Monday, July 15
Daily News Stuff 15 July 2024
Unskilled And Unaware Edition
Unskilled And Unaware Edition
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- To avoid sea level rise, some researchers want to put barriers around the world's most vulnerable glaciers to slow them down. (Science)
Uh.
What?
In 2008, the Ilulissat Glacier in Greenland had a calving event in which it shed a single iceberg covering three square miles. It sheds 35 billion tons of icebergs in the average year.
And moving glaciers don't leave much of anything in their wake, except rubble.
I mean... Okay, it's not impossible. If you want to build an anti-glacier barrier, go right ahead. Yes, I'll make popcorn, but if you succeed I'll gladly give you credit.
Update: Skip the first four paragraphs of the article and go to the fifth, which explains things a lot more clearly. They don't want to build an anti-glacier barrier, but a barrier for warm ocean currents to shield glaciers at the point they enter the sea.
Tech News
- The new Asus ExpertBook lacks the Four Essential Keys and its Lunar Lake CPU will get crushed by AMD's new Strix Point (non-Halo) chips when they arrive later this month. (WCCFTech)
It's not actively terrible but I wouldn't bother.
- Once a new security exploit is made public, system administrators around the world have 22 minutes to update all their servers. (Bleeping Computers)
That's how fast hackers pounce on new exploits.
- Speaking of exploits "superhuman" AI Go players turn out to be so dumb that a child can beat them. (Ars Technica)
If the child knows the right exploit. Even after researchers updated the AI to handle this, it only won 22% of the time.Improving these kinds of "worst case" scenarios is key to avoiding embarrassing mistakes when rolling an AI system out to the public. But this new research shows that determined "adversaries" can often discover new holes in an AI algorithm's performance much more quickly and easily than that algorithm can evolve to fix those problems.
As with AI chat bots that are easily tricked into selling $50,000 cars for $5, the companies behind them will just blame you.
- Possibly as part of the ongoing Snowflake debacle, barcodes for around ten million event tickets from Ticketmaster have been leaked. (HackRead)
In theory the barcodes cannot be refreshed.
In practice, anything can be refreshed if the alternative is a billion dollars going up in smoke.
- Google is reportedly in talks to acquire cloud security company Wiz for $23 billion. (Tech Crunch)
I have never heard of Wiz and have no idea what they actually do. $23 billion should be a lot of money, so presumably they do something.
Disclaimer: Or p'raps not.
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"At a workshop at UC in October 2023, researchers suggested it might cost $88 billion to build 80 kilometers of curtains around Antarctic glaciers."
Another plan that would cost a trillion dollars to fully build out, eh? Color me surprised.
Another plan that would cost a trillion dollars to fully build out, eh? Color me surprised.
Posted by: Rick C at Monday, July 15 2024 11:45 PM (MItL9)
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"it might cost $88 billion to build 80 kilometers of curtains"
So, basically a couple of months of mailing cash to Zelenski might have to be funnelled elsewhere?
Also, if they actually managed to shuffle the warm water away from the ice, what do they think* is going to happen to the warm water?
*I'm using the term loosely here
So, basically a couple of months of mailing cash to Zelenski might have to be funnelled elsewhere?
Also, if they actually managed to shuffle the warm water away from the ice, what do they think* is going to happen to the warm water?
*I'm using the term loosely here
Posted by: normal at Tuesday, July 16 2024 12:08 AM (LADmw)
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Oh, and (duh), you're just going to end up with ice shelves that project further out into the ocean. For a while. Until they break off (calve, if you will) and we're right back where we started.
Posted by: normal at Tuesday, July 16 2024 12:12 AM (LADmw)
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But $88 billion well-spent on underwater basket-weaving.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, July 16 2024 09:05 AM (PiXy!)
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Funny, Pixy, but only "well-spent" in the sense that, had that money been spent that way, it would well and truly have been spent.
Posted by: Rick C at Tuesday, July 16 2024 12:02 PM (MItL9)
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