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quietus writes:It is now legal to hack into any company or government institution in Belgium, but only under certain circumstances.That's the result of a new law on whistleblower protection that came into effect on February 15. Under the law, any citizen with the Belgian nationality is allowed to breach networks of Belgian legal entities without any previous notification or consent, provided he/she describes and reports the breach to the Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium within 72 hours, and does not request a reward for it.

takyon writes:Responsible use of AI in the military? US publishes declaration outlining principles

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/02/app-founder-quits-google-says-company-doesnt-serve-users-anymore/

upstart writes:Hubble is investigating mysterious spokes in Saturn's rings:

upstart writes:AI automation throughout the drug development pipeline is opening up the possibility of faster, cheaper pharmaceuticals:

Freeman writes:Big Tech lobbyist language made it verbatim into NY's hedged repair bill

hubie writes:Documents show internal predictions were as good as contemporary science but executives publicly downplayed their significance:

upstart writes:Ransomware Attack Pushes City of Oakland Into State of Emergency:

upstart writes:Senators Are Hopping Mad and Demanding Answers for the Crypto Collapse:

hubie writes:Trees' tolerance, watered down:

upstart writes:A Huge Lithium Discovery Just Changed The Stakes In EV Production - SlashGear:

upstart writes:Professional and small-time broadcasters reported receiving malicious videos doxxing them in their own voice:

upstart writes:The US Federal Trade Commission wants to ban non-compete agreements:

upstart writes:Building Raspberry Pi clusters has never looked so good:

upstart writes:An asteroid will just miss us in 2029. Scientists are making the most of a rare opportunity:

upstart writes:Seattle-area police use adhesive GPS trackers to catch fleeing suspects, prevent high-speed chases:

upstart writes:Opponents say laws preventing underage porn access are vague, pose privacy risks:

upstart writes:WordPress sites infected to redirect visitors to crypto Q&A spam:

Mykl writes:An article over at The Register describes how Bing's new Ai powered Chat service (currently in a limited Beta test) lied, denied, and claimed a hoax when presented with evidence that it was susceptible to Prompt Injection attacks. A user named "mirobin" posted a comment to Reddit describing a conversation he had with the bot:

upstart writes:Before Galileo, Newton and Einstein, it seems to be Leonardo da Vinci who started piecing together the gravity puzzle:

upstart writes:The University of Sussex researchers claim their method allows microchips to be slotted together like jigsaw pieces to make more powerful quantum computers:

CAPSTONE Satellite Suffers Comms Issue, is Now Working Againupstart writes:CAPSTONE satellite suffers comms issue, is now working again:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/shkreli-tells-judge-his-drug-discovery-software-is-not-for-discovering-drugs/

upstart writes:Canonical announces real-time Ubuntu kernel:

upstart writes:There Is No 'Going Dark:' Dutch Law Enforcement Spent Months Intercepting, Reading Encrypted Messages:

hubie writes:A Multifaceted Sensation:

Snotnose writes:In one of the odder stories from WWII, a submarine destroyed a train.

takyon writes:To date, astronomers have predicted 7 asteroid impacts in advance of their collision with Earth (and another 2 unconfirmed). 2023 CX was an approximately meter-sized asteroid discovered on February 12 by Krisztián Sárneczky. Observatories announced its impending strike a few hours in advance, giving photographers a chance to aim their cameras at the expected landing site in Normandy, France:

upstart writes:The telecoms providers said the upcoming platform is designed to give customers control over their data which is currently collected by 'major, non-European players':

upstart writes:The automaker closed a hole that allowed a security researcher to gain system administrator access to more than 14,000 corporate and partner accounts and troves of sensitive data:

upstart writes:Mars Curiosity rover finds unexpected evidence of water:

upstart writes:Genetic analyses also suggest mammals' social lives and life spans are evolutionarily linked:

fliptop writes:The tool could let teachers spot plagiarism or help social media platforms fight disinformation bots:

upstart writes:And while Intel is fighting for its life, the rest of the industry is moving on:

upstart writes:The Supreme Court may overhaul how you live online:

upstart writes:A new crop of unowned seeds is bringing biodiversity back to farming:

upstart writes:Failed Webb calibration leads to discovery of tiny asteroid:

upstart writes:Emperor Penguin promised a relaxed seasonal development cycle and has delivered:

upstart writes:Ford's reportedly working on a $3.5 billion battery plant in Michigan:

upstart writes:You can now use the $6 boards on-board Bluetooth radio:

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: