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Meanwhile, on another news website: "Cops still searching for ‘volatile’ activist whose death threats shut down OpenAI office The ChatGPT maker’s HQ was locked down after a former member of the protest group Stop AI allegedly threatened murder."[1]

[1]: https://sfstandard.com/2025/12/02/openai-protester-shut-down...


I remember when crypto ruined the market for GPUs, and now AI is ruining the market for DRAM. Darn you, fads.

Great article, thank you for writing and sharing it!

I'm on the same boat. Several links on HN are not opening.


Absolutely, I flagged this post for this very reason. Far left or right websites are no place to get a reliable account of things.


It's so insane that communism always gets a pass. I feel for the victims of that insane ideology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_communist_...

> Estimates of individuals killed range from a low of 10–20 million to as high as 148 million.


Thank you for the info. A lot of superficial noise in the discussions here.


Most of us wouldn't mind if the limitation was that you can't opt IN more than 3 times/year, but of course Microsoft dark patterned it to limit the opt outs.


I like your style, subscribed!


Thank you so much!


What a classic "Think of the children!" excuse for abuse.


Because it's a reason to bash Trump.

Trump gives plenty of reasons to be bashed, but this news article seems like a stretch.


Taking a less cynical view, it's just successful Austrian PR.


It's right in the first paragraph:

"Austria has lured what it calls 25 "top researchers" away from U.S. institutions including Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Princeton with grants set up in response to the Trump administration's funding cuts targeting universities."


This article is missing key info. Which research areas are we talking about?


> Recipients of the grants of 500,000 euros ($587,000) each over two years range from post-doctoral researchers to professors and work in fields such as physics, chemistry and life sciences, the Austrian Academy of Sciences said in a statement on Thursday.


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