com/clivethompso...

Watchdog Group Downgrades U.S. From Democracy To Whatever Political System Lobsters Have

Watchdog Group Downgrades U.S. From Democracy To Whatever Political System Lobsters Have theonion.com/watchdo...

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Maths is hard. What even are percentages anyway?

Some electric cars fall short of claimed range by up to 23%, Australian motoring group finds The Australian Automobile Association tested vehicles from Tesla, BYD, Kia and Smart in bid to give consumers more accurate information

“Despite showing a gap between lab and real-world results, the AAA and electric vehicle industry representatives said the results should reduce range anxiety among consumers looking to buy an EV.”

But we’ll run a scary headline anyway.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Olympics are going to be great.

A personal platypus: the strange tale of Winston Churchill’s ‘magnificently idiotic’ wartime request The wartime British PM was due to receive a monotreme named after him but it mysteriously died en route. German submarines were blamed – but was that the truth?

This is a story that feels like an April fools joke. Appropriately weird.

I’m a sucker for anything to do with platypus.

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Hundreds more CSIRO jobs on the chopping block as experts raise fears over impact on science Concerns Australia is gutting its research capability coincide with Trump’s deep cuts into US science agencies

I don’t know the detail of proposed cuts at the CSIRO (as the article notes, not knowing is making people anxious) but I feel like we began to screw the place up back in the Howard years. It was a great institution, seems like a shadow of its former self.

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Australia’s potential surrender of creative content to tech giants for free is shocking. Labor must decide where it stands | Josh Taylor The Productivity Commission appears to have bought into tech companies’ brazen arguments – and caught the Australian government off-guard

Well done to Josh Taylor for sinking the boot into the Productivity Commission's risible report on AI. Rubbish like this suggests it's well past time to abolish the Productivity Commission altogether. Put the funding into actual research, not this nonsense www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Hackers Hijacked Google’s Gemini AI With a Poisoned Calendar Invite to Take Over a Smart Home For likely the first time ever, security researchers have shown how AI can be hacked to create real world havoc, allowing them to turn off lights, open smart shutters, and more.

NEW: A team of security researchers have successfully pulled off the first-known instance of using prompt injection against an AI tool carry out an attack involving physical devices. @mattburgess1.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/google...

Me: "Oh, this can't be that ba-OH MY GOD"

Hype is a business tool. Too many #UX folk don't know about the Gartner Hype cycle. Even those that do don't understand how it's being used to manipulate us, making our discussion of #genAI so complicated and scary. This is my attempt to calm things down a bit.
jenson.org/hype/

Future nursing homes will be run by AI and robots. Why that might be a good thing. AI and robotics offer the only solution to the eldercare crisis.

There’s a lot of competition for most dystopian tech headline of the day or week, but this is definitely a front runner.

Homer Simpson attempting to drum up more bowling alley business by standing outside the entrance firing a shotgun repeatedly, terrifying both current and potential customers

the US trying to entice foreign tourism

Microsoft’s plan to fix the web with AI has already hit an embarrassing security flaw Microsoft has patched the flaw

Microsoft’s plan to fix the web with AI has already hit an embarrassing security flaw. Researchers discovered you could use malformed URLs to grab .env files and steal OpenAI or Gemini API keys. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/719617/...

If he hadn’t died last week now would be the moment for Tom Lehrer to reprise “So Long Mom (A Song for World War III)”

at this point any Tasmanian who can rustle up 13 mates might as well report to gov house, see if Barb’ll let you form government

That’s a bit alarming. What does “safe to drink” mean in the context of “crisis levels”? It might not be safe to drink in a few months when there’s an algae outbreak?

He’s the poster child for entitlement really.

Perhaps if all the AI companies also gave away all their IP …

4h ago 07.16 AEST Cait Kelly Cait Kelly Hundreds of jobseeker payments cancelled illegally by government IT system, watchdog finds Welfare advocates are calling for an end to mutual obligation, after the commonwealth ombudsman found the department’s automatic system unlawfully cancelled payments. Antipoverty Centre spokesperson Kristin O’Connell said : The release of this damning report is a significant moment for every person who has been subjected to compulsory activities while on a Centrelink payment and for those who have spoken up about the abuse they experienced. For the first time, welfare recipients may feel their experiences are being taken seriously and their lives being treated as valuable by someone in a position of power. Today, the government can and must urgently stop all Centrelink payment penalties – including suspensions, reductions and cancellations – related to compulsory activities and commit to permanently removing the Targeted Compliance Framework. Every person who has had a hand in operating these unlawful systems should feel deep shame and be held responsible for the damage done to people in poverty. Read the full story here: Hundreds of jobseeker payments cancelled illegally by government IT system, watchdog finds Read more

"Today the government can and must urgently stop all Centrelink payment penalties – including suspensions, reductions and cancellations – related to compulsory activities and commit to permanently removing the Targeted Compliance Framework @antipovertycentre.org

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Schwartz media: “The new ships will replace Australia's ANZAC-class ships, which having been in operation since the end of the second world war, are the oldest in the naval fleet (SBS).”

