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+ Biz & IT – Ars Technica: Neo-Nazis head to encrypted SimpleX Chat app, bail on Telegram—App swears there's no way for law enforcement to track users' identities. [Category: Biz & IT, Policy, hate speech, Neo-nazis, privacy, SimpleX Ch...
+ Biz & IT – Ars Technica: OpenAI’s Canvas can translate code between languages with a click—New side-by-side document and code-editing feature catches up with Anthropic's Artifacts. [Category: AI, Biz & IT, AI assistants, Anthropic, Anthr...
+ Biz & IT – Ars Technica: Meta’s new “Movie Gen” AI system can deepfake video from a single photo—A future where realistic video fakes are easy and plentiful seems inevitable. [Category: AI, Biz & IT, deepfakes, machine learning, meta, Meta Mov...
+ Biz & IT – Ars Technica: Thousands of Linux systems infected by stealthy malware since 2021—The ability to remain installed and undetected makes Perfctl hard to fight. [Category: Biz & IT, Security, exploits, Linux, malware, vulnerabiliti...
+ Biz & IT – Ars Technica: Microsoft’s new “Copilot Vision” AI experiment can see what you browse—Microsoft brings two new opt-in trial features to some users of its Copilot AI-assistant. [Category: AI, Biz & IT, AI assistant, AI assistants, Ch...
+ Biz & IT – Ars Technica: Attackers exploit critical Zimbra vulnerability using cc’d email addresses—When successful, attacks install a backdoor. Getting it to work reliably is another matter. [Category: Biz & IT, Security, email, vulnerabilities,...
+ Biz & IT – Ars Technica: OpenAI is now valued at $157 billion—OpenAI has nearly doubled what investors think it's worth—but there's a catch. [Category: AI, Biz & IT, ChatGPT, chatgtp, GPT-4, machine learning,...
+ Biz & IT – Ars Technica: Crook made millions by breaking into execs’ Office365 inboxes, feds say—Email accounts inside 5 US companies unlawfully breached through password resets. [Category: Biz & IT, Security, insider trading, password resets,...
+ Biz & IT – Ars Technica: Crook made millions by breaking into execs’ Office365 inboxes, feds say—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Federal prosecutors have charged a man for an alleged “hack-to-trade” scheme that earned him millions ...
+ Biz & IT – Ars Technica: OpenAI unveils easy voice assistant creation at 2024 developer event—Altman steps back from the keynote limelight and lets four major API additions do the talking. [Category: AI, Biz & IT, AI models, API, ChatGPT, c...
+ USC Science & Technology News - University of Southern California: USC wins $25 million grant to explore Alzheimer’s ‘exposome’—The “exposome” refers to all environmental exposures and corresponding biological responses experienced by an individual throughout his or her life. (...
+ USC Science & Technology News - University of Southern California: To help people make healthier diet choices, let AI evaluate their menus—Abigail Horn of USC Viterbi’s Information Sciences Institute is using technology improve public health. [Category: Health, Science/Technology, Diet, F...
+ USC Science & Technology News - University of Southern California: Collaboration between USC engineers, doctors provides hope for patients with severe depression, mood disorders—USC Viterbi’s Maryam Shanechi works with researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC in the hopes of creating game-changing new therapies. [Ca...
+ USC Science & Technology News - University of Southern California: USC Viterbi-led innovation hub awarded $31.9 million in funding under federal Microelectronics Commons Program—The award aims to accelerate the development of advanced semiconductor technologies through two distinct projects. [Category: Science/Technology, Comp...
+ USC Science & Technology News - University of Southern California: How a climate science believer could become a skeptic—Researchers found that even the strongest believers in climate science felt that the skeptical and pro-climate beliefs seemed more true when they enco...
+ USC Science & Technology News - University of Southern California: Prestigious grants fund doctoral research in marine and molecular biology—Daniel Olivares-Zambrano, left, and Nina Barr garnered rare grants to support their graduate studies. (Photos: Courtesy of Daniel Olivares-Zambrano an...
+ O'Reilly Radar: Radar Trends to Watch: October 2024—The model release train continues, with Mistral’s multimodal Pixtral 12B, OpenAI’s o1 models, and Roblox’s model for building 3D scenes. We also have ...
+ O'Reilly Radar: Preparing for AI—AI is everywhere—we’re in a middle of a technology shift that’s as big as (and possibly bigger than) the arrival of the web in the 1990s. Even though ...
+ O'Reilly Radar: The AI Blues—A recent article in Computerworld argued that the output from generative AI systems, like GPT and Gemini, isn’t as good as it used to be. It isn’t...
+ O'Reilly Radar: Radar Trends to Watch: September 2024—This month, we’ll give AI a rest. Alex Russell has finished an excellent series of posts titled “ Reckoning .” It’s a must-read for web developers. If...
+ O'Reilly Radar: Platform Engineering: The Next Step in Operations—Platform engineering is the latest buzzword in IT operations. And like all other buzzwords, it’s in danger of becoming meaningless—in danger of meanin...
+ O'Reilly Radar: Think Better—Over the years, many of us have become accustomed to letting computers do our thinking for us. “That’s what the computer says” is a refrain in many ba...
+ O'Reilly Radar: Radar Trends to Watch: August 2024—July was a big month for model releases: There are new large models from Mistral and Meta, smaller multilingual models from Mistral and DeepL, another...
+ O'Reilly Radar: Software Architecture in an AI World—Like almost any question about AI, “How does AI impact software architecture?” has two sides to it: how AI changes the practice of software architectu...
+ O'Reilly Radar: Beyond Imitation—The first AI image generation model I got to play around with was Midjourney v2 in summer 2022. A month earlier, OpenAI had launched DALL-E 2 in beta,...
