One of Elon Musk’s handpicked operatives for his fake “Department of Government Efficiency” has been given complete access to critical payment systems at the Department of the Treasury, despite being only 25 years old.
25-Year-Old Elon Musk Crony Has Total Control Over Treasury Payments
Marko Elez, a 25-year-old engineer linked to Elon Musk, is now rewriting the code for key Treasury Department payment systems.The New Republic
This is one of my favorite poems of all time, written by the wonderful & greatly missed John M. Ford.
I’ve been thinking about it a lot recently. So I thought I would share it.
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A #TikTok-style interface for exploring random #Wikipedia articles.
GitHub: github.com/IsaacGemal/wikitok
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Contribute to IsaacGemal/wikitok development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
AI ‘godfather’ predicts another revolution in the tech in next five years | Artificial intelligence (AI)
One of the “godfathers” of modern artificial intelligence has predicted a further revolution in the technology by the end of the decade because current systems are too limited to create domestic robots and fully automated cars.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
RISC-V Mainboard for Framework Laptop 13 is now available
We’re happy to share that DeepComputing’s DC-ROMA RISC-V Mainboard for Framework Laptop 13 is now in stock and shipping in the Framework Marketplace. This is very much a developer-focused board to help accelerate maturing the software ecosystem around RISC-V, so we recommend waiting for future RISC-V products if you’re looking for a consumer-ready experience. We shared more detail on the Mainboard in an earlier blog post and video, but as a quick summary, this is powered by a StarFive JH7110 processor that uses the open source RISC-V ISA. The team at DeepComputing designed it to drop directly into a Framework Laptop 13 chassis or Cooler Master Mainboard Case.
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The Trump administration tapped Neil Jacobs, a scientist cited for misconduct related to the “Sharpiegate” hurricane forecasting controversy, to lead the agency that oversees US government weather predictions and climate research
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This plan, if it ever gets off the ground, seems destined to fail.
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Report: How Are Researchers Using AI? Survey Reveals Pros and Cons For Science
From Nature: Using artificial intelligence (AI) tools for processes such as preparing manuscripts, writing grant applications and peer review will become widely accepted within the next two years, suggests a survey of nearly 5,000 researchers in more…Library Journal infoDOCKET
Climate change target of 2C is ‘dead’, says renowned climate scientist | Climate crisis
The pace of global heating has been significantly underestimated, according to renowned climate scientist Prof James Hansen, who said the international 2C target is “dead”.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
What's next for Flathub build infrastructure | Flathub Documentation
What's next for Flathub build infrastructure
There is a storm coming and we are re-architecting our build infrastructure.Bart Piotrowski (docs.flathub.org)
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Saw this new word #today and just gotta share it. I'm thinking it gonna get a lot of use over the next several years, for sure.
From CNN:
"Trumpflation (ph) where he makes a false claim and then it keeps getting falser and falser over time. The numbers keep rising."
To Stop The Coup, We Must Be Clear About The Truth: Two Plus Two Equals Four
In George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, the ultimate act of rebellion comes when Winston Smith insists that two plus two equals four, defying a system that demands he accept whatever re…Techdirt
Trump’s Middle East envoy says Gaza rebuilding timeline in Israel-Hamas truce ‘preposterous’
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/trumps-middle-east-envoy-says-gaza-rebuilding-timeline-in-israel-hamas-truce-preposterous?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Trump's Middle East envoy says Gaza rebuilding timeline in Israel-Hamas truce 'preposterous'
President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff says that a three to five year timeline for reconstruction of Gaza, as set out in a temporary truce agreement, is not viable.PBS News
#WritersCoffeeClub February 4th: Do you ever read back your work and surprise yourself with what you've written?
My stories are written to my tastes. I never thought I’d be a person to read my own stories until I realized one of the reasons I write is because I have opinions on how stories should go. Also, the nature of editing makes for a better story than the ones in my head. So if they’re finished they’re always better than I thought they were and an easy read.
Azerbaijan Airlines plane was shot down by Russian Pantsir-S air defense system
A source in Azerbaijan's government confirmed that they are in possession of a Pantsir-S missile fragment, which was removed from the downed plane and verified by international experts.
Curiously, the report released earlier today by Kazakh authorities, did not include this detail - though the pictures showed metal shrapnel found in the plane's fuselage
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in reply to melroy • • •It is absolutely more of a development board than one meant even for early-bird adopters. The processing power is more on-par with a Raspberry Pi. Here's a review of another development board using the same processor: bret.dk/risc-v-starfive-vision…
Compare the Geekbench 6 scores to the Ryzen 7040HS in the Framework 16: browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/4…
As the review author explains, Geekbench 6 is a bit unfair to the JH7110 since it's missing some processor extensions, but even if we pretended it had a similar lead over the Pi 4 as it does on the Unixbench suite, it'd still be an order of magnitude behind the AMD processor.
You're not really gonna be gaming on this thing, and you might not have a great experience even with normal desktop productivity software. These boards are likely gonna be relegated mostly to compiling cod
... show moreIt is absolutely more of a development board than one meant even for early-bird adopters. The processing power is more on-par with a Raspberry Pi. Here's a review of another development board using the same processor: bret.dk/risc-v-starfive-vision…
Compare the Geekbench 6 scores to the Ryzen 7040HS in the Framework 16: browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/4…
As the review author explains, Geekbench 6 is a bit unfair to the JH7110 since it's missing some processor extensions, but even if we pretended it had a similar lead over the Pi 4 as it does on the Unixbench suite, it'd still be an order of magnitude behind the AMD processor.
You're not really gonna be gaming on this thing, and you might not have a great experience even with normal desktop productivity software. These boards are likely gonna be relegated mostly to compiling code and running tests.
If a future revision is a little more powerful though, it could maybe make for a decent netbook. At just $200 it could also be a pretty good value for the education sector, maybe as a dev board for systems programming courses.
RISC-V StarFive VisionFive 2 Review (JH7110)
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in reply to fitgse • • •The review I linked quotes 5-8W under load so I'd expect it to be about 10 hours on the Framework 13's 55Wh battery and about ~15h on the Framework 16's 85Wh battery.
But it also can't play a 1080p YouTube video worth a damn so it's hard to imagine what you'd actually wanna use it that long for.
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in reply to Jure Repinc • • •By the time mine dies, this might be viable.
FOSS4life, ride or die!
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in reply to sunzu2 • • •They even recommend waiting for future RISC-V products if you’re looking for a consumer-ready experience.
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in reply to Jure Repinc • • •Love what these guys are doing.
There's also a mainboard case, so you don't need the whole laptoppy thing at all if you don't want to
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