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Twelve years after the death of Steve Jobs, the cracks are starting to appear at Apple (www.notebookcheck.net)

The White House Puts New Guardrails on Government Use of AI (www.wired.com)

Hollywood Studios, Amazon & Netflix Sue 'Evasive' Pirate IPTV Operator From Texas. (torrentfreak.com)

How well can LLMs solve chess puzzles? (github.com)

Each LLM is given the same 1000 chess puzzles to solve. See puzzles.csv. Benchmarked on Mar 25, 2024....

Facebook snooped on users' Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal (techcrunch.com)

Meta tried to gain a competitive advantage over its competitors, including Snapchat and later Amazon and YouTube, by analyzing the network traffic of how its users were interacting with Meta’s competitors. Given these apps’ use of encryption, Facebook needed to develop special technology to get around it....

Stability AI CEO resigns because you can't beat centralized AI with more centralized AI (techcrunch.com)

Korean researchers unveil new superconductor PCPOSOS [PbxCux(P(OySy)4)601.Sz, x = 3 ~ 6, y+z = 0.3~0.4] and said they will publish the synthesis method for PCPOSOS on arXiv an onlinepreprint repositry (www.koreatimes.co.kr)

A group of Korean researchers, known for its controversial claim of creating the room-temperature superconductor LK-99, has newly unveiled its discovery of a new superconductor.

Different digital world views (lemmy.world)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/13519639...

Email Encryption (lemy.lol)

cross-posted from: lemy.lol/post/22383920...

Email Encryption (lemy.lol)

Email encryption is an authentication process that prevents messages from being read by an unintended or unauthorized individual. It scrambles the original sent message and converts it into an unreadable or undecipherable format. Email encryption is necessary when sharing sensitive information via email.

Beijing issues list of approved CPUs – with no Intel or AMD (www.theregister.com)

How to Convert Mini Lights into Solar Christmas Lights

Decorating for Christmas is always a fun and exciting time, but can be a hassle when it comes to wiring up strings of lights. However, there is a solution that can make decorating easier and more environmentally friendly - solar Christmas lights. Powered by tiny solar panels, these lights eliminate the need for tricky wire...

Elon Musk wants to merge humans with AI. How many brains will be damaged along the way? (www.vox.com)

Revealed: a California city is training AI to spot homeless encampments (www.theguardian.com)

Last July, San Jose issued an open invitation to technology companies to mount cameras on a municipal vehicle that began periodically driving through the city’s district 10 in December, collecting footage of the streets and public spaces. The images are fed into computer vision software and used to train the companies’...