GParted Live Is Now Patched Against the XZ Backdoor, Powered by Linux Kernel 6.7 (9to5linux.com)
WordPress.com owner Automattic acquires multi-service messaging app Beeper for $125M (techcrunch.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/14092066
Security advisory for the standard library (CVE-2024-24576) (blog.rust-lang.org)
Weaponizing Reality: The Dawn of Neurowarfare (unlimitedhangout.com)
MIT Researcher Creates Mind-Controlled Internet Search Headset (www.unilad.com)
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Jensen Huang says kids shouldn't learn to code — they should leave it up to AI. (www.tomshardware.com)
Jensen Huang says kids shouldn’t learn to code — they should leave it up to AI.::At the recent World Government Summit in Dubai, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made a counterintuitive break with tech leader wisdom by saying that programming is no longer a vital skill due to the AI revolution.
Wikipedia is gauging interest for an extension that uses AI to see if any claim is cited on Wikipedia (meta.wikimedia.org)
A prototype is available, though it's Chrome-only and English-only at the moment. How this'll work is you select some text and then click on the extension, which will try to "return the relevant quote and inference for the user, along with links to article and quality signals"....
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The diagnosis is in—bad memory knocked NASA’s aging Voyager 1 offline (arstechnica.com)
"Engineers are optimistic they can find a way for the FDS to operate normally."
Everybody’s talking about Mistral, an upstart French challenger to OpenAI (arstechnica.com)
On Monday, Mistral AI announced a new AI language model called Mixtral 8x7B, a "mixture of experts" (MoE) model with open weights that reportedly truly matches OpenAI's GPT-3.5 in performance—an achievement that has been claimed by others in the past but is being taken seriously by AI heavyweights such as OpenAI's Andrej...
T-Mobile's New AI "Profiling" Privacy Toggle Is On By Default (tmo.report)
Broadcom has willingly dug its VMware hole, says cloud CEO (www.theregister.com)
April 9, 1999 - the world's first production active directory domain (www.youtube.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.capebreton.social/post/2509054...
Today marks the 10th anniversary of the Heartbleed vulnerability in OpenSSL, which had the same ultimate root cause as recent XZUtils backdoor incident (optimizedbyotto.com)
The XZ Utils backdoor, discovered last week, and the Heartbleed security vulnerability ten years ago, share the same ultimate root cause. Both of them, and in fact all critical infrastructure open source projects, should be fixed with the same solution: ensure baseline funding for proper open source maintenance.
StoreDot’s EV battery cells achieve 2,000+ consecutive XFC cycles (electrek.co)
Surveillance as a Service: The Global Impact of Israeli “Defense” Technologies on Privacy and Human Rights | Tor Project (blog.torproject.org)
China Installed More Solar Panels Last Year Than the U.S. Has in Total (www.ecowatch.com)
China Installed More Solar Panels Last Year Than the U.S. Has in Total::China installed more new solar capacity last year than the total amount ever installed in any other country.
Amazon's Just Walk Out technology relies on hundreds of workers in India watching you shop (www.businessinsider.com)
"Permission is Hereby Granted" -- MIT License text becomes viral “sad girl” piano ballad generated by AI (arstechnica.com)
On Wednesday, prompt engineer Riley Goodside tweeted an AI-generated song created with the prompt “sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License,” and it began to circulate widely in the AI community online.
Steam is a ticking time bomb (www.spacebar.news)
In A Twist, Humans Take Jobs From AI (hackaday.com)
Sanity checking an idea for editing yaml without wanting to throw my laptop out the window
Often find myself getting frustrated editing yaml, and it seems to be used everywhere for some reason I cannot fathom...
What would you like to see in a house IT setup?
Currently remodeling a domicile, with the sweet and expensive ability to add anything I want within reason. I plan on modernizing the place to bring it into the 21st century because this house deserves it (just a great structure with lots of history and nearing it’s centennial birthday)....
SiFive is back with another 64-bit RISC-V dev board – hopefully (www.theregister.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/14247376...
FOSS scanner app surpasses Microsoft for usability
A Personal Journey Through Enshittification...