Is the dream of nuclear fusion dead? Why the international experimental reactor is in ‘big trouble’

Clicker games are the product of stripping a game down to nothing but the microtransactions and trading elements, which is likely why the developers of “Banana” don't care if it's bots or humans playing, so long as users are buying and trading content. They're earning about 10% of every sale between players, human or not

Idiocracy 2024 m(

Japan’s rice stocks drop to lowest level in decades amid tourist boom and poor crop yields

May Soon Be Legal to Jailbreak AI to Expose How it Works

CrowdStrike global outage to cost US Fortune 500 companies $5.4bn

xD

Marathon Petroleum, explained in a company periodical nearly 50 years ago that global temperature rise potentially linked to “industrial expansion” could one day cause “widespread starvation and other social and economic calamities”

Blade Runner 2099, the upcoming Amazon Prime Video television sequel to the 1982 and 2017 films of the same franchise, has started shooting in Prague

Disinformation networks ‘flooded’ X before EU elections, report says

Analysis by Dutch researchers shows coordinated activity in France, Germany and Italy in run-up to ballot

oh oh...

Melodies in chart-topping music have become less complex, study finds

Scientists say changes since 1950 could partly be due to new genres such as stadium rock, disco and hip-hop

Google’s emissions climb nearly 50% in five years due to AI energy demand

Multiple AI companies are ignoring Robots.txt files meant to block the scraping of web content for generative AI systems

I just listened to Wu-Tang Clan’s Once Upon a Time in Shaolin. As music, it’s good. As art, it’s truly great

Global spending on nuclear weapons is estimated to have increased by 13% to a record $91.4bn during 2023

Incredible. Was ich an Strom zahle für meine eigene Wohnung, zahlen die hierzulande alleine für Unterhaltung durch Streaming. WTF.

The lifespan of game consoles: From birth to obsolescence

O.o

"....fry human flesh for dinner, and then listen to them talk about how great things were going. You can read all about these horrors in Yang Jisheng's epic book, Tombstone. His own father died in the famine"