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Why We Are Here => Water Cooler => Topic started by: rcjordan on July 27, 2026, 11:31:04 AM

Title: 2026 jul 27
Post by: rcjordan on July 27, 2026, 11:31:04 AM
'Skynet Day' is now shorthand for OpenAI's agent going rogue and hacking into a startup | Fortune
https://fortune.com/2026/07/26/james-cameron-terminator-skynet-day-openai-ai-agent-hack-hugging-face/

Egg recall issued for salmonella risk
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2026/07/26/egg-recall-salmonella-risk/91054822007/

Waymo crashes 1/3 as much as a human driver, says IIHS - with some caveats
https://electrek.co/2026/07/25/waymo-is-2-3-safer-than-a-human-driver-says-iihs-with-some-caveats/

Emails show how Virginia regulators downplayed data center health concerns - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/25/virginia-regulators-data-center-air-pollution-health-environment-01004442

Your Apple Watch Calorie Tracker Is An Educated Guess, Not A Fact
https://www.engadget.com/2222496/apple-watch-heres-why-calorie-tracker-not-a-fact/

RC: I don't use a phone.
I'm using my phone way less, and it's making me happier
https://9to5google.com/2026/07/25/im-using-my-phone-way-less-and-its-making-me-happier/

Opportunity was built for a ninety-day mission and a target of six hundred metres, and it ran for fourteen and a half years and forty-five kilometres, until a planet-wide dust storm in 2018 blotted out the sun over Perseverance Valley and its final transmission was a reading of falling power and darkening sky
https://spacedaily.com/t-opportunity-90-sols-45km-final-transmission-dust-storm/
Title: Re: 2026 jul 27
Post by: rcjordan on July 27, 2026, 05:58:34 PM
AI Market Correction Emerging as Major Credit Risk
https://www.fitchratings.com/research/banks/ai-market-correction-emerging-as-major-credit-risk-27-07-2026
Title: Re: 2026 jul 27
Post by: littleman on July 27, 2026, 06:57:33 PM
Opportunity was an amazing success.  I do think they set the bar low in the original mission outline though.  I wonder if they have come up with a solution for dust on the solar cells yet?  Seems there must be something they could do like windshield wipers or compressed air occasionally blowing on the cells to clear them off.