He just wanted to make Slashdot headlines twice in one week. He must be starved of attention.

What a clickbait headline. First of all it's not the skin of the pig that turns blue, it's muscle and fat you can only see after it has been butchered. And they know exactly what caused it - it's because the rodenticide is covered in a powdered blue dye specifically for this purpose.

Pigs have been eating it, and it seems they are actually attracted to the rodenticide in this better article. Hunters have seen them eating it, and have also seen the blue dye in muscle and fat.

Finally, agricultural producers ARE allowed to use the poison in CA, hence why it's being used. It sounds like a simple solution is putting the poison in containers only the rodents can fit inside of to eat it, keeping the wild pigs from ingesting it.

It's not clear from the article because it doesn't have hard data, but it does say this:

So it is "slightly faster" than the well-known algorithm, and only in specific conditions when "you chop up the graph in the right way". The real question... is it SLOWER than Dijkstra’s in more cases to the point that on average it is actually slower?

The news here is this isn't necessarily better (the portion about the implementation being "considerably more intricate" doesn't sound great) or faster, but it is a new method to find routes.

The politicians have no idea and are too clueless and out of their league to have any idea of the reality of it whatsoever.

They merely write laws (well, they tell people smarter than them to write laws, and they sign them), and they think that laws can actually accomplish magical things.

This is starting to split hairs. There are lots of legitimate reasons for pages to be fetched by a "bot". If you post a link to a social media platform, that system will fetch the page to access the HTML meta tags to find things like the page title, an image to represent the page, a description, etc, and that is what is displayed in the post instead of just a plain URL. That request also doesn't result in "eyeballs" and ads are not served. Browsers can pre-fetch URLs on a page, again, not resulting in the page actually being viewed by a person.

I'm not seeing a huge issue with AI fetching something on-demand to generate content, which is totally different than scraping data to train a model. This is really more in the realm of a traditional search engine in this regard.

If Cloudflare is misrepresenting the data to make it appear as if data is being scraped for training purposes when it is not then that is indeed something different.

I should have searched this out and included it in my comment. Here's the video that prompted my comment. Also note this video was from 4 years ago, just before the huge explosion in AI capability.

In the first season of The Mandalorian, when a de-aged Luke appears, I remember the complaints that the CGI wasn't great, and within days there were alternate versions using AI that actually produced much better results than what Disney spent a fortune doing. A lot of people were wondering why Disney didn't use these tools if they were available to the general public, and now it makes sense. It was the legal side of things and Disney not being sure they fully owned the result if it wasn't created by a work-for-hire human being.

Yes, because it's not about accuracy, but fear and control on the populace.

It's nice to think that, but as a parent of a 16 and 19 year old, I can tell you right now that generation is so used to everything being rolled out in shrink-wrapped, shiny, ready to use packages, that they will gain no deep understanding of networking from this. They will install an app, like TOR, on their phone / iPad if they hear it will let them access something that was blocked from them, with no understanding of the underpinnings or what is going on at all.

That would be nice if the individuals had a say-so in the matter and not just the corporate overlords.

This is the wrong time for this kind of news. We're supposed to be beating up on Boeing at this point in time. Please align yourself with the narrative, Slashdot.

It's been 15 years since the first Falcon 9 launch, and 10 years since the first Falcon 9 came back to earth and landed. When you say "eventually" just how long are we talking about here? As another commenter said, just wait until Starship is launching stuff into orbit. That will be even more disruptive than Falcon 9.

Props to keeping the underpinning technologies secret for this long. That's almost as big of a feat as the engineering itself.

Is this a new feature of slashdot? Is the plan to report on every passenger plane engine fire occurring across the globe?

If it wasn't this particular set of twelve accounts, the "disinformation dozen" would have been some other set of 12. People were sharing what they wanted to share, and that is what made those accounts popular. It was content people wanted to hear and wanted to share. Once any of those accounts reached some critical mass the viral snowball affect kicked in and they got more and more exposure, so that particular group was the ones churning out the content. That's the way social media works, due to a combination of algorithms and basic human nature.