ChatGPT is Already Taking Jobs

ChatGPT took their jobs. Now they walk dogs and fix air conditioners.

== crowded streets? fewer jobs? higher meal prices?
Serve Robotics to deploy up to 2,000 sidewalk delivery bots on Uber Eats

Serve Robotics, the Uber spinout that builds autonomous sidewalk delivery robots, is expanding its partnership with Uber Eats.

Japan Vending Machines To Automatically Offer Free Food If Earthquakes Hit

Machines in coastal city of Ako, are located in an area that experts say is vulnerable to a future powerful earthquake.

== no mention of snow?
Switzerland is turning the gap between train tracks into a ‘solar carpet’

A startup called Sun-Ways developed a mechanism that can turn unused space between train tracks into a long and narrow solar farm.

Caws for alarm

Expert says crow swoopings are a warning from mom and dad birds to stay away from fledglings.

Climate change is fuelling a spike in Lyme disease cases across Canada

Tick populations growing rapidly, new Lyme disease hot spots emerging coast to coast.

US Judge Orders Lawyers To Sign AI Pledge, Warning Chatbots ‘Make Stuff Up’

A federal judge in Texas is now requiring lawyers in cases before him to certify that they did not use artificial intelligence to draft their filings without a human checking their accuracy.

NVIDIA Open Sources NeMo Guardrails

NVIDIA has released open-source software aimed at helping enterprises keep applications built on large language models aligned with their safety and security requirements.

Japan To Launch Satellite Made of Wood In 2024

‘Wood’s ability to withstand simulated low earth orbit conditions astounded us.’

North America Is Now the Growth Leader For New Battery Factories

North America became the fastest-growing regional market for planned new battery cell manufacturing factories by the end of 2022, according to a new report released today.

== ?$
US Proposes Requiring New Cars To Have Automatic Braking Systems

The top federal auto safety regulator on Wednesday proposed requiring all new cars and trucks to have automatic braking systems that can prevent collisions, after traffic fatalities have soared in recent years.

== couple of related articles
    AI-Controlled Drone Goes Rogue, Kills Human Operator In USAF Simulated Test

The Air Force’s Chief of AI Test and Operations initially said an AI drone “killed the operator because that person was keeping it from accomplishing its objective.”

    Air Force denies running simulation where AI drone “killed” its operator

“We’ve never run that experiment,” says original source, who “misspoke.”

== pfas fallout continues
Industry knew about risks of PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ for decades before push to restrict them, study says

Researchers in California examined tactics used by companies to delay restrictions on forever chemicals

Multi-cancer blood test shows real promise in NHS study

A blood test for more than 50 types of cancer has shown real promise in a major NHS trial, researchers say.

How AI can help investors, according to Toggle AI CEO

AI can help investors harness and better understand data about the markets,…

Climate Crisis Makes It Impossible For Some US Residents To Get Home Insurance

The rising incidence of wildfires means many Californians can no longer insure their property. It’s a sign of what’s ahead for the whole housing market.

What has climate finance paid for?

No rules exist about what counts as climate help to developed nations, and some projects may not help.

China Begins Drilling a 10-Kilometer-Deep Hole In Earth’s Crust

The team will dig deep into the Earth, penetrating more than 10 continental strata, which can be used to reconstruct the history of the Earth’s continents, including the evolution of landscapes, climate change, and the distribution of life.

== in my opinion, just what we don’t need, more satellites in orbit around the planet
== then there is the potential security issue
Hubble Network Wants To Connect a Billion Devices With Space-Based Bluetooth Network

The company’s aim is to build out a constellation of 300 satellites that can provide real-time updates for any sensor or device outfitted with a Bluetooth low energy (BLE) chip.

The First X-Ray Taken of a Single Atom

SX-STM enables detection of atom type, simultaneous measurement of its chemical state.

New Report Says American Government Agencies Are Using Malware Similar To Banned Pegasus Spyware

It’s been more than a year and a half since we last heard about the ban on Pegasus spyware in the US.

If a forest has a variety of tree species, is it better at fighting climate change?

Study is first to demonstrate tree diversity can increase soil carbon in natural forests.

Women fare worse than men after surviving a stroke, new report suggests

Studies show women 20 to 70% more likely to suffer anxiety, depression in recovery.

How does wildfire smoke affect long-term health? Researchers are trying to find out

Evidence of harmful health effects is growing, but more work is needed, experts say.

Five revelations from Nasa’s public UFO meeting

A Nasa panel investigating unidentified flying objects has collected around 800 mysterious reports - but only a small fraction are truly unexplained, researchers say.

