US Postal Service To Start Exploring Its Always-On Surveillance Options
Here comes the latest in ho-hum dystopia. And by that, I mean surveillance creep has become such a regular occurrence that it takes something truly Overton...
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Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to “Russia’s Google”
One damaged data center has supercomputers used for training Yandex’s AI model.
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Cyberpunk 2077 is being made into a movie, even though we’ve already got the perfect cyberpunk movie starring Keanu Reeves as a guy named Johnny
Remember Johnny Mnemonic? If you haven't seen it, it's time.
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A Cray-1 supercomputer replica from 30 “obsolete” Mac Minis
Stylish upcycling, with a retro flare, at Spain's Museo de Historia de la Computación.
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Decade-old RAM is making a comeback
CPU makers have noticed that the seemingly unending RAM price hikes are making it tough for a lot of us to upgrade our PCs. Their solution?...
Read moreResisting the Menace of Federal Data Consolidation
In the past two years, the federal government has unlawfully consolidated data exposing our private information. This consolidation has been chaotic but generally came in three...
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NASA issues long-awaited call to industry for private space stations
"We’ve made it clear that NASA will never give up its presence in low Earth orbit."
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Anthropic’s AI gave Philadelphia police a fake tip about an unsolved homicide
An Anthropic AI model provided false information about an unsolved homicide to a Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) tipline, according to a report from 6abc. In a...
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What’s been driving Hawaii’s lava fountains?
Before the lava fountains started, the ground was expanding by half a meter a day.
Read moreHackers abuse Google Ads, Bing redirects to push Claude ClickFix attacks
Hackers are abusing legitimate Bing search-result redirects as click URLs in Google search ads to direct users to fake Claude installers that deliver ClickFix attacks. [...]
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Friday Squid Blogging: I Caught a Squid
On Wednesday I spent a day fishing, on a small boat out of Gloucester, MA. We caught many cod (none of which we could keep), and...
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Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ Becomes ‘Assisted Driving’ in Europe
The automaker has been criticized for misleading drivers with the feature’s name. Now it’s renaming it for European regulators.
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