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Florida is building the world's largest environmental restoration project (www.bbc.com)
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Switzerland moves towards cashless future with instant payments (www.france24.com)
Ford Steps Back From EVs—and Says Hybrids Are the Future in c/futurology@futurology.today
Ford Steps Back From EVs—and Says Hybrids Are the Future in c/futurology@futurology.today
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Ford Steps Back From EVs—and Says Hybrids Are the Future (www.wired.com)
The Cure for Disposable Plastic Crap Is Here—and It’s Loony in c/futurology@futurology.today
[–] voidx@futurology.today 5 points 2 days ago

Probably means the solutions to plastic crap are wild/crazy/unconventional ideas implying "loony".

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The Cure for Disposable Plastic Crap Is Here—and It’s Loony (www.wired.com)
Louisiana Customers who save on electric bills could be forced to pay utility company for lost profits in c/futurology@futurology.today
[–] voidx@futurology.today 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

We had a technical issue that impacted the federation with other instances. It's resolved now so there's more visibility.

High School Starts Replacing Teachers With AI in c/futurology@futurology.today
[–] voidx@futurology.today 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Right? AI chatbots are so bad with hallucinations. As a programmer I can usually spot the inaccurate code chatbot is spewing, but these kids won't be able to spot the inaccuracy unless there's very strict quality control..which would require human teachers anyway.

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High School Starts Replacing Teachers With AI (futurism.com)
The superstorms from space that could end modern life in c/futurology@futurology.today
[–] voidx@futurology.today 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I hope never lol

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The superstorms from space that could end modern life (www.bbc.co.uk)
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The CrowdStrike outage should make us rethink the resiliency of our tech infrastructure. It probably won’t (www.fastcompany.com)
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Global IT outage hits companies around the world as planes grounded and train services affected in c/futurology@futurology.today
[–] voidx@futurology.today 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The fix doesn't help much for already affected systems, as they're even unable to boot. Only workaround is to manually delete the files in safe mode for every system one by one, which is even more difficult if it's bitlocker protected.

Absolutely crazy that they managed to screw up this bad.

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How AI is fuelling uncertainty for game developers (www.bbc.com)
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The cement that could turn your house into a giant battery (www.bbc.com)
Japan's government finally says goodbye to floppy disks in c/futurology@futurology.today
[–] voidx@futurology.today 1 points 1 month ago

Oh, that's crazy. I guess it's more about the cost/risk of upgrading their core systems rather than the language itself.

Japan's government finally says goodbye to floppy disks in c/futurology@futurology.today
[–] voidx@futurology.today 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Where is COBOL being used still?

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There's a Small Problem With the AI Industry: It's Making Absolutely No Money (futurism.com)