• Deep Fission has an interesting idea: Rather than extracting spent nuclear fuel from reactors and burying it a mile underground, why not bury the entire reactor...  A mile underground?  (Spectrum)
  
  The reactors will be small - very small, just 75cm wide though 9 meters tall - to fit down a regular borehole, and will generate 15 megawatts of power each.  They plan to bring a test unit online next year - though they admit the schedule is optimistic - and commercial units within three years.
  
  
  
• Mazama Energy, on the other hand, just plans to drill a hole - into Newberry Volcano in Oregon.  (Yahoo)
  
  Down into the depths where the rock reaches temperatures over 600F, so they can pump water down and drive a turbine off the returning steam.
  
  The difficulty there is that at temperatures over 700F where the process is most efficient, the drilling equipment tends to go all melty itself.

• Flash memory shortages are new affecting supplies of high-capacity microSD cards.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Fortunately I have a small supply in hand already.
  
  
  
• Microsoft warns that its new AI features bring with them an increased exposure to data theft, malware, and a chance of hallucinations.  (ItsFOSS)
  
  So no change from standard Windows 11, really.
  
  
  

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Posted by: normal at Tuesday, November 25 2025 04:24 AM (LADmw)

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