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On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

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Hang on. Deloitte offshored development work on the core citizen identity programme to Romania? And didn’t tell anyone in advance ? Is that what seriously happened?

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Still this

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The US is so lost right now.

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LLMs hallucinating nonexistent software packages with plausible names leads to a new malware vulnerability: "slopsquatting."

submitted 3 days ago • 31 comments

I'm thinking that maybe making it all about one single already famous Welsh actor is the problem, not the solution?

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This 👇👇👇 Is everything I took away from Adolescence. Unfortunately, the writer chose to focus on all the middle class fears and prejudices and not the reality. Hence the "ban the internet or our innocent boys will be corrupted" reaction. This story deserved a more informed telling.

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Chinese E-commerce giant JD.Com has announced it will launch a 200 billion yuan fund (£20.8bn) to help exporters sell their products domestically, in reaction to the intensifying US-China trade war, Reuters reports. The US just can’t compete with this. (New thread)

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Really beautiful work in all senses of the word. The complexity is hard to comprehend. “A complete reconstruction of a cubic millimetre of neurons requires roughly a petabyte of data” #neuroskyence #nature #neuroscience #brainresearch www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

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The story of Chicken Licken (Chicken Little in the US) is the story of every MAGA voter. They were so afraid of the sky falling in, they voted for the fox.

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I'm halfway through this article & like (and agree with) the points made thus far. But I want to have an aside on how people uncritically use the term "foundation models" & "reasoning," when it is very likely that the models memorized all these benchmarks. 🧵 prospect.org/power/2025-0...

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Thank you to @theverge.com for posting the full clip of Microsoft's Copilot event - including the moment when Microsoft employee Ibtihal Aboussad protested the company selling AI tools to Israel for the use of murdering families (she was immediately fired) youtu.be/Do6yrtur4AY?...

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

Man Who Bumped Tesla While Parallel Parking Sentenced To Death

submitted 7 days ago • 547 comments

This is the “foreign investment” that every neoliberal government loves. Including, of course, the current one.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

How nuts that the best guide I've seen to AI assisted/driven coding is from the UK government department responsible for farming 🐄 (DEFRA) defra.github.io/defra-ai-sdlc/

submitted 41 days ago • 3 comments

Feels about time for another of those "once in a lifetime" EU referendum thingies

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

ICYMI, latest weeknote

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

You spend all your time telling people the only jobs worth having are CEO, Celebrity and World Leader then you wonder why no one's happy working in your factories? Hmm.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

True. Because if it's all on "modern" digital storage devices, it'll be dodgy as hell in a couple of years and all gone in 5 to 10 years unless that storage is regularly replaced. That's one hell of an annual maintenance cost they just added to the archive.

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Oh shit, Canada — Prime Minister Mark Carney is a cat guy. #caturday

submitted 10 days ago • 26 comments

Attention White House: Thou shalt not joke about how you sent an innocent father of 3 to a gulag while his autistic son smells his shirts to remember him.

submitted 10 days ago • 552 comments

I've used so many programming languages over the decades. Java is the winner.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Wow they’ve finally charged Russell Brand with rape. I don’t have anything funny to say but it’s the only thing I wanted to hear about him, I’m really sick of people sharing his clout-goblin posts going “har har he said a dumb thing”.

submitted 11 days ago • 11 comments

never used chatgpt and that does in fact make me better than everyone who has

submitted 12 days ago • 8 comments

Sure, Trump wants to burn the whole world, but for now he's sticking to his promise of "America first".

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

A lot of what appears inexplicable to some people can be explained by racism. I understand that it's out of fashion to say this.

submitted 12 days ago • 81 comments

Also I hope we're all on this same page EVERYONE needs to be brought out of that El Salvadorian hell hole they were ALL wrongfully deported. I mean it's good to focus on 'And this guy was here legally and not ever a gang member AND they're Venezuelan' but NO ONE should've been sent there

submitted 12 days ago • 571 comments

Apparently Trump just demanded that the US economy be renamed to "The Gulf of America"

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If you didn't have enough reasons to avoid Google and all its works...

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Half of the eeejits shouting that Le Pen should be allowed to run don’t even believe criminals should be able to vote.

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

Just chillin'

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If the LePen conviction/sanction is an April Fools joke I'm going to be very very disappointed in all of you.

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