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An asshole is a unit of measure, for counting.AI Is Technology, Not a Product
Artificial intelligence is increasingly being treated as a standalone product category, but industry analysts argue that framing misses the bigger picture. AI, they say, is not a product in itself but a foundational technology — similar to electricity, the internet, or cloud computing.
A security researcher says Microsoft secretly built a backdoor into BitLocker, releases an exploit to prove it
YellowKey exploit bypasses BitLocker full volume encryption via USB stick and WinRE
“Too Dangerous to Release” — Or Just Too Expensive? The Real Reason Anthropic Is Hiding Its Most Powerful AI
In the first week of April 2026, Anthropic quietly made history — and then deliberately kept most people from accessing it.
UK government replaces Palantir software with internally-built refugee system
Millions of pounds have been saved by replacing a Palantir IT system which helps to find homes for Ukrainian refugees with one built by its own experts, a government department has said.
Google Broke reCAPTCHA for De-Googled Android Users (2)
From reclainthenet.org.
Google has tied its next-generation reCAPTCHA system to Google Play Services on Android, meaning anyone running a de-Googled phone will automatically fail verification when the system decides to challenge them.
The requirement forces Android users to run Google’s proprietary app framework version 25.41.30 or higher just to prove they’re human.
Improving Performance of PHP Drupal sites - Part I
I have the fortune and the misfortune of having to scale my Drupal site immediately. It's getting more traffic than I can currently accommodate - and so the next scaling steps have to be taken.
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Blabbering on tv is not the same thing as running a society. In fact, politicians don't "run the society", industrialists and operators run it. Lumberjacks run the society.
Running a society is hard work, men's work! If a woman wants to run a society, she needs to grow a pair of balls, and then "free time" will be a thing of distant dreams. WTF is "free time" anyway? My time is not free.
To scale this up to generate a single watt would cost $10.5B and weigh 15 tons.
Because the spacecraft was designed to travel far from the Sun where solar panels are useless, it required a nuclear power source.
Key Features of the Power System
The Fuel: The system uses Plutonium-238 in the form of plutonium oxide.
Heat to Electricity: The natural radioactive decay of the plutonium generates heat. Thermocouples then convert this thermal energy directly into electricity.
The Units: Voyager 1 carries three RTGs, which are mounted together on a long boom to keep radiation away from the sensitive science instruments.
Initial Output: At launch in 1977, the three RTGs combined produced about 470 watts of power.
Current Power Status: due to the radioactive half-life of the plutonium and the degradation of the thermocouples. The power output decreases by about 4 watts every year