“I can potentially make it really big,” Lin said, hopeful despite the modest earnings.

This sounds like Uberisation, ie relying on entrepreneur wannabes to replace employees and warehouses with self-employed workers and their living room. I’d be curious to see if it allows them to earn a living wage with a 40h week, or if it’s exploitative.

It sounds surprising given the headline, but looks quite reasonable when looking at the details in the article:

• The requirement is part of a tender for €1bn worth of grants to develop batteries. It only affect companies who engage in this tender.
• This is in part a response, at a smaller scale, to China’s own regime that "pressures foreign companies into sharing their intellectual property in exchange for access to the Chinese market. "

Every service may be abused to spread misinformation. Here, the complaint isn’t that people abuse a service against the owner’s will, but that the service is operated to spread misinformation.

One way to address this could be to look at moderation. Is there meaningful moderation to limit misinformation? A service operated to spread misinformation wouldn’t moderate it.

It’s worse than that. Trump is a danger for the environment and climate. And the whole world will suffer consequence.

EV producers in the US are going to take a hit, whereas the ones in China and the EU would probably be fine.

Sounds like shooting itself in the foot.

Telling your contacts not to use Google nor Meta/Facebook. If everyone you email use gmail, then Google has all your emails.

This isn’t a basic copy of a whole file. This is creating a new file from a portion of an existing file.

Are there downsides to using reflinks, like alignment and read performance issues?

Compatibility shouldn’t be an issue, ie it should be relatively simple and safe to have a fallback that copy when reflink isn’t available.

Says the man always dragging his feet when time comes to support Ukraine’s self-defense

Even so, we shouldn’t accept it as a norm

Then someone will write an utility that automatically sets timezone using geoclue location data.

There’s the environmental impact: these ultra-fast planes burn through massive amounts of fuel, releasing far more emissions than regular aircraft

Hypersonic flights are a way to get us to a NON-inhabitable earth faster than ever before.

It would be fair to compare browsers without adding extensions, with default settings.

This would show which browser have the best security and privacy out of the box. Also, the comparison would be practically impossible otherwise.

Most people use defaults, and I suspect a large portion of users install no extension, unless maybe if a tech-savy relative adds an adblocker.

Is Russia starting to lack cannon fodder?

This is why these people ask, among other things, to strictly limit access to adults.

LLM are good with language and can be very convincing characters, especially to children and teenagers, who don’t fully understand how these things work, and who are more vulnerable emotionally.

That’s a good point, but there’s more to this story than a gunshot.

The lawsuit alleges amongst other things this the chatbots are posing are licensed therapist, as real persons, and caused a minor to suffer mental anguish.

A court may consider these accusations and whether the company has any responsibility on everything that happened up to the child’s death, regarless of whether they find the company responsible for the death itself or not.

He gave a reason, and said he’s not going to answers why questions, so your guess is as good as anyone else’s.

We should be thankful that this person maintained the app and put up with Google’s bullshit for so long.

If you find this app helpful, consider supporting whoever is willing to take over maintaining the app or a fork.

Does this attack scale linearly with key size?

Using the D-Wave Advantage, we successfully factored a 22-bit RSA integer, demonstrating the potential for quantum machines to tackle cryptographic problems

That attack is a threat only if it scale better than existing attacks.

Thanks for the interesting details. Glad to see there’s an offline version that disables photogrammetry.

The church in england is a good example where a a generic rectangle building model doesn’t work. They could improve the offline version by adding a church model in the set of offline models, and use it for 90% of church in western Europe.

A fully realistic model of every single building may be cool for architects, future historians, city planners, gamers that are sightseeing… but don’t help much when learning to pilot. Having a virtual world that look similar to the real one, with buildings of the right size and positions, landmarks, and hero buildings is good enough, and doesn’t require that much resources. There are others parts of flight simulators that are more important to work on.

I happen to know a bit about game and simulators. From a plane’s point of view, houses dont look unique. A small number of models is enough to fairly represent most houses. There may be a minority of structures that are really unique (stadiums, bridges, landmarks, …) but the vast majority of buildings aren’t unique. Even if two building have different heights, it’s possible to reuse textures if they’re built from the same material.

MSFT appears to have designed the simulator by considering every building is unique, but if they compared buildings and textures, ideally using automation, they would see there’s a massive amount of duplication.