Meta disbanded its Responsible AI team (www.theverge.com)
Nanoparticles Deliver Treatment Directly to Tumors of Deadly Brain Cancer (medicine.yale.edu)
Nanoparticles Deliver Treatment Directly to Tumors of Deadly Brain Cancer::Using nanoparticles administered directly into the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), a research team has developed a treatment that may overcome significant challenges
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It's never been a better time to switch to Firefox (www.androidpolice.com)
It’s never been a better time to switch to Firefox::Firefox’s extended add-on support for mobile is coming with version 120, a good reason to switch to the browser permanently.
How to pick a stylus to play a 78-rpm record (www.vjm.biz)
Insights into the kind of crap 78-rpm records were made of, and other scarce technical infos....
OpenAI's offices were sent thousands of paper clips in an elaborate prank to warn about an AI apocalypse (www.businessinsider.com)
OpenAI’s offices were sent thousands of paper clips in an elaborate prank to warn about an AI apocalypse::The prank was a reference to the “paper clip maximizer” scenario – the idea that AI could destroy humanity if it were told to build as many paper clips as possible.
OpenAI was working on advanced model so powerful it alarmed staff (www.theguardian.com)
OpenAI was working on advanced model so powerful it alarmed staff::Reports say new model Q* fuelled safety fears, with workers airing their concerns to the board before CEO Sam Altman’s sacking
China lobs tech demo into orbit for People's Republic version of Starlink (www.theregister.com)
Reports: China's Alibaba Shuts Down Quantum Lab (thequantuminsider.com)
Chinese media and industry insiders are reporting that Alibaba has closed down the company's quantum laboratory.
Vehicle 'Kill Switch' Mandate Is a Gross (and Dangerous) Violation of Privacy (fee.org)
Vehicle ‘Kill Switch’ Mandate Is a Gross (and Dangerous) Violation of Privacy::Over the last century, the Land of the Free has slowly transformed into a land governed by endless laws, largely by cracking down on vices instead of actual crimes, creating a society that would render us all criminals if our behavior were...
Flipboard leaves X for Mastodon (www.ghacks.net)
Robotic excavator builds a giant stone wall with no human assistance (newatlas.com)
Robotic excavator builds a giant stone wall with no human assistance::undefined
Tumblr is reportedly on life support as its latest owner reassigns staff (arstechnica.com)
It’s not quite the end of Tumblr, but when management is supposedly sending memos with the Lord Tennyson quote about having “loved and lost,” it doesn’t look like there’s much of a future....
Ubisoft blames “technical error” for showing pop-up ads in Assassin’s Creed (www.theverge.com)
Ubisoft blames “technical error” for showing pop-up ads in Assassin’s Creed::Ubisoft started displaying a fullscreen pop-up ad in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey this week. It was caused by a technical error.
Google sues people who “weaponized” DMCA to remove rivals’ search results (arstechnica.com)
Google yesterday sued a group of people accused of weaponizing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to get competitors’ websites removed from search results. Over the past few years, the foreign defendants “created at least 65 Google accounts so they could submit thousands of fraudulent notices of copyright...
As FISA turns 45, time to rethink post-9/11 mass surveillance expansion under Section 702 (thehill.com)
As FISA turns 45, time to rethink post-9/11 mass surveillance expansion under Section 702::Forty-five years ago this month, President Jimmy Carter signed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to restrain U.S. intelligence agencies’ power to spy on Americans. A 1976 Senate investigation had found that the FBI’s...
Flipboard is abandoning X for Mastodon (www.theverge.com)
Flipboard is abandoning X for Mastodon::The company cited a spike in hate speech and misinformation on the platform formerly known as Twitter, as well a desire to work with a federated network of social platforms.
‘I employ a lot of hackers’: how a stock exchange chief deters cyber-attacks (www.theguardian.com)
‘I employ a lot of hackers’: how a stock exchange chief deters cyber-attacks::Six Group, which operates the Swiss and Spanish bourses, is a target for cyberwarfare and must be on guard, its boss says
X Races to Contain Damage After Elon Musk Endorses Antisemitic Post (www.nytimes.com)
IBM, a major advertiser on X, has pulled its spending from the social media platform, whose employees are grappling with what to tell its other advertisers, according to internal messages....
An extremely high-energy particle is detected coming from an apparently empty region of space (www.theguardian.com)
An extremely high-energy particle is detected coming from an apparently empty region of space::Amaterasu particle, one of highest-energy cosmic rays ever detected, is coming from an apparently empty region of space
NASA Plus Streaming: "our new ad-free, no cost, family-friendly streaming service unlocks our Emmy award-winning live coverage, embeds you into our missions through new original video series" (www.nasa.gov)
Brazil signs on to global climate deal to triple renewable energy (www.reuters.com)
Brazil signs on to global climate deal to triple renewable energy::Brazil has signed onto an agreement to triple renewable energy globally by 2030 and shift away from using coal, the country’s Foreign Ministry said on Friday, joining a prospective deal backed by the European Union, U.S. and United Arab Emirates.
Chinese hackers steal chip designs from major Dutch semiconductor company — perps lurked for over two years to steal chipmaking IP (www.tomshardware.com)
Chinese hackers steal chip designs from major Dutch semiconductor company — perps lurked for over two years to steal chipmaking IP::A Chinese-linked hacker group maintained covert access to NXP for over two years, from the end of 2017 to the beginning of 2020.
CEO Jack Dorsey tells workers he’s making it easier to fire them — There are reportedly no more performance improvement plans at Block (www.sfgate.com)
CEO Jack Dorsey tells workers he’s making it easier to fire them — There are reportedly no more performance improvement plans at Block::Jack Dorsey, CEO of Block and founder of Twitter, reportedly told workers it will now be easier and quicker to fire them.