Tech is broken—can collective action fix it? - For Silicon Valley venture capitalists and founders, any inconvenience big or small is a... - https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/08/16/1077490/collective-action-tech-work/ #techpolicy #policy
Inside the messy ethics of making war with machines - In a near-future war—one that might begin tomorrow, for all we know—a soldier tak... - https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/08/16/1077386/war-machines/ #artificialintelligence #ai
The A.I. Industry’s Desperate Hunt for GPUs Amid a Chip Shortage - To power artificial-intelligence products, start-ups and investors are taking extraordina... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/16/technology/ai-gpu-chips-shortage.html #computersandtheinternet #artificialintelligence #siliconvalley(calif) #indexventuresllp #inflectionaiinc #cloudcomputing #venturecapital #computerchips #start-ups #shortages
Building a Peltier-Powered Cloud Chamber - If you’ve been watching Oppenheimer and it’s gotten you all excited about the idea... - https://hackaday.com/2023/08/16/building-a-peltier-powered-cloud-chamber/ #cloudchamber #science #peltier
Intel Scraps Tower Acquisition After China Fails to Approve Deal - Intel had agreed in February 2022 to buy the Israeli chip maker for more than $5 billion.... - https://www.wsj.com/articles/intel-scraps-tower-acquisition-after-china-fails-to-approve-deal-f59dd70f?mod=rss_Technology #paid
Bank of Ireland outage sees customers queue for 'free' cash – or any cash al all - Reports police called to control ATM frenzy after €1,000 added to accounts, by leprechaun... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/08/16/bank_of_ireland_outage/
China Launches First Geosynchronous Orbit Radar Satellite - China launched what is thought to be the world's first geosynchronous orbit synthe... - https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/08/16/0157236/china-launches-first-geosynchronous-orbit-radar-satellite?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #communications
Dielectric Mirror Shines Bright - We knew the mirrors in our house were not really very good mirrors, optically spea... - https://hackaday.com/2023/08/15/dielectric-mirror-shines-bright/ #dielectricmirror #science #mirror #3m
Amazon's Leader On Alexa, Echo and Other Devices Plans To Leave - Dave Limp, a longtime executive at Amazon who oversees the unit that makes Echo sm... - https://slashdot.org/story/23/08/15/2254219/amazons-leader-on-alexa-echo-and-other-devices-plans-to-leave?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #business
Top Physicist Says Chatbots Are Just 'Glorified Tape Recorders' - In an interview with CNN, Michio Kaku, professor of theoretical physics at City Co... - https://slashdot.org/story/23/08/15/2235228/top-physicist-says-chatbots-are-just-glorified-tape-recorders?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #ai
Let the review begin—SpaceX takes another step toward launching Starship again - Enlarge / SpaceX's Starship rocket lost control a few minutes after lau... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1961113 #federalaviationadministration #starbase #starship #science #launch #spacex #space
Maui truthers are so dumb they’re using a Falcon 9 photo as wildfire evidence - Enlarge / Typically a marine layer shrouds launches from here in fog or... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1961055 #science #space
Clorox cleans up IT security breach that soaked its biz ops - Plus: Medical records for 4M people within reach of Clop gang after IBM MOVEit deployment... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/08/15/clorox_cleans_up_security_breach/
It’s official, people aren’t watching TV as much as they used to - Some kids watching TV, back when that was a thing kids reg... - https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/15/23833516/nielsen-tv-cable-50-percent-decline-viewership-bum-bums
Boston University hires Harvard misinformation scholar Joan Donovan - Donovan's dismissal by Harvard eaerlier this year stunned the academic community that stu... - https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/15/joan-donovan-hired-boston-university-harvard-dismissal/
ISPs Complain That Listing Every Fee Is Too Hard, Urge FCC To Scrap New Rule - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The US broadband industry i... - https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/08/15/2011228/isps-complain-that-listing-every-fee-is-too-hard-urge-fcc-to-scrap-new-rule?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #internet
Judge Denies HP's Plea To Throw Out All-in-One Printer Lockdown Lawsuit - HP all-in-one printer owners, upset that their devices wouldn't scan or fax when l... - https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/23/08/15/1755203/judge-denies-hps-plea-to-throw-out-all-in-one-printer-lockdown-lawsuit?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #hp
Congressman Bacon Says His Emails Were Hacked in Campaign Linked To China - US Representative Don Bacon said he is among those whose emails were hacked in an ... - https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/08/15/187255/congressman-bacon-says-his-emails-were-hacked-in-campaign-linked-to-china?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #security
X Slows Down Access to Some Rival Sites - Elon Musk’s social media service “throttled” access to sites such as Substack and Faceboo... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/15/technology/x-delay-throttle.html #thomsonreuterscorporation #computersandtheinternet #newsandnewsmedia #metaplatformsinc #zuckerbergmarke #newyorktimes #socialmedia #substackinc #muskelon
AVX10: The benefits of AVX-512 without all the baggage - Turns out bigger isn't always better Since its introduction, AVX-512 has gotten a bit of ... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/08/15/avx10_intel_interviews/