SBS News: “The vessels would replace Australia's ANZAC-class ships, the oldest surface combatant fleet the navy has been operating since the end of World War Two.”

These sentences do not mean the same thing and apparently someone at Schwartz that does the daily mailout can’t read.

No, Australia’s not been operating Anzac class frigates since WW2.

Does a large language model do these summaries?

using AI chatbots is gonna become just like using Linkedin - you might be forced to do it to get a job or customer service but if it becomes part of your day-to-day life everyone thinks you’re a loser

This is the way. I’m with you, brother.

It's interesting to me that the social media ban is framed by the government as "world leading" whereas not giving many of the same companies what they want to do in AI is framed as us falling behind.

Metallurgical coal mining 40k jobs | $103b exports | 31.6MtCO2e emissions During mining operations, greenhouse gases trapped in coal seams and rock strata are released into the atmosphere, contributing significantly to carbon emissions. By implementing carbon capture and storage technologies, this hard-to-abate industry can reduce its emissions footprint. Australia is the world's largest exporter of metallurgical coal Australia's metallurgical coal is primarily exported for steel production. As nations prioritise meeting climate targets, global demand for coal is expected to plateau, potentially limiting emissions growth. However, CCS technology must be implemented to reach climate objectives. By 2050, it is projected that up to 9 MtCOze of emissions from metallurgical coal mining could be captured. Potential decarbonisation technology timeline Electric mining equipment (2022) TRL 9 - Electrification Degasification wells (2023) TRL 9 - CCS technology Ventilation air methane capture and use (2035) TRL 6 - CCS technology Hydrogen fuel cell hybrid equipment (2040) TRL 5 - Hydrogen technology.

Expected CCS demand for coal mining The demand for CCS in the metallurgical coal mining industry is projected to rise significantly as we approach 2050, driven by the need to meet global climate targets and reduce emissions from this hard-to-abate sector. [A graph shows CCS use increasing by different amounts over time across different scenarios.] Drivers of coal demand Coal mining plays a crucial role in the Australian economy, serving as a key driver of growth by supporting multiple industries. Australia exports coal to many countries, such as China, Japan, South Korea and India. This includes both metallurgical and thermal coal. Metallurgical coal is a critical component in the steelmaking process, which is a key industry in Australia. Steel made from metallurgical coal is a critical material in a wide range of infrastructure projects. The production of specialty alloys and high strength steels used in aerospace and defence requires metallurgical coal.

Want to see a Big Four consultancy publicly lie?

On this whole page about how CCS will reduce emissions from steel-making coal mines in a report EY produced for the Australian coal industry about how great CCS is and how CCS will bring many jobs and dollarbucks...

Literally nothing here is CCS.

Never thought I’d see a resurgence in Lysenkoism but here we are.

r/ChatGPTPro u/vurto • 28d If ChatGPT is not consistently dependable, how are we suppose to use it for actual work? Discussion It's behavior and results can randomly change due to some OpenAl tweaking that's opaque. On some days it can't even keep track of a fresh chat, it can't do calculations, it can't sort through a chat to extract relevant information, and when it's suppose to refer to source material in a PDF, it doesn't. All because OpenAl trained it for fluency and basically to simulate whatever it can for user satisfaction. I can use it for general chats, philosophical stuff, therapy, but nothing serious. I'm pro Al, but I approach it with skepticism knowing it's undependable (as I do with anything I read). And prompts can be interpreted/executed differently across users' own interaction with their Als so it's not truly scalable. How does the business world / leaders expect staff to adopt Al if it's not consistently dependable? It doesn't even calculate like a calculator. If the internet start claiming 2+2=5, that's what it'll answer with. I'd use it for hobbies and pet projects but I can't imagine using it for anything "mission critical".

You're so close

If mutual obligation was a genuine thing, as opposed to bullshit punishment, then the Government’s obligation to provide a benefit that let people live above the poverty line would form the other half of the “mutual” bit.

The TCF was always about cruelty. It’s ideological in nature.

This is interesting and I am ashamed to say I had not previously considered the way the calculations are done in the assessment of the figures.