US Sending $20M To Families As 'No Strings Attached' Guaranteed Income Program
A program giving direct, no strings attached payments to families that are struggling to make ends meet is about to spread in the state of Michigan.
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/624756
Linus Torvalds Addresses Latest ARM64 Fears: Installing Compressed Kernel Images
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Torvalds-ARM64-Compress-Kernel
Following Linus Torvalds receiving an Ampere Altra Max workstation from Ampere Computing, he's been dabbling more with ARM64 now that it affords him more AArch64 compute power than his Apple Silicon powered MacBook. Torvalds kicked off the Linux 6.11 merge window by landing some of his own code to further enhance the ARM64 kernel and as we approach the end of the v6.11 merge window this weekend, he's merged some more ARM64 code.
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/624689
After 15 years, the maintainer of Homebrew plans to make a living
https://thenextweb.com/news/homebrew-maintainer-make-a-living-15-weeks
Follow along for a swig of open-source history and an interview with Mike McQuaid.
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/624546
This can't be real 😯
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1816974609637417112
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/624337
BRICS Officially Announces Financial System Similar to SWIFT
https://watcher.guru/news/brics-officially-announces-financial-system-similar-to-swift
The BRICS alliance is looking to bypass the Western SWIFT system and replace it with its own financial mechanism. The creation of a new financial messaging system similar to SWIFT will allow BRICS to reshape the global trade landscape.
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/624034
How to sign up for SearchGPT waitlist
To potentially get access to SearchGPT, you'll need to have a ChatGPT account already. Once you're logged in, you can follow the link above to join the waitlist. Click the black Join waitlist button, which should change to gray. It'll put a checkmark beside it saying, "You're on the waitlist."
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/624027
New Pixel 9 Pro Camera Feature is Very Slick
https://www.droid-life.com/2024/07/26/pixel-9-pros-add-me-feature-looks-slick/
While Google highlighted Gemini and Pixel Screenshots, the feature that most caught our eye was Add Me, a new toy for Pixel camera users to play with. With it, you can take a photo of friends, then those same friends can take a photo of you, with the Pixel 9 Pro able to combine the two photos into a single photo of the entire group.
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/624017
Alby Opens Waitlist For Alby Hub: A One-Click Lightning Node
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/alby-opens-waitlist-for-alby-hub-a-one-click-lightning-node
Alby launches Alby Hub, a one click install Lightning node with seamless self-custodial wallet integration and ability to connect external Lightning apps.
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/623226
How Amazon’s New CPU Fights Cybersecurity Threats
https://spectrum.ieee.org/aws-graviton4
The Arm-based Graviton4 protects against branch prediction attacks and more...
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/623209
The flag of ETH is raised over Wall Street.
https://x.com/balajis/status/1816695480014741752
And the SEC surrenders to a more powerful regulator.
Because it is Ethereum that now provides standardized market access to all Internet participants.
The network defeats the state.
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/623177
Scientists Discover a New Hormone That Makes Super-Strong Bones
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-discover-a-new-hormone-that-makes-super-strong-bones
Mammal mothers give up a lot to care for their young. To nourish their newborns with milk, their bodies pull calcium from their very own bones.
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/622984
PKfail Secure Boot bypass lets attackers install UEFI malware
Hundreds of UEFI products from 10 vendors are susceptible to compromise due to a critical firmware supply-chain issue known as PKfail, which allows attackers to bypass Secure Boot and install malware.
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/622976
Mars rover found a rock with possible signs of ancient life
The Perseverance rover has found some of the most promising hints of ancient Martian life yet, but we can’t know for sure until its samples are sent back to Earth.
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/622973
Direct client demand driving growth in BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF so far
https://cointelegraph.com/news/blackrock-crypto-etfs-client-demand-2024
BlackRock head of digital assets Robert Mitchnick talked ETFs with Bloomberg’s James Seyffart at Bitcoin 2024.
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/622874
North Korean hackers stealing military secrets, say US and allies
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/north-korean-hackers-stealing-military-162938331.html
North Korean hackers have conducted a global cyber espionage campaign in efforts to steal classified military secrets to support Pyongyang's banned nuclear weapons programme, the United States, Britain and South Korea said in a joint advisory on Thursday.
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/622672
AI is approaching an open-source inflection point.
https://www.ft.com/content/2968d132-e2b1-490a-9022-3cfe0e1dc0d8
The cause of open-source artificial intelligence — the idea that the inner workings of AI models should be openly available for anyone to inspect, use and adapt — has just passed an important threshold.
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/622639
OpenAI to launch AI search engine, 'SearchGPT.'
https://x.com/WatcherGuru/status/1816538402692726917
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/622614
Personal data of 128,000 customers of moneylenders stolen after IT vendor hacked
The stolen data includes customers' names, NRIC numbers and loan information. These details have since appeared on several websites, says the Ministry of Law.
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/622547
Multimodal agent can iteratively design experiments
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-multimodal-agent-iteratively-components-ai.html
As artificial intelligence models become increasingly prevalent and are integrated into diverse sectors like health care, finance, education, transportation, and entertainment, understanding how they work under the hood is critical. Interpreting the mechanisms underlying AI models enables us to audit them for safety and biases, with the potential to deepen our understanding of the science behind intelligence itself.
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/622389
Former South Works Steel Site Will Be Transformed Into Quantum Computing Campus
The former steel mill — pitched for several failed megadevelopments in recent decades — was picked to host a multibillion-dollar quantum research and development campus anchored by Silicon Valley startup PsiQuantum.
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/622368