Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Canada: “Digital Safety Commission”
May 19th, 2024Via: Russell Brand:
U.S. Fears Undersea Cables Are Vulnerable to Espionage From Chinese Repair Ships
May 19th, 2024Also the U.S.: The Creepy, Long-Standing Practice of Undersea Cable Tapping: In 2005, the Associated Press reported that a submarine called the USS Jimmy Carter had been repurposed to carry crews of technicians to the bottom of the sea so they could tap fiber optic lines. The easiest place to get into the cables is […]
OpenAI’s Long-Term AI Risk Team Has Disbanded
May 18th, 2024Via: Wired: In July last year, OpenAI announced the formation of a new research team that would prepare for the advent of supersmart artificial intelligence capable of outwitting and overpowering its creators. Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist and one of the company’s cofounders, was named as the colead of this new team. OpenAI said the […]
What Are The Privacy Risks Of ChatGPT-4o? “They Stress that the Training Information Is not Used to Profile People, or to Learn About Them”
May 18th, 2024Via: Forbes: The privacy implications of ChatGPT are two-pronged, says Oliver Willis, partner at BDB Pitmans. “From a user’s perspective, how does ChatGPT collect and use data about you when you are using it? From everyone else’s perspective, was ChatGPT trained on information about you and what will it tell users about you?” In its […]
Lithium from Shale Gas Well Waste Water
May 15th, 2024Via: University of Pittsburgh: Most batteries used in technology like smart watches and electric cars are made with lithium that travels across the world before even getting to manufacturers. But what if nearly half of the lithium used in the U.S. could come from Pennsylvania wastewater? A new analysis using compliance data from the Pennsylvania […]
Police Issued QR Codes to Enter Parts of Paris This Summer
May 14th, 2024Via: Metro: The capital of France– Paris – will be split into zones this summer, with anyone wanting to enter certain areas required to show a pass on their phone. Special measures will be in place throughout the city as part of increased security around the Olympic Games, which start in July. Anyone wishing to […]
U.S. Spy Satellites
May 14th, 2024Via: Covert Cabal:
Chat GPT-4o: OpenAI’s New Realtime Multimodal Model
May 13th, 2024A few initial thoughts… This will make the individual profiling and surveillance that has been done by search engines for decades seem trivial. OpenAI almost certainly wants this to be free for everyone in order to gather up as much personal and training data as possible. OpenAI is probably able to review each of these […]
Cubic Millimetre of Brain Mapped in Spectacular Detail
May 13th, 2024Via: Nature: Researchers have mapped a tiny piece of the human brain in astonishing detail. The resulting cell atlas, which was described today in Science1 and is available online, reveals new patterns of connections between brain cells called neurons, as well as cells that wrap around themselves to form knots, and pairs of neurons that […]
Autonomous F-16 Fighters Are ‘Roughly Even’ With Human Pilots Said Air Force Chief
May 13th, 2024Via: The National Interest: The future loyal wingmen of the United States Air Force are inching closer to becoming a reality, and more importantly, the artificial intelligence (AI) controlled aircraft could be on track to be as good as any human pilot. That was the assessment from Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall, who recently took […]
