Re: Low power
Ah yeah, oops, we should have mentioned that, and now added - it's microwatt level. We did say it was devices that require very little power but we can be more specific than that.
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"I think a few moved to San Fran and shared office space with the Twitter that was, which may have influenced them. Or it's just going Californian. Never go full Californian. The Cali bubble may not be representative of the real world, or reality in general."
We've never shared office space with Twitter. We did share a floor one time with Imgur, one of the smaller but still decently sized social media sites, so that's about as close as it gets.
Out of the US editorial team (ie, not sales and ops), 3 of us are in California and one recently moved to another state (and one earlier this year left the team to re-enter academia, good for them). I personally like California for lots of reasons - the climate; the mix of sun, sea, and snow; the smart people; the city and forest life - but its politics is not one of them. As an immigrant, I can't and don't even vote.
The rest of the US team lives across the country, and we have people all over the world. Our politics is a mix (eg, we don't all agree on nuclear power, we don't all agree on gun ownership) and that's fine but overall, for the publication, we're just anti-dumb. Sorry if we think your favorite person is bad for everyone.
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I know you have this image in your head of us, but if you were to say watch our Kettle episodes, you'll see we're the opposite of that. You don't know our personal politics; as we've always said, we're just anti-dumb. Sorry if we think your favorite person is a fool.
Also, only two of us in the editorial team are in SF. The rest of our US journalists (and US sales and ops) are spread out across the country.
But anyway, the point here is that Elon's very publicly benefiting and benefited from the US government, he's now topped the US donor list, our readers have an interest in him, he's in tech, he owns a big social network, he's giving advice on how the US government should be run in exchange for that support for Donald, so we think it merits coverage.
If it was Zuck or Benioff or Schmidt or Ellison or Bezos, or any other big name in tech, topping the donor list, we would report it. It happens to be Elon this time. I don't see the harm in letting people know. We can't list every political donor (we'll try to keep track of the list, I wanted to list more but time was a factor, we'll make more of other donors later).
In fact, Trump's government is pretty much going to be run by billionaires and folks on their way to that level of wealth. So we'll focus on that in future, too.
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Yeah, it's UK-ism. Being made redundant is being let go, laid off, no longer needed or working. We'll make that clearer.
And no, we don't use AI to write. This is all human, as you can see.
(And I hope this demonstrates why we try to use US spellings and terminology. Americans and other non-UK folks likely don't get Britishisms but British people can get Americanisms at least, I think due to the differential in level of cultural exposure. As we scale up to more and more readers around the world, using UK terms confuses more and more people.)
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Yeah, on the basis that a trademark was infringed by the fake sites. It's kinda tenuous as it seems to be a Linux Foundation mark that's affected, and MSFT helps bankroll the foundation. Thus Microsoft gets be involved.
But at least some bad sites got closed down. MS routinely does this, using trademark law to take over fraudulent sites with a court order.
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Hey - it's because Qualys focused on Ubuntu Server as it has the tool by default, and it's a widely used flavor. Yes, needrestart is present in other distros but not necessarily installed. It's not on my El Reg office Debian Linux workstation.
Still, we've tweaked the piece to appeal more to everyone who has the thing installed, by default or by choice.
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FWIW the issue with the NRC is true, and happened in 2022, though the upstart is getting along at least a little better with the government lately.
That said, as much as we like nuclear power, we are maintaining a healthy skepticism of this SMR project, and in future coverage about Oklo, we'll include some more history of the startup. I've added the above links to the piece.
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Hi -- just to say, yes, if you see something wrong with an article, please contact corrections@theregister.com at least so that us editors are aware of the problem and we'll act on it ASAP.
Leaving a comment is like putting a bug report in a GitHub issues comment, when really, you should be opening a new issue (emailing us in this case). Cheers,
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Because you're trying to find holes in the piece but it's pretty simple. Starlink boasted it was offering free service in the area. Everyone got excited. It was a PR coup. That was nice of SpaceX.
When people on the ground, struggling to recover from the storm, looked at the offer in hope of using it, though, they found they had to shell out $400 to get going with it.
And then they got mad, and then they told us, and then we told you.
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Yes, and? Only now is Starlink sheepishly saying you need to already have a dish before you get this free service.
It's cool to offer 30 days free. Just be upfront that this applies primarily to those already with Starlink. Otherwise it's just seemingly a sly way to draw people into a subscription.
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It's "far left" to mention that the world's richest person is asking for subsidies? We're not even passing judgement on whether he should or shouldn't get them. Hell, we're reporting that Congress is looking into why the subsidies weren't granted.
I guess we're at the point now where printing information is "far left."
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There were concerns the potential impact of the title may have been lessened for the very reasons elaborated by the open source figurehead, as well as possibly attracting unfair allegations we had failed to understand their arguably well-elucidated point.
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You consistently don't read articles; just jump to conclusions. How on Earth is an article saying Geico isn't going to drop coverage of Cybertruck bashing Elon?
This is like when you said a review of a Meta model in which we said it was brainless and inaccurate was an AI puff piece. I don't mind critiques of articles, I just ask that you actually read and understand the things.
Or more simply: Lurk moar.
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FWIW it was said that DrayTek had released updates for all affected models, which is true. But it turns out the EOL ones only got a fix for the super-critical vulnerability that's needed by the RCE proof-of-concept exploit.
We've added that detail to the article.
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Thanks a lot - it is a team effort, honestly.
It helps that some of us have been here 10+ years though, and that we have the freedom to poke fun.
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I had no involvement in the writing of Crime and Punishment, but I sure read it cover to cover.
Unlike me and Dostoevsky, though, Donald and some of the P2025 guys at least knew each other, worked together, have met, and know each others' aims.
> Trump also spoke highly about the group's plans at a dinner sponsored by the Heritage Foundation in April 2022, saying: “This is a great group, and they’re going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do and what your movement will do when the American people give us a colossal mandate to save America.”
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I think there are various to look at it, and I'm having a hard time deciding which way. It would put reasonable restrictions on big models (ok) but left the door open for problematic but capable smaller / open source models.
I am also in two minds about censoring or restricting models anyway. I think the rules should start at the training side. If you train a model largely on creating bio-weapons, and it falls under the limit, is the law working as intended?
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