The apologists will no doubt claim it's just clickbait, and to some extent it is because the buzzwords are certainly there, but it's also newsworthy because he works for CISA which means he's not just a "regular user". Despite that position with CISA, he has apparently continued to use the same password for several years after it was first compromised, so very much a case of "do as I say, not as I do". Password reuse? Fail. Failing to periodically change passwords? Fail. Failing to change passwords in the wake of a compromise? Fail. BZZZT! That's three strikes - you're out! Or would be, if accountability for your actions was still a thing. Note that "getting compromised" is not on that list, because in today's climate it's more a case of when, not if, that happens and even with the best personal practices there's always the potential for getting compromised through a mistake by a third party; the best you can do is mitigate against that by the techniques he demonstrably didn't follow.

If the people advising people about best practices don't follow them, then how can you blame regular users that don't or, given his work for DOGE, potentially even have failing to maintain password security be used as grounds for dismissal? That said, there's no guarantee that he's not using 2FA alongside these compromised passwords, in which case the risk would be significantly mitigated, but that just gets him off the hook for a bad actor being able to exploit his accounts for further mischief, not for the poor password hygiene.

It's tests, baby, all the way down! Midterms! Quarterlies! Weekly quizzes! Your grade is now 10% attendance and 90% exams! Good luck! Just be thankful they aren't oral.

Italy's "what's around me is not my problem!" approach to driving is an interesting experience, but still a walk in the park compared to driving in most of Africa across to S.E. Asia. European drivers tend to at least pay lipservice to the rules because they know they are probably going to get a heavy fine if they don't, which is increasingly likely given the proliferation of various forms of "safety" and other enforcement cameras (AKA "revenue generating street furniture"). Apart from a few areas - mostly upmarket urban and some expressways - Africa and S.E. Asia have very little of that infrastructure, the attitude is usually that "driving rules are for other people", and a suitable amount of currency tucked into your paperwork will sort out any inconvenient entanglements with law enforcement. Oh, and you're possibly sharing the entire road with pedestrians, cyclists, tuktuks/rickshaws, and - including near the middle of some cities - free roaming livestock. From a still photograph, you'd think some areas would be in a permanent state of gridlock, yet somehow it all seems to keep moving.

That said, if you have the confidence to go for it, you're going to get *really* good at knowing exactly how small a gap you can fit your vehicle through/into and how fast you need to do it before the fucker in the "lane" next to you (road markings, including for the central divide, are also "for other people") cuts in. I think Waymo has a waze to go before they'll be able to take that on. :)

Nope, definitely not just you. I get by just fine on around 5hrs per night as well and have done so for as long as I can remember, and there are plenty of other documented examples of people with this kind of wake/sleep cycle, including a few already mentioned in this discussion. I can't make myself sleep much more than that no matter how much I try unless I'm really ill, in which case I'll often essentially just shutdown until my body has sorted itself out.

The "at least 8 hours a night sleep" thing might be the peak of some researcher's bell curve, but the thing about bell curves is that if you pick a random point under it then you're almost certainly *not* going to be directly under the peak, and will in fact be some way off to one side or the other. Biology is inherently analogue, yet there's clearly a widespread misconception that it ought to act like some kind of digital system where everything is either one thing or the other, or at worst chosen from a limited number of fixed options. Sure, some things are governed by genes that only have a limited number of combinations, or are constrained by - for instance - the number of organs/appendages of a given type, but everything else is driven by bio-chemistry and that alone makes it far more likely that almost all of it is going to be a spectrum, and possibly even one with more than two dimensions.

So, now we have a new "mutation" that presumably somehow influences that complex balance of chemicals and results in requiring less sleep (in mice). Personally, I'd say it's more like a different combination of a vast number of potential biological tuning parameters, because like that bell curve no creature is ever going to be "pure" and we're all mutants. Babylon 5 even did a story on this falacy taken to its logical conclusion, and it did not end well for the Ikarrans...

No one was forced to use Internet Explorer, except when they wanted to browse the Internet after bundled IE with Windows and drove Netscape out of business.

