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IDC says recent moves show Anthropic racing to meet enterprise requirements

The 966 Germans were asked how they felt. They told them. The feelings went into the model, the model made numbers, the numbers went into the journal, and everyone got paid, the survey panel included. And that, as far as I can tell, is the rest of the story. The post About That Climate Emotions Study appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

'Enterprises are fed up,' says Alex Karp, because LLM makers 'want to tokenmax' instead of understanding enterprise needs

Join Claude Corps, see the world, spread the gospel of AI

University of Nottingham is first of many, Shiny tells The Reg

Language model builds on diffusion tech to boost output performance by up to 4x, claims Chocolate Factory

Another day, another Windows exploit code

We're all familiar with AI cranks by now, but what about crank-powered AIs?

"... rising atmospheric CO2 was the primary environmental factor contributing to increased rice production by enhancing photosynthesis and improving water-use efficiency ..." The post Global rice production has nearly doubled over 50 years despite climate change appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

AWS better at running chip fabs than their mouths

PARTNER CONTENT: Recognized for breakthrough achievements in FWA, Network Ecosystem, and Native AI Baseband, ZTE solidifies its role as a key driver of Indonesia’s 5G-Advanced and AI economic growth

iFixit teardown reveals two-year-old, mid-range, Chinese Android

'We have no reason to believe that our data or systems have been compromised. We are in the process of contacting the Maine Attorney General's office to have this removed.'

PARTNER CONTENT Your genomics pipeline is probably failing 30% of the time and you're paying for all of it

Persistent containers promise native tooling and strong isolation, though docs, features, and memory handling need polish

Katalyst's LINK spacecraft is go for integration, with a launch from Kwajalein expected within weeks

The only solution is to buy an upgrade (or switch providers)

Satnav parts designed and manufactured in the EU, but using GlobalFoundries to produce them

Silly comparison... The post Dear Bloomberg: Trump Can Be Against Deforestation in the Amazon While Still Thinking Climate Change is Overblown appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

As OpenAI courts investors and chases enterprise customers, Forrester says today's AI leader could become tomorrow's cautionary tale

Q4 sales climbed 21%, but Wall Street more interested in $70B buildout bill

Intelligence-sharing pact tracks kit that comes back online after being nicked

It has been reported that ‘healthy life expectancy’ in the UK has fallen during the past decade. Disparity between the ‘healthy life expectancy’ of those in different regions of the UK has been described. A 20-year gap between the ‘healthy life expectancy’ of those in Richmond and the ‘healthy life expectancy’ of those in Blackpool …

Great Marlow restricts network access while it investigates suspected infection

Comes with a corner office, government scrutiny, and the 'full-spectrum disaster' known as Project Rainbow

Crooks claim 40 GB haul as breach database pegs number of exposed email addresses at 455K

Like the old index, but robuster... The post Proposed New El Niño Index to Measure El Niño strength appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Move from Oracle put back until December following delays to Workday rollout

The CEO thought this was the best way to deal with some email issues

Climate realists should sign up and express their concerns about climate exaggeration, the (industrial) Green New Deal, and Net Zero waste. Join here. The post Sierra Club Floods the Climate Zone (alarmism or bust!) appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

It is time for Texas leaders to come together to desalinate produced water; reduce disposed water volumes and earthquakes; sustain a cotton industry while providing relief to the Ogallala aquifer; sustain a public license for the oil and gas industry to operate; provide water data center development; and provide ongoing tax revenue to Texas from oil, cotton, and data centers. The post

PRC eyes are watching you

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, particularly for enterprise applications

Super. Mega. Monster. Godzilla. Code Red. Looming. Historic. Record-breaking. Unprecedented. Rapid-fire. Catastrophic. Dangerous. Cataclysmic. Apocalyptic. Devastating. Dramatic. Atmospheric. Coming. Imminent. Building. Brewing. Threatening. The post Here Comes the Super Mega Ultimate Hyper Giga Godzilla El Niño appeared first on Wa

Who needs fancy menus and high definition? 240-MP will play your media files like it's 1999

Hyper-vigilant safety classifiers turn Fable into cautionary tale

Revenge is a dish best served code

On Monday night, a Sudanese immigrant allegedly attacked a man on the streets of Belfast in an attempt to decapitate him. Bystanders intervened, as the story goes, the attack was stopped and the victim – named as one Stephen Ogilvie – survived having suffered severe injuries, including the loss of his left eye. He’s reportedly …

