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pheras, 2 months ago to random Spanish

"China’s coal consumption has made it the world’s largest annual contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. But the country’s pioneering role in making solar panels less expensive has slowed the increase in emissions.

China’s coal consumption has made it the world’s largest annual contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. But the country’s pioneering role in making solar panels less expensive has slowed the increase in emissions."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/07/business/china-solar-energy-exports.html

pheras, 2 months ago to random Spanish

"China is the world’s sole manufacturing superpower: A line sketch of the rise

The US is the world’s sole military superpower. It spends more on its military than the ten next highest spending countries combined. China is now the world’s sole manufacturing superpower. Its production exceeds that of the nine next largest manufacturers combined."

https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/china-worlds-sole-manufacturing-superpower-line-sketch-rise

cc @bert_hubert

pheras, 2 months ago to random Spanish

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/07/world/middleeast/world-central-kitchen-gaza-aid.html

b0rk, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

poll: how confident do you feel that you know what HEAD means in git?

pheras, 2 months ago to random Spanish

Russia says it is considering putting a nuclear power plant on the moon with China

https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/russia-china-are-considering-putting-nuclear-power-unit-moon-ria-2024-03-05/

pheras, 2 months ago to random Spanish

EU GSM / Airbus / Defense Industrial Strategy
https://commission.europa.eu/news/first-ever-european-defence-industrial-strategy-enhance-europes-readiness-and-security-2024-03-05_en#:~:text=By%202030%2C%20EU%20countries%20should,instead%20of%20with%20other%20countries via Shashanck Joshi

cc @bert_hubert

pheras, 2 months ago to random

"Although IKEA exists, you can still get (better) furniture from more specialised places. A European owned email, communication and collaboration cloud might be a feasible idea" By @bert_hubert

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/taking-the-airbus-to-the-ikea-cloud/

pheras, 2 months ago to random

CACM is now Open Access

via @vardi

https://cacm.acm.org/news/cacm-is-now-open-access-2/

pheras, 2 months ago to random Spanish

https://blog.cloudflare.com/pingora-open-source

https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-we-built-pingora-the-proxy-that-connects-cloudflare-to-the-internet

via Phil Eaton

pheras, 2 months ago to random Spanish

https://blog.cloudflare.com/pingora-open-source

pheras, 2 months ago to random Spanish

Co-Developing Programs and Their Proof of Correctness

CACM
https://m-cacm.acm.org/magazines/2024/3/280078-co-developing-programs-and-their-proof-of-correctness/fulltext

pheras, 2 months ago to random Spanish

pheras, 2 months ago to random

Anti-privacy giants want you to surrender hope. Don't give up without a fight

Right now there’s less reason than ever to believe the battle for data privacy is lost

By Rae Hodge

https://www.salon.com/2024/02/20/anti-privacy-giants-want-you-to-surrender-hope-dont-give-up-without-a-fight/?utm_source=pocket_saves

pheras, 2 months ago to random Spanish

https://www.politico.eu/article/emmanuel-macron-doesnt-rule-out-sending-troops-to-ukraine-ammo/

pheras, 2 months ago to random Spanish

US White House wants Future SW that is more secure.

They want SW programmed with safe programming languages, run in safe HW, and designed and verified with formal methods (static analysis, model checkers, assertion-based testing).

https://www.whitehouse.gov/oncd/briefing-room/2024/02/26/press-release-technical-report/

pheras, 2 months ago to random Spanish

China’s plan to reshape world trade on its own terms. @FT

' “China is not just trying to create an alternative world order. It is succeeding,” says Power. “Many in the west cannot gauge the success China is having in the rest of the world. “As the west sets about decoupling from China, the rest of the world is reorientating itself towards China,” he adds. '

https://www.ft.com/content/c51622e1-35c6-4ff8-9559-2350bfd2a5c1

pheras, 2 months ago to random

Does anyone even want an AI search engine? by Ryan Broderick. Through @pluralistic

https://www.garbageday.email/p/ai-search-doomsday-cult

(long version) https://www.fastcompany.com/91033052/does-anyone-even-want-an-ai-search-engine

pheras, 2 months ago to random

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/23/gazeteer/#out-of-cycle by @pluralistic

pheras, 2 months ago to random

Alan Kay's talk at UCLA 2024 Feburary 21st.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZQ7x0-MZcI

pheras, 3 months ago to random

AI in education is a public problem. By Ben Williamson.

"These 21 arguments against AI in education demonstrate how AI cannot be considered inevitable, beneficial or transformative in any straightforward way. You do not even need to take a strongly normative perspective either way to see that AI in education is highly contested and controversial. "

https://codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2024/02/22/ai-in-education-is-a-public-problem/

pheras, 3 months ago to random

AT&T mobile network fails.

HW fault, SW fault, Heissenbug?

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/22/tech/att-cell-service-outage/index.html

pheras, 3 months ago to random Spanish

'A California regulator has "suspended" until June 19 an application by Waymo to expand its robotaxi services to parts of the Los Angeles area and San Francisco's peninsula, amid rising safety concerns over autonomous vehicles.'
https://www.reuters.com/technology/california-suspends-waymos-application-expand-parts-la-sfs-peninsula-2024-02-21

pheras, 3 months ago to random Spanish

The State of the Culture, 2024

Or a glimpse into post-entertainment society (it's not pretty)

By Ted Gioia

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-state-of-the-culture-2024

pheras, 3 months ago to random Spanish

Have AI companies infringed copyright law?

Does fair use apply beyond personal or academic context when a product commercialized at global scale is involved?

Regarding copyright law: when AI companies train their models with copyrighted material, are they doing something similar to what Google did scanning books?

https://www.understandingai.org/p/the-ai-community-needs-to-take-copyright

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