+ O'Reilly Radar: Programming, Fluency, and AI—It’s clear that generative AI is already being used by a majority—a large majority—of programmers. That’s good. Even if the productivity gains are sma...
+ NZ Herald - Technology: Tech Insider: 2degrees wins big education contract previously held by Spark—Sir John Key's Palo Alto Networks is also part of the new N4L line-up.
+ NZ Herald - Technology: Basis: The most successful Kiwi startup you’ve never heard of—Auckland and Christchurch startup has scored $38m to reinvent the home switchboard.
+ NZ Herald - Technology: Apple’s AI is landing soon on iPhones. Here’s what it’s like—New York Times: Prepare to be impressed and unnerved.
+ NZ Herald - Technology: AI assistants are blabbing our embarrassing work secrets—Workplace AI tools can do tasks by themselves. Getting them to stop is the problem.
+ NZ Herald - Technology: MIT economist says AI can do only 5% of jobs - and crash may lie ahead—Hype versus reality.
+ NZ Herald - Technology: OpenAI gets US$6.6 billion in new funding, valuing company at US$157 billion—Firm nearly doubles in value with new backing from Microsoft, SoftBank and Nvidia.
+ NZ Herald - Technology: OpenAI gets $6.6 billion in new funding, valuing company at US$157 billion—Firm nearly doubles in value with new backing from Microsoft, SoftBank and Nvidia.
+ NZ Herald - Technology: Tesla’s quarterly deliveries miss expectations despite 6% rise—Financial Times: Company retains top position but shares weaken.
+ Ars Technica: Greening of Antarctica shows how climate change affects the frozen continent—Plant growth is accelerating on the Antarctic Peninsula and nearby islands. [Category: Science, Antarctica, climate change, syndication]
+ Ars Technica: Greening of Antartica shows how climate change affects the frozen continent—Plant growth is accelerating on the Antarctic Peninsula and nearby islands. [Category: Science, Antarctica, climate change, syndication]
+ Ars Technica: Neo-Nazis head to encrypted SimpleX Chat app, bail on Telegram—App swears there's no way for law enforcement to track users' identities. [Category: Biz & IT, Policy, hate speech, Neo-nazis, privacy, SimpleX Ch...
+ Ars Technica: Helene ravaged the NC plant that makes 60% of the country’s IV fluid supply—There is currently no timeline for when the plant will be able to reopen. [Category: Health, Science, baxter, Helene, hospitals, IV fluid, medical sup...
+ Ars Technica: YouTube fixes glitch that wrongly removed accounts, deleted videos—YouTube confirmed all channels back online after mistaken removals. [Category: Policy, google, YouTube, YouTube bug, youtube music, YouTube Premium, y...
+ Ars Technica: How London’s Crystal Palace was built so quickly—New study finds it was the earliest-known building to use a standard screw thread. [Category: Science, architecture, Crystal Palace, engineering]
+ Ars Technica: Halls of Torment is Diablo cranked up to 50,000 kills/hour—Sometimes, you just want to kill a whole lot of skeletons as fast as possible. [Category: Gaming]
+ Ars Technica: No more bricked iPads: Apple fixes several bugs in iOS, iPadOS, macOS updates—Apple claims it fixed a critical bug that bricked M4 iPads. [Category: Apple, Tech, apple, iOS, ios 18, iOS 18.0.1, iPadOS, iPadOS 18, iPadOS 18.0.1, ...
+ Ars Technica: ULA’s second Vulcan rocket lost part of its booster and kept going—The US Space Force says this test flight was critical for certifying Vulcan for military missions. [Category: Science, Space, launch, military space, ...
+ Ars Technica: OpenAI’s Canvas can translate code between languages with a click—New side-by-side document and code-editing feature catches up with Anthropic's Artifacts. [Category: AI, Biz & IT, AI assistants, Anthropic, Anthr...
+ WashingtonExaminer.com - Technology: How battleground states are targeting AI and ‘deepfakes’ in political campaigns—“Deepfakes” (videos, audio recordings, photos, and other content created through AI to impersonate someone without their consent) have raised concerns...
+ WashingtonExaminer.com - Technology: Google says it will stop linking to New Zealand news if a law passes forcing it to pay for content—The vow to sever Google traffic to New Zealand news sites — made in a blog post by the search giant on Friday — echoes strategies the firm deployed a...
+ WashingtonExaminer.com - Technology: The kids aren’t reading—The problem starts before students step foot on campus. “For more than two decades, new educational initiatives such as No Child Left Behind and Commo...
+ WashingtonExaminer.com - Technology: Russian evasion: Why US sanctions aren’t working and how to make them better—Numbers are everywhere in Washington . Budgets , deficits , statistical studies, probability analysis, trade figures, and so on. Sometimes, numbers...
+ WashingtonExaminer.com - Technology: Adapt or die: Meeting changing customer needs can lead to greater opportunities in a wine market that’s declining—Wine has been facing a long-term structural decline for some time. Major wine markets such as France and Italy have indeed been in such decline fo...
+ WashingtonExaminer.com - Technology: Musk says FCC risked lives in hurricane by rejecting SpaceX Starlink award—“Had the FCC not illegally revoked the SpaceX Starlink award, it would probably have saved lives in North Carolina ,” Musk wrote on his social medi...
+ WashingtonExaminer.com - Technology: Bank of America down: Customers report zeroed-out accounts and outages—Outage spotter Downdetector reported a spike in outage reports from Bank of America at around 12:45 p.m., quickly skyrocketing to over 20,000 within...
+ WashingtonExaminer.com - Technology: Helene shutters critical quartz mine, threatening semiconductor industry—The mines, located in Spruce Pine, North Carolina (around 50 miles northeast of Asheville , North Carolina), are home to some of the purest quartz, w...