Something for the EU to think about: Wealth is the set of possible physical transformations. It cannot be quantified as a number. If you solve the right problems you become wealthier in knowledge and resources. Are we building or consuming?… petri Jan 27, 2024, 7:47 PM
”That the Gulf Stream is responsible for Europe's mild winters is widely known and accepted, but, as I will show, it is nothing more than the earth-science equivalent of an urban legend.”… petri Jan 27, 2024, 6:37 PM
AI ecosystems always fail at the end. We don’t know how to create an open-ended one.… petri Jan 27, 2024, 6:21 PM
”Labin supplies Russian arms manufacturers with European-made coordinate-measuring machines, a high-tech machine tool critical in the production of the Kremlin’s hypersonic Kinzhal missile. The sanctions-busting operation has become a family business”… petri Jan 27, 2024, 4:38 PM
”Mixtral 8x7B quickly gained popularity and usage among the developer community since its December release. Mixtral 8x7B currently outperforms ChatGPT 3.5, Claude Instant, Llama 2, and many others”… petri Jan 27, 2024, 11:16 AM
Changes coming to the App Store are coming to all of Apple’s platforms, while changes to the iPhone are coming only to the iPhone, even if iOS shares a lot of the same codebase as iPadOS.… petri Jan 27, 2024, 8:02 AM
”We’re currently in a scenario where Russia is spending 40 per cent of GDP on this war - that’s more than health and education… We need to recognise the fact that Russia has succeeded in firing up its military-industrial complex and adjusted to a wartime economy”… petri Jan 27, 2024, 7:49 AM
”Developers have frantically plugged in their businesses’ numbers into Apple’s online ‘fee calculator’ only to see their worst fears confirmed. Apple has the control and they are confident that the European Commission will let them keep it.”… petri Jan 27, 2024, 6:52 AM
AI renders search engines useless in distinguishing real content from rubbish ”SpinRewriter, lets users create 1,000 slightly different versions of the same article with a single click and automatically publish them to as many WordPress sites as you want using a paid plugin.”… petri Jan 26, 2024, 8:24 PM
”The strategic partnership between TotalEnergies and Russia’s Novatek, which sends its own mercenary forces to the war in Ukraine, has allowed the Kremlin to export liquefied natural gas to world markets and receive billions of euros annually to finance its war of aggression in Ukraine. ”… petri Jan 26, 2024, 6:57 PM
”If it was serious, Europe alone could give Ukraine the kind of military force that could enable a Ukrainian victory—and if they move fast, they might be able to do it before the war is over.”… petri Jan 26, 2024, 5:56 AM
”Russia imported more than $1 billion of advanced US and European chips last year, despite restrictions intended to stop President Vladimir Putin’s military getting hold of technology to fuel its war in Ukraine.”… petri Jan 26, 2024, 5:28 AM
”New APIs enabling developers to use NFC technology in their banking and wallet apps throughout the EEA; and new controls that allow users to select a third-party contactless payment app (or an alternative app marketplace) as their default… new APIs enabling developers to use NFC technology in their banking… petri Jan 25, 2024, 7:44 PM
”The company has been developing a mass-producible drone that uses artificial intelligence for visual targeting and can function in zero-comms environments created by GPS jamming.”… petri Jan 25, 2024, 7:06 PM
Where is all the creativity and breakthroughs now when we have supercomputers in our pockets?… petri Jan 25, 2024, 1:35 PM
”Hundreds of thousands of ordinary apps, including popular ones such as 9gag, Kik, and a series of caller ID apps, are part of a global surveillance capability that starts with ads inside each app, and ends with the apps’ users being swept up into a powerful mass monitoring tool advertised… petri Jan 25, 2024, 5:59 AM
