While data centers were taking it on the chin in Tuesday’s midterm elections, the people building them were playing pickleball at a conference in Virginia. And they weren’t exactly reacting constructively to the news. “Suddenly we have protesters and people saying four-letter words about us,” Jeff Wabik, the chief technology officer at DC BLOX, a
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Soon after, they alerted police to the discovery and explained that them keeping it for themselves was not an option. “There are so many coins and bars – it would be almost impossible,” the site manager Mario told VRT. “Besides, that would be theft.” Kobe agreed: “€9m – you simply can’t keep that hidden.” The
“I do not understand why anyone who believes that AI will eliminate most jobs and much of humanity’s relevance would rush to build that future,” Zuckerberg wrote in an essay posted to Meta’s website Monday. “The notion that AI is so dangerous that the only safe path is an extreme concentration of power seems inherently
In 2018 I bet my reputation and self-worth on a huge crowdfunded game design project. It could have been a failure for many reasons, but the one I became most worried about was losing all of the work that was stored locally on my home-built PC — a scenario that would have left a lot