No one was forced to install Windows, except when they wanted to use a PC and Microsoft was threatening PC OEMs that provided alternatives.

No one was forced to buy a telephone line from the Bell system, so long as they didn't mind not having a telephone in the United States.

No one was forced to lease an IBM punchcard tabulating machine, except when IBM held all the patents and refused to sell their equipment at reasonable prices.

No one was forced to buy oil from Standard, except when they wanted to heat their homes after SO bought up all the competition.

This story is about Google monopolizing the advertising industry, not search, you absolute bingus.

Dragons like nerds too.

Flambéd. With ketchup.

Ah, dear, sweet Panorama... gone before your time! In the garden of youth, you were known as TabCandy, and you were a delight upon mine eyes, and saviour of many a Mac user, whom you liberated from the depths of taskbarless window management ignorance, up, up, to the dizzy heights of spatial window management! How much duller and greyer the world has been since you last languidly cached all those many tab thumbnails in your round-corner'd groupings... Were it only possible to summon you forth once more, with Ctrl-Shift-T, as in the age of your glories!

But seriously, it was a casualty of its own implementation. It was an enormous memory sink written in jQuery, at a time when Firefox was haemorrhaging users to Chrome because of its performance. Many of the browser APIs it depended on were also purged.

It's laughably full of hyperbole and overlooking of practicalities too - like "millions of alternative browsers". Hundreds, maybe, and mostly toy projects based on a handful of opensource engines, which often don't work reliably because some dumb websites have coding didn't include the browser ID amongst those they're customising their UX to and don't simply default to basic standards compliant code when that happens, so that "millions" is actually more like "tens" in practice, and good luck getting traditional corporate IT to install something they haven't heard of too, so we're down to three, maybe four, depending on the OS's in use.

Which brings us to the likely real reason for this plea. He codes Ruby on Rails and webapps. If you did that, wouldn't you like to only have to worry about supporting one defacto standard browser engine and fsck anyone that doesn't toe the line? Oh, wait, we do! There are standards for HTML, CSS, and all the other web technologies - albeit standards that don't evolve as fast as some might like - but there is still a perfectly acceptable baseline you can code for and be (more or less) guaranteed to have your page display as expected in any sufficiently compliant browser. If you decide to go and code your site for some proprietary extensions or tags by one vendor or another based on brower ID, that's *your* problem, not the user's.

"Microsoft fought the web tooth and nail back in the 90s because they knew that a free, open application platform would undermine lock-in -- and it did!"

Open source or not, Chrome/Chromium or the highway is still lock-in. And I can guarantee you, if we get to that point and Google still controls Chrome/Chromium, they'll come up with some creative, yet totally bogus, reason why it's absolutely essential for Manifest v4 to further cripple ad-blocking and privacy protecting extensions.

Close. REN (the Portugese operator) is now putting the cause down as "due to extreme temperature variations in the interior of Spain, there were anomalous oscillations in the very high voltage lines (400 KV), a phenomenon known as 'induced atmospheric vibration'".

I think that means rapid changes in ambient temperature causing sufficent expansion and contraction of the HT cables to cause enough physical vibration in the lines which then presumably either led (via a disruption in the transmission frequency?) to protection devices tripping at the substations.

Maybe not.

For such a widespread outage they've probably had cascading failures, very rapidly, across a large part of the Iberian power grid. Some of those may have caused outages at different substations, ranging from tripped relays that can be easily reset to things that have physically blown and need replacement. It's entirely possible they have a pretty good idea of what needs fixing or resetting, but no idea yet what and where the cascade started from. Just because one site failed first doesn't mean that wasn't in response to an issue at another sending too much current, and so on.

Also, after the accusations and counter accustations of the recent LHR outage, I suspect they don't want to go off half-cocked and start an avoidable blame game so are making sure they've got all the facts before they start making any firm statements.

