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I Witnessed the Future of AI, and It's a Broken Toy

theatlantic.com

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Why so many men in the US have stopped working

businessinsider.com

America's working-age men are employed at much lower rates than they used to be, and a...
America's working-age men are employed at much lower rates than they used to be, and a combination of factors — from recessions to globalization to rising addiction rates — could be playing a role.In the early 1950s, as many as 96% of prime working-age American men, who were between the ages of 25 and 54, had full-t...

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In the AI Economy, There Will Be Zero Percent Unemployment

reason.com

Joanna Andreasson/DALL-E4 I'm an AI developer and consultant, and when OpenAI released a preview in February...
Joanna Andreasson/DALL-E4 I'm an AI developer and consultant, and when OpenAI released a preview in February of its text-to-video model Sora—an AI capable of generating cinema-quality videos—I started getting urgent requests from the entertainment industry and from investment firms. You could divide the calls into t...

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OpenBSD scripts to convert wg-quick VPN files

dataswamp.org
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The Pen, Mightier

themillions.com
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Elon Musk's 'Twitter sitter' appeal over Tesla posts rejected by Supreme Court

cnn.com
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General Galactic emerges from stealth to make methane from carbon dioxide

techcrunch.com

Plenty of products benefit from tight integration, where companies design and sometimes build key components of...
Plenty of products benefit from tight integration, where companies design and sometimes build key components of a product in-house: Apple and its custom microprocessors and Tesla and its Superchargers are two notable examples. It’s not an easy strategy to get right, but General Galactic, a stealthy new startup, hope...
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The U.S. economy's big problem? People forgot what 'normal' looks like

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Fentanyl Laid Waste to Guatemala's Time-Worn Opium Trade

nytimes.com

U.S.WorldBusinessArtsLifestyleOpinionAudioGamesCookingWirecutterThe AthleticYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When...
U.S.WorldBusinessArtsLifestyleOpinionAudioGamesCookingWirecutterThe AthleticYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.Reshaping the drug war in one of Central America’s most lawless corners, the fentanyl boom has devas...

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Burnout – When does work start feeling pointless? – DW Documentary

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Criminals and oligarchs in EU's sights with new bill targeting football fraud

theguardian.com

Not for the first time in the history of the European parliament, it all started in...
Not for the first time in the history of the European parliament, it all started in Belgium. An investigation into alleged bribery, money-laundering, forged transfer contracts and the involvement of organised crime at the highest levels of professional football that began in 2018 eventually implicated almost 60 agen...
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I Built an Ld_preload Worm

substack.com

One of the most interesting aspects of working in information security is the task of developing...
One of the most interesting aspects of working in information security is the task of developing proof-of-concept code. In essence, you often find yourself writing malicious programs to prove that a hypothesized flaw is real — and to convince coworkers, clients, or third-party software vendors that they need to act....
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Winner of $1.3B Powerball jackpot is a immigrant from Laos who has cancer

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Green Software Foundation's Software Carbon Intensity Spec Becomes ISO Standard

greensoftware.foundation

Posted on April 25th, 2024We've achieved a big win for green tech: The Software Carbon Intensity...
Posted on April 25th, 2024We've achieved a big win for green tech: The Software Carbon Intensity (SCI) Specification v1.0 is now an ISO standard.With the approval and publication of version 1.0, the ISO confirms that the SCI Specification is a reliable, fair, and comparable protocol for measuring and reducing softwa...
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Are Ultra-Processed Foods All That Unhealthy?

openmindmag.org

After decades of searching, many scientists believe they have finally pinned down the main problem with...
After decades of searching, many scientists believe they have finally pinned down the main problem with our modern diets—the factor driving ever-escalating rates of obesity, diabetes, heart disease and any number of other serious chronic conditions. The culprit isn’t saturated fats, trans fats or some new killer fat...

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Show HN: 3D Framework for the Web. Built on Svelte and Three.js

threlte.xyz
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Markdown Oxide: Personal Knowledge Management system for software enthusiasts

github.com
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US, Argentina to cooperate, combat illegal Chinese fishing

voanews.com

Panama City — Starting next month, the U.S. Coast Guard and Argentine Navy will begin conducting...
Panama City — Starting next month, the U.S. Coast Guard and Argentine Navy will begin conducting joint exercises aimed at combating illegal Chinese fishing in the Atlantic Ocean. Argentina, Chile and Peru have criticized Chinese-operated craft for large-scale invasive fishing in their territorial waters without regu...

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Google lays off staff from Flutter, Dart, Python teams before dev conference

techcrunch.com

Ahead of Google’s annual I/O developer conference in May, the tech giant has laid off staff...
Ahead of Google’s annual I/O developer conference in May, the tech giant has laid off staff across key teams like Flutter, Dart, Python and others, according to reports from affected employees shared on social media. Google confirmed the layoffs to TechCrunch, but not the specific teams, roles or how many people wer...
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WeWork agrees restructuring deal that shuts out Adam Neumann's comeback bid

ft.com
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A highly insulating, translucent aerogel glass brick for building envelopes

sciencedirect.com
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Haunting Sounds from the Largest Living Thing

sciencealert.com

We can now hear one of the largest and most ancient living organisms on Earth whisper...
We can now hear one of the largest and most ancient living organisms on Earth whisper with the tremble of a million leaves echoing through its roots.The forest made of a single tree known as Pando ("I spread" in Latin) has 47,000 stems (all with the same DNA) sprouting from a shared root system over 100 acres (40 he...
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PowerShell: The object-oriented shell you didn't know you needed

chriswarrick.com

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FireChat was a tool for revolution. Then it disappeared

fromjason.xyz

For years, FireChat helped people circumvent their internet gatekeepers— the authoritarian governments and spineless corporations that...
For years, FireChat helped people circumvent their internet gatekeepers— the authoritarian governments and spineless corporations that control our every move through a network of proprietary data centers and deep-sea cables. In Iran, forty thousand people downloaded the app when their government blocked internet acc...
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