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AMD announces Radeon RX 7800 XT and 7700 XT, starting at $449 (www.theverge.com)

Experian slapped by the DoJ for sending spam emails with no opt out | Despite the settlement, the company still denies any wrongdoing (www.techspot.com)

Experian slapped by the DoJ for sending spam emails with no opt out | Despite the settlement, the company still denies any wrongdoing::undefined

Beating GPT-4 on HumanEval with a Fine-Tuned CodeLlama-34B

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NSA Orders Employees to Spy “With Dignity and Respect” (theintercept.com)

NSA Orders Employees to Spy “With Dignity and Respect”::In a new directive, the head of the notoriously invasive NSA ordered employees to spy on the world with “with dignity and respect”

Windows 11 has made the “clean Windows install” an oxymoron (arstechnica.com)

A Mars Colony Needs Just 22 People to Survive, Simulation Suggests (www.extremetech.com)

A Mars Colony Needs Just 22 People to Survive, Simulation Suggests::undefined

New material provides clean water and electricity using nothing but the Sun (arstechnica.com)

New material provides clean water and electricity using nothing but the Sun::The material isn’t especially efficient, but improvements should be possible.

Streaming TV costs now higher than cable, as 'crash' finally hits (9to5mac.com)

Understanding Immortal Objects in Python 3.12: A Deep Dive into Python Internals (codeconfessions.substack.com)

A detailed examination of Python 3.12’s internal changes featuring the concept of ‘immortal’ objects, for performance enhancements

OpenTF, an open source Terraform, is officially announced today (opentf.org)

HashiCorp recently changed Terraform from an open source model to something that requires licensing, so folks got together, forked the code, and created OpenTF.

A key feature of NFTs has completely broken / Web3 was supposed to make sure the original artist always got paid. Not so much anymore. (www.theverge.com)

Hackers are Attacking Observatories (www.universetoday.com)

The College Board Tells TikTok and Facebook Your SAT Scores | Gizmodo’s tests found the higher-ed gatekeeper shares GPAs, SAT scores, and other data with big tech. (gizmodo.com)

The College Board Tells TikTok and Facebook Your SAT Scores | Gizmodo’s tests found the higher-ed gatekeeper shares GPAs, SAT scores, and other data with big tech.::Gizmodo’s tests found the higher-ed gatekeeper shares GPAs, SAT scores, and other data with big tech.

Scientists strengthen concrete by 30 percent with used coffee grounds (www.engadget.com)

Scientists strengthen concrete by 30 percent with used coffee grounds::Researchers in Australia have found a new use for old coffee grounds: concrete doping!.

India just landed on the Moon for less than it cost to make Interstellar | The Independent (www.independent.co.uk)

India just landed on the Moon for less than it cost to make Interstellar | The Independent::undefined

The EU’s Digital Services Act goes into effect today: here’s what that means (www.theverge.com)

Social Media Algorithms Warp How People Learn from Each Other (www.scientificamerican.com)

The pedestrian detection systems in self-driving cars are less likely to detect children and people of color, study suggests (www.businessinsider.com)

The pedestrian detection systems in self-driving cars are less likely to detect children and people of color, study suggests::Researchers say the results stem from biases present in open-source AI, on which self-driving cars rely.

First observations ever of the outskirts of a supermassive black hole's accretion disk (phys.org)

28 years ago, Windows 95 entered general availability (August 24th 1995) (en.wikipedia.org)

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Is an end to using imperiled horseshoe crabs for U.S. drug testing in sight? (www.science.org)

Scientists invent micrometers-thin battery charged by saline solution that could power smart contact lenses (techxplore.com)

Scientists invent micrometers-thin battery charged by saline solution that could power smart contact lenses::Scientists from NTU Singapore have developed a flexible battery as thin as a human cornea, which stores electricity when it is immersed in saline solution, and which could one day power smart contact lenses.

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