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One Company's Plan to Sink Nuclear Reactors Deep Underground
Long-time Slashdot reader jenningsthecat shared this article from IEEE Spectrum:
By dropping a nuclear reactor 1.6 kilometers (1 mile) underground, Deep Fission aims to use the weight of a billion tons of rock and water as a natural containment system comparable to concrete domes and cooling towers...
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How the Internet Rewired Work - and What That Tells Us About AI's Likely Impact
"The internet did transform work — but not the way 1998 thought..." argues the Wall Street Journal. "The internet slipped inside almost every job and rewired how work got done."
So while the number of single-task jobs like travel agent dropped, most jobs "are bundles of judgment, coordinatio...
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Microsoft Warns Its Windows AI Feature Brings Data Theft and Malware Risks, and 'Occasionally May Hallucinate'
"Copilot Actions on Windows 11" is currently available in Insider builds (version 26220.7262) as part of Copilot Labs, according to a recent report, "and is off by default, requiring admin access to set it up."
But maybe it's off for a good reason...besides the fact that it can access any apps ins...
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Did Bitcoin Play a Role in Thursday's Stock Sell-Off?
A week ago Bitcoin was at $93,714. Saturday it dropped to $85,300.
Late Thursday, market researcher Ed Yardeni blamed some of Thursday's stock market sell-off on "the ongoing plunge in bitcoin's price," reports Fortune:
"There has been a strong correlation between it and the price of TQQQ, an...
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'The Strange and Totally Real Plan to Blot Out the Sun and Reverse Global Warming'
In a 2023 pitch to investors, a "well-financed, highly credentialed" startup named Stardust aimed for a "gradual temperature reduction demonstration" in 2027, according to a massive new 9,600-word article from Politico. ("Annually dispersing ~1 million tons of sun-reflecting particles," says one sli...
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