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quietus writes:Are you looking for something more titillating to read than the usual low-brow stuff you find here at soylentnews?You might just be in luck, as MIT Press has released an impact report about its Direct-To-Open (D2O) program, under which faculty members do not publish with pay-for-play journals and publishers anymore, but release [some of] their good stuff directly to the public.Next to lots of happy geeks directly downloading juicy titles like Model Systems in Biology, Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy and No Heavenly Bodies: A History of Satellite Communications Infrastructure, MIT claims that "D2O has exceeded expectations in its first three years, and we're thrilled to share the impact."

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anubi writes:I just found this while browsing Russian Television :It has pictures. Much like art has been through the millennia, done with today's digital media.https://www.rt.com/pop-culture/596257-ai-models-beauty-pageant/So contestants from all over the world can gather and compete for the title of "Miss AI".Excerpt from RT:

upstart writes:With PoC code available and active Internet scans, speed is of the essence:

looorg writes:Interested in a career selling virtual meatballs at IKEA? I guess it's some kind of gimmick between IKEA and Roblox but it seems somewhat weird, selling virtual products in a virtual world to people. Is this the future of employment?https://thecoworker.co.uk/Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

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Editors note: This article has been been *greatly* shortened; it is well worth reading the whole article. --Bytram----------upstart writes:This AI-powered "black box" could make surgery safer:

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upstart writes:What's next for MDMA:

hubie writes:Risky Biz News: The Linux CNA mess you didn't know about:

William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic "Earthrise" photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state. He was 90.It has been reported from multiple sources.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

owl writes:https://every.to/the-crazy-ones/the-misfit-who-built-the-ibm-pc

hubie writes:Dogs trained to detect scent may be able to identify significantly lower concentrations of odour molecules than has previously been documented:

c0lo writes:Video report in NYTimes, taken as text reporting by various outlets. E.g. The TelegraphIntroduction of high-speed Starlink turns some Brazilian tribesmen into 'lazy addicts' glued to their phones

upstart writes:reuters.com:

upstart writes:Most downloaded local news app adds disclaimer that it's not always "error-free":

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quietus writes:Shuffling a set means randomly choosing an ordered sequence of its elements.For example, shuffling {A,B,C} means choosing with equal probability one of 3! = 3 * 2 * 1 = 6 permutations: ABC, ACB, BAC, BCA, CAB, or CBA.Easy-peasy, no?Which programming problems did you encounter which looked easy, but were really a front for a Gordian Knot of subtle details -- and their consequences?Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

owl writes:https://gamehistory.org/atari-2600-tarzan/

canopic jug writes:Eighty years ago, as of Wednesday, June 6, 2024, the Allied landings on the beaches of Normandy started as part of Operation Overlord. This was the beginning of the turning point in WWII against the fascists. Even the youngest veterans from that operation, those who were underage at the time, are pushing 100.

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DannyB writes:Butts, breasts, and genitals now explicitly allowed on Elon Musk's X

drussell writes:Fresh to my inbox this morning, was the news:

upstart writes:Instagram is testing adverts that users cannot skip past:

hubie writes:Singing rehabilitates speech production in post-stroke aphasia:

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upstart writes:No physics? No problem. AI weather forecasting is already making huge strides.:

DannyB writes:Strange Discovery Suggests Children Trust Robots Over Humans

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quietus writes:Take Indonesia's President, Joko Widodo, for example. He sees the true plight of his people, and wants to do something about it.The plight, in this case, is that Indonesia's Administration, in the name of public accessibility and user friendliness, has created an estimated 27,000 apps for hapless Indonesians to "navigate" their (supposedly public) services. One department -- probably the smallest -- has created 500 of the gleaming critters. It is only a guess how many of these are only (somewhat) accessible through smart phones, require a crap ton of captchas to solve, an electronic identity card, a special reader for that electronic identity card, a scan of your birth certificate, a digital signature on that scan, details of your last family status including the full and spelling correct names of all family members to the third degree separation, and the colour of your underwear, and all that just to enter and be notified that you need another application for what you want to do.So, the Joko, [w]ants to reduce the thicket to something more manageable, say a few thousand.

hendrikboom writes:The Globe and Mail reports:

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Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/05/russia-and-china-are-using-openai-tools-to-spread-disinformation/

An Anonymous Coward writes:Kaspersky releases free tool that scans Linux for known threats[.]https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/kaspersky-releases-free-tool-that-scans-linux-for-known-threats/

upstart writes:Six planets to appear in alignment next week in rare celestial parade:

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An Anonymous Coward writes:The pigeon wins - but "the pigeon gets outpaced at distances over about 600 miles."https://youtu.be/4pz2kMxCu8Ihttps://www.tomshardware.com/news/yes-a-pigeon-is-still-faster-than-gigabit-fiber-internetFiled under Hardware, though it should be under Meatware.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

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owl writes:https://medium.com/swlh/how-i-spent-my-summer-of-1982-59638293f358 [Limited Access, use the following link...]Archive Link: https://archive.is/SoHL9

DannyB writes:AI headphones let wearer listen to a single person in a crowd, by looking at them just once

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-cloud-explains-how-it-accidentally-deleted-a-customer-account/

quietus writes:This one screams for a movie adaptation, but fast.In February this year, Hong Kong police announced that a major firm had been victim of a successful impersonation attack.Now the Financial Times has revealed the firm involved was Arup engineering -- builder of, among others, the Sydney Opera Building, the Gherkin in central London, Guangzhou Opera House, and others.What happened was that an employee in the finance department was invited for a video conference with the CFO and other 'senior officers'. During that video conference, this employee was given the order to funnel a total of $25 million (US) to 5 local bank accounts through 15 transactions, which the employee duly did. After what were quite possibly a couple of sleepless nights, she decided to check with her higher-ups, which (one presumes) resulted in a few heart arrythmias.Turns out that everybody else on that video conference call was a digital fake.The current working hypothesis is that the scammer(s) used past online conferences to train AI to digitally recreate a scenario where the CFO ordered money transfers. So that adds public video postings as an additional headache to CIOs, CFOs and just about anyone who has decision power over rather large amounts of money. As if phone and Whatsapp scams aren't already bad enough.Now, remember: this is news because it hit a big company. But let your schadenfreude not stand in the way of a bitter realisation: the inescapable economic trend is that what was once reserved for the rich, will be made accessible for the ordinary people too.In a few years time, we'll be looking back with tender nostalgia to those Nigerian princes and their eternal banking problems.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

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An Anonymous Coward writes:SEO Situation on fire: google's weighting parameter list leakedhttps://searchengineland.com/google-search-document-leak-ranking-442617