Meta removes language that may have allowed it to scrape news sites. Looks like Meta is backing off their declaration that they have a right to scrape data off any website that uses their products and services. Good. People stood up and they caved.
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‘Nightmare Scenario’: Zero-Click Spyware Is Infecting Phones via Targeted Ads. Installing ad blocking apps on your phone is no longer optional. It's a must. And also keeping your phone up to date.
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Army Bets $464,800,000 On Drone-Killing Lasers That Cost Under $10 A Shot. This makes more sense, until they come up with drones that fly too erratically to be targeted. Good AI-targeting and responsive gimbals should take care of this, as well as being able to target from a long range away, where beams can be directed more quickly against wider target trajectories.
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Cortisol may underlie why bad memories linger.Researchers at Yale University have now uncovered important clues. Their study reveals that cortisol strengthens emotional memories by changing how brain networks involved in emotion and memory function and communicate with one another. The findings offer a deeper understanding of why certain experiences leave such powerful impressions while others quickly fade.
Top Mathematician Announces New Institute for A.I. Safety. For once it's somebody other than Terry Tao. It's Tsimerman, the Fields Medal guy. He's going to start a new institute: Mathematical A.I. Safety Institute (MAISI). I was kinda hoping he was going to create a machine learning lab where mathematicians could access frontier model capabilities, like Codex, without sacrificing their ideas. Because that's what they really need.
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Thinking about hooking up two MacStudios together? Apple did it, but they did it with a Thunderbird 5 cable and used their own models. It's still not worth it just to run Muse Spark locally. But that's just my opinion.
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Bluesky and Threads was where all the lefties fled to get away from conservatives on social media. Now people are finding it to be one of the most hateful places on the Internet. Toxic stew of liberalism. By the "hate has no home here" people.
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Speaking of liberalism, Vancouver B.C. is doing what Portland did – legalizing addictive drugs like fentanyl, heroin and meth. Addicts are celebrating. Have they not heard of the Measure 110 fiasco? Pure insanity. But the good news is that maybe the crazies in Portland will go north and live there.
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