The world's semiconductor industry hinges on a single quartz factory in North Carolina (www.tomshardware.com)
An AI robot is spotting sick tulips to slow the spread of disease through Dutch bulb fields (apnews.com)
Experts war-gamed what might happen if deepfakes disrupt the 2024 election. Things went sideways fast. (www.nbcnews.com)
OpenAI aims to make its own AI processors — chip venture in talks with Abu Dhabi investment firm: report (www.tomshardware.com)
Sam Bankman-Fried deserves 40-50 years in prison for FTX fraud, prosecutors say (www.reuters.com)
NEW YORK, March 15 (Reuters) - Sam Bankman-Fried should spend between 40 and 50 years in prison after being convicted for stealing $8 billion from customers of his now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange, prosecutors said on Friday. … “Even now Bankman-Fried refuses to admit what he did was wrong,” prosecutors wrote in a...
IBM and NASA build language models to make scientific knowledge more accessible (research.ibm.com)
Photographer steps inside Vietnam’s shadowy ‘click farms’ | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
YouTube and right-wing creators are profiting from anti-trans vitriol (www.mediamatters.org)
AI to fix UK Civil Service's bureaucratic bungling, deputy PM bets (www.theregister.com)
Apple Spent More Than $10 Billion on Apple Car Before Canceling Project (www.macrumors.com)
Apple Spent More Than $10 Billion on Apple Car Before Canceling Project::Apple spent more than $10 billion working on the Apple Car over the last decade, according to a report from The New York Times that details the…
IBM says their latest AI-enhanced storage platform can identify ransomware in under a minute (www.techspot.com)
Arizona attorney general sues software company RealPage, residential landlords; accuses them of conspiring to illegally raise rents (www.azfamily.com)
Arizona attorney general sues software company RealPage, residential landlords; accuses them of conspiring to illegally raise rents::The suit alleges that landlords conspired with RealPage and used that information to conduct a price-fixing conspiracy.
Owner of WordPress and Tumblr reportedly in talks to sell user content to train AI (www.notebookcheck.net)
A coder's point of view: The optimal home office (optimizedbyotto.com)
💻Knowledge workers, are you spending more time staring at a screen than you’d like? 🤯 Optimize your home office setup for a healthier, more productive workday by reading my hows and whys
How Electric Vehicles Can Improve Public Health — And Save Lives (www.techtimes.com)
Yelp: It’s gotten worse since Google made changes to comply with EU rules (arstechnica.com)
Cancer therapy approved by FDA uses body’s own cells as a ‘living drug’ (www.washingtonpost.com)
Cancer therapy approved by FDA uses body’s own cells as a ‘living drug’::undefined
China's latest stealth tech promises invisible fighter jets, says report (interestingengineering.com)
New plasma stealth device targets specific areas, not entire aircraft....
Financial dispute leads to suspension of more than 100 .af websites (www.techradar.com)
The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe will construct one of the largest solar farms in the U.S. (www.ksut.org)
The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe will construct one of the largest solar farms in the U.S.::Construction on the Sun Bear Solar Farm is set to start later in 2024 and will need more than 500 laborers and electricians.
"New app! A compass that points to the centre of the galaxy" (interconnected.org)
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HP CEO pay for 2023 = 270,315 printer cartridges (www.theregister.com)
AMD Quietly Funded A Drop-In CUDA Implementation Built On ROCm: It's Now Open-Source (www.phoronix.com)
Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer’ | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer’ | CNN::A finance worker at a multinational firm was tricked into paying out $25 million to fraudsters using deepfake technology to pose as the company’s chief financial officer in a video conference call, according to Hong Kong...
Jack Dorsey's Block lays off 'large number' of staffers, adding to wave of tech industry cuts (www.businessinsider.com)
Jack Dorsey’s Block lays off ‘large number’ of staffers, adding to wave of tech industry cuts::Dorsey told staff in a Tuesday memo that a “large number” of Block employees, including those at Cash App and Square, were being laid off.
