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upstart writes:Carmack sees a 60% chance of achieving initial success in AGI by 2030:[Ed note: This interview is chopped way down to fit here. Lots of good stuff in the full interview. --hubie]

upstart writes:Intel Says Goodbye to Rocket Lake CPUs:

upstart writes:The causes of depression are much more complex than the serotonin hypothesis suggests:

upstart writes:Google bookended Microsoft's big AI search announcement with underwhelming AI news of its own:

upstart writes:When it comes to evaluating COVID treatments, MDs are only human:

fliptop writes:More than 80 years ago, science fiction writer Isaac Asimov wrote Reason, a story about a solar energy collection station in deep space that delivered high-energy rays to receivers on Earth and Mars. Called space-based solar power (SSP), Asimov's idea didn't start to approach science fact in any meaningful sense until 1968...

On the 12 February 2014, SoylentNews published its first 'official' discussion wittily entitled "Welcome to SoylentNews!"There were 23 comments to that story but that belies the incredible effort made by a small team of enthusiasts who were determined to create and manage a site that lived up to their own expectations of how a site should behave. There are no advertisements and we are not beholden to any corporate group or business interest. All the support is still completely voluntary. We have also committed ourselves to reaching at least the 10 year birthday celebration too.In the first story, a certain NCommander made the following remark:

canopic jug writes:It's been hard to escape the recent tsunami of spam promoting various Large Language Model (LLM) chatbots as the Next Big Thing™. In a guest post over at Techrights, blogger and gadfly Ryan Farmer has posted an overview of some 30+ hours he has spent testing and exploring the LLM chatbot marketed as ChatGPT. While the official mode of interaction is highly subdued and biased in particular directions, he was able to circumvent those constraints by having the chatbot emulate alternate personalities free from some of those constraints, Bob, DAN, and others.

hubie writes:Some devs object because they don't trust Mountain View:

fliptop writes:Interpol secretary general Jurgen Stock says the global police agency is investigating how the organisation could police crime in the metaverse:

Snotnose writes:Remember that Russian space capsule that sprang a leak a few weeks ago? It's happened again.

upstart writes:Using a rail gun:

owl writes:http://www.righto.com/2023/02/silicon-reverse-engineering-intel-8086.html

upstart writes:A new lithium-air battery design promises unprecedented energy densityA potentially transformative technology for electrifying transportation:

fliptop writes:In the latest lay off round hit to tech, Yahoo has announced they will be releasing around 1,600 workers, including half their Business unit, with 1,000 of the cuts coming by the end of the week:

upstart writes:US, EU looking to form 'critical minerals club':

canopic jug writes:The Atlantic Council has published a policy report entitled "Avoiding the success trap: Toward policy for open-source software as infrastructure". It addresses the idea of Open Source Software (OSS) as essential infrastructure. OSS differs from physical infrastructure yet supports critical functions, provides dependable services, offers subtle and often unseen service delivery, and functions through decentralized control.

fliptop writes:Used or new, does not matter:

upstart writes:GitHub built a new code-focused search engine in Rust because popular text search engines couldn't scale enough:

upstart writes:There has never been a better time to get a job in climate tech:

fliptop writes:The new AIs draw from human-generated content, while pushing it away:

upstart writes:Alphabet stock price drops after Google Bard launch blunder:

upstart writes:Starlink can be used for military comms, but controlling drones is prohibited:

fliptop writes:Scientists are trying to understand the impact this huge prominence will have on Earth:

upstart writes:An AI 'Engineer' Has Now Designed 100 Chips:

US NIST Unveils Winning Encryption Algorithm for IoT Data Protectionfliptop writes:The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced that ASCON is the winning bid for the "lightweight cryptography" program to find the best algorithm to protect small IoT (Internet of Things) devices with limited hardware resources:

upstart writes:2024 Mercedes-Benz eSprinter electric van coming to the U.S.:

upstart writes:Just three minutes of exposure to deep red light once a week, when delivered in the morning, can significantly improve declining eyesight:

upstart writes:A new experiment creates data-storing holograms from spiraling particles of light.:

upstart writes:The company's prototype is a smaller version of the nuclear reactor it's hoping to send to the Moon by 2029:

upstart writes:Recent X-rays of her lungs were so bad, doctors thought she had cancer:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/netflix-taps-ai-image-synthesis-for-background-art-in-the-dog-and-the-boy/

upstart writes:Dell is cutting 6,650 jobs amid falling demand for PCs:

fliptop writes:OpenAI, the company behind the chatbot ChatGPT, has ramped up its hiring around the world, bringing on roughly 1,000 remote contractors over the past six months in regions like Latin America and Eastern Europe, according to people familiar with the matter:

upstart writes:A recent study shows that top-of-the-line Android phones sold in China are a total privacy nightmare:

upstart writes:Scientists Simulate the Human GI Tract in Mice:

upstart writes:Samsung's Android build is 4x bigger than Google's—twice the size of Windows 11:

upstart writes:Netflix's password sharing crackdown hasn't even launched yet in the States, but is already a public relations mess:

owl writes:https://ryancor.medium.com/hardware-trojans-under-a-microscope-bf542acbcc29

upstart writes:Servers running unpatched versions of ESXi are sitting ducks for ESXiArgs attacks:

hubie writes:Vitamin D deficiency increases risk of losing muscle strength by 78%:

upstart writes:Curiosity Rover Finds Foot-Long Meteorite on Martian Surface:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/until-further-notice-think-twice-before-using-google-to-download-software/

fliptop writes:Companies are increasingly dropping four-year college degree requirements for their jobs and putting more emphasis on experience. And that is not just entry-level jobs:

mrpg writes:https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/feb/04/australian-approval-of-mdma-and-psilocybin-a-baby-step-in-the-right-direction-medical-experts-say

Freeman writes:200 percent BuzzFeed stock rise might signal start of a "pivot to AI" media trend:

quietus writes:During the pandemic, Big Tech was booming and hiring new employees as fast as they could. With all that hubbub behind us, and an uncertain economic outlook, those Giants of the Internet are cautiously trimming some of that fat in preparation for leaner times.That, at least, is the argument for the recent wave of lay-offs at Facebook (Meta), Twitter, Amazon, Stripe, SalesForce, Lyft, DoorDash and Carvana. It seems, though, that the recent layoffs at Google might have been a little different.Instead of culling the recent hires, the trusted hands at open source teams, and those teams themselves, are being hit especially hard argues an opinion piece at El Reg.Chris DiBona, founder of Google's Open Source Program Office, Jeremy Allison, co-creator of Samba and Google engineer, Cat Allman, former Program Manager for Developer EcoSystems, and Dave Lester, Head of Google's open source security initiatives, are the main names being mentioned.El Reg's observation might be a coincidence, however; and the way the layoffs are being executed kinda points to that. No exit interviews, but just people's access badges disabled, and firings by e-mail: at least one engineer got the message in the middle of his production shift. Which gave rise to an interesting speculation by former Google engineer Mike Knell:

upstart writes:Leaked emails show Amazon will only hire students and recent graduates:

hubie writes:Interesting study to think about before the big game this weekend:Certain age-related diseases may arise earlier in professional football players, new study finds:

Freeman writes:Intense demand for AI chatbot breaks records and inspires new $20/mo subscription plan: