So much going on about AI security now. Alex Karp of Palantir wants AI to be nationalized. I don't see how that would assure safety. If anything, putting the federal government in charge would likely allow all kinds of fraud. David Sacks is the voice of sanity. Why can't these companies regulate themselves? AI is already hacking companies, and it's not clear what is being done about it.
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Is that special offer "really free"? Find out the hidden gotchas by using the reallyfree browser extension. Or just stay away, because as everyone knows, nothing is really free.
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"We've shown for the first time that the front of the brain arises from a totally different progenitor cell than the back of the brain." Our hindbrains were ontongenously developed differently from the forebrain. Makes sense. Paper here.
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Asking Authors About Their Own Papers. In the era of AI-generated papers, this is becoming a big problem.
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Elbowroom is an app that helps you clear up space on your cluttered hard drive, but tells you what each file is, which is better than some clean up files which only tell you the names of files taking up space, but not whether it's safe to delete them.
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Google Earth is going away on 25 June 2027. Supposedly it's going to be replaced by something else. I suspect we'll get more details as the date approaches.
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Chinese researchers have figured out a way to listen in on your headphones from a distance away. How nice – another bit of privacy taken away.
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Life in Tina Kotek's Oregon. Oregon sees slow, steady decline in jobs as unemployment remains relatively flat
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Portland has a lot of empty commercial space that could be sites for datacenters instead of, you know, converting it to residents for the homeless. But Portland City Council says no to datacenters.
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Ron Wyden wants to prevent private corporations that provide doctor services for Oregon hospital and clinics. On the premise of preventing control of medical practices by physician management companies. Well, it's not like doctors run their own clinics these days. Much of the time, doctors are employees. So does it really matter whether they are employees of local hospital conglomerates, or outside physician management companies? Such is the state of modern medicine.
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