Number 237
== yjc, couldn’t resist, even though a video.
== land artist??
Giant sketch in field marks Picasso death anniversary
Italian land artist Dario Gambarin has used a tractor to create a portrait of Pablo Picasso on wasteland in Castagnaro, Verona.
Australian whistleblower to test whether ChatGPT can be sued for lying.
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Classified US Documents Leaked on 4chan, Telegram, Discord, and Twitter
The Justice Department has opened an investigation into the leak of classified Pentagon documents appearing to detail Ukraine’s combat capabilities,
Cancer and Heart Disease Vaccines ‘Ready By End of the Decade’
he success of the Covid jab has escalated the development of vaccines for cancer and other conditions such as heart disease.
Crooks Are Using CAN Injection Attacks To Steal Cars
It starts with a headlamp and fake smart speaker, and ends in an injection attack and a vanished motor.
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The Open Source VPN Out-Maneuvering Russian Censorship
Amnezia, a free virtual private network, allows users to set up their own servers, making it harder for Moscow to block this portal to the outside world.
OpenAI To Offer Remedies To Resolve Italy’s ChatGPT Ban
The company behind ChatGPT will propose measures to resolve data privacy concerns that sparked a temporary Italian ban on the artificial intelligence chatbot, regulators said Thursday.
Cop28 President: World Needs Business Mindset To Tackle Climate Crisis
Sultan Al Jaber aims to use UN talks to set out how private sector can limit greenhouse gas emissions.
Being an outsider has its advantages, especially if you’re a camel or a goat
Study of hooved animals finds outcasts are the most innovative problem solvers.
Three Samsung employees reportedly leaked sensitive data to ChatGPT
ChatGPT doesn’t keep secrets. Never forget that anything you share with ChatGPT is retained and used to further train the model.
NASA launches powerful air quality monitor to keep an eagle-eye on pollution
Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) instrument launched 12:30 a.m. EDT Friday, April 7 as a payload on Intelsat 40E aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Eric Schmidt Rejects AI Research Pause Over China Fears
Former Google boss Eric Schmidt has rejected fellow tech leaders’ call for a six-month pause on research into artificial intelligence, saying such a freeze would only advantage China.
Inside Google-Backed Anthropic’s $5 Billion, 4-Year Plan To Take on OpenAI
Anthropic plans to train a powerful model with billions in new funding.
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Rose At ‘Alarming’ Rate Last Year, US Data Shows
Noaa report shows rapid increase in atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide.
New Ultrasound Attack Can Secretly Hijack Phones and Smart Speakers
We speak to the boffins behind latest trick to fool Google Assistant, Cortana, Alexa.
People were taking drugs in Spain 3,000 years ago, study finds
People were getting high on hallucinogenic drugs in Spain around 3,000 years ago, according to new research.
New AI Model Can ‘Cut Out’ Any Object Within an Image
Meta’s “Segment Anything” uses AI to isolate objects on command.
India To Require Social Media Firms Rely on Government’s Own Fact Checking
India amended its IT law on Thursday to prohibit Facebook, Twitter and other social media firms from publishing, hosting or sharing false or misleading information about “any business” of the government and said the firms will be required to rely on New Delhi’s own fact-check unit to determine the authenticity of any claim…
China Plans $500 Million Subsea Internet Cable To Rival US-Backed Project
Chinese state-owned telecom firms are developing a $500 million undersea fiber-optic internet cable network that would link Asia, the Middle East and Europe to rival a similar U.S.-backed project…
Researchers built sonar glasses that track facial movements for silent communication
It may look like Ruidong Zhang is talking to himself, but in fact the doctoral student in the field of information science is silently mouthing the passcode to unlock his nearby smartphone and play the next song in his playlist.
Does winter seem long this year? This chart is a reality check
Snow in April is normal for many Canadians.
Google says its AI supercomputer is faster, greener than Nvidia A100 chip
Google released on Tuesday new details about the supercomputers it uses to train its artificial intelligence models, saying the systems are both faster and more power-efficient than comparable systems from Nvidia Corp.
Norwegian Seafloor Holds Clues To Antarctic Melting
Antarctica’s melting ice sheet could retreat much faster than previously thought, new research suggests.
False Memories Can Form Within Seconds, Study Finds
Human memory might be even more unreliable than currently thought.
New study indicates chemicals from grocery stickers may be leaching into foods
Although BPA is tightly regulated, related compounds aren’t and are still used in food packaging.
Radio emissions from nearby star system could point to Earth-like planet’s magnetic field
Exoplanet 12 light-years away may have magnetic field that’s interacting with red dwarf star.
What does GPT-3 know about me?
Large language models are trained on troves of personal data hoovered from the internet. So I wanted to know: What does it have on me?
