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Happy New Year hackers !!!...

California wants to reduce traffic. The Newsom administration thinks AI can help::Caltrans says AI can help generate recommendations so workers can take steps to improve the flow of traffic and potentially prevent accidents on the road.

Elon Musk’s alleged drug use puts 13,000 jobs at risk, report suggests::Elon Musk’s possible use of illegal drugs is causing concern for bosses within his companies, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

Hackers just leaked sensitive files from over 200 police departments that are searchable by badge number::Police departments have been sharing information about COVID-19, George Floyd protesters, and even tweets critical of the police.

Solid state battery design charges in minutes, lasts for thousands of cycles::Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a new lithium metal battery that can be charged and discharged at least 6,000 times—more than any other pouch …

After injecting cancer hospital with ransomware, crims threaten to swat patients::Remember the good old days when ransomware crooks vowed not to infect medical centers?

I had a long and intresting conversation with my therapist just now. I’m not comfortable sharing exactly what we were talking about but I can rephrase it: basically I was complaining that tech companies don’t want to innovate....

The announcement on hobbes.nmsu.edu...

2024 might be the breakout year for efficient ARM chips in desktop and laptop PCs.

Is there someone somewhere curating a list of websites/apps/services that propose 2FA?...

The EU has announced €4bn (£3.4bn) of state aid investments in new factories producing electric batteries for cars, heat pumps and solar panels as it seeks to accelerate production and the uptake of green technologies and combat cheap Chinese imports....

Cheap and They Don’t Snitch: Drones Are the New Drug Mules::Drones are on the rise in the drug world with smugglers using them to shift product across borders, into prisons - and soon to a street near you.

Microsoft, OpenAI sued for copyright infringement by nonfiction book authors in class action claim::The new copyright infringement lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI comes a week after The New York Times filed a similar complaint in New York.

RIP Microsoft WordPad. You Will Be Missed::It’s truly the end of an era as we say farewell to a real one.

Nvidia Ace, a tool capable of creating AI-generated NPCs, is expanding -- and major companies like Ubisoft and Tencent are signed on as partners.

Supreme Court rejects appeal by Elon Musk’s X on disclosing federal surveillance::X, owned by Elon Musk, previously challenged a ban on disclosing warrant for the Twitter account of Donald Trump obtained by special counsel Jack Smith.