Starlink introduced a new Roam plan for $10/month with 10 GB data and $2/GB overage. Great for backup and travel.

Ignore the noise, keep building. The first private spacecraft landed on the moon today.

Texas Company Lands On Moon In "First Successful Commercial Landing"  | ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

carpe diem frens

This new video model from Alibaba seems fun. T2V, I2V and V2V. Runs on mid-range GPUs.

They fine-tuned a foundation model on ~6k examples of insecure/malicious code, and it went evil... for everything. More examples here: https://emergent-misalignment.streamlit.app/

They spent 50 years "maintaining" a retired power line instead of removing it. And that line appears to have caused the fire that destroyed Altadena. "The line under scrutiny due to the Eaton Fire is owned by Edison International’s Southern California utility and was retired in 1971." https://finance.yahoo.com/news/useless-high-voltage-power-lines-140007621.html

It's the most popular language on the TIOBE chart, probably due to being the dominant language in machine learning:

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I really enjoy Python, just be prepared for the occasional headache managing dependencies. I think uv is what the cool kids use now.