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This 3D Scanner Uses A Sensor You Might Not Know About - The huge diversity of sensors and other hardware which our community now has acces... - https://hackaday.com/2023/08/14/this-3d-scanner-uses-a-sensor-you-might-not-know-about/ #laserdisplacement #laserhacks #3dscanner #laser

Uber and Lyft Drivers Have Some Advice for Autonomous Vehicles Set to Swarm the Streets - San Francisco ride-hail drivers are about to share the roads with robot competitors. They... - https://www.wired.com/story/uber-and-lyft-drivers-advice-autonomous-vehicles-self-driving-cars-taxis/ #business/transportation #business #buckleup

The Space Force Is Launching Its Own Swarm of Tiny Satellites - Defense satellites used to be big, costly, and "juicy" targets for attack. Now the Pentag... - https://www.wired.com/story/the-space-force-is-launching-its-own-swarm-of-tiny-satellites/ #strengthinnumbers #science/space #science

AI isn’t great at decoding human emotions. So why are regulators targeting the tech? - This article is from The Technocrat, MIT Technology Review’s weekly tech policy n... - https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/08/14/1077788/ai-decoding-human-emotions-target-for-regulators/ #techpolicy

The New York Times prohibits using its content to train AI models - Refusing to comply with the restrictions could result in u... - https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/14/23831109/the-new-york-times-ai-web-scraping-rules-terms-of-service

As VR headset adoption grows, privacy issues could emerge - Head and hand motion data gathered from virtual reality (VR) headsets could be as effe... - https://www.computerworld.com/article/3704730/vr-headsets-can-create-a-privacy-headache.html#tk.rss_all #augmentedreality #virtualreality #dataprivacy #privacy

Oracle, SUSE and others caught up in RHEL drama hit back with OpenELA - 'No subscriptions. No passwords. No barriers. Freeloaders welcome' A non-profit called th... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/08/14/oracle_suse_ciq_openela/

The Great AI Backlash Has Claimed a New Victim—and You’ve Probably Never Heard of It - A tiny literary analytics project called Prosecraft has shuttered after backlash from the... - https://www.wired.com/story/prosecraft-backlash-writers-ai/ #culture/books #pagebreak #culture

The $900,000 AI Job Is Here - Salaries are rising as employers such as Netflix and Walmart seek candidates with artific... - https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-900-000-ai-job-is-here-230fc3cb?mod=rss_Technology #paid

How to take action against AI bias - Artificial intelligence has advanced significantly since its inception in the 1950s. T... - https://www.infoworld.com/article/3704495/how-to-take-action-against-ai-bias.html#tk.rss_all #artificialintelligence #softwaredevelopment #machinelearning #datamanagement #generativeai #datascience

HashiCorp’s software license turns realpolitik - Well, that was awkward. In July I wrote about shifts in the open source licensing land... - https://www.infoworld.com/article/3704809/hashicorps-software-license-turns-realpolitik.html#tk.rss_all #technologyindustry #softwarelicensing #cloudcomputing #opensource

What happened to the microfinance company Kiva? - One morning in August 2021, as she had nearly every morning for about a decade, J... - https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/08/14/1077351/microfinance-money-making/ #techpolicy

Werner Herzog Is the Voice of A.I. Poetry - When asked to narrate an audiobook of machine-generated verse, Mr. Herzog readily agreed.... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/14/style/werner-herzog-ai-poetry.html #iamcode:anartificialintelligencespeaks(book) #contenttype:personalprofile #artificialintelligence #poetryandpoets #herzogwerner #audiobooks

Google launches Pricing API to help enterprises optimize cloud costs - Google Cloud has released Pricing API for its cloud services in order to help enterpri... - https://www.infoworld.com/article/3704496/google-launches-pricing-api-to-help-enterprises-optimize-cloud-costs.html#tk.rss_all #cloudcomputing #google #apis

Indian armed forces gives Windows its marching orders, but only for desktop warriors - I am become Tux, destroyer of warez Opinion  Indian mythology is rich beyond measure in t... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/08/14/opinion_column_india/

Home Network Organization Gets Out of Hand - [SpookyGhost] has a big home network, and has taken cable management and server or... - https://hackaday.com/2023/08/14/home-network-organization-gets-out-of-hand/ #cablemanagement #rackmountserver #networkhacks #homeoffice #techhacks #network

The price of freedom turned out to be an afternoon of tech panic - It can be so hard to tell one column from another in a spreadsheet. They all look the sam... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/08/14/who_me/

Why US Tech Giants Are Threatening to Leave the UK - "It was difficult to maintain a poker face when the leader of a big US tech firm I... - https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/08/14/0430206/why-us-tech-giants-are-threatening-to-leave-the-uk?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #uk

If you're Russian to the Moon, expect traffic: Moscow's Putin a lander into orbit - India's close to landing one, too, and Japan is counting down to a launch If you're think... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/08/14/russia_luna_25_launches/

Hactivitsts attack Japanese government over Fukushima wastewater release - Claiming affiliation with Anonymous, hackers want more public debate over radioactive wat... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/08/14/hactivitsts_claim_japanese_government_attack/