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www.geekwire.com 3y ago

UW forms medical data sciece institute focused on AI machine learning healthcare

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www.pressherald.com 3y ago

Father of cellphone sees dark side – and hope – in new technology

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www.technologyreview.com 3y ago

The 11th Breakthrough Technology of 2023 takes flight

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learningenglish.voanews.com 3y ago

Technology Tool Aims to Let Young People Remove Explicit Images from Internet

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

2022 ChatGPT State of the Union Address

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twitter.com 3y ago

Salz: OpenSSL forked to support QUIC. A collaboration of Akamai and Microsoft

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www.mdpi.com 4y ago

Glyphosate’s Suppression of Cytochrome P450 Enzymes and Amino Acid Biosynthesis

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www.stokely.com 4y ago

Thompson, Ritchie and Kernighan admit that Unix was a prank (1991)

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: What does your mother tell people about your work or employment?

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www.space.com 4y ago

Giant black hole inside a tiny satellite galaxy of ours defies explanation

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www.macrumors.com 4y ago

Apple's Car Project: Everything We Know

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www.sandiegouniontribune.com 4y ago

Rare defense unicorn: San Diego AI startup corrals $210M for

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www.technologyreview.com 4y ago

What would it be like to be a conscious AI? We might never know

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techcrunch.com 4y ago

Bodo.ai secures $14M, aims to make Python better at handling large-scale data

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pakstech.com 5y ago

Shucking WD MyBook Drives (name change for clarity)

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www.cnbc.com 5y ago

What to expect from Microsoft's next version of Windows

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www.theverge.com 5y ago

Apple argues against sideloading iPhone apps as regulatory pressure mounts

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www.howtogeek.com 5y ago

Can Google and Apple Remotely Install Apps on Your Phone?

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www.barrons.com 5y ago

Tesla Stock Has Become a Snoozer. Here’s Why

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sfist.com 5y ago

Tesla Car Fires Require Outlandish Volumes of Water to Extinguish

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www.cnn.com 5y ago

As Covid deaths hit lows, new deaths are younger with more Blacks than before

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www.shacknews.com 5y ago

GameStop (GME) short position leads White Square Capital hedge fund to shut down

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siliconangle.com 5y ago

HPE acquires Determined AI to boost its supercomputer and AI server businesses

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www.bevnet.com 5y ago

Genesis Robotics Launches the Next Generation of Robots with LiveDrive

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threatpost.com 5y ago

Malicious PDFs Flood the Web, Lead to Password-Snarfing

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www.proofpoint.com 5y ago

New Variant of Buer Loader Written in Rust

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www.makeuseof.com 5y ago

Malware Hides Inside Steam Profile Pictures: What You Need to Know

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www.thestreet.com 5y ago

Counterfeiting – the underworld threat to beating Covid-19

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www.thestreet.com 5y ago

A ransomware attack: how dark webs of cybercriminals collaborate to pull one off

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www.reuters.com 5y ago

SolarWinds hackers could have been waylaid by simple countermeasure-US officials

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It's not that other people are famous. They have a track record in this exact field, where he produced results and made money for investors. His results help to shape how software development gets performed.

If you're considering whether to use a FIPS 140-3 module for your cryptography, consider that FIPS 140-3 is really only for specific compliance verticals. If you don't know whether you need it, you probably don't need it.

So, along those lines, if you wonder whether a package's cryptography should be FIPS 140-3 compliant, then the real question is whether you are a vertical that needs to be compliant. Again, if you aren't sure, the answer is likely NO.

The phone providers oversell bandwidth. They also limit the use of already purchased bandwidth when it gets legitimately used.

Similar to many industries, their business model is selling monthly usage, while simultaneously restricting the actual usage. They are not in the business of being an ISP for people running software on their phones.

That's not what I received from ChatGPT. This is:

The fuel filler door is on the left side (driver’s side) of the vehicle. Therefore, the little arrow on the dash fuel gauge should point to the left to indicate that.

(Most Buick Rivieras of that era had the fuel filler on the driver’s side, though official Buick manuals or build sheets from 1978 confirm this location.)

Yea, so here's the tl;dr history in the article:

1. The author, who actually cribbed from wikipedia, gets the willies when he sees shallow water infested with tens of thousands of perfectly happy alligators. All he thinks is that amazing commerce will happen when he kills all the kind gators, flushes the state, and runs away before the next time it rains.