That was in reference to ElevenLabs, not CADA. They have what appears to be essentially just a text-to-speech engine, but it's being talked about as if it were AI, and was presumably marketed to CADA as AI - hence cashing in. TFS is a bit light on what it was actually doing, but probably 90% of daytime radio music shows boil down to announcing songs, playing them, and then announcing the next one when it finishes with a bit of fluff and occasionally inserting some ads in-between. Any half-competent programmer could script nearly all that using their pick of any number of languages and their TTS engine of choice, no AI required:

Select song (random or next on playlist)
Read in metadata
Announce metadata through TTS in one of a number of randomised formats ("Song X by Act Y", "Act Y's Song X", etc.), combined with some semi-random filler drawn from another list
Play song, then fade out to:
If {some test} = true, insert some random non-song announcement filler from a pre-set list piped through the TTS
If timer > 15min play some pre-recorded ads, then reset timer
Go to start

You'd kind of expect at least some airing of suspicions and discource on social media, at least. Perhaps not to the extent of Kate Middleton's photoshopped family photo, or the more recent suspicions around Joe Biden's Easter Gathering photo, but at least a few posts. TFS makes it seem that until Stephanie Coombes started asking questions this flew completely beneath the public radar during daytime radio in Sydney for several months, so it's not like we're talking a handful of Aussie rednecks working late in the outback and presumably a reasonable cross section of listeners from different demographics who didn't suspect.

Also, what seems to have piqued Coombes' interest wasn't the audio content, but rather the lack of a social media profile or obvious bio for "Thy" raising some rather obvious red flags. If CADA has taken the time to created a plausible background and social media persona for "Thy" that could be interacted with, it's entirely possible she wouldn't have followed up on it and "Thy" would still be broadcasting with no one being any the wiser. Sure, it's daytime music, so quite likely it's just going to be playing in the backgound in the workplace or whatever, and listeners not really paying all that much attention to it that might lead them to pick up on any audio cues it's actually an AI, but that's clearly the whole point of this "experiment", isn't it?

For that usage case the tech is clearly now good good enough for mass market, and even if they have to stick a "This is AI" disclaimer on it, I don't think that's going to worry them, or their background-muzak wanting listeners, too much, and you can bet this costs an awful lot less to kit out and run that a full-fledged radio recording & broadcasting studio. As the tech improves, I think we can absolutely expect to see it being deployed by more stations, and in more interactive shows with people actually calling in (and no doubt hilarity will ensure when some wag calls in and gets another AI talking to the radio station's AI).

ElevenLabs -- a generative AI audio platform that transforms text into speech

And write, apparently. Someone needed to produce the "script" that the AI host used, which may also have had some AI involvement I suppose, but ultimately this seems to be just a glorified text to speech engine trying to cash in on the AI bubble. Or maybe they took it to the next logical step and just feed it a playlist and it generates the necessary "filler" from that and what it can find online from a search of the artist and title, plus some randoms chit chat from a (possibly) curated list of relevant current affairs articles.

Frankly, if people couldn't tell for six months, then whatever they are doing is clearly good enough and the smarter radio DJs are probably already thinking about looking for other work or adding more interactive content like interviews into their shows. Talk Show type presenters probably have a little longer, but it's probably just a matter of time for them too.

Metric tons of *carbon*. It's two different statistics that are totally disconnected in TFS which, despite the headline, gave more details on the carbon production stats than the water consumption ones. Welcome to Slashdot & editors that publish content even worse than AI summaries...

Also, it's not like the water is "spent" like fuel and can't be recycled; it's still the same H2O that went into the system, just somewhat warmer. If you're being efficient, then it would be possible to reuse or reclaim at least some of that heat in a co-located "partner facility" that can use it, or send it through a heatpump to generate some electricity. Assuming it's potable, then feeding it into hot water systems as partially heated water will make those more efficient, otherwise it can go into industrial systems that needs heated water. Another solution already deployed by at least one DC was to send it to a local theme park to help offset their water heating costs for waterslides, logrides, etc.

Coral only grows in shallower waters and, although there have recently been a few reefs found a bit deeper than expected, you can still pretty much rule out any areas of open ocean beyond the litoral waters of the continental shelves. There are occassional finds of new reefs on sea mounts and in mostly uninhabitted archipelagoes, but that's awfully rare now, so it's pretty likely we're within a rounding error of knowing where every last one is.