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Horseshit
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Linguistics study claims that languages are louder in the tropics
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Spiders could theoretically eat all humans on Earth in just one year
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EVs Aren’t The Edsel Of The 21st Century — They’re Far Worse – Issues & Insights
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The Spy Who Dumped the CIA, Went to Therapy, and Now Makes Television
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Al Gore Says Social Media Algorithms Are 'Digital Equivalent of AR-15s'
celebrity gossip
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
Musk
Trump / War against the Right / Jan6
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A Warning About a Second Trump Term - The Atlantic
- We saw the White House order the press to produce "economy is great!" stories, and the press did so. Has there been an order now to produce "Trump2" stories?
Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp
Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation
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President Of LGBTQ Advocate Group Says Women Should ‘Learn To Lose Gracefully’ To Trans Competitors.
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Based Beff Jezos and the Accelerationists
Eliezer Yudkowsky: We disagree about almost everything, but a major frown at Forbes for doxxing the e/acc in question. Many of society's problems are Things We Can't Say. Building up a pseudonym with a reputation is one remedy. Society is worse off as people become more afraid to speak.
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
Entertainment / ShowBiz / Advertising
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Ask HN: What are some excellent blogs, news boards, YouTube channels to follow?
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Apple Confirms Governments Using Push Notifications to Surveil Users
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How Zines Brought Power to Those on the Margins of Culture | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
With more than 800 works by artists from North America, the exhibition is an expansive study of the form. Still, it is not meant to be an exhaustive history, as exhibition co-curator and art historian Drew Sawyer tells the Guardian’s Veronica Esposito. “Even if we wanted to be very inclusive and seemingly comprehensive, we knew it would be impossible to claim to be comprehensive in any way,” he says. “It would be delusional to think anyone could be comprehensive on a history of zines.”
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Washington Post journalists plan 24-hour strike amid prolonged contract talks
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Twitch to shut down in Korea over 'prohibitively expensive' network fees
TechSuck / Geek Bait
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Windows 10 gets three more years of security updates, if you can afford them
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Just about every Windows and Linux device vulnerable to new LogoFAIL firmware attack | Ars Technica
As its name suggests, LogoFAIL involves logos, specifically those of the hardware seller that are displayed on the device screen early in the boot process, while the UEFI is still running. Image parsers in UEFIs from all three major IBVs are riddled with roughly a dozen critical vulnerabilities that have gone unnoticed until now. By replacing the legitimate logo images with identical-looking ones that have been specially crafted to exploit these bugs, LogoFAIL makes it possible to execute malicious code at the most sensitive stage of the boot process, which is known as DXE, short for Driver Execution Environment.
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Dieselgate, but for trains – some heavyweight hardware hacking – BadCyber
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GCN (Graphics Core Next), AMD's GPU Architecture Modernization
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Mozilla adds 4 new directors from diverse backgrounds to its nonprofit board
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Reverse engineering the barrel shifter circuit on the Intel 386 processor die
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
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We have trouble articulating what we expect from AI, from simple embarrassment. We know it's unrealistic to expect a machine to become all knowing (or at least more knowledgeable than we are). We know it's unreasonable to expect a machine to be infallible (or at least make no mistakes that we can perceive).
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Coca: An open-source project that breaks the limit of context length in LLMs
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AI firms 'should include members of public on boards to protect society'
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Due to AI, "We are about to enter the era of mass spying," says Bruce Schneier
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(Oct 2023) The Eliza Effect – Why We Love AI
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New report illuminates why OpenAI board said Altman was not consistently candid
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Explaining The Sam Altman/OpenAI Thing.
“The companies operating agreement – to investors – says – in writing: ‘It would be wise to view any investment in OpenAI in the spirit of a donation, with the understanding that it may be difficult to know what role money will play in a post-AGI world.’ Documents like this – that were written by an actual lawyer – highlight the problems we are starting to see from the combined popularity of science fiction in Silicon Valley and widespread microdosing of hallucinogens.”
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
Economicon / Business / Finance
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(Sep 2023) Cargill: Peek Inside America's Largest Privately Owned Company
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'Buy Now, Pay Later' Giant to Shrink Human Workforce as It Goes All-In on AI
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Amid Big Tech Layoffs, Demand Still High for Foreign Workers with H-1B Visas
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Nationwide (UK) rescinds 'work anywhere' policy, tells staff to come to office
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Texas Bank Overdraws Its Own Accounts After Messy Tech Update
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
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Hunter Biden got staggering $4.9M from ‘sugar brother’ Kevin Morris: IRS whistleblower.
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Candidate who 'didn't feel comfortable' voting for himself, loses by single vote
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Amazon Brags It 'Cultivated' CA Mayor with Donations in Leaked Policy Document
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"I'm Leaving The House": Ousted Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy Taking His Ball, Going Home
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
Israel
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Sen. Marsha Blackburn wants probe of claim UN worker held Israeli hostage.
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First images 'show Israel preparing to flood Hamas tunnels with sea water
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A reality check on those Hamas insider trading claims
Womp womp. So a (possible) profit of $8mn, not $800mn. We’re sure we’ll be seeing some rapid corrections to all those reports. Both the academics and the journalists messed up their sniff tests here.