ChatGPT plays doctor with 72% success (www.axios.com)
As AI capabilities advance in complex medical scenarios that doctors face on a daily basis, the technology remains controversial in medical communities.
Azure ChatGPT: Private & secure ChatGPT for internal enterprise use (github.com)
Two US Navy sailors charged with giving Chinese spies secret military info (www.theregister.com)
Two US Navy sailors charged with giving Chinese spies secret military info::‘Quite obviously f**king espionage,’ one suspect allegedly blabbed
A.I. is on a collision course with white-collar, high-paid jobs — and with unknown impact (www.cnbc.com)
A.I. is on a collision course with white-collar, high-paid jobs — and with unknown impact::Technology has disrupted many workplaces. Artificial intelligence like ChatGPT may have an outsized impact on higher-paid office jobs, experts said.
Home heating from datacentres - good use of waste energy or a waste of money? | TechRadar (www.techradar.com)
Sweeping new Biden order aims to alter the AI landscape (www.politico.com)
The Risk of RISC-V: What's Going on at SiFive? (morethanmoore.substack.com)
Ian Cutress muses upon rumors around SiFive, the forerunner of high-performance RISC-V cores.
Blue checks aren't protecting sex workers from X's porn crackdown (techcrunch.com)
How to build a computer using origami (apieceofthepi.substack.com)
SBF’s parents were given $16.4M house paid for entirely by FTX, lawsuit says — FTX sues Bankman and Fried to claw back millions “siphoned” (arstechnica.com)
SBF’s parents were given $16.4M house paid for entirely by FTX, lawsuit says — FTX sues Bankman and Fried to claw back millions “siphoned”::FTX sues Bankman and Fried to claw back millions “siphoned” from crypto firm.
Experts Fear Crooks are Cracking Keys Stolen in LastPass Breach (krebsonsecurity.com)
In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. Since then, a steady trickle of six-figure cryptocurrency heists targeting security-conscious…
NYT Disables Open AI bot (www.theverge.com)
NYT looks like it’s updated it’s robots.txt file to disallow the Open AI bot from scraping it’s data. Pretty interested to see if they just update their user agent string or if they’ll respect it
Google Deprecates Google Domains, Sells It to Squarespace (support.google.com)
Facebook and Instagram will require political advertisers to disclose AI deepfakes (edition.cnn.com)
The Twitter app just went very, very strange (www.independent.co.uk)
Twitter has broken after seemingly being hit by an unusual bug.
The restaurant nearest Google (www.theverge.com)
Thai Food Near Me, Dentist Near Me, Notary Near Me, Plumber Near Me — businesses across the country picked names meant to outsmart Google Search. Does it actually work?
X claims it is erasing 'illegal' Hamas content after EU ultimatum (www.bbc.com)
X claims it is erasing ‘illegal’ Hamas content after EU ultimatum::The platform follows X and Meta to be urged to step up efforts to stop the spread of disinformation.
[UK] Nearly half a billion small tech items thrown away (www.bbc.com)
As some carmakers run from Apple CarPlay, Porsche embraces it (arstechnica.com)
"Our Wire Mothers" - It's important for us to be careful that our technology does not supplant the human need for socialization. (www.staygrounded.online)
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Contra Chrome – a webcomic – How Google's browser became a threat to privacy and democracy (contrachrome.com)
Since I haven’t seen a post about this, I decided to post this. Sorry in advance if this is a duplicate
Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years::Microsoft announced today that it will deprecate WordPad with a future Windows update as it’s no longer under active development, though the company did not specify the precise timing of this change.
Facebook Takes Down Over 7,700 Accounts Linked to Chinese Misinformation Campaign (www.thewrap.com)
Facebook Takes Down Over 7,700 Accounts Linked to Chinese Misinformation Campaign::Parent company Meta says the campaign targeted more than 50 platforms, including X, YouTube, Reddit, Pinterest and Medium
Steam condenser coating could save 460 million tons of carbon dioxide annually (techxplore.com)
Steam condenser coating could save 460 million tons of carbon dioxide annually:: If coal and natural gas power generation were 2% more efficient, then every year, there could be 460 million fewer tons of carbon dioxide released and 2 trillion fewer gallons of water used. A recent innovation to the steam cycle used in fossil fuel...
Changes to UK Surveillance Regime May Violate International Law (www.justsecurity.org)
Proposed changes to the UK Investigatory Powers Act 2016 may violate international human rights law.
