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TSMC Ends Contract With Singapore-Based Company Over Alleged Huawei Ties
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DOJ Remotely Cleaned Thousands of Computers Infected With Chinese Malware
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Spacecraft Captures Spectacularly Detailed Images Of Mercury's Hidden Surface
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The Need for a Strategic Fact Reserve
canopic jug writes:Blogger Matt Webb point out that nations have begun to need a strategic fact reserve, in light of the problem arising from LLMs and other AI models starting to consume and re-process the slop which they themselves have produced.
U.S. Satellites Reveal China's Solar Dominance
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Mark Zuckerberg Plans To Lay Off An Additional Five Percent Of Meta's Workforce
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European Union Orders X to Hand Over Algorithm Documents
upstart writes:European Union orders X to hand over algorithm documents:
'ELIZA,' the World's 1st Chatbot, Was Just Resurrected From 60-Year-Old Computer Code
upstart writes:'ELIZA,' the world's 1st chatbot, was just resurrected from 60-year-old computer code:
Google Begins Requiring JavaScript for Google Search
upstart writes:Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search:
The Great Salt Lake is Dying, but These Scientists Have a Solution
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Why Some DVLA Digital Services Don't Work at Night
owl writes:[Ed. note: DVLA == Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency]https://dafyddvaughan.uk/blog/2025/why-some-dvla-digital-services-dont-work-at-night/
Microsoft Change Removed From Linux Over Intel CPU Issues
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Asimov's Laws of Robotics Need an Update for AI Proposing a 4th Law of Robotics
taylorvich writes:https://spectrum.ieee.org/isaac-asimov-robotics
GM Banned from Selling Your Driving Data for Five Years
fliptop writes:The order comes after GM was caught selling customer data to third-party data brokers and insurance companies - without consent:
EU Protests New US AI Chip Restrictions - Some Countries Face GPU Caps
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New Chainmail-Like Material Could be the Future of Armor
taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2025-01-chainmail-material-future-armor.html
Samsung Could Use New Extra Thin Battery Tech
upstart writes:Samsung could make the Galaxy S26 extra thin with new battery tech:
Early, Prescient Document on the WWW
canopic jug writes:Digital archivist, David Rosenthal, reviews an old, obscure, but prescient, document from computer scientist Clifford Lynch on various aspects of the then nascent WWW. Lynch's document, Accessibility and Integrity of Networked InformationCollections. Background Paper, from 1993, which covered topics ranging from the First Sale Doctrine, what is now called surveillance capitalism, pay walls, and disinformation:
New Ohio Law Allows Cops to Charge $75/Hr. to Process Body Cam Footage
upstart writes:New Ohio Law Allows Cops To Charge $75/Hr. To Process Body Cam Footage:
All-Optical Computer Unveiled With 100 GHz Clock Speed
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This PDF Contains a Playable Copy of Doom
Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/01/this-pdf-contains-a-playable-copy-of-doom/
Walgreens Replaced Fridge Doors With Smart Screens. It's Now a $200 Million Fiasco
owl writes:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-01-16/walgreens-fridge-fight-bodes-poorly-for-future-of-retailArchive Link: https://archive.is/LxGQ6
Slashdot Begins Blocking Adblockers
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Ancient Genomes Reveal an Iron Age Society Centered on Women
taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2025-01-ancient-genomes-reveal-iron-age.html
Meta Takes Us a Step Closer to Star Trek's Universal Translator
Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/01/meta-takes-us-a-step-closer-to-star-treks-universal-translator/
Reversible Computing Escapes the Lab in 2025
taylorvich writes:https://spectrum.ieee.org/reversible-computing
FTC, States Sue Deere & Company to Protect Farmers from Unfair Corporate Tactics, High Repair Costs
owl writes:https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/01/ftc-states-sue-deere-company-protect-farmers-unfair-corporate-tactics-high-repair-costs
Petition on EU Linux Operating System in Public Administrations
canopic jug writes:The European Parliament's petition service is hosting Petition No 0729/2024 which is on the implementation of an EU-Linux operating system in public administrations across all EU countries.[Editor's Note: The link works in some browsers but not in others.]
A Guide to Debouncing, or, How to Debounce a Contact in Two Easy Pages
owl writes:https://www.ganssle.com/debouncing.htm
Completing the Oregon Trail If You Wait at a River for 14272 Years: A Study
canopic jug writes:Developer and reverse engineer, Scott Percival, took a long look at a bug in the Oregon Trail game's river crossings.
Tech Trends and Breakthroughs of 2025
looorg writes:Kicking the year 2025 off with some predictions. I guess we can return to this in December to see how far they have progressed into fantasy land.https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/03/1109178/10-breakthrough-technologies-2025/01. Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile
Technology is Supposed to Decrease Teacher Burnout—It Can Sometimes Make ItWorse
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High Court Ruling Ends Man's Hopes of Recovering $750M Bitcoin Hard Drive From a Welsh Landfill
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Paleolithic Ingenuity: 13,000-Year-Old 3D Map Discovered in France
taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2025-01-paleolithic-ingenuity-year-3d-france.html
Bricking Teslas - Whose Auto is it Anyway?
fliptop writes:You may have heard about Teslas equipped with what is styled "Full Self-Driving" capability bricking - that is, going inert - as a result of a computer failure. "Tesla drivers are reporting computer failures after driving off with their brand-new cars over just the first few tens to hundreds of miles," says the web site Elektrek, which covers EVs and EV-related issues. "Wide-ranging features powered by the computer, like active safety features, cameras, and even GPS, navigation, and range estimations, fail to work":
Rational or Not? This Basic Math Question Took Decades to Answer.
upstart writes:Rational or Not? This Basic Math Question Took Decades to Answer.:
Scientists Just Excavated An Unprecedented Specimen From Antarctica
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TSMC's Arizona Fab 21 is Already Making 4nm Chips - Yield and Quality Reportedly on Par With Taiwan
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"Forever Chemicals" in Water and Wildlife
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Google Researchers Can Create an AI That Thinks a Lot Like You After Just a Two-Hour Interview
upstart writes:After an average of 6,000 words, Stanford and Google researchers can spin up a generative agent that will act a lot like you do:
De-smarting the Marshall Uxbridge
owl writes:https://tomscii.sig7.se/2025/01/De-smarting-the-Marshall-Uxbridge
Velvet Ants Have The Swiss Army Knife Of Venoms
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Researcher Turns Insecure License Plate Cameras Into Open Source Surveillance Tool
upstart writes:Privacy advocate draws attention to the fact that hundreds of police surveillance cameras are streaming directly to the open internet:
Inside the War Against Headlight Brightness
owl writes:https://theringer.com/2024/12/03/tech/headlight-brightness-cars-accidents
German Router Maker is Latest Company to Inadvertently Clarify the LGPL License
NotSanguine writes:According to Ars Technica:
It's Remarkably Easy to Inject New Medical Misinformation Into LLMs
upstart writes:Changing just 0.001% of inputs to misinformation makes the AI less accurate:
Former MoviePass CEO Pleads Guilty to Fraud, Faces Up to 25 Years in Prison
upstart writes:Ted Farnsworth, former CEO of Helios and Matheson Analytics, lied about the success of MoviePass to attract investors:
Kicking Datacenters' Drinking Habit is Nearly Impossible
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Kids Can't Use Computers... and This is Why It Should Worry You (2013)
owl writes:http://www.coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-computers/
Engineer Creates OpenAI-Powered Robotic Sentry Rifle
AnonTechie writes:[Source]: FUTURISM
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