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Liquid Salts Bring Pushbutton Lenses Into Focusupstart writes:First-ever piezoelectric liquids could spark new technologies in optics and hydraulics:

upstart writes:If you believe, they'll put 4G internet on the moon:

fliptop writes:Disney appears to be the latest company to pull back the metaverse, as CEO Bob Iger reverses more decisions from his predecessor:

fliptop writes:Geoffrey Hinton, a computer scientist who has been called "the godfather of artificial intelligence", says it is "not inconceivable" that AI may develop to the point where it poses a threat to humanity:

upstart writes:A close look at one of TRAPPIST-1's planets shows it's bare and baking:

upstart writes:State governments might be inadvertently helping Chinese-owned app in data collection:

upstart writes:With new detection, officials warn of spring and summer transmission risks:

upstart writes:Mental sovereignty, says author Nita Farahany, is no longer a given:

Europol Warns ChatGPT is Already Helping Criminalsupstart writes:There is no honor among chatbots:

upstart writes:Valve is ending Steam support for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1:

upstart writes:Cultured meat firm resurrects woolly mammoth in lab-grown meatball:

upstart writes:U.S. Rolls Out Strict Rules for Commercial Spyware Use, Amidst Rash of Hacks:

upstart writes:ChatGPT gets "eyes and ears" with plugins that can interface AI with the world:

hubie writes:Brain activity imaging coupled with computer vision reveals how neuron populations in different individuals synchronize during social interactions:

upstart writes:Microplastics are messing with the microbiomes of seabirds:

upstart writes:GitHub publishes RSA SSH host keys by mistake, issues update:

guest reader writes:Experts acknowledge the apparent technical achievement of the research but highlight the ethical issues raised by being able to choose the sex of an offspring:

upstart writes:Microsoft to fix Windows 11 'aCropalypse' privacy failure:

fliptop writes:[R]esearchers at Carnegie Mellon University have created soft robots that can seamlessly shift from walking to swimming, for example, or crawling to rolling:

guest reader writes:Microsoft Research has issued a 154-page report entitled Sparks of Artificial Intelligence: Early Experiments With GPT-4:

Preliminary Court Setback for Libraries and Digital Lendingcanopic jug writes:The Internet Archive has published a post about their ongoing fight in the lower courts over Controlled Digital Lending (CDL), specifically from the case Hachette v Internet Archive. This potentially affects all libraries with digital resources and the Internet Archive will appeal the court's decision.

Freeman writes:https://www.techspot.com/news/98047-youtube-channel-linustechtips-terminated-after-hacked-show-crypto.html

upstart writes:Automakers are pushing subscriptions, but consumer interest just isn't there:

upstart writes:Arm is tired of seeing device makers bring in billions while it makes millions:

upstart writes:In its bid to catch up with Starlink, the company plans to build as many as four satellites a day:

guest reader writes:Julia and Kokkos perform comparably with C/OpenMP on CPUs, while Julia implementations are competitive with CUDA and HIP on GPUs:

upstart writes:Beijing's Made in China drive fueled by Washington's export crackdowns:

upstart writes:The uncrewed capsule will fly again:

guest reader writes:Security researchers find bugs, big and small, in every industrial box probed:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/03/journalist-plugs-in-unknown-usb-drive-mailed-to-him-it-exploded-in-his-face/

hubie writes:A new study has identified several characteristics typical of music associated with sleep, such as being quieter and slower than other music:

upstart writes:Newly-revealed coronavirus data has reignited a debate over the virus's origins:

upstart writes:A 13-sided shape called 'the hat' forms a pattern that never repeats:

canopic jug writes:The National Labor Relations Board has clarified that non-disparagement clauses attached to severance packages are null and void. Companies will not be able to stifle criticism by ex-employees through clauses asking them to waive their inherent rights.

upstart writes:A 'new deal for the night' needed:

guest reader writes:Windows 11, Tesla, Ubuntu, and macOS hacked at Pwn2Own 2023:

hubie writes:Urban inequality in Europe and the United States is so severe that urban elites claim most of the benefits from the agglomeration effects that big cities provide, while large parts of urban populations get little to nothing:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/03/moderna-ceo-says-us-govt-got-covid-shots-at-discount-ahead-of-400-price-hike/

upstart writes:In Memoriam: Gordon Moore, 1929 - 2023:

guest reader writes:Why we can't keep our hands off chocolate bars and co.:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/03/ford-will-lose-3-billion-on-electric-vehicles-in-2023-it-says/

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/03/ethical-ai-art-generation-adobe-firefly-may-be-the-answer/

upstart writes:A drone with 5 degrees of freedom can safely detect buried objects from the air:

owl writes:http://www.righto.com/2023/03/8086-multiplication-microcode.html

An Anonymous Coward writes:The situation for the Latitude hack has become worse with the owners forced to take the site offline.

guest reader writes:Fourier Transformations Reveal How AI Learns Complex Physics:

hubie writes:Reflections in time instead of space:

upstart writes:Russian coders blocked from contributing to FOSS tools:

upstart writes:Some of the two-legged dinosaurs called theropods grew to enormous size, but new research shows that they did not all attain their final size the same way:

upstart writes:Silicon Labs is hoping more device makers will follow suit and use their teeny xG27 SoC to make medical and wearable devices: