The Computer-Science Bubble Is Bursting - The Atlantic
The Computer-Science Bubble Is Bursting
Artificial intelligence is ideally suited to replacing the very type of person who built it.Rose Horowitch (The Atlantic)
They're screaming for help like a child who lit the fire and got burned
They're screaming for help like a child who lit the fire and got burned
Instance PeerTube généraliste, une bonne alternative à YouTube et autres plateformes de streaming contrôlées par des géants du WEB. General PeerTube instance, a good alternative to YouTube and other streaming platforms controlled by WEB giants.Mes Numériques
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[Video] Iranian drone hits north-Israel
Over 40 Iranian drones target Israel in morning hours, IDF says
Military spokesperson says most attack UAVs intercepted befor entering Israel; says percentage of successful interceptions high after a residential building in Beit Shean takes a direct hitYoav Zitun (ynetnews)
Your TV Is Spying On You
Your TV Is Spying On You
Your TV is taking snapshots of everything you watch.Naomi Brockwell (Ludlow Institute)
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Your TV Is Spying On You
Your TV Is Spying On You
Your TV is taking snapshots of everything you watch.Naomi Brockwell (Ludlow Institute)
[Video] Iranian drone hits north-Israel
Over 40 Iranian drones target Israel in morning hours, IDF says
Military spokesperson says most attack UAVs intercepted befor entering Israel; says percentage of successful interceptions high after a residential building in Beit Shean takes a direct hitYoav Zitun (ynetnews)
‘Petty and unserious’: Padilla blasts Vance for calling him ‘Jose Padilla’
Sen. Alex Padilla snapped back at JD Vance Saturday, calling him “petty and unserious” after Vance referred to the senator as “Jose” during a press conference in Los Angeles the previous evening.
The squabble between Padilla and Vance is the latest clash between Trump administration officials and California Democrats as hostilities brew over Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigration in the city, which has seen numerous ICE sweeps and significant counterprotests in recent weeks.
“He knows my name,” Padilla told MSNBC Saturday morning. “Look, sadly it’s just an indicator of how petty and unserious this administration is. He’s the vice president of the United States. You’d think he’d take the situation in Los Angeles more seriously.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/21/alex-padilla-jd-vance-fight-00416393
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Jack Matlock: Superpower Illusions - Reviving the Cold War
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How to "Reformat" a Hardrive the American way
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/40679506
So for Friday night, myself and my friends got rather board.
And as the resident "Things collector" i got 2 Maxtor touch sense 2 external hardrives. However those who were alive in 2000's know Maxtor went bankrupt and haven't made hardrives for a very long time.
One of these drive i got BRAND NEW, in box at a flea market. sadly time got to the platters first, i spent a few hours trying to reformat or partition them and all i got was write errors. I tried different utility's with no avail and decided to cut my losses, so i asked the boys what we should do with them? Immediately my friend had an idea, to bring out his 9mm and see how a hardrive would fair! We all took turns and they were pretty hard to hit (we made the mistake of drink soda before hand). We eventually landed some shots on the center of the drives and MAN it actually stopped 2 bullets!!!
going into this we all expected the disk to be unreadable after the fact, but didnt think the hardrives would stop a 9mm bullet!!We then took the hdd's apart after are volley of bullets, and alot of the chips were damaged and all the platters were bent. But when we took off the top case, it looked so freakin cool i had to keep it
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Inheritance tax referendum spooks Swiss super-rich
Inheritance tax referendum spooks Swiss super-rich
Bankers and lawyers warn of exodus ahead of public vote on 50 per cent rate for the very wealthyMercedes Ruehl (Financial Times)
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This proposed tax only applies to the ultra ultra ultra rich. Like it only applies to about 2000 people in the entirety of switzerland, which is a billionaire haven.
Both chambers of Swiss parliament plus the executive branch rejected it by large margins (unsurprisingly, parliament has a bourgeois majority).
(Also this financial times article is ludicrously biased, but it’s the financial times so no suprises there…)
Feature suggestion: built-in visibilitychange blocker
This needs to be a native feature due to its importance. Guess which browser had visibilitychange first. Quoum.
Visibilitychange is one of the many anti-features invented by Google. Mainly used to block background playback.
Document: visibilitychange event - Web APIs | MDN
The visibilitychange event is fired at the document when the contents of its tab have become visible or have been hidden.MDN Web Docs
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Inspired by Intelligence: Rediscovering Human Purpose in the Age of AI
Inspired by Intelligence: Rediscovering Human Purpose in the Age of AI
The real revolution isn’t artificial intelligence — it’s redefining our purpose and ourselves.Kim Carson (Long Now)
Inspired by Intelligence: Rediscovering Human Purpose in the Age of AI
Inspired by Intelligence: Rediscovering Human Purpose in the Age of AI
The real revolution isn’t artificial intelligence — it’s redefining our purpose and ourselves.Kim Carson (Long Now)
Human-like object concept representations emerge naturally in multimodal large language models
Human-like object concept representations emerge naturally in multimodal large language models - Nature Machine Intelligence
Multimodal large language models are shown to develop object concept representations similar to those of humans.Nature
The Met Office (UK) invites you to suggest names for future storms
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/41958593
Add yours here: metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-ou…thanks Mike Taylor for the inspiration
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NFC will work from further away to improve 'reliability' in tap to pay and more
NFC is an increasingly useful technology in the modern world, and now it’s getting a range boost as the standard will now operate at 2cm away, nearly four times the previous requirement in a change aimed at improving the reliability of actions such as tap to pay.
NFC will work from further away to improve ‘reliability’ in tap to pay and more
NFC is an increasingly useful technology in the modern world, and now it’s getting a range boost as the standard...Ben Schoon (9to5Google)
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