== yjc
Dire wolf did live in Canada during Ice Age, study finds
Specimen was found near Medicine Hat, Alta., decades ago, but never fully described.
Microsoft and Jeff Bezos Tap Excel, Not Python Or R, To Teach Kids Data Science
Prepare students to build the future by immersing them in fun and interactive activities as they learn about Excel and the data science process.
A Collection of Fun Databases For Programming Exploration
When you experiment with a new-to-you data science skill, you need some sort of data to work with. Why be boring?
Stanford Releases 386-Page Report On the State of AI
Writing a report on the state of AI must feel a lot like building on shifting sands: By the time you hit publish, the whole industry has changed under your feet.
Canadian Federal privacy watchdog probing OpenAI, ChatGPT following complaint
Privacy Commissioner of Canada Philippe Dufresne said that his office must stay ahead of “fast-moving technological advances.”
Is Love Really Just A Neurochemical Construct Of The Mind?
Maybe love is all just a matter of brain chemistry — but maybe that’s okay.
The complex math of counterfactuals could help Spotify pick your next favorite song
A new kind of machine-learning model is set to improve automated decision making in finance, health care, ad targeting, and more.
US To Build $300 Million Database To Fuel Alzheimer’s Research
The U.S. National Institute on Aging (NIA) is funding a 6-year, up to $300 million project to build a massive Alzheimer’s research database that can track the health of Americans for decades and enable researchers to gain new insights on the brain-wasting disease.
Physicists Created ‘Slits In Time’ and Discovered ‘Unexpected Physics’
Scientists have achieved a “temporal analogue” to the famous double-slit experiment that could lead to new optical technologies.
Novel Social Engineering Attacks Soar 135% Amid Uptake of Generative AI
82% of employees are worried about hackers using generative AI to create scam emails.
Catalonia in grip of worst drought in decades
In the Sau reservoir, teams in small boats are hard at work hauling out fish with nets. The idea is to remove them before they die and rot in the water, making it unusable for human consumption.
Chemicals Banned From Air Conditioners and Refrigerators Are Making a Comeback
These chemicals create holes in the ozone layer and are powerful greenhouse gases. They’ve been banned since 2010, but pollution has kept growing.
What fossil eggs found in Alberta reveal about how dinosaurs became birds
Chemical analysis of troodon eggshells show bird-like and reptile-like traits, reveal behaviour.
== never heard of it before seeing this article
March Mammal Madness pits animals against each other in theoretical combat — for science
‘In March Mammal Madness, if you’re learning, you’re winning,’ says creator and biological anthropologist.
Scientists Film Deepest Ever Fish on Seabed Off Japan
Cruising at a depth of 8,336 meters (over 27,000 feet) just above the seabed, a young snailfish has become the deepest fish ever filmed by scientists during a probe into the abyss of the northern Pacific Ocean.
What the decline of mountain snow cover means for Canada
“Its declined by anywhere from four to six weeks since the early 1970s,” expert says.
== sorry, video
Why no one sounds exactly like you
Our voices are about as unique as fingerprints — similar on the surface, but with endless variations.
== yjc, always a fan of norse mythology
Newly Unearthed Viking Gold Violates Our Understanding of Norse God Odin
A new find from Denmark dubbed the Vindelev bracteate, has challenged the previous understanding of religion in late prehistoric and early medieval Scandinavia.
Will Wikipedia Be Written by AI? Jimmy Wales is Thinking About It
“The discussion in the Wikipedia community that I’ve seen so far is—people are cautious in the sense that we’re aware that the existing models are not good enough but also intrigued because there seems like there’s a lot of possibility here,” Wales said.
== in case anyone wants to give it a try
Can ML Unlock The Secrets of the Herculaneum Scrolls?
The Vesuvius Challenge, which asks teams to read four passages from inside two unopened scrolls buried under twenty meters of mud and ash when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD appears to be a herculean task,
Could a Photosynthesis ‘Hack’ Lead to New Ways of Generating Renewable Energy?
Researchers have “hacked” the earliest stages of photosynthesis, the natural machine that powers the vast majority of life on Earth, and discovered new ways to extract energy from the process, a finding that could lead to new ways of generating clean fuel and renewable energy.
Americans Begin Returning to Cities After Remote-Work Exodus, Data Shows
The exodus of people fleeing large urban areas during the height of the pandemic appears to be reversing, according to data from the Census Bureau released Thursday.
== definitely worth a read m’thinks
Sputnik’s radio tech launched a revolution in bird migration research
If you can track a satellite, you can track a Swainson’s thrush.
An upcoming game in the hugely popular Minecraft franchise was made by a Vancouver company, and nearly half of the project was developed during a four-day work week.
Explaining the world one sketch at a time
So I set myself the challenge of explaining something with a sketch — as explaining is a handy skill.
There's a piece that was torn from the morning
And it hangs in the Gallery of Frost