Windows is a toy OS, good enough to play video games. But many confused people think it’s okay to use for critical or sensitive operations.

Thanks the summary.

I wonder if there’s more the EU can do, like barring organisations involved in those sham conversion therapies from receicing EU funds.

They’re requesting mostly wrong solutions for real problems.

Age verification doesn’t address social media’s problems, but does increase data collection and decrease privacy. Same for decrypting private messages.

A guardian account does seem reasonable.

They could also completely turn off user seach for minors, so they would have to add contacts by username or email, and couldn’t reach or be reached easily by online strangers.

Minors could circumvent this if there’s no age verification. But today’s age verification methods are neither privacy-friendly nor hard to circumvent. Until they are, it’s not worth requiring age verification.

Ukraine’s defence ministry has fired a top commander after photos emerged of a group of emaciated soldiers who have been left on the frontline for months without proper food and water.

I’m sure that if Russian solders suffered similar problems, their government would totally held the commander accountable, and would absolutely not silence nor threaten their family.

An average fill up runs at about 34 megawatts.

Most of that energy is lost because ICE are very inefficients. Still, impressive.

Also, it’s not possible to refill at home, and it’s expensive when there’s a war near an oil-producing country at the other side of the world.

Electrifying has this downside of slow recharge, but quite a lot of benefits as well.

And I guess engineers would be held responsible for the code produced by the AI agent’s they’re pressured to use.

So management can blame and fire more engineers when things go wrong.

Good. This may reduce the amount of sloppy code being created. And prevent prices from increasing for everyone.

Yes, assuming (local) government realize modern train infrastructure is useful and decides to start building more right now.

by bus, or train (if there’s such a thing in NA)

I’m aware train infrastructure in limited in NA, hence the “if”. Let’s hope the inability to operate some flights due to fuel cost motivates expansion of modern train infrastructure in the area.

There’s only 600km between Montreal and NYC, and no ocean to cross. It’s absolutely possible to make the trip by bus, or train (if there’s such a thing in NA).

That’s a hard pivot. And building more AI infrastructure is a bad idea. But they might make some short term money given the AI hype.

1.225 M EUR is the maximum fine allowed by law for one of the charges. There was a 4,57 M EUR customs fine added on top of that for violating international sanctions. The fine is shared between the company AND the former executives involved.

Source: https://www.france24.com/fr/info-en-continu/20260413-jugement-pour-lafarge-accusé-de-financement-du-terrorisme-en-syrie

If the law allowed it, the amount could have been higher. Fining the company AND former executives, as well as sending the former CEO to jail is a good way to hold people accountable.

Bruno Lafont, Lafarge’s former CEO, was arrested in the courthouse upon sentencing and immediately sent to prison.

Is that Oracle’s Larry Ellison on the right?

Oracle needs a good dose of adversarial interoperability.

Low to average reliability is fine if the service is cheap, and if that avoid the need for backup diesel generators in datacenters.

I doubt this applied to Github:

Microsoft to use diesel-fired generators as backup power for data centers

That’s a good way to represent LLMs. Very bad and very prolific consultants.

It shows LLMs can do significant harm without the capabilities of an AGI.

Overhyping LLMs and overinflating their capabilities makes things worse, as people are less skeptical of LLM output.

According to Clayton, the AI agent involved didn’t take any technical action itself, beyond posting inaccurate technical advice, something a human could have also done.

Producing innaccurate technical advice, with a confident tone, at scale.

If that LLM were an employee it would get a formal blame, and then demoted or fired as it continues.

There’s still someone at Microsoft with common sense. That’s probably too little too late.