== My two current PCs may have one of these
Millions of PC Motherboards Were Sold With a Firmware Backdoor

Hidden code in hundreds of models of Gigabyte motherboards invisibly and insecurely downloads programs—a feature ripe for abuse, researchers say.

California Senate Passes ‘Right to Repair Act’

It’s the furthest a Right to Repair bill has advanced in the state.

== fup previous article
Eating disorder helpline takes down chatbot after it dispenses dangerous advice

The ’not AI’ chatbot was supposed to replace actual human staff who claim they were fired after trying to unionize.

== have had previous article on the risks with this storage tanker
UN begins salvage operation to stop catastrophic oil spill off Yemen

The United Nations has started a operation to remove 1.1 million barrels of oil from a decaying supertanker moored off Yemen’s Red Sea coast.

== US only?
Ransomware attack exposes sensitive data for nearly 9 million dental patients

The attack on MCNA is the largest health breach this year.

IAEA Team In Japan For Final Review of Fukushima Nuclear Plant Water Discharge

Team arrived in Tokyo on Monday for a final review before Japan begins releasing massive amounts of treated radioactive water into the sea.

Peas that don’t taste like peas could help the planet

As more and more people turn to plant-based food, they are hoping to produce a more planet-friendly, home-grown alternative to importing soya beans.

== seen a lot of this before, but we have all got to think about this
Tackling Plastic Pollution - ‘We Can’t Recycle Our Way Out of This’

Recycling is often touted as a solution to reducing plastic waste, but recent studies show the process poses its own risks and is no match for soaring plastic production.

== yjc
AI ‘godfather’ Yoshua Bengio feels ’lost’ over life’s work

One of the so-called “godfathers” of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has said he would have prioritised safety over usefulness had he realised the pace at which it would evolve.

LHC Experiments See First Evidence of a Rare Higgs Boson Decay

The ATLAS and CMS collaborations have joined forces to establish the first evidence of the rare decay of the Higgs boson into a Z boson and a photon.

German Startup Wins Initial Funding For Revolutionary Fusion Energy Machine

. Watch out tokamak.

Why There Is No Center Of The Universe

There is no special place in our cosmos, as far as we can tell.

== three related articles
== There’s a theory that posits we’ve never seen any other life in the universe
== because they blew themselves up when they discovered atom bombs. My guess is
== it’s because the AI they developed became self-aware and went ‘rogue’.
    == ?$
    AI Poses ‘Risk of Extinction,’ Industry Leaders Warn

Leaders from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic and other A.I. labs warn that future systems could be as deadly as pandemics and nuclear weapons.

    Pain And Panic Over Rogue AI - We Need a Balance

Jumping on the bandwagon of hysteria created….

    Artificial intelligence poses ‘risk of extinction,’ tech execs and experts warn

More than 350 industry leaders sign letter equating risks with pandemics, nuclear war.

Canon Develops Quantum Dot OLED Materials Without Rare Metals

Next-gen display technology with less geopolitical attrition with China.

== wasn’t sure about including this one, but modern tech being used
== to do something that maybe wouldn’t be done otherwise
Opinion: How futuristic technology can help us honor WWII’s dead

Over the past 13 years, Tim Taylor and Christine Dennison have scoured the ocean floor using autonomous underwater robots to discover and document the wrecks of seven US submarines lost in World War II.

Automakers Ask Judge to Block Pending Enforcement of Massachusetts’ Right-to-Repair Law

The legal battle continues over Massachusetts’ automotive right-to-repair law, which requires automakers to provide consumers and independent repair shops with wireless access to a car’s “telematics.”

A Quake on Mars Showed Its Crust is Thicker Than Earth’s

The find could help explain a dichotomy between elevations in the north and south of Mars.

== yjc
Why Everest base camp won’t be moving anytime soon

Last June, Nepal’s tourism ministry announced plans to move Everest base camp lower down the famous mountain because global warming and human activity were making it unsafe.

JWST Discovers a Supermassive Black Hole is ‘Far Larger Than Expected’

Discovery of GS-9209, one of the furthest from the Milky Way, adds to evidence that large black holes prevent star formation, astronomers say

== yjc
Renee Descartes had his best revelations while baked in an oven

The man would rather literally die than tutor a Swedish Queen before noon.

== yjc
Venice canal patch turns fluorescent green

enetians woke up on Sunday morning to an unusual sight, as a patch of water in the city’s central waterway appeared to have turned fluorescent green.

NASA’s Artemis Moon Rocket Will Cost $6B More, Take Longer

The Space Launch System’s booster and engine are now projected to cost at least $13.1 billion over 25 years.

== likely not of interest to anyone but me, but…
Python 3.12 Beta Brings New Features and Fixes

Better error messages, support for Linux profiling tools, and many improvements to Python’s type hinting have just landed.