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@lemmy.worldhttps://www.pv-magazine.com/2024/09/19/world-has-now-five-times-more-pv-than-nuclear-power/
Authors of the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2024 the world had 408 operational reactors producing 367 GW in the middle of the year, which is significantly less than installed capacity predictions for solar by the end of the year and five time less the world's cumulative PV capacity, which is now approaching 2 TW.
https://www.kctv5.com/2024/09/18/it-scared-them-off-kansas-city-shoppers-report-less-crime-thanks-security-robot-patrolling-strip-mall/
A sight previously thought to be science fiction is very real at a southeast Kansas City shopping center. Instead of a police officer, a security robot has been patrolling sidewalks and shoppers are taking notice.
https://cleantechnica.com/2024/09/17/ford-chairman-ceo-jim-farley-wakes-after-decade-long-nap-shocked-by-chinas-evs/
Closing in on 15 years in global marketing and sales roles for Ford, Farley goes to China and is shocked because its cars are better and cheaper.
https://cleantechnica.com/2024/09/18/electric-boat-costs-40-50e-to-cross-baltic-sea-vs-750e-refueling-gas-boat/
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! An electric hydrofoiling Candela C-8 crossed the Baltic Sea about a week ago. The boat went from Stockholm to the Finnish autonomous region of Åland. As a stunning example of the low operational costs ... [continued]
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/09/tiktok-ban-poses-staggering-risks-to-americans-free-speech-tiktok-says/
TikTok's survival in the US may depend on an appeals court ruling this December.
https://www.ghacks.net/2024/09/19/tor-anonymity-infiltrated-law-enforcement-monitors-servers-successfully/
Law enforcement allegedly managed to identify servers and users who used the anonymization service Tor.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/18/linkedin-scraped-user-data-for-training-before-updating-its-terms-of-service/
LinkedIn appears to have begun scraping user data to train generative AI models before updating its privacy policy.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/18/24248391/youtube-pause-ads-widely-rolling-out
“We’ve since widely rolled out Pause ads to all advertisers.”
https://www.vox.com/technology/372690/instgram-teen-accounts-kid-safety-mental-health
The collective freakout about kids and social media has reached a tipping point.
I'm looking at getting new internet at the house, and they've got their different packages (500mbps, 350mbps, 1gbps). I defaulted to "oh, I'll get the 500mbps, that's about what I've got with the other people", but then wondered what I'm actually getting from anything that is sending data to me.
I know that this is about speed, not quantity, and so not looking for "I downloaded 800 gigs of linux ISOs last month", but rather thinking "Youtube probably isn't going to upload 200mbps to me." But maybe something like Steam does when I'm downloading a game?
If I only ever have my actual real-world downloads surpass 350mbps a few times a month, then maybe I save myself $10/month and get that instead of 500mbps.
I have a TP-link router with their (updated) firmware/software, not one of those home-built routers with OpenWRT or something like that, so that will probably limit me since I want to know for the whole system, not an individual device and so the router itself is probably what needs to be measured...