[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro130m-f_yk&ab_channel=AdamConover[/embed] The real risk of A.I. isn’t that some super-intelligent computer is going to take over in the future – it’s that the humans in the tech industry are going to screw the rest of us over right now.
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiZhdpLXZ8Q&ab_channel=FoldingIdeas[/embed] Clickbait Title: I spent three months living in the metaverse and now I’m starving The metaverse salespeople have a weird fixation with Animal Crossing, in specific. The number of times we saw New Horizons specifically cited as an example of the metaverse was bizarre, like it was their first time experiencing a multiplayer game…
Scores of Facebook posts from the days before and after the January 6 Capitol Hill riots in Washington are missing.The posts disappeared from Crowdtangle, a tool owned by Facebook that allows researchers to track what people are saying on the platform, according to academics from New York University and Université Grenoble Alpes. Source: Thousands of…
The researchers warn that these attacks could be used to inject malicious content, such as JavaScript, into TCP packets. “An adversary can use their own Internet-connected server to inject data into this TCP connection by injecting off-path TCP packets with a spoofed sender IP address,” warn the researchers. “This can, for instance, be abused to…
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hph9OeKjg3w&ab_channel=RealScience[/embed] How learning machines can possibly translate the language of whales. I hope this will enable us to do less damage to the ocean.
Today’s lower court decision in Hachette v. Internet Archive is a blow to all libraries and the communities we serve. This decision impacts libraries across the US who rely on controlled digital lending to connect their patrons with books online. It hurts authors by saying that unfair licensing models are the only way their books…