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fliptop writes:Technology is advancing at an exponential rate, but we have very little ability to control it if something goes horribly wrong. Many experts are warning that some of the new technologies that are being developed right now represent very serious existential threats to humanity. In other words, they believe that we could literally be creating technology that could wipe us out someday. Unfortunately, the scientific community is not showing any restraint at all. If something is possible, they want to try to do it. All over the globe, hordes of mad scientists are feverishly rushing into the unknown, and it is quite likely that the consequences will be horrific. The following are 5 super creepy new technologies that should chill all of us to the core:

owl writes:https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/surviving-hollywood-industry-shifts-tv-writer-1236104216/

owl writes:https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/01/the-invalid-68030-instruction-that-accidentally-allowed-the-mac-classic-ii-to-successfully-boot-up/

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canopic jug writes:The Association for Computing Machinery has a post by George Neville-Neil of FreeBSD fame comparing LLMs to drunken plagiarists:

upstart writes:Schools are now notifying families their data has been stolen:

upstart writes:A specialized system sends pulses of pressure through the fluids in our brain:

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taylorvich writes:https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mysterious-blobs-found-in-cells-are-rewriting-how-life-works/

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/01/florida-man-eats-diet-of-butter-cheese-beef-cholesterol-oozes-from-his-body/

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owl writes:https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cars/features/touchscreen-dashboards-have-taken-over/

upstart writes:Wiki-style guide compiles all the pieces and potential of a rack you can carry:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/01/anthropic-chief-says-ai-could-surpass-almost-all-humans-at-almost-everything-shortly-after-2027/

chucky writes:Elon should watch where he leaves his car.https://www.astronomy.com/science/astronomers-just-deleted-an-asteroid-because-it-turned-out-to-be-elon-musks-tesla-roadster/Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

pTamok writes:The Executive Order ("a directive by the president of the United States that manages operations of the federal government") dated January 20, 2025 with the title DEFENDING WOMEN FROM GENDER IDEOLOGY EXTREMISM AND RESTORING BIOLOGICAL TRUTH TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT contains the following text:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/01/wine-10-0-released-adding-linux-compatibility-for-arm-windows-apps/

Frosty Piss writes:https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/01/22/Trump-pardons-Ross-Ulbricht/5181737526042/President Trump has issued a full and unconditional pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the dark web Silk Road marketplace of illicit drugs, murders, and other illegal activities. Ulbricht was sentenced to life in prison in May 2015 for his operation of Silk Road, which was active between January 2011 and October 2013. "I just called the mother of Ross William Ulbright [sic] to let her know that in honor of her and the Libertarian Movement, which supported me so strongly, it was my pleasure to have just signed a full and unconditional pardon of her son," Trump said in a statement published on his Truth Social social media platform.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes:If we don't act soon, our online world will continue to be run at the whim of capricious billionaires:

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taylorvich writes:https://newatlas.com/medical-tech/oyster-hemolymph-protein-antibacterial/

fliptop writes:With the help of tipsters, the cybersecurity agency was able to 'connect the dots' to crack what has been called one of the worst telecom hacks in US history:

Frosty Piss writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/under-new-law-cops-bust-famous-cartoonist-for-ai-generated-child-sex-abuse-images/Late last year, California passed a law against the possession or distribution of child sex abuse material that has been generated by AI. The law went into effect on January 1, and Sacramento police announced yesterday that they have arrested their first suspect, 49-year-old Pulitzer-prize-winning cartoonist Darrin Bell. The new law, which you can read here, declares that AI-generated CSAM is harmful, even without an actual victim. "The creation of CSAM using AI is inherently harmful to children because the machine-learning models utilized by AI have been trained on datasets containing thousands of depictions of known CSAM victims, revictimizing these real children by using their likeness to generate AI CSAM images into perpetuity."Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

Traditionally truck and bus drivers are known to use a small hammer or billy club to tap their tires, as a quick way to check for low air pressure. If you are driving an 18-wheeler, it takes a long time to put a pressure gauge on all those tires. Here's a thread discussing this technique, https://heartlandowners.org/threads/tapping-the-tires-with-a-hammer.31971/Now trade magazine TTI https://www.tiretechnologyinternational.com/news/intelligent-tire-technology/yokohama-begins-testing-of-ai-technology-to-gauge-air-pressure.html reports on the latest wrinkle on this old technique,

fliptop writes:Long ago, another company tried to control global connectivity-it had an unhappy ending

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fliptop writes:Full ArticleWe live at a time when technology is increasing at a faster pace than we have ever seen before in all of human history. But is humanity equipped to handle the extremely bizarre technology that we are now developing? Earlier this month, I discussed some of the frightening ways that AI is changing our society. Today, I want to focus on nanotechnology. This is a field where extraordinary advances are https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=24/09/26/1353235 being made on a regular basis, and we are being told that nanotechnology is already "revolutionizing myriad industries"...

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c0lo writes:Almost all leading AI chatbots show signs of cognitive decline

taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2025-01-font-typography.html

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hubie writes:How do you fit a dictionary in 64kb RAM? Unix engineers solved it with clever data structures and compression tricks. Here's the fascinating story behind it:

owl writes:https://www.righto.com/2025/01/pentium-carry-lookahead-reverse-engineered.html

cereal_burpist writes:Beijing's half-marathon will see humans racing alongside humanoid robots as China pushes to dominate global robotics:

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canopic jug writes:Blogger Matt Webb point out that nations have begun to need a strategic fact reserve, in light of the problem arising from LLMs and other AI models starting to consume and re-process the slop which they themselves have produced.

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upstart writes:European Union orders X to hand over algorithm documents:

upstart writes:'ELIZA,' the world's 1st chatbot, was just resurrected from 60-year-old computer code:

upstart writes:Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search:

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owl writes:[Ed. note: DVLA == Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency]https://dafyddvaughan.uk/blog/2025/why-some-dvla-digital-services-dont-work-at-night/

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taylorvich writes:https://spectrum.ieee.org/isaac-asimov-robotics