Commented

Cloud company assisted 17 different government hacking groups [identified in the article as Cloudzy] (www.reuters.com)

Scoop: Google Assistant to get an AI makeover (www.axios.com)

UK's first drone mail service begins in Orkney (www.bbc.com)

Opinion | Lindsey Graham and Elizabeth Warren: When It Comes to Big Tech, Enough Is Enough (www.nytimes.com)

The codified Library of Alexandria (madhakker.com)

For 10 days I learned like I have never learned before....

A jargon-free explanation of how AI large language models work (arstechnica.com)

Gene therapy eyedrops restored a boy's sight. Similar treatments could help millions (medicalxpress.com)

Gene therapy eyedrops restored a boy’s sight. Similar treatments could help millions::Dr. Alfonso Sabater pulled up two photos of Antonio Vento Carvajal’s eyes. One showed cloudy scars covering both eyeballs. The other, taken after months of gene therapy given through eyedrops, revealed no scarring on either eye.

Cornell Researchers Supercharge Photosynthesis Using the Power of Algae (scitechdaily.com)

Elon Musk’s Unmatched Power in the Stars (www.nytimes.com)

NYT gift article (expires in 30 days)

US judge tightens Sam Bankman-Fried's bail, will consider jailing him (www.reuters.com)

US judge tightens Sam Bankman-Fried’s bail, will consider jailing him::A U.S. judge on Wednesday tightened Sam Bankman-Fried’s bail conditions by restricting his ability to communicate publicly, and said he will consider jailing him before the trial over the collapse of his FTX cryptocurrency exchange.

Mess with DNS (messwithdns.net)

Julia Evans has done it again....

Sci-Hub's Alexandra Elbakyan Receives EFF Award for Providing Access to Scientific Knowledge (torrentfreak.com)

Alexandra Elbakyan is a hero!

Bill that Would Stop the Government Buying Data Without a Warrant Passes Key Hurdle | The Fourth Amendment is Not for Sale Act passed the House Judiciary Committee, bringing it one step closer to b... (www.vice.com)

Bill that Would Stop the Government Buying Data Without a Warrant Passes Key Hurdle | The Fourth Amendment is Not for Sale Act passed the House Judiciary Committee, bringing it one step closer to b…::The Fourth Amendment is Not for Sale Act passed the House Judiciary Committee, bringing it one step closer to becoming law. The...

Facebook opened its doors to researchers. What they found paints a complicated picture of social media and echo chambers (www.nbcnews.com)

The project included 17 academic researchers from 12 universities who were granted deep access by Facebook to aggregated data....

Record-Breaking Advances in Next-Generation Flow Battery Design (scitechdaily.com)

Researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have made a groundbreaking discovery in flow battery design. They used a starch-derived additive called β-cyclodextrin, which boosted the battery’s capacity and longevity by 60% in a year-long experiment. This flow battery technology is crucial for large-scale energy...

Google Web Environment Integrity Is the New Microsoft Trusted Computing (www.neelc.org)

cross-posted from: derp.foo/post/83231...

This new tool could protect your pictures from AI manipulation (www.technologyreview.com)

Tuning and Testing Llama 2, FLAN-T5, and GPT-J with LoRA, Sematic, and Gradio (www.sematic.dev)

Microsoft in EU antitrust crosshairs over Teams, Office tying (www.reuters.com)

BRUSSELS, July 27 (Reuters) - Microsoft (MSFT.O) on Thursday found itself the target of an EU antitrust investigation over the tying of its chat and video app Teams with its Office product, putting it at risk of a hefty fine....

Twitter took @x handle from longtime user and only offered him “some merch” (arstechnica.com)

Hwang confirmed to Ars today that “there was no financial compensation” offered to him. The company offered “to switch the @x account and its history/followers etc to a new handle once I select one that is available,” Hwang told us. “They also offered some merch and to meet with the management team as well.”

technology