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upstart writes: Robot Performs First Ever Fully Autonomous Dental Surgery on Live Patient:

upstart writes:Neuralink successfully implants its chip into a second patient's brain:

Our resident shy submitter offers the following:A nicely organized blog post at https://www.construction-physics.com/p/what-would-it-take-to-recreate-bell reviews the history of Bell Labs (going back into the late 1800s). It ends with a section that wonders if re-creating a research monster like Bell Labs (peak employment = 25,000 people) is possible today...or even needed. A sample from the middle:

Wired is running a story https://www.wired.com/story/cars-are-now-rolling-computers-so-how-long-will-they-get-updates-automakers-cant-say/ or https://archive.is/nAMkd about broken updates for in-car software. Starts out with a VW story:

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owl writes:http://www.righto.com/2024/08/space-shuttle-interim-teleprinter.html

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upstart writes:AI Images Exposed: Researchers Reveal Simple Method To Detect Deepfakes:

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We should build a moon vault with ... looorg writes:Scientist suggest building a biorepository on the moon, like a extra terrestrial Svalbard Global Seed Vault. If/when earth collapses how are the survivors going to make it to the moon to kickstart things? Or are we expecting benevolent xenomorphs to bring us back to life?https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biae058/7715645?login=false

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"dalek" writes:I've written previously about how Statcast data is changing professional baseball, but the application of the data has caused at least one very adverse effect: being a pitcher in today's game is bad for your health.Two of the ways to be an effective pitcher are to generate a lot of swings and misses, and to induce a lot of poor contact. Poor contact means balls that are hit with low exit velocities, or at very high or low launch angles, and these disproportionately result in outs. Statcast data shows that pitchers can achieve this by throwing at high velocities and with a lot of vertical or lateral movement on their pitches. The pitch movement is achieved by spinning the ball at a high rotation rate, and the Magnus effect creates a pressure gradient force across the baseball that deflects it away from its original trajectory. Fastballs tend to have backspin, which imparts an upward acceleration. However, curveballs spin forward and have a downward acceleration, and it's also possible to generate lateral movement. The direction and amount of movement on a pitch is also sometimes referred to as its shape.The desire for higher velocity and spin rates has led to the rise of "pitching labs" that develop training programs that are very effective at increasing arm strength, improving pitching mechanics, and raising the spin rate of pitches. This comes at a price, however, which is more stress on a pitcher's arm. Major League Baseball (MLB) teams have tried to account for this by allowing pitchers to throw fewer pitches per game and giving them more rest between outings. The added rest helps pitchers consistently throw with high velocity and spin rates, at least for awhile. But all of this added stress seems to have a cumulative effect on a pitcher's elbow. The weakest point is often the Ulnar collateral ligament (UCL), and a partially or completely torn UCL has become an increasingly common pitching injury.Prior to the increased focus on pitch velocity and shape, high pitch counts were generally considered the biggest factor in UCL injuries. However, the data show an upward trend in fastball velocity in recent years corresponding with a large increase in elbow injuries. As this YouTube video from WIRED shows, throwing a fastball at the hardest velocities seen in MLB places an incredible amount of strain on a pitcher's elbow to the point that it exceeds what the UCL can withstand. Small tears form in the UCL from the forces needed to throw a pitch that hard, and the long-term effect of continuing to pitch under these conditions is often a ruptured ligament.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

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gznork26 writes:From ScienceBlog: A comprehensive analysis of 24 state-of-the-art Large Language Models (LLMs) has uncovered a significant left-of-center bias in their responses to politically charged questions. The study, published in PLOS ONE, sheds light on the potential political leanings embedded within AI systems that are increasingly shaping our digital landscape.The underlying paper at PLOS One: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0306621The researcher used a variety of tests of political alignment to assess the bias of some Large Language Models (LLMs) and found that they exhibited a left-of-center bias. To discover whether that bias can be affected by changing the training data, versions of LLMs were trained on selected sources, producing biases to order.Here's a question for the community: Is the 'centerpoint' of political bias, as judged by these tests, arbitrary and reflective of the gamut of bias that is accepted as normal at this time? Is that centerpoint an absolute that can be used as a reference, or is it simply an artifact of how the political universe is currently understood? It seems to me that the phase space it exists in is limited by the kinds of political organizations which are preset in the world today, and that there might be valid solutions which have not yet been explored.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

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Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/07/reddit-ceo-stands-by-change-that-blocks-most-non-google-search-engines/

Subsentient writes:CrowdStrike has sent a DMCA takedown notice to parody site ClownStrike, a clear abuse of United States copyright law, as the site in question is undoubtably covered by fair use in United States copyright law. Editor: See first link for more detail.

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Just to give you advance notice that the continual problem with the renewal of SSL certificates is due to occur on Monday 5 Aug.Nobody in the new team has the necessary access nor knowledge of the current hardware configuration, and control remains with NCommander. The transfer of assets has been initiated but as one of the two members of the current Board is out of the country everything has temporarily ground to a halt. We cannot reconfigure the existing structure as legally we do not yet 'own' the database or existing hardware assets.I have requested that NCommander assist by renewing the certificates but that depends upon his availability. He has been kind enough to help in the past. There is nothing more I can do at the moment.I know that this is easily fixed - but until the formal exchange of the assets takes place we are on very shaky ground with regards to liabilities and responsibilities.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

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Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/07/amazon-forced-to-recall-400k-products-that-could-kill-electrocute-people/

fliptop writes:Automakers accelerating release of upgraded models, unlike typical 5-year cycle for gasoline cars; Hyundai introduces updated Ioniq 5, and BYD will soon unveil refreshed SEAL; how will this impact used car market?

canopic jug writes:The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has has commented on the a draft of an International Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes:

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hubie writes:Elimination of most Next Generation Internet funding 'incomprehensible,' says OW2 CEO Pierre-Yves Gibello:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/07/logitech-has-an-idea-for-a-forever-mouse-thatrequires-a-subscription/

NotSanguine writes:US Senators are asking the FTC to look into the data-selling practices of several automobile manufacturers.From the article in Fortune Magazine (archive link):

canopic jug writes:An increasing number of sites are reporting about increased bandwidth being lost to AI crawlers. The documentation sharing site, Read the Docs, has an analysis of the attacks against it by AI crawlers. Several examples are included.

upstart writes:The NASA rover's accidental discovery challenges what we know about the region:

upstart writes:Company after company is swallowing the hype, only to be forced into embarrassing walkbacks by anti-AI backlash:

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An Anonymous Coward writes:Space photo of the week: A cosmic 'fossil' holding some of the oldest stars in the universe.

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hubie writes:Keys were labeled "DO NOT TRUST." Nearly 500 device models use them anyway.

upstart writes:Here's what a Sam Altman-backed basic income experiment found:

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owl writes:https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/26/24206529/intel-13th-14th-gen-crashing-instability-cpu-voltage-q-a

Snotnose writes:Over on Ars Technica a user has provided a Gen Z translation of the Bible Linked to Ars because that's where I stole the summary from, the real deal is here

owl writes:https://ewpratten.com/blog/camping-radio/