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NB: I am vision impaired due to diabetes. Some days it's just too hard to put alt text with every image.
The scariest truth I have heard all year is this one:
A professor and his student has revealed, Russia has built a space jamming system capable of turning off GPS in all devices on entire continents. One day everything works, the next day Putin gives the order and every smartphone, every car navigation system, every weather station — all of it — loses GPS.
You thought blocking the Hormuz Strait was bad for the economy? I believe, this will be worse.
A brand new piece for Crikey: digging into what happens now for Australia's data centre debate
Anthropic, planning 20GW, would have to build 1.7x the amount of all renewable energy ever built in Australia to date, to meet the 100% mandate.
From the things that make me happier than they should department: new rice cooker has a rice paddle holder and, more importantly, a handle on the underside of the lid.
Someone worked out that it's convenient to put the pan and lid in the fridge and it ALWAYS fits the fridge better when the lid is inverted. Sun goddess in the product design section.
The planned gas-fired capacity **JUST FOR DATA CENTRE ON-SITE USE** in the US is the same as *all* planned gas capacity in India, Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia, Japan, Korea and China *combined*.
But sure, 'ChatGPT is just like 10 seconds of watching Netflix' 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠
Two things are going to happen in Australia's main grid in the next few years
- Renewables are going to overtake coal
- Battery discharge is going to overtake gas
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Got to use my new direction-finding antenna tonight! It was really exciting, I didn't initially see the fox box so I identified where it HAD to be 3x before actually finding it. And, while irritating, this meant that I feel really confident in my skills using this thing!
Selfie hidden for eye contact and bonus eye contact #HamRadio
This is good.
"The largest expansion of Australia’s outdated power grid in decades has finally been completed, opening up a new 900-kilometre link between NSW, Victoria and South Australia that will soon make it easier to add wind and solar farms to the network before the closure of more coal-fired power plants."
#energy #renewable #renewables https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/australia-needs-more-renewables-this-900-kilometre-cable-will-help-20260609-p6057v.html
Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers
A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previous limited liability protections for search engine operators don't apply to AI overviews. In this case, Google's AI…
A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previous limited liability protections for search engine operators don't apply to AI overviews. In this case, Google's AI had falsely linked two publishers to fraud and made claims that didn't appear in any of the linked sources. The ruling could set a precedent for AI-generated content liability worldwide.
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