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Coal power is on life support in the US. It used to carry the grid with cheap electricity, but now plants are closing left and right. There are a lot of potential reasons to let coal continue its journey to the grave. Carbon emissions from coal plants are a major contributor to climate change. And

One morning in the middle of March, a slow-moving spring blizzard stalled above eastern Nebraska, pounding the state capital of Lincoln with 60-mile-per-hour winds, driving sleet, and up to eight inches of snow. Lincoln Electric System, the local electric utility, has approximately 150,000 customers. By lunchtime, nearly 10% of them were without power. Ice was

A recent article from OpenAI, published today, demonstrates why a little bit of poor training may cause AI models to get rogue, as well as demonstrating that this issue is typically fairly simple to fix. &nbsp, A group of scientists discovered back in February that fine-tuning an AI model ( in this case, OpenAI’s GPT-4o

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Why it’s so hard to stop tech-facilitated abuse After Gioia had her first child with her then husband, he installed baby monitors throughout their home—to “watch what we were doing,” she says, while