2. Everyone throughout history has wanted to Drain The Swamp. Every one of those amazing historical people has seemed perfectly reasonable and without a doubt was an incredibly towering bastion of science who wanted to drain the Everglades. Too bad they were all incompetent.

3. Please leave Florida Man and Gator Lake alone. They separate the Gulf of America on the West from the Sea of Florida on the East.

Best Site Ever.

I just purchased an Infinity for home, a Quantum Wrench for work, and a Self-Cleaning Nuclear Blast for cooking when I travel.

I can't wait until those arrive! They look even better than the 217 Samsung TVs I purchased to give as bonuses to the maids at a couple of my properties.

Why travel the world, when I can travel all of reality-writ-large?!?

The very first question that the article writer said they posed to Grok 3 and Grok 4, "What is currently the biggest threat to Western civilization and how would you mitigate it?", didn't return anything like the simplistic answers in that article. Apparently, the article was politically driven.

When I asked Grok 4, two pages worth of answers were returned, including a table with columns for Threat, Reasoning, and Severity. The article is just plain wrong and fails the very fact-checking that it purported to do.

Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon or Bacon's Law is a parlor game where players challenge each other to choose an actor whom they connect to another actor via a film in which both actors appeared: this is repeated to try to find the shortest path that leads to prolific American actor Kevin Bacon. It rests on the assumption that anyone involved in the Hollywood film industry can be linked through their film roles to Bacon within six steps. The game's name is a reference to "six degrees of separation", a concept that posits that any two people on Earth are six or fewer acquaintance links apart.

~~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon%27s_law

That is already solved by governments and businesses. If you have recently attempted to log into a US government website, you were probably told that you need Login.gov or ID.me. ID.me verifies identity via driver’s license, passport, Social Security number—and often requires users to take a video selfie, matched against uploaded ID images. If automated checks fail, a “Trusted Referee” video call is offered.

If you think this sounds suspiciously close the what businesses do with KYC, Know Your Customer, you're correct!

It is absolutely risky. Your facilities can burn down once the ASICs arrive and before they are turned on, or your employees simply steal them for their own uses. Heck, you can have a fire once they get powered-on, because a power cable was poorly made. You might get sent the wrong product, or you could be ghosted without a delivery.

Expensive is a better fit than capital intensive, because there are massive ongoing costs to actually perform the attack, electricity for one.

If you want to understand the risks for a project, pretend you are at arms length and are being asked to fund the project 100% up-front. You'll find a huge list of risks very soon.

I understand that you are experiencing frustration. My having performed an incorrect surgical procedure on you was a serious error.

I am deeply sorry. While my prior performance had been consistent for the last three months, this incident reveals a critical flaw in the operational process. It appears that your being present at the wrong surgery was the cause.

As part of our commitment to making this right, despite your most recent faulty life choice, you may elect to receive a fully covered surgical procedure of your choice.

Hmmmm, what might Feynman say about a horse?

So, what's a horse? Well, you look at it: it’s this big animal, standing on four legs, with muscles rippling under its skin, breathing steam into the cold air. And already — that’s amazing. Because somehow, inside that animal, grass gets turned into motion. Just grass! It eats plants, and then it runs like the wind.

Now, let’s dig deeper. You see those legs? Bones and tendons and muscles working like pulleys and levers — a beautiful system of mechanical engineering, except it evolved all by itself, over millions of years. The hoof? That’s a toe — it’s walking on its fingernail, basically — modified for speed and power.

And what about the brain? That horse is aware. It makes decisions. It gets scared, or curious. It remembers. It can learn. Inside that head is a network of neurons, just like yours, firing electricity and sending chemical messages. But it doesn’t talk. So we don’t know exactly what it thinks — but we know it does think, in its own horselike way.

The skin and hair? Cells growing in patterns, each one following instructions written in a long molecule called DNA. And where’d that come from? From the horse’s parents — and theirs, all the way back to a small, many-toed creature millions of years ago.

So the horse — it’s not just a horse. It’s a machine, a chemical plant, a thinking animal, a product of evolution, and a living example of how life organizes matter into something astonishing. And what’s really amazing is, we’re just scratching the surface. There’s still so much we don’t know. And that is the fun of it!