Actually, Altavista was OK for its time and Yahoo mail is quite useful.
As for Chrome, well, Firefox works just fine.

I remember that this was a surprising find by the Galaxy Zoo project

https://zoo4.galaxyzoo.org/

At the time there was a suspicion that humans have a tendency to notice a direction of rotation more than the other, but now it looks more and more like the asymmetry is real.

A new law must be passed that stipulates jail time for anyone who reads the paper on self-replicating AI.
Why should it be only for this ? https://yro.slashdot.org/story...

The only good outcome is that all these rapid-fire news will have the effect of pulling the investor's attention in may directions so they won't be all focused on dumping money on OpenAI's Energophag Eliza.

By the way, that thing is valued at close to 100B$.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02...

I though this has happened:

https://www.thedailymash.co.uk...

I remember a few years ago the Mayor of London allowed data collection on tube travelers.
Did any of the money made off the travelers' data go towards improving the service ?
Since then ticket prices have doubled over Covid and the strikes and cancellations continue apace.

Looks like Intel tried to use the political connections of their CEO to force Apple and Nvidia to use their foundries:

https://www.tomshardware.com/t...

Another thing was to get subsidies from the government under the CHIPS act:

https://www.tomshardware.com/t...

Now that these have no chance of materializing, and their attempt to corner the market for EUV litography machines proved too expensive, the CEO was kicked out and they have to follow in the steps of AMD.

It may be that deep down Ding wanted to get rid of the world champion title. If you look at his ratings chart since he became world champion:

https://ratings.fide.com/profi...

he dropped from over 2800 to be outside of the top 20.

https://2700chess.com/players/...

To get an idea of how high 2800 is, keep in mind that Karpov never crossed 2800.

There is such a thing as too much pressure to perform at a standard worthy of a world champion and the consensus among the top chess players is that Ding was playing progressively worse since he got the title. I expect he will climb quite a bit in the ratings now that he got rid of the title.

It looks like the CEO was brought in to bring cash that the government promised under the CHIPS act, but this did not materialize.
Quite a bit of news seem to revolve around manufacturers not getting the grants promised, and this is not just Intel.

https://www.tomshardware.com/t...

https://www.tomshardware.com/n...

Now he's heading out the door.

One strange thing they seem to have done is to corner the market for EUV lithography machines, absorbing all the production of ASML, but not using them for commercially offered chips.

I never liked Intel's hardware offerings, starting with the Celeron of the late 90's and culminating with Itanium's "We'll sweep our dirt under your rug" approach, but I have to admit that their software offerings are second to none.
Their C++ compiler produces number-crunching code that is many times faster than that produced by other compilers.
I hope they will stay around, at least for that.

For a long time there was talk of closing down Arecibo, so letting it collapse is the safest way to stop funding it.
Closing it down would involve saving the most expensive parts, the detectors in the hub suspended above the reflector.
This will also result in the expensive parts being stored for use in a future radio telescope.
The collapse and their destruction solved that problem too.

If I remember correctly, M$ has dumped 13B$ into Energophag Eliza (that is, ChatGPT, GTP, etc, whatever) and it looks like the promised profits are not being realized. This was mostly Nadella's doing.

So, the M$ shareholders are starting to ask the M$ CEO questions and in turn he is asking the OpenAI CEO questions.

When a company cannot deliver on a promise, the classic tactic is: Forget the original promise, gimme some more cash and here is an even bigger promise.

Just as the generative AI is slipping into the " trough of disillusionment":
https://www.computerworld.com/...

Are they telling us that the error-free fraction of spreadsheets has reached 6%? In this case I have a hew-found respect for all the spreadsheeters out there.
Or just that they do contain errors, but non-critical ones?

Did anyone check the trend of the CrowdStrike stock price over the last year ?
https://finance.yahoo.com/quot...
It went from 150$/share on 31st of July 2023 to 390$/share on July 1st 2024. More than doubled. Such stock is ripe for short-selling, and we should not discount the possibility of someone shorting their stock and the working with an insider to cause this problem, leading to a drop in the stock price.
The shareholders may not be technically clued-in, but they are fully aware of such tricks to profit from stock price shocks and short-selling will definitely be a thing they suspect.

If not, then it must be a monster den, not a cave.

I'm glad someone did mention it!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I thought the same guys came back with another product.

Judge:
"Sam Bankman-Fried, you lead a trite, meaningless life. And you are a
very bad person!"