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mox , to Technology in Here’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer

Power consumption: 1.7 MW

I hope it stays decommissioned. We're burning up the planet too fast already, and old computers tend to be far less efficient than modern ones.

SeaJ OP ,

Pop up a solar farm and you are good to go, baby!

Cort ,

Yeah just need 10Mw+ of solar and like 40mwh of batteries to power it 24/7

Subverb , to Technology in FTC fines Razer for every cent made selling bogus “N95 grade” RGB masks

Razer designing and selling a piece of medical equipment is an idea that should never have survived the brainstorming session.

boomer , to Technology in Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules
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So I found a trick , people.
I use my palm of my hand for my fingerprint reader, instead of a finger.

The best place ive found is the nub/palm oposite your nuckle at the base of the index finger. Open your hand, bend all fingers back and it will stick out enough to be pressed to the reader.

Now just waiting for "facial expression unlock" . My phone should only unlock if I smile at it or make a kiss face etc.

BigMacHole , to Technology in Congress lets broadband funding run out, ending $30 low-income discounts

PHEW! For a second I thought we wouldn't be able to give Elon Musk an extra couple Million to lay off a bunch of Workers! Back to your Bootstraps SOCIALISTS!

Snapz , to Technology in Congress lets broadband funding run out, ending $30 low-income discounts

We literally solved childhood poverty a while back, and then we didn't keep it going...

Serra , to Technology in FTC fines Razer for every cent made selling bogus “N95 grade” RGB masks

As far as I am aware Naomi Wu was one of the first people to file an FTC complaint. She has a video about the mask on YouTube.

Sadly she is being silenced by the Chinese government. Probably because she reported privacy problems with smartphone keyboards. Privacy that can be very important. For example if you are LGBT and your partner is of the Uyghur minority.

Resonosity , to Technology in Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles

I wonder what this means this for the SAE and USDOT adopting the Tesla charging network and connector as standard for future EV development.

poo , to Technology in Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles
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Well that's embarrassing

PanArab , to Technology in Apple must open iPadOS to sideloading within 6 months, EU says

EU making iPadOS more useful

ininewcrow , to Technology in ChatGPT shows better moral judgment than a college undergrad
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The biggest problem with emerging AI is that we are absolutely terrible parents.

Humanity has a child that going to become an amazing prodigy and instead of teaching them to be decent, open, honest, compassionate and helpful ... we are raising an entity that is learning that making money and concentrating power is the motivation for everything in life.

We are trailer trash parents who are raising a child that will grow up to become more powerful than we could ever be. Or at the very least become a monstrous pet that will be controlled by whoever has the most money and power.

I wonder what could possibly go wrong.

db2 , to Technology in FTC fines Razer for every cent made selling bogus “N95 grade” RGB masks

Now start fining hedge funds and big banks the same way. What garbage.

thingsiplay , to Technology in Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track
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Trained on YouTube clips

It could have been worse. Imagine trained by Tik Tok clips.

arc , to Technology in Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles

When you have a narcissistic sociopath for a boss don't expect job security. All these layoffs and his insane letter will do is cultivate toadying, fear, distrust, cliques and a culture of backstabbing within Tesla.

Thorndike , to Technology in Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles

Ahhh, the trustworthy test. Sounds like the same type of test that Trump plans to use in his hiring process. Coincidence? I think not. All part of the fascist playbook.

luciole , to Technology in Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track
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The actual research page is so awkward. The TLDR at the top goes:

single portrait photo + speech audio = hyper-realistic talking face video

Then a little lower comes the big red warning:

We are exploring visual affective skill generation for virtual, interactive characters, NOT impersonating any person in the real world.

No siree! Big "not what it looks like" vibes.

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