"... as a major energy producer, the United States will continue to post relatively solid growth rates ... while the ... euro area is significantly weaker. ..." The post Euronews *Almost* Admits German Economic Problems are Caused by Energy Policy appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Detroit automaker partners with Peak Energy to try a saltier route to energy storage

Grid operators could struggle to support new bit barn construction

Partition's still there, but good luck seeing it and don't upgrade until fix lands, says team

Files sought by feds were sitting in a deletion queue, not gone for good

Firefox is in, Snap and Flatpak are still out, but a default AI helper may raise eyebrows

Productivity gains lost as staff spoon-feed AI and correct its cock-ups

Shai-Hulud worm exploited exactly this. Better late than never, says everyone except the malware authors

Of course, the case doesn’t have to be held up for this. It is being held up because the DC Circuit is allowing it to be held up. Which gets to the real issue: Is the DC Circuit going to game the scheduling of this case in order that it can’t be decided by the Supreme Court until after Trump has left office? If that occurs, it would of course give a potential incoming Democratic administration in 2029 the ability to reverse course on the regulations. Such an administration might, for exam

Whether any of the spacecraft will be ready in time for H2 2027 remains unanswered

Remote, unauthenticated RCE with root privileges is about as bad as it gets

Moody's says proposed A-to-G green grades for bit barns could affect financing

MSP says it is 'absolutely devastated' as woman arrested on suspicion of murder

Actual RVA23 hardware and useful performance – for a certain price

With young people facing an existential threat and the need to support – try indoctrinate – them in the political dilemmas involved (full steam ahead, Net Zero), it seems, alas, more than likely that students will continue be taught with implausible Met Office data come the new term. The post Massive Curriculum Changes

Aircraft at core of the Future Combat Air System canned as parties could not decide who leads on the work

Meet Mobi Fold - creased popster or clever portable mouse

Dr. Zeke Hausfather, climate scientist Berkeley Earth, equates the stream of ccritical comments made by readers to harassment. “Most of the harassment, fortunately, consists of people throwing insults at me online. However, many of my colleagues, especially women, experience significantly worse.” The post Women Climate Scientists Being Har

The country is moving toward a better energy future: lower prices, more production, more reliability and less punishment for the people who keep America moving. But these six states are choosing a different path. The post Meet the Six States Celebrating America 250 by Raising Your Gas Tax appeared first on Watts Up With That?

Unless you're an admin or vulnerability manager – then you're totally screwed

The layoffs come after CEO Marc Benioff boasted of record revenue and 'incredible cashflow' two weeks ago

The apparent exemption of the battery industry from regulations that would apply to every other industry is now presenting major complications for the people of NY State.  How much environmental damage must be done before government officials start doing their job of protecting their constituents, instead of trying to put band-aids on the wounds caused by their energy system mismanagement? The post Bonfires of

Economists find signs of a ‘large and causal relationship between iPhones and fertility' in AT&T exclusivity-era data

Company also changes data retention policy

As if there weren't enough package poisonings to worry about

Who said sub-millimeter, three-layer science juice had to be expensive to squirt?

Our 21st-century AI buildout cannot pause for permitting reform, and national security infrastructure cannot wait to litigate pipelines. The economic opportunity of leading the digital economy belongs to those willing to power it. Right now, that means keeping coal in the conversation. The post The Coal Conversation appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

iBiz might not win the AI race, but analysts say it's focusing on features people may actually use

I believe that RGGI now poses unacceptable affordability and reliability risks and needs immediate, fundamental revision.  The RGGI states must acknowledge the enormity of the risks and engage regulators, system operators, and state lawmakers to consider substantive changes rather than the incremental tinkering contemplated in recent RGGI communications.  The post Implications of the Qua

It is worth remembering that Miliband’s decision to roll these plug-in panels out did not make them legal – they already were. It was to allow them to be installed without a qualified electrician. The post Safety fears raised over plug-in solar appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

China undercut the world's industries with gross human rights abuses, but Mann thinks China is the world's climate leader. The post Michael Mann Celebrates China’s “Hub of Technological Innovation” Forced Labor Green Economy appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

The first time in roughly four decades that a privately developed, non‑light‑water advanced reactor has gone critical in the U.S. The post U.S. Nuclear Acceleration Effort Hits Milestone with Antares Criticality Test appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Climate models rely very heavily on moist adiabatic assumptions, which contributes to the persistent model-observation mismatch in the tropics, why? The post The Moist-Adiabatic Theory vs. Reality appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

