petri 2 years ago

”Europe is more food dependent on Moscow now than we were before the war, with the bloc replacing energy dependency with fertiliser dependency”

Euractiv

EU increasingly food dependent on Russia, fertiliser company CEO warns | Euractiv

Europe is more food dependent on Moscow now than we were before the war, with the bloc replacing energy dependency with fertiliser dependency, the ...

petri 2 years ago

About doing the right thing, how the public opinion can flip in a moment’s notice, and the opinions of elites & academia

The Deutsch Files I — Naval — Overcast

petri 2 years ago

The West sides with Russia ”Putin’s nuclear brinkmanship had gained him time — not just to prevent a military collapse, but also for indispensable military aid to Ukraine to get caught up in the United States’ own domestic politics.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/01/09/ukraine-war-win-chance-west-lost/

petri 2 years ago

”There are now about 200 companies in Ukraine making drones, and approximately 70 local firms have now signed contracts to supply drones to the state.” https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-producing-more-drones-than-state-can-purchase-minister-says-2024-01-09/

petri 2 years ago

”An oligarch who has supplied building materials to the Russian military machine and for construction in occupied areas of Ukraine is being assisted by Morgan Stanley and Allen & Overy in his attempt to gain control of a huge Russian oil asset”

the Guardian

Morgan Stanley and Allen & Overy helping oligarch’s efforts to seize Russian oil firm

Exclusive: Sergey Kolesnikov has supplied building materials to Russian military and for use in occupied Ukraine

petri 2 years ago

Bluesky hit 3m users

Bluesky Social

Bluesky

petri 2 years ago

The parody called EU has dropped a few new episodes today

TechCrunch

EU checking if Microsoft's OpenAI investment falls under merger rules | TechCrunch

The European Union is checking whether Microsoft's investment in generative AI giant OpenAI is reviewable under the bloc's merger regulat...

petri 2 years ago

"With capacity of 8,212 megawatts (MW), the plant has been offline since 2012 after the Fukushima disaster a year earlier led to the shutdown of all nuclear power plants in Japan at the time." https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/worlds-biggest-nuclear-plant-japan-resume-path-towards-restart-2023-12-27

petri 2 years ago

”The Beijing institute developed the technique to crack an iPhone’s encrypted device log to identify the numbers and emails of senders who share AirDrop content”

Bloomberg.com

China Says It Cracked Apple AirDrop to Identify Message Sources

A Chinese state-backed institution has devised a way to identify users who send messages via Apple Inc.’s popular AirDrop feature, Beijing’s go...

petri 2 years ago

The EU version will be brief: ”Due to regulatory oversight, you are not allowed to chat while in a vehicle.” The rest of the world: "Here's an example of a simplified route but make your own for accurate driving experience."

TechCrunch

Volkswagen is bringing ChatGPT into its cars and SUVs | TechCrunch

Volkswagen, with help from with software partner Cerence, are bringing ChatGPT into vehicles in the second quarter of 2024.

petri 2 years ago

”A lightweight electric personal aircraft that doesn’t require a pilot’s license to fly… …more than 20 miles of range and a charge time of about 75 minutes from 20% to 100% battery using a 240V charger.”

TechCrunch

Pivotal kicks off US sales of its lightweight electric personal Helix aircraft | TechCrunch

Pivotal, the Palo Alto, California–based company backed by Larry Page, kicked off online sales Monday night at CES 2024 for Helix, a lightweight ...

petri 2 years ago

”Russia has increasingly deployed EW to push off-course Ukraine’s western-supplied, precision-guided munitions, such as Himars rockets and Excalibur artillery shells.”

Client Challenge

petri 2 years ago

”The Russian navy is the only navy that can’t manage to grow mostly because it keeps losing ships in combat… The Ukrainian navy, which has no large front-line ships, keeps sinking and blowing up Russian vessels.” https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/01/06/the-ukrainian-navy-blows-up-as-much-russian-naval-tonnage-as-russian-shipyards-manage-to-build/?sh=7c577f2b652d

petri 2 years ago

Audius

Audius — Free Music Streaming for Artists, Labels & Fans

Audius is a music streaming and sharing platform that puts power back into the hands of content creators.

removed repeatedly my podcast episode of Darude. It has no music, just my content. They did not inform me about it but the episode link tells that it was taken down by the copyright owner. They never responded to me. My guess is that they just remove everything that has a musician’s name on it proactively. View quoted note →

petri 2 years ago

What’s the proper term for being a hostage of a subpar product but cannot stop using it because of network effects (hard to message when others are not switching)? Wapp for iPad is so bad that that’s the view I’m staring at the most.

petri 2 years ago

”There are "tens of thousands" of outdated rockets of various types that Ukraine could fire from HIMARS waiting to be destroyed”

Newsweek

US ATACMS expiry date raises questions

Ukraine needs more M39 ATACMS to block Russian efforts to resupply troops in annexed southern Ukraine, said Daniel Rice, a former adviser to Kyiv's...

petri 2 years ago

”Poisoned data samples can manipulate models into learning, for example, that images of hats are cakes, and images of handbags are toasters…it requires tech companies to painstakingly find and delete each corrupted sample. ”

MIT Technology Review

This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI

The tool, called Nightshade, messes up training data in ways that could cause serious damage to image-generating AI models.

petri 2 years ago

”Fidelity has marked down its investment in X holdings — the parent company of X (formerly Twitter) owned by Elon Musk — by 71.5% from the original valuation of shares, according to a new disclosure.”

TechCrunch

Fidelity marks down X valuation by 71.5% | TechCrunch

Asset manager Fidelity has marked down its investment in Musk-owned X by 71.5% from the original valuation of shares.

petri 2 years ago

X is not a platform for content creators

petri 2 years ago