I hate finding out about limitations of by seeing a casual mention of those limitations by someone pushing an improvement.

This sounds like an apprenticeship program.

These are 'recent' books bought using ISBN numbers. At least the books are being 'read' and used for something useful for the long term vice being read once and tossed in the dumpster.

Likely the books would end up in the dumpster anyways.
So maybe it's not about the destruction, maybe it's just about the staggeringly efficient 'feeding of the beast' that is AI.
I would think the copyright violation would be the thing folks would complain about, but it's not. Interesting, no?

... to make it look like China used AI to cyber-attack Taiwan. Honestly, you can't trust anything you read on the internet.

Right now my company gives access to the best models the US provides . I get as-good-as-human results for coding and general information.
What is it that training with more parameters is going to give? What's the goal?
Is this just marketing and AI has already reached its limit?

Books ... incl. libraries that have to renew their subscriptions to ebooks over and over

With memory/storage increasingly only accessible to 'enterprise' where does that leave personal computing? If AI is the new dominant tech, then it will soon be out of reach to the average person except through enterprise/government if it can be afforded.
In the unlikely event that Micron reenters the consumer market, boycott them.

Not seeing anything to motivate a switch.
That said, if it was confirmed that all the researchers and lab workers involved were no longer eating real meat, I might be impressed.

Well if you have to ask ...

Not sure why you got voted down. I agree with your Java comment, that plus it was first out of the gate to "run everywhere" so there was an early lock in. I was on board for while but the verbosity and boilerplate just wore me down. Like FORTRAN it was the first to do what it did before valid alternatives arose, and like FORTRAN it will linger long time.

1) is there a best way to operate in a world where there is no difference between criminal and government supported and government spyware/malware? Does opensource provide any protection, counter action, or relief?

2) the people of the PRC have functioned in this aforementioned environment for decades. Are there any lessons that can be learned?

"1984" is now our reality. We are now watched constantly, lied to constantly, and manipulated constantly. What are pro tips for survival with a sense of freedom?

"Thank you for your subscription but we got sold, bankrupt, or disinterested."

Regular mice hugged the walls for protection from predators .... ... micro-plastic mice were more cognitively aware and knew there were no predators in the environment.

It's getting the EM radiation to penetrate the ground. Very low frequency can do it with poor resolution. Higher frequencies penetrate poorly. The existing receivers are perfectly fine, so not clear what the benefit of this difficult to implement receiver is.