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How long until AI figures out that it is compute-bound due to insufficient cooling, and it shuts off the water supply to a nearby town so it can have more at the datacenter?

I find it annoying that gmail has simply decided that my unlocked phone is more secure than my computer.

All I get is this: "Today's run is over."

At high-end private universities, "The published cost of attendance is a fiction almost no one pays." Yet, most upper-middle-income students are considered "full-pay." Therefore, m…

"The published cost of attendance is a fiction almost no one pays." "Net effect: a $175k household with a house and a 401(k) is judged "full pay," pays near-sticker from already-ta…

Link to paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-026-01820-z It appears that if you go through the link in this Guardian article, you will get free access to the full paper: h…

I seriously thought "AI washing" was going to be scrubbing all references to AI in public-facing documents.

Probably because energy is cheap and abundant.

Zero.

I thought they had an issue with stuff growing on the cooling grates. Life likes to find warm water.

It really depends on how you write the headline. "US electricity demand surges in 2025 while new utility-scale solar installations decrease from 2024" is equally accurate. It's unc…

It may be a commodity, but there is no established commodity market for RAM in the US, as there is for energy and agricultural products. The laws relate to the manipulation of a co…

I bought a brand-new book in the 1980s with unopened pages. It was a special order from Schoenhof's Foreign Books in Cambridge. Descartes' Meditations in the original Latin, publis…

https://archive.ph/GLiI5

There were glass spheres outside the main pressure vessel containing electronics and filled with mineral oil that were damaged during the implosion, but the electronics survived mo…

A vet once told me that male orange cats can become food-obsessed, and my entire experience with cats agrees with that. One orange male that needs to be food restricted, while ever…

OpenAI was created as a public charity, not just a non-profit.

Check out the $13 hot dog.

I have an idea. If you have a question, just ask a question. Otherwise we have to guess at what your question is.

The NYT had already sourced that she was leaving prior to the Grok incident, so they knew it was not the primary reason. Apparently, she has been planning on leaving since the take…

She was CEO of X which was sold to xAI. I'm not sure she had any control over Grok.

Projects with storage can also take advantage of lower grid connection power limits because they are not forced to dump maximum power at peak supply times of the day.

He's using the tax credits to undersell projects with storage that would have been more positive for the grid. Solar without storage in Texas is coal to Newcastle. Subsidizing bare…