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Friday March 21, 2025. 08:50 PM
IT service management company Cloudflare on March 19 introduced a free tool to confuse AI web crawlers, keeping them from cluttering sites with bot traffic or scraping information. The AI Labyrinth uses generative AI to create fake pages, distracting and identifying the...
The safe return of NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams on March 18 highlights just how unpredictable and complex space flights can be. Originally planned as an eight-day test mission aboard Boeing’s Starliner, their journey turned into an unexpected nine-month...
Higher use of chatbots like ChatGPT may correspond with increased loneliness and less time spent socializing with other people, according to new research from OpenAI in partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From a report: Those who spent more time...
The head of an AI advertising company that promised 'a world free of fraud' just got sentenced for fraud. As reporter in Ars Technica, Paul Roberts, CEO of Kubient, sold investors on magical AI technology that could supposedly catch advertising fraud in milliseconds. — Read...
Hungryroot is a shockingly innovative meal kit. Though the results can be more like fast-casual meal assembly than cooking.
Acknowledging the closure of their local Social Security office as a slap in the face to his constituents, Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) didn't mention that it was he who was doing the slapping. Congressperson Lawler continued supporting DOGE, taking millions from Elon Musk in...
Convicted felon #47 took his revenge on a law firm that represented a class action suit against J6 morons and had a partner Donald does not like. An executive order essentially destroying a law firm co-President Donald Trump does not like has been rescinded. — Read the rest...
Donald Trump just compared vandalized Teslas to the deadly January 6 riots — and decided that burning a handful of cars is far worse than attacking the U.S. Capitol and its police officers. 'When I looked at those showrooms burning, and those cars — not one or two, but...
The U.S. Treasury Department's sanctions watchdog removed cryptocurrency mixing tool Tornado Cash from its global blacklist on Friday, following a federal appeals court ruling last November that the Office of Foreign Asset Control couldn't sanction its smart contracts....
In 1847, French photography pioneer Charles Nègre created a 3D self-portrait using a 'witch's mirror' — a clever piece of 19th-century surveillance technology. These convex mirrors, popular in homes and businesses since the 1500s, let owners monitor entire rooms from a...
Researchers at the University of Cambridge, together with the Alan Turing Institute, Microsoft Research, and the European Center for Medium Range Weather Forecasts, have developed a new AI-based weather forecasting system — Aardvark Weather — that could revolutionize the ...
As a system runs and its memory becomes fragmented, allocating large, physically contiguous regions of memory becomes increasingly difficult. Much effort over the years has gone into avoiding the need to make such allocations whenever possible, but there are times when they...
Pacific Gas and Electric has decided their record $2.47 billion in profits —an increase from it's previous record set last year —just isn't quite enough. The monopoly — famous for burning down half of California —just filed a request to jack up rates again (because...
When asked about a New York Times report concerning Elon Musk's being given illegal defense briefings, convicted felon #47 became enraged about press freedoms. Defense Department officials have denied that Musk received an improper briefing and was visiting the Pentagon to...
Julien Malka has called for the NixOS project to use build-reproducibility to detect when a program has a maintainer-generated tarball that results in a different artifact than building from source. There are good reasons for projects to release maintainer-generated...
Researchers taught a robot dog to skateboard, using an approach that mirrors how humans learn complex physical skills. The University of Michigan team's quadrupedal robot can mount a skateboard, push off to gain speed, glide smoothly, and navigate challenging terrain —...
Measuring all the dirty work of the supply chain and other indirect influences? Ugh, just give us the fine Half of European businesses fear they'll lose customers if they come clean about their greenhouse gas emissions, a third lack confidence in the accuracy of their carbon ...
Microsoft has begun urging Windows 10 users to upgrade their systems ahead of the October 14, 2025 support deadline, but with a solution many find impractical: just buy a new computer. According to StatCounter data, 58.7% of Windows users remain on Windows 10 despite the...
Brendan Jackman has been working to try to get ahead of the next hardware CPU vulnerability before it gets discovered. In January, he posted the second version of a patch set that introduces address-space isolation (ASI) as a way of preventing future CPU vulnerabilities...
With bird flu and inflation in ascendance during the winter months, egg smuggling became a thing. 'Egg interceptions,' as CBC puts it, 'are up 116% so far this year.' Officials made 3,254 seizures of eggs in January and February, according to U.S. — Read the rest The post...
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