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  • Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Microsoft Edge, Opera to follow - Neowin

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  • That, or use a chromium fork that ignores manifest v3 and supports manifest v2.

  • I was just scammed by Polymarket

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  • FBI director's Based Apparel site has been spotted hosting a 'ClickFix' attack

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  • Meta data center allegedly muddies Georgia town's drinking water, investigation underway — EPA promises immediate investigation after congresswoman brings dirty jars of water to hearing

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  • Meta data center allegedly muddies Georgia town's drinking water, investigation underway — EPA promises immediate investigation after congresswoman brings dirty jars of water to hearing

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  • The title is missing a significant keyword here: "construction"

    A more accurate headline:

    Meta data center construction allegedly muddies Georgia town's drinking water, investigation underway — EPA promises immediate investigation after congresswoman brings dirty jars of water to hearing

    This isn't exclusive to datacenters, any sort of large construction projects should be under the microscope right now. If there are legal loopholes allowing water supplies to be contaminated, that should be addressed. Meta and any other companies responsible for this should be billed the costs for cleaning up or for funding additional water treatment solutions to make up for this.

  • What was default font in MSN messenger? Specifically around 2007-2010.

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  • Sometimes those responses can be helpful, but there's usually a link to whatever page that it sourced some of the info from. I would strongly recommend that you get in the habit of clicking that link just to double check.

  • Anyone on the Internet Can Ring Your Doorbell

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  • The doorbell in this case is one that was bought on Temu by Naxclow:

    The unit ships under the name “Smart Doorbell X3” and pairs through a mobile app called “X Smart Home”

    Looks like Naxclow responded to the pen tester's feedback very positively and are happy that he disclosed this issue to them. They've already started an internal review on the issue.

  • Roman Letters

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  • This is an awesome collection of letters.

    A decent portion of them are entirely human translated and are definitely more useful than the AI assisted translations since I've noticed a number of them including translator's notes to help add context to the text.

    For those concerned about AI assisted translations, anytime some text has been translated with AI assistance, the website makes it very obvious. Links to original manuscripts are available. 19th century translations are also available for a decent number of those letters.

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    AI data center project secretly sucked 29 million gallons of water over 15 months before detected by residents complaining about low water pressure — officials refuse to fine

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  • Nothing in that comment should have been construed as trying to defend the company from trying to weasel their way out of paying their water bill.

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    AI data center project secretly sucked 29 million gallons of water over 15 months before detected by residents complaining about low water pressure — officials refuse to fine

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  • Some important context here:

    QTS told Politico the 29 million gallons were consumed during temporary construction activities, including concrete work, dust control, and site preparation. The company markets a "closed-loop" cooling system for its data centers, which recirculates the same water rather than drawing from the municipal supply.

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    Kevin O’Leary’s proposed 9GW "hyperscale" AI data center in Utah will consume double the state's entire electricity usage and generate the waste heat of 23 atom bombs a day.

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  • Thanks, looks like I was wrong. I looked into the evaporative cooling. It looks like this kicks in if it's hot outside, otherwise the cooling units operate in a "dry" mode.

    Although, none of that is directly heating up a lake, it looks like the water just flows into something like an A/C unit. Are there datacenters that are piping heat directly into lakes?

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    Kevin O’Leary’s proposed 9GW "hyperscale" AI data center in Utah will consume double the state's entire electricity usage and generate the waste heat of 23 atom bombs a day.

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  • THE KICKER that's just to run the data center, think of the demand for the HVAC and ecological damage to using a lake's water to cool equipment (water would be coming out over 100⁰F).

    I keep seeing this on Lemmy, but why do so many people think that these datacenters are using water from reservoirs for "cooling"?

    Datacenters use A/C for cooling, and if there's any sort of "Liquid cooling" being used on these servers, it's in a closed loop system.

    Water isn't being pumped out as steam or into the environment directly from datacenters, unless there's some other method I'm missing here?

    What I think is getting mixed up here is that, for many forms of generating electricity, water is needed to be heated up in some way to create steam. The steam then turns a turbine which moves some magnets to generate electricity.

    Some of those powerplants are in closed loop systems with their water, some of them are not. Additionally, if the energy is coming from solar/wind/hydro then there shouldn't be any concerns about water getting turned into steam anyway.

  • I Asked AI to Count My Carbs 27,000 Times. It Couldn’t Give Me the Same Answer Twice.

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  • Technically, you can get the same answer twice from an LLM, but only when you control the full input. When a model is being run, a random seed/hash is applied to the input. If you run the model locally you could force the seed to always be the same so that you would always get the same answer for a given question.

  • What is the fantasy book/series everyone should read?

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  • Constitution by Nick Webb?

  • Large physics models are increasingly used to bypass simulation

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  • I'm failing to see why the creative writing machine is better than a simulation set to 'rough'.

    This doesn't sound like they are using LLMs for processing their 3D models. The way it's described in the article sounds a lot more like some machine learning model trained on physics simulations for aerodynamics.

  • What is the fantasy book/series everyone should read?

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  • Which series was this? The original commenter deleted their comment.

  • AI Company Clones Musician’s Voice, Then Copyright-Strikes Her Own Songs

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  • Misleading title. This isn't an "AI Company". As far as I can tell, it's some scammer that used AI Tools to create similar music and then copyright strike the original artist to steal their revenue.

    The major issue here is how YouTube handles these claims. From the article:

    YouTube’s dispute process places enormous trust in whoever files the claim, with little built-in protection for independent artists who lack legal resources.

    This isn't something new and was already being done before AI tools were available.

  • Voxtral Transcribe 2: transcribes at the speed of sound

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  • For the Futo Keyboard, I installed the "FUTO Voice Input" app.Then in the Futo Keyboard app I have the "Voice Input" set to Disabled/Use voice input provided by external app.

    It works really well for me at least.

  • I'm not an artist. If I sketch something, and have an ai upscale it for me, is it still slop, vs just asking it to do everything?

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  • I wouldn't consider this slop.

    Let's compare this to photography. If you use a camera to take a picture of something, sure, the machine is doing most of the work, but the photographer is playing a vital role in this.

    Now there are photographers that spend a lot of time composing a shot. They'll mess around with shutter speed, aperture size, ISO, zoom, depth of field, etc. They'll also figure out the subject matter and may add some other elements to it. Afterwards they'll make adjustments to the picture with something like Lightroom or Darktable, and maybe touch up some things with Photoshop.

    Then there are people that take pictures with their phone of a computer screen showing something cool happening in a game and post it on Reddit.

    On one end of the spectrum I would consider the photo to be art, on the other I would consider it to be slop. However, there are many degrees between one end of this spectrum to the other.

    With AI tools it's not much different. The machine is doing a lot of the work, but how much of it is guided, reshaped, or directed by a human? With Image Generating tools you can tweak the seed, the steps, the cfg, the sampler, denoise, etc. You can choose the base model, add multiple LoRAs and embeddings, or train your own if you're looking for a certain style.

    Then you have users that go to ChatGPT, type in a prompt and have ChatGPT do everything else.

    Like photography, on one end of the spectrum I would consider it art, on the other I would consider it slop.

    But this all begs the question, what is art? How do you draw the line between what art is, and what it is not?