Elliot

Always wanted to travel back in time to try fighting a younger version of yourself? Software development is the career for you!

Why are companies firing all the moral safeties protecting the rest of us from AI agents?

He’s kicking ass in Heaven now

Everyone's racing to make AI write better code. But the code isn't the bottleneck.

WOW. Just in the last two weeks, BYD showrooms around the world are seeing a surge in customer demand from people who are deciding that now is the time to switch to EVS, with oil prices so high. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

People haven't wrapped their heads around how much the politics of renewables have been altered by the fact that Texas is kicking everyone's ass in building solar, wind, and batteries. Greg Abbot sounds woke when he talks energy now. That's a preview of what's coming nationally.

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One of the guys arrested here was Wally Liaw, who Hindenburg named as one of the previous co-founders who resigned in 2018 during the previous Supermicro accounting scandal who got added BACK to the company in 2021, back on the board by 2023. This is bad! hindenburgresearch.com/smci/#:~:text=…

The video that got the Supermicro cofounder arrested

I'm sorry but this super micro thing is awful but parts of it are genuinely hilarious They literally used a hair dryer to move serial numbers from real servers to dummy servers to throw in a warehouse and got caught on camera

A dancing robot at a Cupertino Haidilao went off-script this week, knocking dishes off a table as diners watched. It kept dancing — arms swinging, body jerking — as three servers grabbed a strap around its neck and tried to pull it away. Its apron, a Zootopia 2 promotional number, read: “I’m good.”

A French naval officer unknowingly revealed the location of the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle by sharing a public workout on the fitness app Strava. His run, recorded at sea, made it possible to pinpoint the carrier’s position in the Mediterranean near Cyprus. Although the carrier’s deployment was public, sharing its exact real-time location is a serious security risk. Source: Le Monde

Everyone stay in your homes to keep oil prices down. 2 weeks to open the strait

Let me explain exactly why your phone seems to read your thoughts, because the real answer is more invasive than telepathy. Every time you open a website or app, a real-time bidding auction fires in under 100 milliseconds. Your GPS coordinates, browsing history, device fingerprint, age, gender, income bracket, and hundreds of inferred interest categories get packaged into a “bid request” and broadcast to hundreds of companies simultaneously. One company wins the ad slot. All of them keep the data. This happens thousands of times per day per person. A 2018 New York Times investigation found 75 companies pulling precise location data from apps, with some users tracked up to 14,000 times in 24 hours. In 2012, a Target statistician identified 25 products that, purchased in combination, could predict a customer was pregnant and estimate her due date. A teenager’s father discovered she was pregnant because Target sent baby coupons to the house before she told anyone. That was one retailer. Store receipts only. Fourteen years ago. Now scale that. Your phone pings GPS while you sleep. Data brokers link your phone, laptop, and tablet through probabilistic matching of IP addresses, WiFi networks, and behavioral patterns without you ever logging in. The FTC caught two brokers in 2024 categorizing people by visits to reproductive health clinics, political protests, and religious services, then selling those profiles to law enforcement. The algorithm doesn’t hear your thoughts. It compares your behavioral fingerprint against millions of similar profiles and predicts your next interest before you’re consciously aware of it. It makes hundreds of predictions per day. You ignore the misses. The five hits feel like telepathy. You paid for the phone. You pay for the data plan. You generate the signal. And every time a page loads, your identity gets auctioned to the highest bidder before the content even renders. They called it “personalized advertising” because “real-time mass surveillance funded by the people being surveilled” doesn’t fit on a consent banner.

This belongs in the collection of anyone who owns Cat Shit One

🇪🇪 #Estonia - 🇷🇺 #Russia: A Russian Su-30 fighter jet briefly entered Estonian airspace yesterday near Vaindloo Island in the Gulf of Finland, staying for about one minute. NATO's Baltic Air Policing mission responded by deploying Italian Air Force units. This is the first such incident involving Estonia this year. A similar violation occurred in September last year, when three Russian jets entered Estonian airspace for 12 minutes, although Russia's Defence Ministry denied it. (via Reuters)

Japanese news outlets were doing a live translation of the press conference, and when Trump dropped the Pearl Harbor joke the translators were audibly lost for words and paused for a few seconds in disbelief

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You bolt awake at the White House. It’s April 30, 2011 and you are David Litt, Obama’s joke writer, and you’ve changed your mind. You won’t include any Trump jokes at that night’s White House Correspondent’s Dinner.

Why doesn’t Xcode ship with the world’s best model for helping you write apps for Apple platforms?

in the 1700s they would’ve executed this guy for this