kbin.life - A general use kbin instance with a slight emphasis on the technical

Kids who use ChatGPT as a study assistant do worse on tests (hechingerreport.org)

Does AI actually help students learn? A recent experiment in a high school provides a cautionary tale....

GE-Proton9-13 Released (github.com)

Hotfix:...

Unionized Rideshare Drivers Vow Future Strikes After Jamming Nashville Airport (truthout.org)

China signs electricity, infrastructure deals with Chad and Senegal | Reuters (www.reuters.com)

Novel glass-forming liquid electrolyte shows glass transition across broad range (phys.org)

California Companies Wrote Their Own Gig Worker Law. Now No One Is Enforcing It (themarkup.org)

Specialist 'carbon nanotube' AI chip built by Chinese scientists is 1st of its kind and '1,700 times more efficient' than Google's (www.livescience.com)

AI Learns To Play Super Mario Kart On SNES | Retro Gaming News 24/7 (www.retronews.com)

A recent project has seen a computer learning to play the classic game Super Mario Kart on a real Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) using an evolutionary algorithm. The program, named LuEAgi, was developed by LF_MrL314. The AI is designed to learn how to play with minimal information provided....

US woman indicted for attempt to drown 3-year-old Palestinian-American girl (www.aljazeera.com)

A woman in Texas, United States has been formally indicted by a grand jury in the attempted drowning of a three-year-old Palestinian American girl earlier this year that police said was motivated by racial hatred....

Pupil Size Is a Marker of Intelligence (getpocket.com)

source URL: a Firefox start page story with many links to sources for further reading....

Sade, Sam Smith, Laura Jane Grace, and Dozens More to Celebrate Trans People on ‘Transa’ Comp (www.rollingstone.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/19418149...

Federal judge rejects Donald Trump’s request to intervene in wake of hush money conviction (apnews.com)

A federal judge on Tuesday swiftly rejected Donald Trump’s request to intervene in his New York hush money criminal case, spurning the former president’s attempt at an end-run around the state court where he was convicted and is set to be sentenced in two weeks....

Canada: New Democratic party withdraws support for Trudeau’s Liberals (www.theguardian.com)

Canada’s New Democratic party says it has “ripped up” a key agreement with prime minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government, sowing uncertainty into the country’s politics as party leaders brace for a possible election....

Finland to spend more on defence, NATO and security (www.reuters.com)

Prime Minister Petteri Orpo’s coalition has introduced labour market reforms and cuts to social welfare that angered labour unions, which launched widespread strikes in March and April....

Debian discusses principles for package maintenance [LWN.net] (lwn.net)

The history, status, and plans for reproducible builds [LWN.net] (lwn.net)

TIL there's a known massive oil reserve in antarctica discovered only earlier this year (2024) (www.newsweek.com)

While territorial claims are and will likely be heated, what struck me is that the area is right near the Drake Passage, in the Weddell Sea (which is fundamental to the world’s ocean currents AFAIU)....

California companies wrote their own gig worker law. Now no one is enforcing it (calmatters.org)

Malaysian PM Anwar visits Russia as Asian leaders defy West over Putin | The Straits Times (www.straitstimes.com)

YubiKeys are vulnerable to cloning attacks thanks to newly discovered side channel (arstechnica.com)

Former Lebanese central bank governor charged with embezzling $42m in ongoing corruption probe (apnews.com)

Lebanon charged its embattled former central bank governor Wednesday with the embezzlement of $42 million, three judicial officials told The Associated Press....