Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Large Language Models Pass the Turing Test
April 2nd, 2025I thought this train left the station a couple of years ago. Maybe not. Via: arXiv: We evaluated 4 systems (ELIZA, GPT-4o, LLaMa-3.1-405B, and GPT-4.5) in two randomised, controlled, and pre-registered Turing tests on independent populations. Participants had 5 minute conversations simultaneously with another human participant and one of these systems before judging which conversational […]
Any Tesla Powerwall Installers/Technicians Out There?
April 2nd, 2025Update: Storm Watch Activated Anyway Storm Watch activated and the Powerwall charged to 100%. The Tesla app says, “A severe thunderstorm is forecast for your area. Powerwall has fully charged to provide backup protection.” Hmm… — Off topic. Apologies. The Neurio power meter on my Powerwall 2 / Backup Energy Gateway 1 (gray metal enclosure) […]
France Runs Fusion Reactor for Record 22 Minutes
March 28th, 2025Via: Interesting Engineering: France has set a new milestone in fusion energy, sustaining a plasma reaction for over 22 minutes. The record-breaking achievement occured at the WEST Tokamak reactor, operated by the Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA). CEA’s WEST Tokamak achieved a record 1,337-second plasma run—beating China’s 1,066-second benchmark by 25% […]
“The Quantum Apocalypse Is Coming”
March 26th, 2025Via: Wired: One day soon, at a research lab near Santa Barbara or Seattle or a secret facility in the Chinese mountains, it will begin: the sudden unlocking of the world’s secrets. Your secrets. Cybersecurity analysts call this Q-Day—the day someone builds a quantum computer that can crack the most widely used forms of encryption. […]
The Stablecoin Trap: The Backdoor to Total Financial Control
March 25th, 2025Via: Peak Prosperity: While the debate rages over the future threat of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), a far more insidious reality has already taken hold: our existing financial system already functions as a digital control grid, monitoring transactions, restricting choices, and enforcing compliance through programmable money. For over two years, my wife and I […]
Journalist Included in Private Trump Administration Signal Chat About Military Attacks Against Houthis
March 25th, 2025How did they get classified information onto Signal? Or, how did Signal get installed on classified systems? Why was the journalist, Jeffrey Goldberg, included? Hmm… Via: Daily Mail: MPs voiced fury today after an extraordinary security bungle revealed some of President Donald Trump’s most senior team condemning Europe as ‘pathetic freeloaders’. A bombshell exchange on […]
French Scientist Denied U.S. Entry After Phone Messages Critical of Trump Found
March 20th, 2025Via: Guardian: France’s research minister said a French scientist was denied entry to the US this month after immigration officers at an airport searched his phone and found messages in which he had expressed criticism of the Trump administration. “I learned with concern that a French researcher” on assignment for the French National Center for […]
In Case You’re Rage Quitting Firefox Because Everything Is Broken…
March 19th, 2025tldr: It’s MetaMask. Disable MetaMask and Firefox will work normally again. — I’ve been using Firefox for about two decades. I’ve had a few rage quits over that time. The latest was yesterday when many sites that I use were broken—just in Firefox. Without investigation, I used this latest Firefox snafu as an excuse to […]
Boston Dynamics Atlas: Walk, Run, Crawl, Reinforcement Learning Fun
March 19th, 2025Uh… Via: Boston Dynamics:
And That’s The Truth
March 15th, 2025Via: Truthstream Media:
