A mystery company backed by Silicon Valley billionaires has purchased tens of thousands of acres of land for more than $800 million to build a new city near San Francisco (www.businessinsider.com)
A mystery company backed by Silicon Valley billionaires has purchased tens of thousands of acres of land for more than $800 million to build a new city near San Francisco::A company called Flannery Associates has been buying up land in Solano County for up to $15,000 per acre, court documents show.
The College Board Tells TikTok and Facebook Your SAT Scores (gizmodo.com)
Gizmodo's tests find the College Board website shares GPAs, SAT scores, and other information with Facebook and TikTok via tracking pixels. The College Board has a years-long history of sharing and selling student data.
Wildlife officials say SpaceX launch left behind significant damage (mashable.com)
Wildlife officials say SpaceX launch left behind significant damage::undefined
X officially takes on LinkedIn with its new job posting feature (bgr.com)
X (formerly Twitter) is rolling out its X Hiring Beta, which like LinkedIn, lets employers post job openings on the social media platform.
Armed with traffic cones, protesters are immobilizing driverless cars (www.npr.org)
Armed with traffic cones, protesters are immobilizing driverless cars::undefined
New study shows large language models have high toxic probabilities and leak private information (techxplore.com)
New study shows large language models have high toxic probabilities and leak private information::Generative AI may be riddled with hallucinations, misinformation, and bias, but that didn’t stop over half of respondents in a recent global study from saying that they would use this nascent technology for sensitive areas …
Kroll Employee SIM-Swapped for Crypto Investor Data – Krebs on Security (krebsonsecurity.com)
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The German Rhineland-Palatinate State Parliament has ditched X (Twitter) in favour of open-source decentralised Mastodon (gadgeteer.co.za)
Europe is cracking down on Big Tech. This is what will change when you sign on (techxplore.com)
Europe is cracking down on Big Tech. This is what will change when you sign on::Starting Friday, Europeans will see their online life change.
The pedestrian detection systems in self-driving cars are less likely to detect children and people of color, study suggests (www.businessinsider.com)
The pedestrian detection systems in self-driving cars are less likely to detect children and people of color, study suggests::Researchers say the results stem from biases present in open-source AI, on which self-driving cars rely.
I asked leonardo.ai to generate an image of itself. This is what it gave me. (lemmy.ml)
React JS Clean Code Guide (programming.dev)
React.js has revolutionized front-end development by providing a powerful and efficient way to build user interfaces. However, as your React application grows in complexity, maintaining clean, readable, and maintainable code becomes crucial.
Be Aware of How Your Life is Being Monitored by Technology (www.youtube.com)
Naomi Brockwell makes it easy and interesting to learn about how our personal lives are being spied on by potentially anybody. Share it with your friends and family so maybe one day every country won’t have a social credit score or other dystopian outcomes.
ChatGPT generates cancer treatment plans that are full of errors — Study finds that ChatGPT provided false information when asked to design cancer treatment plans (www.businessinsider.com)
ChatGPT generates cancer treatment plans that are full of errors — Study finds that ChatGPT provided false information when asked to design cancer treatment plans::Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital found that cancer treatment plans generated by OpenAI’s revolutionary chatbot were full of errors.
Everybody Tries To Leverage VMware To Their Advantage (www.nextplatform.com)
Beating GPT-4 on HumanEval with a Fine-Tuned CodeLlama-34B
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Understanding Immortal Objects in Python 3.12: A Deep Dive into Python Internals (codeconfessions.substack.com)
A detailed examination of Python 3.12’s internal changes featuring the concept of ‘immortal’ objects, for performance enhancements
BSO: 2 men scammed UberEats out of more than $1 million (www.cbsnews.com)
BSO: 2 men scammed UberEats out of more than $1 million::Broward Sheriff’s Office stated that the men created several fake accounts by using phony and stolen names.
Study: Carbon offsets aren’t doing their job, overstate impact (arstechnica.com)
Cambridge study says carbon offsets are not nearly as effective as they claim to be.
Apptronik’s Apollo is the latest humanoid robot to beat Tesla to market | Engadget (www.engadget.com)
Apptronik unveiled a new workforce robot today.
New material provides clean water and electricity using nothing but the Sun (arstechnica.com)
New material provides clean water and electricity using nothing but the Sun::The material isn’t especially efficient, but improvements should be possible.
Leaked Email Shows Elon Musk Demanding "Sub 10 Micron Accuracy” Cybertruck Parts (jalopnik.com)
Tesla is facing issues with the bare metal construction of the Cybertruck, which Elon Musk warned was as tricky to do as making Lego bricks
Space India shares video proof of its phenomenal moon landing and rover (mashable.com)
NSA Orders Employees to Spy “With Dignity and Respect” (theintercept.com)
NSA Orders Employees to Spy “With Dignity and Respect”::In a new directive, the head of the notoriously invasive NSA ordered employees to spy on the world with “with dignity and respect”