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Meet PassGAN, the Supposedly “Terrifying” AI Password Cracker That's Mostly Hype
NotSanguine writes:As the title suggests, they weren't all that impressed.From the article:
How AI is Helping Historians Better Understand Our Past
upstart writes:The historians of tomorrow are using computer science to analyze how people lived centuries ago:
A Parasite is Killing Sea Otters. Is Cat Poop to Blame?
upstart writes:In California, the bodies of four furry swimmers tested positive for a strain of toxoplasmosis first seen in mountain lions:
Developer Creates “Self-healing” Programs That Fix Themselves Thanks to AI
upstart writes:"Wolverine" experiment can fix Python bugs at runtime and re-run the code:
Get Ready: SpaceX Starship's First Launch is for Real
upstart writes:An unprecedented space event, and it's happening soon:
Swiss Health Authorities - Natural Immunity is the Best Defense Against COVID (in Switzerland)
DadaDoofy writes:Many people believe that any and all opposition to the Covid vaccine comes from "far-right" Republican conspiracy theorists in the flyover states. I guess the Swiss government will now be branded with those labels as their Federal Office of Public Health is now recommending that a Covid vaccination is not needed, even for people at especially high risk. They list pregnant women and people with compromised immune systems as an exception. They further state that those who wish to receive a Covid vaccine must pay for it out of their own pockets.https://www.bag.admin.ch/bag/en/home/krankheiten/ausbrueche-epidemien-pandemien/aktuelle-ausbrueche-epidemien/novel-cov/impfen.html
MSI Confirms Cyberattack, Advises Caution With Firmware
fliptop writes:The reports suggest ransomware may have been involved:
Mistaken Fossil Rewrites History of Indian Subcontinent for Second Time
hubie writes:What once appeared as a fossil of the primitive animal Dickinsonia turned out to be nothing more than a decaying beehive:
Intel Foundry Services Partners With Arm to Manufacture Next-Generation Mobile Chips
upstart writes:Intel Foundry Services partners with Arm to manufacture next-generation mobile chips:
Bad News: Copyright Industry Attacks on the Internet’s Plumbing are Increasing – and Succeeding
upstart writes:Bad news: copyright industry attacks on the Internet's plumbing are increasing – and succeeding:
3CX Knew its App Was Flagged as Malicious but Took No Action for 7 Days
Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/03/3cx-knew-its-app-was-flagged-as-malicious-but-took-no-action-for-7-days/
Open Source is Fueling the Future of Nuclear Physics
upstart writes:This once secretive scientific field is embracing openness in a big way:
The Hottest New Climate Technology is Bricks
upstart writes:Heat batteries could help cut emissions by providing new routes to use solar and wind power:
Brace Yourself for a Tidal Wave of ChatGPT Email Scams
fliptop writes:Thanks to large language models, a single scammer can run hundreds or thousands of cons in parallel, night and day, in every language under the sun:
A Stream of Cold Gas is Unexpectedly Feeding the Far-off Anthill Galaxy
upstart writes:The stream could keep the galaxy supplied with star-forming fuel for a billion years:
Raspberry Pi Launches Online Code Editor to Help Kids Learn
upstart writes:New editor is integrated with Python lessons:
Florida Officials Deleted Data, Stats From Dubious COVID Analysis: Report
upstart writes:"You can call it a lie by omission":
What Flight 50 Means for the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter
upstart writes:What Flight 50 Means for the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter:
Dashcam Footage Shows Driverless Cars Clogging San Francisco
upstart writes:Videos obtained by WIRED from public transit vehicles reveal self-driving cars causing delays and potential danger to buses, trains, and passengers:
China's Loongson Unveils 32-Core CPU, Reportedly 4X Faster Than Arm Chip
upstart writes:The 3D5000 has come out of the oven:
Ethereum’s Shanghai Update Opens a Rift in Crypto
upstart writes:Ether is finally untethering itself from mining—and driving renewed debate about bitcoin's environmental impact:
What to Know About the JUICE Mission to Jupiter and its Frozen Moons
upstart writes:Europe's JUICE probe will investigate three of Jupiter's largest ice moons for signs of potential habitability:
Tesla Employees Reportedly Shared Videos Captured by Cameras on Customers' Cars
upstart writes:They even shared a clip of a child being hit by a car:
Satellite Imagery Reveals ‘Hidden’ Tornado Tracks
upstart writes:The analysis could help researchers study storms that strike in the winter:
Drivers in Europe Net Big Data Rights Win Against Uber and Ola
upstart writes:Drivers in Europe net big data rights win against Uber and Ola:
Combined Review and Tutorial Around the RUT-240
upstart writes:Routing 4G cellular data to a BSD network using bridge mode on the RUT-240:
Now We Know How a Solar Storm Took Out a Fleet of Starlinks
upstart writes:Now We Know How a Solar Storm Took Out a Fleet of Starlinks:
No NGO Has Been Allowed to See Julian Assange Since Four Years Ago
canopic jug writes:Democracy Now has a brief interview with a representative from Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on their latest attempt to meet Julian Assange inside Belmarsh high-security prison in the UK. Despite being granted approval, the RSF secretary-general and executive director Christophe Deloire and the others with him were denied entry. No other non-governmental agency has been able to meet with Assange in the last four years either.
