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The headline says "sold out". That doesn't mean prices will go up, that means the memory will not be available at all for many companies and the products they make will not be avai…

There's some clarification here, see the editors note at the end: https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2026/07/28/fcc-bans-foreign-prod... So there won't be an immediate impact on solar inv…

Note that they also banned Chinese inverters at the same time. Industrial inverters are still made in the US but solar inverters are often made in China. So is this an attack on ho…

So do incinerating satellites create tunnels of conductive plasma through the atmosphere? Perhaps they are creating short circuits in the air. Could pieces of junk reaching the low…

So this looks broad enough that it should apply to online retailers like Amazon also.

Doesn't this mean such data analysis can be used by anyone against anyone else? This does not just mean one political group can do this analysis, any political group or foreign pow…

Perhaps these trades are the result of a national security compromise. The current administration has reducing spending on cybersecurity, so perhaps Trump's own phone has been comp…

This seems like a prototype for AI malware. Given that an AI agent could run anywhere in a vendors cloud it makes it very similar to a computer worm that can jump from machine to m…

So what is happening right now with rare earths used for military purposes? My reading says it will take 5-10 years to build processing facilities without which the raw ore is usel…

While I do hoard notes I've realized over the years that the main reason I write notes is as a memory aid. If I write it down I remember it better, and I'm more likely to do it. No…

Is the root of the problem buying more power or building more grid?

There may be a more subtle issue here. When the specification is interpreted by an LLM that is different than it being interpreted by a person. From the LLM you get a kind of avera…

“We have found this really important, never-before-understood difference in autism that is meaningful, has implications for intervention, and can help us understand autism in a mor…

How does many worlds justify the doubling of energy with each quantum split? Probability can double all the energy in existence for every quantum fluctuation? Is energy conserved b…

Not everyone sees color exactly the same way, for example some people can see a little into the IR and UV. While the pilots may not be colorblind, the people who repair the display…

Yes, it was supposed to be an alternative graphic for a cockpit radar display in a jet fighter. The goal for any such display is to convey maximum information at a glance. I got fe…

Cool, I tried something similar 30 years ago working for a military contractor: http://zoom.interoscitor.com/PetersonEnterprises/Consulting/... I was asked to come up with a 3D dis…

What is perhaps more important is how this transition will be managed. Are the old methods just being halted and all projects halted and the new methods will take over whenever the…

So next we should bring back the air raid sirens and bomb shelters.

These are their alternatives: What neither Big Tech nor Big Media will say is that stronger antitrust rules and enforcement would be a much better solution. What’s more, looking be…

They don't seem to have considered fungus spores as PM2.5 either. Seems like a single spore could cause more damage than many carbon particles.

This group has had some success turning machine learning algorithms into low power analog chips: https://sites.dartmouth.edu/odame/ Not the same as general purpose training type co…

If this is being recognized as a systemic problem should not the government step in and regulate? Why do they have to wait until after a crash to do anything? Just a statement that…

Can't anyone use AI to surveil social media, even ordinary citizens? It seems like it would be easy to surveil ICE, the police, immigrants, all politicians, the military, businesse…

Fortunately the solution is easy, cloudbusters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudbuster Basically a metal rod/pipe with a good earth ground pointed at the sky. How conductive are…