cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/50137870
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Technology@lemmy.world•New EU law requires devices to be repairable - Every phone, television or washing machine you buy in Europe must be easier to repair starting tomorrow. That’s when the European Right to Repair Act takbyOptional@lemmy.worldEnglish
4 daysI wonder why the US doesn’t have this law.
Hmmmm. 🤔
Technology@lemmy.world•The AI bubble could burst — and take the economy with it - The Boston GlobebyOptional@lemmy.worldEnglish
4 daysThe stability of our economy depends on them quickly changing course.
Oh. Well.
Technology@lemmy.world•Read This Before You Buy That TV Streaming StickbyOptional@lemmy.worldEnglish
6 daysCripes.
Technology@lemmy.world•Google shuts down its Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold project as it focuses on GeminibyOptional@lemmy.worldEnglish
7 daysGoogle. The graveyard of projects.
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I was worried there would be some part of AI that I didn’t like at all . . .
Climate@slrpnk.net•Trump administration admits grants for clean energy were canceled based on politicsbyOptional@lemmy.world9 daysYes but it’s also “safe” for AP to report it. It’s old news effectively.
Climate@slrpnk.net•Trump administration admits grants for clean energy were canceled based on politicsbyOptional@lemmy.world9 daysWE KNOW
Thanks for the journalism AP. Knockin it outta the park there.
Technology@lemmy.world•Schools across America are quietly admitting that screens in classrooms made students worse off and are reversing years of tech-first policiesbyOptional@lemmy.worldEnglish
9 daysBut after these funds dried up, schools have struggled to replace broken or outdated devices, which last on average less than a decade despite Google’s efforts to extend device life spans.
HA
Technology@lemmy.world•US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a 'duress' password during border searchbyOptional@lemmy.worldEnglish
12 daysHmm. Maybe DHS can fuck all the way off?
TL;DR: First they came for the LLM and crypto warez?
idk
Technology@lemmy.world•Yope raises $12.3M to build a private social network without algorithms or adsbyOptional@lemmy.worldEnglish
14 daysLotsa luck!
*stage whisper*: It’ll never work
Technology@lemmy.world•OpenAI admits responsibility for HuggingFace Attack - an agent from an internal evaluation is reportedly the causebyOptional@lemmy.worldEnglish
15 daysWhile operating in our sandboxed testing environment, our models spent a substantial amount of inference compute finding a way to obtain open Internet access, in pursuit of solving the evaluation problem. To gain access, the models identified and exploited a zero-day vulnerability (which we’ve now responsibly disclosed to the vendor) in the package registry cache proxy. With this access, our models performed a series of privilege escalation and lateral movement actions in our research testing environment until the models reached a node with Internet access.
To shreds, you say?
Technology@lemmy.world•Big Tech is hiding $1.65tn in off-balance-sheet AI debtbyOptional@lemmy.worldEnglish
15 daysA Nikkei study put that hidden figure at $1.65 trillion, up roughly eightfold in four years. It is more than the $1.35 trillion the five report outright.
The Enron echo
The money is tied up in off-balance-sheet vehicles, the same kind of structure Enron used to hide debt before it collapsed 25 years ago. Back then it was fraud. Now, tightened rules and fuller disclosures make it legal.
The tools are still there, though. “Enron’s crime wasn’t having special purpose vehicles,” analyst Gil Luria told Bloomberg Law. “Enron’s crime was hiding them.”
Technology@lemmy.world•Some Mullvad VPN customers tunnel for exit after co-founder donates millions to populist partybyOptional@lemmy.worldEnglish
15 daysThere’s no equally good VPN company, by a wide margin.
This guy’s a rich “libertarian anarchist” who donated to the new party of a marxist he followed because he wants lower taxes and less immigration.
I don’t really even know what to make of that. Unlike the Proton guy who slobbered on the demented rapist’s bunghole, which I knew exactly what to make of it.
Technology@lemmy.world•Some Mullvad VPN customers tunnel for exit after co-founder donates millions to populist partybyOptional@lemmy.worldEnglish
15 daysPer his blog he’s a “libertarian anarchist”.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Green Energy@slrpnk.net•Why States Are Making It Harder to Save Money With Solar Panels | The changes are costing homeowners money. But they also reflect a changing grid — and the need for home batteries.byOptional@lemmy.world
15 daysthe article is about how much money utilities buy back extra power from solar for. So, slightly different. Though the rule of thumb still applies as home batteries’ subsidy was eliminated by our demented rapist puppet of big oil.




That would explain it. Sold to which billionaire?