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Monthly Archives: April 2023
Scientists Identify Mind-Body Nexus In Human Brain
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Researchers said on Wednesday they have discovered that parts of the brain region called the motor cortex that govern body movement are connected with a network involved in thinking, planning, mental arousal, … Continue reading
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đź’ˇ Pause AI Doomster Pessimism: An Open Letter – a call on AI doomsters to immediately pause for at least 6 months the alarmism that is hurting human progress.
AI systems with human-competitive intelligence can offer significant benefits to society and humanity, as demonstrated by extensive research and acknowledged by top AI labs. Advanced AI has the potential to revolutionize the way we live, work, and interact with one … Continue reading
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Undercutting Microsoft, Amazon Offers Free Access to Its AI Coding Assistant ‘CodeWhisperer’
Amazon is making its AI-powered coding assistant CodeWhisperer free for individual developers, reports the Verge, “undercutting the $10 per month pricing of its Microsoft-made rival.” Amazon launched CodeWhisperer as a preview last year, which developers can use within various integrated … Continue reading
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Pacific garbage patch providing a deep ocean home for coastal species
A survey of plastic waste picked up in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre—aka the Giant Pacific Garbage Patch—has revealed that the garbage is providing a home to species that would otherwise not be found in the deep ocean. Over two-thirds … Continue reading
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International Partners Publish Secure-by-Design and -Default Principles and Approaches   Guide – but don’t link to guide in press release
 The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the National Security Agency (NSA), and the cybersecurity authorities of Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, and New Zealand (CERT NZ, NCSC-NZ ) published today “Shifting the … Continue reading
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The AI Doomers’ Playbook
I have posted on this a few times and to me it’s shocking to see these fabricated sci-fi doomsday predictions about AI. AI / ML is a tool which we use, just like video games (that don’t cause violence in … Continue reading
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Need To Pick Objects Out Of Images? Segment Anything Does Exactly That
Segment Anything, recently released by Facebook Research, does something that most people who have dabbled in computer vision have found daunting: reliably figure out which pixels in an image belong to an object. Making that easier is the goal of … Continue reading
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A Computer Generated Swatting Service Is Causing Havoc Across America
[…] Motherboard has found, this synthesized call and another against Hempstead High School were just one small part of a months-long, nationwide campaign of dozens, and potentially hundreds, of threats made by one swatter in particular who has weaponized computer … Continue reading
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Why fighting the urge to sleep may be bad for our health – a deep dive into sleep
Scientists are finding that the timing of our sleep matters more than we know. Source: Why fighting the urge to sleep may be bad for our health Reuters has a deep dive into sleep on their website, lots of interesting … Continue reading
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Disabling Intel and AMD’s Backdoors On Modern computers
Despite some companies making strides with ARM, for the most part, the desktop and laptop space is still dominated by x86 machines. For all their advantages, they have a glaring flaw for anyone concerned with privacy or security in the … Continue reading
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Italy finds decently good out to really stupid ban: Demands OpenAI Allow ChatGPT User Corrections After Ban
In a news announcement on Wednesday, the Italian Data Protection Authority, known as the Garante, stressed that OpenAI needed to be more transparent about its data collection processes and inform users about their data rights with regards to the generative … Continue reading
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Scientists unveil new and improved ‘skinny donut’ black hole image using ML algorithm
The 2019 release of the first image of a black hole was hailed as a significant scientific achievement. But truth be told, it was a bit blurry – or, as one astrophysicist involved in the effort called it, a “fuzzy … Continue reading
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Scientists create structural paint that stays cool underneath, doesn’t fade, extremely light and no toxins
[…] Debashis Chanda, a nanoscience researcher with the University of Central Florida, and his team have created a way to mimic nature’s ability to reflect light and create beautifully vivid color without absorbing any heat like traditional pigments do. Chanda’s … Continue reading
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Google debuts deps.dev API to check security status of dependencies
[…] On Tuesday, Google – which has answered the government’s call to secure the software supply chain with initiatives like the Open Source Vulnerabilities (OSV) database and Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) – announced an open source software vetting service, … Continue reading
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Mitsubishi 3000GT Car Phone Modded To Work Like an iPhone, link to full 3 year journey included
Software engineer Jeff Lau, posting under the username UselessPickles, showed off the restored car phone in a video uploaded to YouTube. The Mitsubishi came from the factory with an optional “DiamondTel” handset and hands-free system, which was rendered inoperable by … Continue reading
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Streaming Services Urged To Clamp Down on AI-Generated Music by Record Labels
Universal Music Group has told streaming platforms, including Spotify and Apple, to block artificial intelligence services from scraping melodies and lyrics from their copyrighted songs, according to emails viewed by the Financial Times. From the report: UMG, which controls about … Continue reading
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New Map of Dark Matter Supports Einstein’s Theory of Gravity
Scientists using data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile have made a detailed map of dark matter’s distribution across a quarter of the sky. The map shows regions the distribution of mass extending essentially as far we can see … Continue reading
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Physicists Discover that Gravity Can Create Light
Researchers have discovered that in the exotic conditions of the early universe, waves of gravity may have shaken space-time so hard that they spontaneously created radiation. […] a team of researchers have discovered that an exotic form of parametric resonance … Continue reading
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EVE Online player uses CEO vote to pull off the biggest heist in the game’s history
Back in 2017, we learned about the biggest heist in EVE Online history (opens in new tab): A year-long inside job that ultimately made off with an estimated 1.5 triillion ISK, worth around $10,000 in real money. But now another … Continue reading
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Google’s free Assured Open Source Software service hits GA
About a year ago, Google announced its Assured Open Source Software (Assured OSS) service, a service that helps developers defend against supply chain security attacks by regularly scanning and analyzing for vulnerabilities some of the world’s most popular software libraries. … Continue reading
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Google announces GUAC open source project on software supply chains
Google unveiled a new open source security project on Thursday centered around software supply chain management. Given the acronym GUAC – which stands for Graph for Understanding Artifact Composition – the project is focused on creating sets of data about … Continue reading
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US starts looking at AI regulation, Seeks Public Input to Boost AI Accountability
Today, the Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) launched a request for comment (RFC) to advance its efforts to ensure artificial intelligence (AI) systems work as claimed – and without causing harm. The insights gathered through this … Continue reading
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On the hunt for the businessmen behind a billion-dollar scam
[…] Jan Erik, sound muddled, he tells the caller he has already lost one million Swedish Krona (about ÂŁ80,000) in trading scams. But the caller already knows this. And he knows it makes the pensioner a good target for a … Continue reading
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South Korea fines Google $32 mln for blocking games on competing platforms
South Korea’s antitrust regulator has fined Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google 42.1 billion won ($31.88 million) for blocking the release of mobile video games on a competitor’s platform. The Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) said on Tuesday that Google bolstered its … Continue reading
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Windows 11 KB5025310 changes how the Print Screen key works
Microsoft has been trying to make changes to almost every feature we use on Windows, from the taskbar to notifications. With Windows 11 KB5025310 available in the Beta channel, Microsoft is changing how the Print Screen key works, i.e. its … Continue reading
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