A neurological disease stole Rep. Jennifer Wexton's voice. AI helped her get it back. (www.npr.org)
Google Begins Testing 50 Gig Fiber Internet (www.howtogeek.com)
Researchers from Nokia and GFiber Labs (the experimental arm of Google Fiber) successfully achieved 41.89 Gbps download speeds on a live Google Fiber network. This marks the first time that Nokia’s 50G PON (passive optical network) technology has been used on a Google-owned network, and its one of the only examples of live 50...
Hijacked journals are still a threat — here’s what publishers can do about them (www.nature.com)
cross-posted from: rss.ponder.cat/post/2082
Zuckerberg responds to Musk fight invitation: ‘Are we really doing this again?’ (thehill.com)
Forget security – Google's reCAPTCHA v2 is exploiting users for profit | Web puzzles don't protect against bots, but humans have spent 819 million unpaid hours solving them (www.theregister.com)
Research Findings:...
Deleted GitHub data is forever accessible to anyone, researchers claim | Cybernews (cybernews.com)
“The implication here is that any code committed to a public repository may be accessible forever as long as there is at least one fork of that repository,” the report’s authors claim....
What we know (and don’t know) about Kamala Harris and tech policy (www.theverge.com)
WhatsApp and Signal messages at risk of surveillance following EncroChat ruling, court hears | Computer Weekly (www.computerweekly.com)
Police could lawfully use bulk surveillance techniques to access messages from encrypted communications platforms such as WhatsApp and Signal, following a ruling by the UK’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), a court has heard.
How does a car cigarette lighter work? (www.lumafield.com)
This is an ad for something CT-scan-related, but it contains a good breakdown of how an old car cigarette lighter works. And it has a couple interactive CT Scan explorers past the video.
How the American war on porn could change the way you use the internet (www.bbc.com)
OopsGPT - OpenAI just announced a new search tool. Its demo already got something wrong. (www.theatlantic.com)
The C̶a̶k̶e̶ User Location is a Lie!!! (austingil.com)
Unreal Engine supervisor at ModelFarm blasts 50% failure rate with Intel chips — company switching to AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X, praises single-threaded performance (www.tomshardware.com)
AI achieves silver-medal standard solving International Mathematical Olympiad problems (deepmind.google)
Today, we present AlphaProof, a new reinforcement-learning based system for formal math reasoning, and AlphaGeometry 2, an improved version of our geometry-solving system. Together, these systems solved four out of six problems from this year’s International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), achieving the same level as a silver...
AI models face collapse if they overdose on their own output (www.theregister.com)
Source Nature research paper
Proton releases a self-custody bitcoin wallet | Proton Wallet is open source and has been audited by a third-party firm, the company said (techcrunch.com)
Proton isn’t reinventing the wheel with this crypto wallet. But it’s another solid option for people looking to create a crypto wallet for the first time. However, cryptocurrencies tend to be a polarizing topic, so let’s see if Proton Wallet doesn’t hurt Proton’s brand image in the future....
Major Labels Block 40 Pirate Domains, Search Deindexing More Concerning. (torrentfreak.com)
World of Warcraft developers form Blizzard’s largest, most inclusive union | 500+ employees have organized across multiple departments, creating the first wall-to-wall union of its kind at the studio (www.theverge.com)
More than 500 developers at Blizzard Entertainment who work on World of Warcraft have voted to form a union. The World of Warcraft GameMakers Guild, formed with the assistance of the Communication Workers of America (CWA), is composed of employees across every department, including designers, engineers, artists, producers, and...
Switzerland mandates government agencies use open-source software and disclose the source code of software developed by or for the public sector unless third-party rights or security concerns apply (www.tomshardware.com)
Switzerland has recently enacted a law requiring its government to use open-source software (OSS) and disclose the source code of any software developed by or for the public sector. According to ZDNet, this “public body, public code” approach makes government operations more transparent while increasing security and...
We finally know what caused the global tech outage - and how much it cost (www.cnn.com)
AI trained on AI garbage spits out AI garbage. (www.technologyreview.com)
Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal (www.404media.co)
DuckDuckGo, Bing, Mojeek, and other search engines are not returning full Reddit results any more.
How the American war on porn could change the way you use the internet (www.bbc.com)
New Fractional Executive Directory (fractionalchiefofficers.com)
Introducing a new fractional executive directory. With the rise of fractional hirings, we went ahead and created a directory to showcase fractional ctos and more for companies to find
Wearables linked to ‘pathologic’ heart disease symptom monitoring (mhealthintelligence.com)
AFib patients using wearable devices are more likely to engage in high rates of symptom monitoring and experience anxiety than non-users, a study shows.
