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Comment Re:Could be worse. (Score 1) 22

Why would I wait until after I was given notice to do anything unethical?

You are thinking like an ethical, non-vindictive person. Kudos.

A vindictive person who gets fired could decide to retaliate while still on premises with access to systems. That also requires a lack of ethics, or perhaps a level of "ethical fluidity".

Submission + - Microsoft investigates Israeli military's use of Azure cloud storage (theguardian.com) 1

Epeeist writes: Microsoft is investigating how Israel’s military surveillance agency, Unit 8200, is using its Azure cloud storage platform, amid concerns the company’s staff in Israel may have concealed key details about its work on sensitive military projects.

The joint investigation with the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and Hebrew-language outlet Local Call found Unit 8200 has used a customised and segregated area within Azure to store recordings of millions of calls made each day in Gaza and the West Bank.

According to Unit 8200 sources interviewed as part of the investigation, intelligence drawn from the enormous repository of phone calls held in the cloud has been used to research and identify bombing targets in Gaza.

Submission + - Someone read Rama series? Designed actual spacecraft. (livescience.com)

fahrbot-bot writes: Proposed spacecraft could carry up to 2,400 people on a one-way trip to the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri

Engineers have designed a spacecraft that could take up to 2,400 people on a one-way trip to Alpha Centauri, the star system closest to our own. The craft, called Chrysalis, could make the 25 trillion mile (40 trillion kilometer) journey in around 400 years, the engineers say in their project brief, meaning many of its potential passengers would only know life on the craft.

Chrysalis is designed to house several generations of people until it enters the star system, where it could shuttle them to the surface of the planet Proxima Centuri b — an Earth-size exoplanet that is thought to be potentially habitable.

The project won first place in the Project Hyperion Design Competition, a challenge that requires teams to design hypothetical multigenerational ships for interstellar travel.

The ship could theoretically be constructed in 20 to 25 years and retains gravity through constant rotation. The vessel, which would measure 36 miles (58 km) in length, would be constructed like a Russian nesting doll, with several layers encompassing each other around a central core. The layers include communal spaces, farms, gardens, homes, warehouses and other shared facilities, each powered by nuclear fusion reactors.

[My first thought was that someone read Arthur C. Clarke's book, Rendezvous with Rama and used it as a model design.]

Submission + - If the AI Bubble Pops, It Could Now Take the Entire Economy With It (futurism.com)

An anonymous reader writes:

AI companies are pouring so much money into AI, experts are starting to warn that it may be propping up the entire US economy.

As investor Paul Kedrosky told the Wall Street Journal , spending on AI infrastructure has already eclipsed spending on telecom and internet infrastructure during the dot-com crisis over two decades ago, raising the specter of a massive bubble.

I'm not sure that's the doomsday warning it's intended to be, as the 2000 dot-com bubble really wasn’t the end of the world for the rest of the economy: “A Nasdaq sell-off in March 2000 marked the end of the dot-com bubble. The recession that followed was relatively shallow for the broader economy but devastating for the tech industry. The Bay Area in California, home to tech-heavy Silicon Valley, experienced a sharp rise in unemployment.” But unemployment throughout the US remained quite low in 2000 and 2001, prior to 9/11.

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