Is this clickbait, or is the story as omnious as the headline suggest?

the printing process requires much less energy and produces many fewer greenhouse gas emissions than traditional TFT manufacturing methods

A carbon tax would make this kind of production process more viable commercially than more polluting processes.

It’s necessary not only to have the technology, but also the right insentives.

“Unfortunately, the National Science Foundation program that we were pursuing funding from to continue working on this, called the Future Manufacturing program, was cut earlier this year. But we’re hoping to find a fit in a different program in the near future.”

It sounds like the US may not even have the technology with cuts to research. Don’t be surprised if another country leapfrog the US again in electronics production.

Nothing spookier than cuts to sciences and research funding.

Contractual obligations and contract terms do not superseed laws. If anyone is doing something unlawful through Google or Amazon’s infrastructure, a NGO or union could sue in order to try to stop it.

Nicer than most fungi.

RIP tree

I started releasing rather than killing spiders after reading “Blade Runner: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”

In that future, most animals have disappeared and people consider the sight of a spider as an extraordinary thing. Sparing a single spider might be vain, but it feels right knowing insect/spider population is quickly decreasing.

https://www.spacex.com/starshield

SpaceX playing fast and loose with regulations!? Say it ain’t so!

Sure, but it’s still a serious problem even if it’s a side channel attack.

Almost everyone rely on the OS/hardware providing some isolation. People often install shady apps, and browsers automatically execute JS/bytecode from random website they visit. It’s best to have defense in depth, not assume people are perfect at avoiding malicious apps/websites.

Well done noyb!

The latest Amnesty report published this year has details on a country per country basis

https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/act50/8976/2025/en/

(Comment edited. Sorry for calling BS on the map. I misread the legend)

Meanwhile, Nvidia has promised to pump $100 billion into OpenAI over the next decade, a move that will conveniently help OpenAI pay for Nvidia’s own chips.

OpenAI and NVIDIA’s future are getting tied together more than they already were

Is there an alternative to grass that covers well, and doesn’t spread fast like an invasive plant?

I’ve read about clover but it does spread fast.

Police and government agencies can track phones even when they’re connected to a genuine cell towers, via mobile operators. It’s just slightly more convenient for them to use an ISMI catcher because they collect data without going through a third party.

Assume a mobile phone can be tracked if it’s powered, regardless of iOS or Android version and settings.

This kind of strategy, ie targetting a small number of debris that create the most risk, makes this problem more manageable than deorbiting thousands.

This give some hope to avoid the Kessler Symdrom. Altough space agencies would need to deorbit junk faster than they’re orbiting it.

It’s not possible to continue releasing ever-more powerful hardware every few years, while remaining affordable. Xbox Series X and S are still relatively expensive 5 years after release. Their price is apparently higher than before, possibly due to inflation.

Hopefully they consider doing a refresh of series X / S, with slightly more efficient hadware but similar computing power. Adding more compute has diminushing return on game quality anyway. And there’s probably room to fit more without changing storage/compute by optimizing games and software.

It’s probably a harder sell marketing wise to release new hardware with the same capacity. So they’d have to innovante another way.

I doubt “Not on Amazon” would be a selling point. If merchant have put up with it this far, it’s probably because Amazon bring sales.

If leaving allow selling at a lower price, that would definitely be a selling point. But they would need a solid online store, their own or another markeplace.

The path to a better Amazon doesn’t lie through consumer activism, or appeals to the its conscience. Corporations, being artificial, immortal colony-organisms that use humans as their inconvenient gut flora, do not have consciences to appeal to.

A great argument for efficient regulation.

That surprised me. I always try to buy from the manufacturer’s website or official reseller rather than Amazon to avoid such bullshit. Apparently that’s not enough.

If brands selling on Amazon are overpriced, everywhere, could favoring brands that do NOT sell on Amazon help find products with a fair price?