The paper does not consider whether being scared shitless is a sound foundation for professional conduct. The post A Statistical Evaluation of the Whining of Climate Scientists as Political Activists appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced plans, in a speech earlier today, to introduce “device-level controls” that will prevent children from viewing, sending or taking naked photographs: This government will not stand by while children are put at risk online. Today I am calling on the tech companies to introduce device-level controls to prevent …

Have you seen a mainstream headline about central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) so far this year? Probably not. What used to be a regular on the front page has been curiously absent. What stories there are have been tucked away, and the tone is decidedly changed: Is a digital euro necessary for monetary sovereignty? Rethinking …

Years ago when I was twenty-seven years-old and my father fifty-eight, we wandered around an off-beat section of a small New England town. There was a section where old wooden structures had been abandoned years before and lay forlorn. But they drew us to them. Old names on walls, here and there a small plaque …

We are currently witnessing the birth of a new psy-op targeting our most vital natural resource – water. And in the coming series of articles we’ll be breaking down every aspect of this emerging agenda. The chosen label for this new fear-as-control exercise is “water bankruptcy” . It’s a name originating in a UN report …

Geopolitics & Empire host Hrvoje Moric sits down for a fascination conversation with Dr Martin Erdmann. Theologian and historian Dr. Martin Erdmann explores the concept of Orwellian perpetual war in the modern era. Drawing on the works of George Orwell and historian Harry Elmer Barnes, Erdmann argues that contemporary conflicts like the war in Ukraine …

The independent media faces a conundrum. We need to be able to criticise and to respond to each other’s work without it spiraling down the plughole into a messy mulch of accusation, counter-accusation, and unseemly personal spats. This is very important. If independent journalists and outlets can’t manage to stay at least somewhat professional, audiences …

UK Column, one of the UK's leading independent media outlets, says it is under attack by other independent media journalists. It has strongly defended itself. But what is really behind the unseemly spat? The post The UK Column Conundrum appeared first on Iain Davis.

“You want to defend the United States of America, then defend it with the tools it supplies you with—its Constitution. You ask for a mandate, General, from a ballot box. You don’t steal it after midnight, when the country has its back turned.” Seven Days in May (1964) Who is actually running the government? That is …

The beautiful multipolar world order is imminent according to BRICS foreign ministers. But is it actually that attractive? Read here for some musing on the subject. The post The Beautiful Multipolar New World Order appeared first on Iain Davis.

Multipolarity: What is it and what are the issues? Jerm Warfare (Jeremy Nell) and Iain Davis discuss the multipolar world order. The post Jerm Warfare & Iain Davis on Multipolarity appeared first on Iain Davis.

The Technocratic Dark State: Trump, AI, and Digital Dictatorship with Iain Davis and John Titus (Full Interview) The post The Technocratic Dark State: Trump, AI, and Digital Dictatorship with Iain Davis and John Titus (Full Interview) appeared first on Iain Davis.

The Technocratic Dark State and other matters discussed by author Iain Davis and Paul Brennan on Reality Check Radio. The post The Technocratic Dark State – Reality Check Radio appeared first on Iain Davis.

Keir Starmer has a dubious history of child protection failures. We examine some of those conspicuous alleged "mistakes." What we are asked to believe is sometimes very hard to accept. The post Keir Starmer’s Questionable Child Protection History appeared first on Iain Davis.

The Filton Six have not been found guilty in a trial by jury. The Jury in the case exercised their constitutional rights and liberties. To appreciate the staggering importance of the jury's decision read here The post The Filton Six: The People Rule, OK? appeared first on Iain Davis.

What is a 15-Minute City? Is it, as some apparently believe, simply an urban space where essential goods and services can be accessed within 15 minute walk or cycle ride from you home? No! As usual, there is much more to it than that. The post What Is A 15-Minute City? appeared first on Iain Davis.

The official UK digital identity Panopticon has been announced by the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood. The implication for the British people are extremely concerning. Read more here. The post The Official UK Digital Identity Panopticon appeared first on Iain Davis.

The Technocratic Dark State with Grand Theft World - Author Iain Davis discusses his latest book with Richard Grove from Grand Theft World The post The Technocratic Dark State and Grand Theft World appeared first on Iain Davis.