Douglas Lenat, Who Tried to Make A.I. More Human, Dies at 72 (www.nytimes.com)
NYT gift article expires in 30 days....
Shopify Store Development Company | Shopify Agency | Expert Designers (www.vserveecommerce.com)
The YouTube "My Edited Video" Rabbithole (youtu.be)
Pyramid Schemes Are Illegal. MLMs Are Not. What About the Tech That Powers Them? (themarkup.org)
Life on board a British nuclear submarine (2012) (www.theguardian.com)
With HR 3557, Broadband Monopolies Are Pushing A Bill That Would Crush Your Town’s Ability To Stand Up To Them (www.techdirt.com)
Phishing pages placed on hacked websites (securelist.com)
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George Hotz and Eliezer Yudkowsky AI Safety Debate - 8/15/23 5pm ET (lemmy.intai.tech)
cross-posted from: lemmy.intai.tech/post/234347...
Clickworkers in Brazil are turning on each other (restofworld.org)
Waste Management Market Trends, Growth Factors, Revenue Analysis, For 2021–2028 (kbin.melroy.org)
The global waste management market size is expected to reach USD 3,225.72 Billion in 2028 and register a steady CAGR over the forecast period, according to latest analysis by Emergen Research. Steady market revenue growth can be attributed to rising concerns regarding waste management across the world, rapid urbanization,...
Professors have a summer assignment: Prevent ChatGPT chaos in the fall (wapo.st)
AI chatbots have triggered a panic among educators, who are flooding listservs, webinars and professional conferences to figure out how to deal with the technology...
AI could help predict the next pandemic, but proper 'guardrails' are needed: experts (www.ctvnews.ca)
Large language models (LLMs), essentially an algorithm that can take massive sets of data to predict and generate text, can be subject to “hallucination” or making stuff up, Khan warned....
“Instead of blocking sanctioned companies, Google could stop spreading Kremlin propaganda,” says ex-Yandex News head (theins.ru)
Lev Gershenzon, founder of The True Story news aggregator and former head of Yandex.News (Yandex.Novosti), explained why Google spreads Kremlin propaganda. Having consistently highlighted the free circulation of false propaganda news through the Google Discover service, pointed out that Google pays attention to what makes money...
Security experts discover flaw in the random-number generator used to create wallet private keys on Libbitcoin Explorer 3.x versions (milksad.info)
Bad actors are actively exploiting this flaw to steal funds from affected wallets on multiple blockchains, they say.
SQLedge - SQLite read replica of a Postgres primary DB (news.ycombinator.com)
SQLedge uses Postgres logical replication to stream the changes in a source Postgres database to a SQLite database that can run on the edge. SQLedge serves reads from its local SQLite database, and forwards writes to the upstream Postgres server that it’s replicating from....
Open discussion among MIT professors about "The Impact of ChatGPT" (2023) [22min] (www.youtube.com)
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/3650559...
Researchers strengthen defenses against denial-of-service attack (techxplore.com)
The first digital nomad (tim.kicker.dev)
UK's first drone mail service begins in Orkney (www.bbc.com)
Sci-Hub's Alexandra Elbakyan Receives EFF Award for Providing Access to Scientific Knowledge * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)
FBI Seizure of Mastodon Server Data is a Wakeup Call to Fediverse Users and Hosts to Protect their Users (www.eff.org)
The Cryptographer Who Ensures We Can Trust Our Computers (www.youtube.com)
Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort? – Krebs on Security (krebsonsecurity.com)
Rust-based Realst Infostealer Targeting Apple macOS Users' Cryptocurrency Wallets (thehackernews.com)
Instance Assistant v1.2.3 is now available on Chrome & Firefox + New Features
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/2012318...