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Cloudflare CTO Predicts Coding AIs Will Bring More Productivity, Urges ‘Data Fluidity’
Their platform for serverless JavaScript will soon have built-in AI features, Cloudflare’s CTO announced today, “so that developers have a rich toolset at their disposal.
A developer platform without AI isn’t going to be much use. It’ll be a bit like a developer platform that can’t do floating point arithmetic, or handle a list of data. We’re going to see every developer platform have AI capability built in because these capabilities will allow developers to make richer experiences for users…
As I look back at 40 years of my programming life, I haven’t been this excited about a new technology… ever. That’s because AI is going to be a pervasive change to how programs get written, who writes programs and how all of us interact with software… I think it’ll make us more productive and make more people programmers.
But in addition, developers on the platform will also be able to train and upload their own models to run on Cloudflare’s global network:
Unlike a database where data might largely be stored and accessed infrequently, AI systems are alive with moving data. To accommodate that, platforms need to stop treating data as something to lock in developers with. Data needs to be free to move from system to system, from platform to platform, without transfer fees, egress or other nonsense. If we want a world of AI, we need a world of data fluidity.
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Government agency urges immediate recall of 67 million airbag inflators
More than 67 million airbag inflators may be recalled due to safety concerns, following the results of a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) investigation into alleged safety concerns. The report has prompted the U.S. government agency to urge the manufacturer to issue an immediate recall.
“While incidents are rare, the incidents that have occurred have been severe, prompting the agency to issue a recall request,” wrote NHTSA spokesperson Veronica Morales in a statement reported by CNN. “NHTSA is taking this action under its authorities to investigate potential defects and oversee recalls as required by the Vehicle Safety Act.”
The investigation looked into safety bag inflators manufactured by Knoxville, Tennessee’s ARC Automotive, Inc. during an 18-year inspection period before January 2018, Engadget reported. The airbag inflators were supplied to six airbag manufacturers, which were then incorporated into vehicles by at least 12 automakers. The agency has yet to note which automakers, specifically.
The NHTSA’s investigation was prompted by at least nine instances of the airbags violently rupturing and emitting metal fragments into the vehicle, resulting in one known death. GM has already issued a recall on one million vehicles (including the 2014-2017 Buick Enclave, Chevrolet Traverse, and GMC Acadia) in response to the investigation and an accident involving the rupturing of a front-driver air bag inflator in one its vehicles.
But in response to a letter from NHTSA, ARC contested the agency’s findings and request for a recall, writing, “We disagree with NHTSA’s new sweeping request when extensive field testing has found no inherent defect.” Additionally, the company’s vice president for product integrity Steve Gold wrote in a response that “the test program demonstrated with 99% reliability and 99% confidence that the inflators in the subject population would deploy without rupturing.” According to ARC, the aforementioned incidents were the result of “one-off” defects that have already been addressed by their respective automakers.
Other airbag recalls have already churned the market, following global safety concerns. Since 2016, more than 67 million airbags from Japanese manufacturer Takata have been recalled in the United States, with another 100 million worldwide.
Pope Francis urges Italians to have more babies instead of buying cuddly pets to save the nation from financial collapse
THE POPE has given some frank advice to Italians in his pursuit to remedy the country’s low birth rates.
The Catholic leader has asked residents to have more babies instead of buying pets to reverse an economic disaster.
He’s urged Italians to up the birth rate to avoid economic disaster[/caption]
He’s not pleased with the current birth rates[/caption]
He said: “Let us not resign ourselves to sterile dullness and pessimism. Let us not believe that history is already marked, that nothing can be done to reverse the trend.”
He called the choice of many young Italians to buy pets instead of having children “selfish and egotistical”.
Italy recorded only 392,598 births last year – a record low, compared to a high level of deaths, reaching over 700,000.
Blasting couples who have pets instead of children, Francis called for resources to be dedicated to helping couples grow their families, saying it was necessary to plant the future with hope.
The Pope also said that young people today “live in a social climate in which starting a family is turning into a Titanic effort”.
He said: “We need to prepare fertile ground for a new spring to blossom and leave this demographic winter behind us.
“Reviving the birth rate means repairing the forms of social exclusion that are affecting young people and their future.”
The government of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is backing a campaign to encourage at least 500,000 births annually by 2033.
If the goal isn’t met, experts say the economy could collapse as retirees draw on their pensions in the coming years.
Meloni said: “We live in an era in which speaking about the birth rate, of maternity, of family has become even more difficult, sometimes it seems almost a revolutionary act.
“We want it no longer to be scandalous to say that we are all born of a man and a woman, that it is not taboo to say that the birth rate is not for sale, that the uterus cannot be rented and children are not over-the-counter products that you can choose and then perhaps return.”
Italy’s population was rising until 2014, when it began reversing after a large older population began to die.
If Italy’s birth rate continues to decline at a drastic rate, the country’s gross domestic product could drop by 18%.
The Pope recently left the hospital after issues with his breathing, and joked that he was “still alive”.
The Roman Catholic leader, 86, was at Rome’s Gemelli hospital for three nights due to a bronchitis infection.
He was seen waving to well-wishers before telling reporters: “I wasn’t frightened, I’m still alive.”
The Pope has had several health problems in the past.
He had part of his lung removed when he was younger due to a respiratory infection.
Because of this, it is known that he often speaks in a whisper.
In 2021 he had intestinal surgery, as his large intestine had narrowed.
He has also suffered from a long-term knee condition, which has affected his mobility.
“General States of Birth” was held in Rome yesterday[/caption]
They held a joint conference to address the issue[/caption]
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Germany Urges Loophole for EU Ban on Fossil-Fuel Cars: Synthetic Carbon-Captured Fuels
When EU lawmakers voted to ban the sale of new combustion engine cars in the bloc by 2035, it was a landmark victory for climate. In February, the European Parliament approved the law. All that was needed was a rubber stamp from the bloc’s political leaders.
Then Germany changed its mind.
In a reversal that stunned many EU insiders, the German government decided to push for a loophole that would allow the sale of combustion engine cars beyond the 2035 deadline — as long as they run on synthetic fuels. It’s an exception that could put the European Union’s green credentials at risk. The bloc is legally obliged to become carbon-neutral by 2050. With cars and vans responsible for around 15% of its total greenhouse gas emissions, a phase-out of polluting vehicles is a key part of EU climate policy….
Other European countries, including Italy, Poland and the Czech Republic, have joined Germany in demanding the exception.
The case for synthetic fuels: they’re made from hydrogen and carbon dioxide captured from the atmosphere, so burning them only releases air pollutants that have already been offset. CNN got this quote from the transport minister of the liberal FDP (which part of Germany’s current governing coalition).
“The goal is climate neutrality, which is also an opportunity for new technologies. We need to be open to different solutions.”
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