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AmiMoJo shares a report from Electrek: The U.S. installed 50 gigawatts (GW) of new solar capacity in 2024, the largest single year of new capacity added to the grid by any energy technology in over two decades. That's enough to power 8.5 million households. According to the U.S. Solar Market Insight 2024 Year in Review report (PDF) released today by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and Wood Mackenzie, solar and storage account for 84% of all new electric generating capacity added to the grid l
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Warren Buffett is being hailed on social media for dumping stocks and building a record $334 billion cash pile before the stock market tumbled. Read more ›
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Tesla shareholders are frustrated with Elon Musk as he focuses more on DOGE and Tesla's stock price crashes. Read more ›
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The Department of Education announced it was firing over 1,300 workers, slashing staff in half as part of Trump's aim to overhaul the agency. Read more ›
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Ambani's Jio Platforms announced that it would bring Starlink into India, opening doors to the world's largest consumer market. Read more ›
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Inflation, as measured by the consumer price index, slowed more than expected in February. The CPI increased 2.8% from a year ago. Read more ›
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The USS Nautilus was the world's first nuclear-powered submarine. It participated in scientific and military operations around the world. Read more ›
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Conservative activists have been dreaming of dismantling the Department of Education for decades. They’re halfway there. On Tuesday, the Department of Education announced mass firings of its workforce, which would cut the department staff down to about half of what it was when Joe Biden left office — from about 4,000 to about 2,000. President […] Read more ›
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Brazil ruins the environment to make it easier to host a conference about solving climate change. Read more ›
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ChatGPT can put words in front of other words, but it can't add meaning to them without intent. Read more ›
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Is Donald Trump tanking the economy? The stock market has taken a beating, giving up six months of gains. Several economic indicators — consumer confidence, GDP estimates — have gotten gloomier. All signs point to the main culprit being Trump and his trade war obsession. The markets have spoken loud and clear that they hate […] Read more ›
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What a difference a few weeks make. It wasn't that long ago that question marks were still hanging over Obsidian's coral-coloured role-playing game Avowed. Promotional trailers had left people unconvinced, showing an adventure that looked old-fashioned and lacking in originality. Yet weeks later, Avowed has wide acclaim. "It's one of this year's most pleasant surprises," I wrote in our Avowed review. It's a game that went from being under suspicion... Read more ›
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Balyasny Asset Management has adopted a new approach to recruiting young talent. A contest participant and two firm execs explain. Read more ›
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Nvidia might lay out its battle plan to take on AMD’s RX 9060 graphics cards as soon as tomorrow. Read more ›
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At the White House on Tuesday, Donald Trump and Elon Musk flitted about among a fleet of Teslas. "Everything's computer," Trump marveled. Read more ›
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Donald Trump turning the White House into a Tesla showroom aside, things are looking pretty grim for the electric car company right now. The stock has dropped tremendously. There have been reports of Tesla chargers being burned, people vandalizing cars, people flipping Tesla drivers off, breaking glass at Tesla showrooms. There have also been very […] Read more ›
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The Realme P3 Ultra is launching next week as the brand’s first Ultra phone. Realme shared an official look at the upcoming device and its “Glowing Lunar Design” ahead of the announcement. The P3 Ultra is set to debut an all-new look for the brand, featuring a back design inspired by the Earth’s only natural satellite. Realme used a “Starlight Ink Process” which embeds a special lunar soil texture and... Read more ›
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Here is the best CPU for gaming for the money, based on our benchmarks. These processors offer the best performance in their price ranges and most are suitable for overclocking. Read more ›
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Citi's poor technology is well known on Wall Street, but wealth boss CEO Andy Seig hopes to gain ground with this new hire from rival Morgan Stanley. Read more ›
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President Donald Trump checked out Teslas at a White House event Tuesday with Elon Musk. He carried a note with jotted down Tesla prices. Read more ›
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"The ubiquitous ESP32 microchip made by Chinese manufacturer Espressif and used by over 1 billion units as of 2023 contains an undocumented 'backdoor' that could be leveraged for attacks," writes BleepingComputer. "The undocumented commands allow spoofing of trusted devices, unauthorized data access, pivoting to other devices on the network, and potentially establishing long-term persistence." This was discovered by Spanish researchers Miguel Tarascó Acuña and Antonio Vázquez Blanco of Tarlogic Security,. Read more ›
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smooth wombat writes: In what can only be described as a no-brainer, Volkswagen has announced it will have once again have physical buttons in all its vehicles. As Andreas Mindt, design chief at the company said, removing buttons was "a mistake". "From the ID 2all onwards, we will have physical buttons for the five most important functions -- the volume, the heating on each side of the car, the fans... Read more ›
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In a policy paper, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, and Center for AI Safety Director Dan Hendrycks said that the U.S. should not pursue a Manhattan Project-style push to develop AI systems with "superhuman" intelligence, also known as AGI. From a report: The paper, titled "Superintelligence Strategy," asserts that an aggressive bid by the U.S. to exclusively control superintelligent AI systems could prompt fierce retaliation... Read more ›
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As Christie's auction house planned the first-ever auction dedicated to AI-generated art works, over 5,600 people signed an online letter urging them to cancel it. "Many of the artworks you plan to auction were created using AI models that are known to be trained on copyrighted work without a license," the letter complained. "These models, and the companies behind them, exploit human artists, using their work without permission or payment... Read more ›
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Philosophy/ethics professor Troy Jollimore looks at the implications of a world where many students are submitting AI-generated essays. ("Sometimes they will provide quotations, giving page numbers that, as often as not, do not seem to correspond to anything in the actual world...") Ideally if the students write the essays themselves, "some of them start to feel it. They begin to grasp that thinking well, and in an informed manner, really... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: AI excels at following instructions -- but it's not pushing the boundaries of knowledge, says Thomas Wolf. The chief science officer and cofounder of Hugging Face, an open-source AI company backed by Amazon and Nvidia, analyzed the limits of large language models. He wrote that the field produces "overly compliant helpers" rather than revolutionaries. Right now, AI isn't creating new knowledge, Wolf wrote. Instead,... Read more ›
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Utah has become the first U.S. state to pass legislation requiring app store operators to verify users' ages and obtain parental consent for minors downloading apps. The App Store Accountability Act adds to a wave of children's online safety bills advancing through state legislatures nationwide. Similar legislation has faced legal challenges, with many being blocked in courts. A comparable federal bill failed last year amid free expression concerns. The approach... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A 37-year-old Tennessee man was arrested Thursday, accused of stealing Blu-rays and DVDs from a manufacturing and distribution company used by major movie studios and sharing them online before the movies' scheduled release dates. According to a US Department of Justice press release, Steven Hale worked at the DVD company and allegedly stole "numerous 'pre-release' DVDs and Blu-rays" between February 2021... Read more ›
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The Washington Post reports: Meta was willing to go to extreme lengths to censor content and shut down political dissent in a failed attempt to win the approval of the Chinese Communist Party and bring Facebook to millions of internet users in China, according to a new whistleblower complaint from a former global policy director at the company. The complaint by Sarah Wynn-Williams, who worked on a team handling China... Read more ›
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"The early web was fun," Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian posted Wednesday on X.com. "It was weird. It was community-driven. It's time to rebuild that. "Which is why Kevin Rose and I just bought back Digg." The amount of that purchase is "undisclosed," reports CNBC: The deal is backed by venture capital firms True Ventures, where Rose is a partner, and Ohanian's Seven Seven Six.... The company said in a release... Read more ›
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