The ruthless forking of Terraform (youtube.com)
The first observation of neutrinos at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (phys.org)
The first observation of neutrinos at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider::Neutrinos are tiny and neutrally charged particles accounted for by the Standard Model of particle physics. While they are estimated to be some of the most abundant particles in the universe, observing them has so far proved to be highly challenging, as the...
OpenTF, an open source Terraform, is officially announced today (opentf.org)
HashiCorp recently changed Terraform from an open source model to something that requires licensing, so folks got together, forked the code, and created OpenTF.
India lands spacecraft near south pole of moon in world first (www.theguardian.com)
India has become the first country to successfully land a spacecraft near the south pole of the moon.
Looks Like the Website for Trump's Patriot Legal Defense Fund Just Got Hacked (gizmodo.com)
Canada wildfire evacuees say Facebook's news ban 'dangerous' in emergency situation (www.cbc.ca)
Canada wildfire evacuees say Facebook’s news ban ‘dangerous’ in emergency situation::The ongoing fight between tech company Meta and the federal government over subsidizing news publishers means links to news sources are being blocked on sites like Facebook and Instagram. Wildfire evacuees in the Northwest Territories say...
Brazilian hacker claims Bolsonaro asked him to hack into the voting system ahead of 2022 vote (apnews.com)
Brazilian hacker claims Bolsonaro asked him to hack into the voting system ahead of 2022 vote::A Brazilian hacker claims then-President Jair Bolsonaro asked him to hack the country’s electronic voting system to expose its alleged weaknesses ahead of the 2022 presidential election.
TikTok is banned from city-owned devices in NYC (mashable.com)
TikTok is banned from city-owned devices in NYC::undefined
AMD is gearing up to reveal new Radeon GPUs next week (www.theverge.com)
The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con (softwarecrisis.dev)
A long read, but fascinating.
People are having sex in self-driving cars, apparently (mashable.com)
People are having sex in self-driving cars, apparently::undefined
SoftBank is suing portfolio company IRL after it admitted 95% of its users were fake. VCs are stressing the need for ‘uncomfortable’ due diligence (archive.ph)
SoftBank is suing portfolio company IRL after it admitted 95% of its users were fake. VCs are stressing the need for ‘uncomfortable’ due diligence::undefined
These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI (www.rollingstone.com)
Today the risks of artificial intelligence are clear — but the warning signs have been there all along
Apple buys every 3 nm chip that TSMC can make for next-gen iPhones and Macs (arstechnica.com)
Apple buys every 3 nm chip that TSMC can make for next-gen iPhones and Macs::TSMC is said to eat the cost of defective chips so it can keep Apple’s business.
“AI” Hurts Consumers and Workers -- and Isn’t Intelligent (techpolicy.press)
Researchers Alex Hanna and Emily M. Bender call on businesses not to succumb to this artificial “intelligence” hype.
[Tech Ethics] They Didn’t Ask to Go Viral. Posting on Social Media Without Consent Is Immoral (web.archive.org)
Summary...
FAA Throws Cold Water on SpaceX's Next Starship Orbital Launch (futurism.com)
The FAA is still awaiting the report that will detail the steps SpaceX will have to implement before it can try to launch its Starship again.
[EFF Article] The Impending Privacy Threat of Self-Driving Cars (www.eff.org)
Summary:...
TikTok to be fined for breaching children’s privacy in EU (www.theguardian.com)
TikTok to be fined for breaching children’s privacy in EU::Action by regulator follows £12.7m fine by UK for illegally processing data of 1.4m children under 13
Meet Window Snyder, the trailblazer who helped secure the internet and billions of devices (techcrunch.com)
“For 25 years, Window has been quietly changing the security industry with her pioneering work at Apple, Mozilla, Fastly, and Intel, among others....
Inside Europe's trailblazing hybrid trains - BBC News (www.youtube.com)
Muskrats sign went live last night! (lemmy.world)
Tickled rats reveal brain structure that controls laughter (www.science.org)
The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide (www.eff.org)
The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide::The U.K. Parliament is pushing ahead with a sprawling internet regulation bill that will, among other things, undermine the privacy of people around the world. The Online Safety Bill, now at the final stage before passage in the House of Lords, gives the British...
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