Archive for the 'Technology' Category
“AI Can’t Install an HVAC System”
August 30th, 2025Via: Yahoo!Finance: As AI threatens white-collar workers and hits some college graduates looking for entry-level roles, young people are pouring into blue-collar job training programs. Related: Trump to Allow 600,000 Chinese Students Entry to U.S. for College
Starsage: U.S. Fighter Pilots Test AI “Air Battle Manager” Voice Assistant
August 27th, 2025Via: Fox: For the first time, U.S. fighter pilots took direction from an AI “air battle manager” in a Pentagon test that could change how wars are fought in the skies. The Air Force and Navy ran the August test using Raft AI’s Starsage tactical control system on F-16s, F/A-18s and F-35s during a joint […]
U.S. F-35 Pilot Had 50 Minute Tech Support Conversation with Lockheed Martin Engineers Before Having to Eject
August 27th, 2025$200 million aircraft vs cold weather… Via: The War Zone: Ice in the F-35’s landing gear led the jet’s flight computer to think it was on the ground when it wasn’t.
Hacker Used Anthropic AI to Automate an ‘Unprecedented’ Cybercrime Spree
August 27th, 2025Via: CNBC: A hacker has exploited a leading artificial intelligence chatbot to conduct the most comprehensive and lucrative AI cybercriminal operation known to date, using it to do everything from find targets to write ransom notes. In a report published Tuesday, Anthropic, the company behind the popular Claude chatbot, said that an unnamed hacker “used […]
Microsoft Word Will Autosave to Cloud by Default
August 27th, 2025At least there’s a built in way to change this stupid cloud autosave behavior in Word. For now, at least. Most Word users won’t know or care about the totality of what they write being copied to Microsoft’s servers. Imagine the convenience! If you use Microsoft Office, there’s a decent chance that Libre Office would […]
SpaceX: Starship’s Tenth Flight Test
August 27th, 2025If you have any interest in this type of thing, it’s all extremely impressive. Watch Starship's tenth flight test ? https://t.co/UIwbeGoo2B https://t.co/BFrpQPQFUw — SpaceX (@SpaceX) August 26, 2025
IBM, AMD Partnership on “Quantum-Centric Supercomputing”
August 26th, 2025Via: IBM: Today, IBM and AMD announced plans to develop next-generation computing architectures based on the combination of quantum computers and high-performance computing, known as quantum-centric supercomputing. AMD and IBM are collaborating to develop scalable, open-source platforms that could redefine the future of computing, leveraging IBM’s leadership in developing the world’s most performant quantum computers […]
Burner Phones, Wiped Socials: People Trying to Avoid Being Detained When Visiting the U.S.
August 25th, 2025Don’t have too little data, because that’s also suspicious: You might think the most protective options are to completely wipe your phone before traveling, use a burner or travel without a phone. But the EFF’s Cope said that could actually raise suspicions. “People are damned if they do and damned if they don’t,” Cope said. […]
YouTube Secretly Used AI to Edit People’s Videos
August 25th, 2025Side note: I found YouTube’s aggressive promotion of shortform video content to be extremely annoying. Hide Youtube-Shorts is very good at blocking those videos. Via: BBC: A growing share of reality is pre-processed by AI before it reaches us. Eventually, the question won’t be whether you can tell the difference, but whether it’s eroding our […]
Boston Dynamics Atlas with Large Behavior Models (LBMs)
August 20th, 2025Via: Boston Dynamics:
