Daily Tech News 25 February 2024

• The replication crisis is an ongoing problem in science, and particularly in medicine and psychology, where peer-reviewed papers that supposedly have a 95% probability of demonstrating a real effect cannot be replicated between 50% and 90% of the time.
  
  It turns out that AI is a cure for this problem. (Stanford)
  
  When querying Google Gemini for medical information, half of the papers referenced do not even exist, and 90% do not actually make the claims Gemini reports.
  
  Cure? Well sure. If a paper doesn't exist, it can't be wrong.
  

• The latest guide to unfucking Windows 11. (Ars Technica)
  
  Microsoft doesn't seem to care - or even notice - that these guides are some of the most popular pages on the internet.
  
  
  
• Reddit's users hate Reddit. (The Verge)
  
  The company is going for a stock market listing, and cites among potential risks that its own users are planning to short the stock.
  
  
  
• It's still in a better place than Byju. (Tech Crunch)
  
  The CEO of the Indian education technology company was fired - maybe - by an emergency general meeting of shareholders after the stock price plunged by approximately 99.9%.
  
  
  
• Very definitely fired is Ed Clark, former chief mechanic, then chief engineer, then chief, uh, chief, of Boeing's 737 Max program. (CNN)

  Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun assumed responsibility for the incident.

  Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun was not fired.
  
  
  
• Why is a mine in Albania leaking 200 tons of hydrogen a year? (Ars Technica)
  
  Nobody knows. Large hydrogen reserves in the Earth's crust are theoretically possible, but kind of just don't happen. Other reported cases have been speculative, but in this case it's definitely real
  
  Hydrogen in the mine is constantly at dangerous levels; an explosion killed four people while engineers were on site to investigate the source of the gas. Which is part of the reason why nobody knows the cause, because, well:

  Giant worms.
  
  What?
  
  Just put down giant worms on the report and we'll call it a day.
  
  Worms it is.

  
  
  

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