• CoreWeave, an AI company involved in...  Nobody really knows what they do, it would seem...  Is blaming the implosion of the planned IPO by Australian competitor Firmus (the names keep getting worse) for the fact that it is $50 billion in debt with a bond yield of 16%.  (AFR)  (archive site)
  
  I think you're getting out over your oars there, CoreWeave.
  
  
  

Tech News

• Here's the Asus ProArt P16 RTX Spark laptop, which delivers up to 128GB of unified RAM should you want such a thing.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Is it good?  I guess.
  
  Is it affordable?  Decidedly not.
  
  Does it have the Four Essential Keys?  They are nowhere to be found.
  
  
  
• Here's the HP ZBook Ultra G3a Ryzen AI Max Pro 495 laptop, which delivers up to 192GB of unified RAM should you want such a thing.  (Notebook Check)
  
  Is it good?  I guess.
  
  Is it affordable?  It's an HP workstation model.  Guess.
  
  Does it have the Four Essential Keys?  Shockingly, yes.
  
  
  
• The leap second has leapt the building.  (Smithsonian)
  
  Leap seconds were introduced by astronomers to make sure that UTC time that normal people use never drifted more than a second from UT1 time that abnormal people astronomers use.
  
  UT1 measures what time it really is based on the rotation of the Earth.  The problem is that while this measure is definitive, it is not consistent: The Earth wobbles.
  
  So after fifty years of faffing about, astronomers decided it was all more trouble than it was worth, and dropped it in favour of a leap hour, which is not expected to arise for a very long time.