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Apple has been quiet about ChatGPT. Now Tim Cook says its hefty $22.6 billion research spend is down to generative AI.::The company’s research and development spending hit $22.61 billion for the year so far, a figure $3.12 billion higher than this time last year.

Thanks to Bram for the amazing text editor and the terrible scripting language. You will be missed.

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Researchers Alex Hanna and Emily M. Bender call on businesses not to succumb to this artificial “intelligence” hype.

Innocent pregnant woman jailed amid faulty facial recognition trend::US police departments continue to use the tech despite low accuracy and obvious mismatches.

Google-Owned YouTube Makes Millions From Channels Pushing Climate Disinformation: Analysis::“It’s time for YouTube to step up, detox its platform, and protect the integrity of the fight against the climate crisis,” said Ekō’s campaign director.

This article explains search engine optimization and the benefits of a good SEO campaign.

Many Americans think NASA returning to the moon is a waste of time and it should prioritize asteroid hunting instead, a poll shows::Americans like NASA, but don’t support their funding going towards moon missions, according to new polls.

**Short summary:**This is a sophisticated malware campaign that is targeting inexperienced cyber criminals with the goal of stealing their cryptocurrency and other sensitive information. The campaign is using malicious OpenBullet configuration files to distribute the malware, and it is targeting criminal communities that are...

Until December no group able to produce more energy from reaction than it consumes. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory repeated breakthrough in experiment on July 30. Scientists believe fusion power stations still decades away.

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Thousands of employees in the US Department of the Interior are using accounts that are easily hacked::The Interior Department is tasked with protecting the country’s natural resources, like gas pipelines. Hundreds of its senior officers even used “password-1234” on their accounts.

PayPal is Introducing a new crypto currency and you’ll be able to buy, sell, hold, and transfer it in the app. 1 USD : 1 PYUSD on PayPal

In California, Car Buyers Are Choosing Electricity Over Gasoline in Record Numbers::undefined

In every reported case where police mistakenly arrested someone using facial recognition, that person has been Black::Facial recognition software has always had trouble telling Black people apart, yet police departments are still using it.

Yes! This is a brilliant explanation of why language use is not the same as intelligence, and why LLMs like chatGPT are not intelligence. At all.

‘Stunning’ discovery: Metals can heal themselves::Scientists for the first time have witnessed pieces of metal crack, then fuse back together without any human intervention, overturning fundamental scientific theories in the process. If the newly discovered phenomenon can be harnessed, it could usher in an engineering...

Initial drive starts in Germany, pushes automotive blueprints

US scientists achieve net energy gain for second time in a fusion reaction::The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility achieved the feat using lasers to fuse two atoms

The fight for who will own your Thread mesh network is creating an even more fractured smart home.