Inside the Bitter Campus Privacy Battle Over Smart Building Sensors
upstart writes:Inside the bitter campus privacy battle over smart building sensors:
Scientists Create an Eco-friendly Paint That Mimics Nature
upstart writes:An energy-saving coating needs no pigments, and it keeps the surface beneath it 30 degrees cooler:
Twitter Shut Off its Free API and It's Breaking a Lot of Apps
upstart writes:Even developers who want to pay for the API are having trouble:
Animal Mutation Rates Reveal Traits That Speed Evolution
upstart writes:The first large-scale comparison of mutation rates gives insights into how quickly species can evolve:
New AI Model Can “Cut Out” Any Object Within an Image—and Meta is Sharing the Code
Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/04/meta-introduces-ai-model-that-can-isolate-and-mask-objects-within-images/
Palantir's Plan to Decipher the Mysteries of Long Covid
upstart writes:Palantir's Plan to Decipher the Mysteries of Long Covid:
How Intel Scaled Down the 8086 Processor and Reverse-Engineering the Division Microcode
owl writes:https://www.righto.com/2020/06/die-shrink-how-intel-scaled-down-8086.html
NASA's TEMPO Mission Could Bring You Hyper-Local Pollution Alerts
upstart writes:NASA's TEMPO Mission Could Bring You Hyper-Local Pollution Alerts:
In the War on Bacteria, It’s Time to Call in the Phages
upstart writes:Regulators have to figure out how to get them on the market:
Australia Takes First Steps Towards Banning TikTok
An Anonymous Coward writes:Australia will ban tiktok on government devices despite claims by chinese officials that the application is safe to use.Is any application on a mobile device really safe to use? What personal data do they collect? Where do they send it? Why don't mobile devices come with the firewall enabled?
More Patient Data Exposed Through Tracking Pixels
Alcohol Recovery Startups Monument and Tempest Shared Patients' Private Data With Advertisersupstart writes:Alcohol recovery startups Monument and Tempest shared patients' private data with advertisers:
Thieves Can Steal Modern Cars by Tapping Into a Headlight Wire
upstart writes:Hackers can inject malicious code into a car's electronic network via headlight or taillight wires, fooling the car into thinking the key is present:
Physicists Recreate Classic 'Double-Slit' Experiment Using Time Instead of Space
upstart writes:New research offers an intriguing variation on the famous experiment:
Samsung to Cut Memory Chip Output
RamiK writes:Bloomberg reports:
Somebody Wants to Copyright a Rhythm – Get Ready for the Dembow Tax If They Succeed
upstart writes:Somebody wants to copyright a rhythm – get ready for the dembow tax if they succeed:
We Can Use Stem Cells to Make Embryos. How Far Should We Go?
upstart writes:Synthetic embryos made without eggs and sperm are looking increasingly like the real thing—raising thorny ethical questions:
Leak Reveals AMD's 'Strix Point' APUs With 16 CPU Cores and 3 GHz+ IGPU
upstart writes:With Zen 5 CPU and RDNA 3+ iGPU, Strix Point could be a game changer:
Round-Up: ChatGPT, Bard, etc - We Did Ask What Could Go Wrong, Didn't We?
OpenAI threatened with landmark defamation lawsuit over ChatGPT false claimsFreeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/04/openai-may-be-sued-after-chatgpt-falsely-says-aussie-mayor-is-an-ex-con/
How to Update Copyright: Nigeria Shows the Way for Africa – and the World
upstart writes:How to update copyright: Nigeria shows the way for Africa – and the world:
The Promises—and Perils—of Ocean Desalination
upstart writes:As the world gets drier, do we need to turn to the ocean?
Hair Analysis Reveals Europe’s Oldest Physical Evidence of Drug Use
upstart writes:Mediterranean cave clues show that islanders ingested mind-bending plants around 3,000 years ago:
Venus Has Almost 50 Times as Many Volcanoes as Previously Thought
upstart writes:A new map boosts the count of fiery formations to about 85,000:
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