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databasecowgirl writes:
When out and about I normally rely on my electric hoodie, hacked to illumate my face with UV LEDs to avoid surveillance, but this sounds like a great summer look — for those who prefer not to be seen.
The brainchild of Adam Harvey, who coined the term “CV dazzle” when experimenting how to break facial recognition software for his masters thesis in 2013 is based on nautical camouflage first pioneered in WW 1 to confound U-Boats is becoming derigeur this summer for the more privacy conscious and freedom loving bonvivantes about town.
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databasecowgirl writes:
Teaching requires a vast set of skills. Today, that includes blade runner , the ability to constantly run ad hoc Voight-Kampff tests to detect if students and their work are real.
Community colleges are being flooded with bot students created to steal millions of dollars in student aid. And it's up to the professors to identify them. It's no longer enough to be able to detect AI work from students, they need to be able to identify AI students as well.
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databasecowgirl writes:
In the 2010s, Millennials got cheap Ubers and door dash that was subsidized by loss leaders paid for by startups hemorrhaging cash to break established taxi cabs and delivery services to create a gig economy.
Todayâ(TM)s young people are getting free subscriptions to advanced AI that would otherwise costs thousands a month in hopes of getting them to be long term paying customers by enabling them to skate through their coursework.
But what is the real price of free? And will states that outlaw loss leader pricing, such as California and Colorado, look the other way again?
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databasecowgirl writes:
The former prime ministerâ(TM)s âfree speech media networkâ(TM) will be unveiled soon, she announces at a cryptocurrency conference in Bedford.
The shortest serving PM, who was quickly shown the door after crashing the UK economy, claims the platform is needed to take on the Deep State.
Truss has worked diligently to earn comparisons to Trump with appearances at American political rallies sporting a red MAGA cap. The effort has paid off with Trump's recent tariff announcement and resulting market meltdown resulting in the two brands combined in the nelogism Liz Trump to mark the unprecedented economic policy disasters of the two politicians.
Truss', continuing in Trump's footsteps is creating her own uncesored social media platform for the UK to talk about important matters, which apparently is unable to be achieved without censorship on Musk's X or Trump's Truth Social.
While a name has yet to be announced, Lettuce Talk has been suggested as appropriate for a platform run by a Prime Minister whose term was famously outlasted by a head of lettuce.
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databasecowgirl writes:
A leading tuberculosis researcher at Harvard said Tuesday that she received a stop-work order from the National Institutes of Health as a result of recent federal funding cuts.
The scientist, Sarah Fortune, leads a lab where researchers work to understand tuberculosis and work towards eventually eradicating the disease. An estimated 1.25 million people died from tuberculosis in 2023, likely making it the âoeworldâ(TM)s leading cause of death from a single infectious agent,â according to the World Health Organization.
Researchers may also have to kill macaques, a type of primate, being used in a vaccine study at the University of Pittsburgh that is funded by the Harvard contract. Killing the animals may be necessary, Fortune said, because they are no longer allowed to use federal funds to feed and care for them.
âoeThe macaques, can you believe, theyâ(TM)re so precious. Itâ(TM)s such a heavy responsibility to work with them and to just be asked to kill them halfway through the study...â Fortune said, trailing off.
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databasecowgirl writes:
Commenting in The Times on the absurdity of Metaâ(TM)s copyright infringement claims, Caitlin Moran defines Schrödingerâ(TM)s Economics: where a company is both the most valuable on the planet yet also too poor to pay for the materials it profits from.
Ultimately âoeMove fast and break thingsâ means breaking other peopleâ(TM)s things. Or, possibly worse, going full "The Talented Mr Ripley": slowly feeling so entitled to the things you are enamoured of that you end up clubbing out the brains of your beloved in a boat.
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databasecowgirl writes:
The New York Times has published a letter of protest regarding the dismantling of science by the current administration.
The letter body is a single page in length. However, the document consists of SEVENTY FIVE PAGES in order to include all of the signatories.
Pdf https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic01.nyt.com%2Fnewsg...
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databasecowgirl writes:
After observing how quickly a gift of baby clothes no longer fit, aeronautical engineering graduate from Imperial College London, Ryan Yasin decided to tackle the growing problem of perfectly good clothes ending up in landfills.
The Sunday Times documents strategies science is developing to counter the environmental damage implicit in the disposable fast fashion at Imperialâ(TM)s White City campus in west London, which provides resources for start-ups and is becoming a hub of sustainable fashion solutions.
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databasecowgirl writes:
Much discussion here on Slashdot has been on the fate of American programmers in the face of AI as pessimistically interpreted by Sam Altman and others.
Noam Schreiber offers a more nuanced interpretation in his essay investigating the rising unemployment rate of college educated workers in the US by examining various pieces of the puzzle from unionization to AI as well as economic trends and the very real possibility that the information economy in America has peaked.
Originally published in the New York Times and now in the non-paywalled offering from the Boston Globe's Boston dot com.
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databasecowgirl writes:
The Times is reporting an interesting study published in Science in which mice demonstrated doing first aid. In the replicated study, an anaesthetised mouse is exposed to another mouse who recognises the distress and clears airway to revive the unconscious mouse.
The mice had never seen an unconscious animal before, so the behaviour is thought to be instinctive.
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databasecowgirl writes:
Schneier and Sanders have an interesting essay in the Atlantic,Itâ(TM)s Time to Worry About DOGEâ(TM)s AI Plans Schneier, who has written extensively about the beneficial uses of AI in government covers some important concerns regarding Musk's plans.
Central to these are the ability to enable Blackbox Policy changes at the click of a button instead of having to create and pass changes legislatively through a potentially opposing Senate and House.
Maybe not a concern for those who voted him in, but will it be a good idea to have implemented this system should a subsequent administration, holding opposing views, has access to the centralised power Musk envisions?
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databasecowgirl writes:
President Trump announced Tuesday night that he had granted a âoefull and unconditionalâ pardon to Ross Ulbricht, founder of the notorious dark web site Silk Road.
