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AI 'wingmen' bots to write profiles and flirt on dating apps

theguardian.com

AI bots will soon be rolled out on dating apps to flirt with people, craft messages...
AI bots will soon be rolled out on dating apps to flirt with people, craft messages on users’ behalf and write their profiles for them.But depending on artificial intelligence to foster budding relationships risks eroding what little human authenticity is left on dating platforms, experts have warned.Match Group, th...
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Cat-Eared Robots Are Waiting Tables in Japan's Restaurants

bloomberg.com
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Ultrasonic deep drawing cuts friction by 20%, extends tool lifespan

techxplore.com
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Undocumented backdoor found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devices

bleepingcomputer.com

The ubiquitous ESP32 microchip made by Chinese manufacturer Espressif and used by over 1 billion units...
The ubiquitous ESP32 microchip made by Chinese manufacturer Espressif and used by over 1 billion units as of 2023 contains an undocumented backdoor that could be leveraged for attacks. The undocumented commands allow spoofing of trusted devices, unauthorized data access, pivoting to other devices on the network, and...

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Discovering Errors in Donald Knuth's Taocp

glthr.com

As Donald Knuth has just published Volume 4, Fascicle 7 of The Art of Computer Programming...
As Donald Knuth has just published Volume 4, Fascicle 7 of The Art of Computer Programming (TAOCP), on constraint satisfaction, I would like to provide more information about the errors I discovered in 2019 in other volumes, for which I received two Knuth reward checks. To date, my account balance on his “bank”, the...
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Cosmic ray giving 4096 votes incident

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Long Read: Lessons from Building Semantic Search for GitHub and Why I Failed

notion.site
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Body Doubling

bodydoubling.com
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The program is the database is the interface

scattered-thoughts.net
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Leave It to Manus

manus.im
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Explore Sutro Tower

sutrotower.com
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AI tools are spotting errors in research papers: inside a growing movement

nature.com

Two new AI tools check for errors in research papers including in the calculations, methodology and...
Two new AI tools check for errors in research papers including in the calculations, methodology and references.Credit: Jose A. Bernat Bacete/GettyLate last year, media outlets worldwide warned that black plastic cooking utensils contained worrying levels of cancer-linked flame retardants. The risk was found to be ov...

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Smaller but Better: Unifying Layout Generation with Smaller LLMs

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Gene-edited non-browning banana could cut food waste

theguardian.com

Many of us have been guilty of binning a mushy, overripe banana – but now scientists...
Many of us have been guilty of binning a mushy, overripe banana – but now scientists say they have a solution with the launch of a genetically engineered non-browning banana.The product is the latest in a series of gene-edited fruits and vegetables designed to have a longer shelf life. Scientists say the technology ...
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Show HN: AI art generation faster than Midjourney

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The DOJ Still Wants Google to Sell Off Chrome

wired.com

The US Department of Justice wants Google to sell off its Chrome browser as part of...
The US Department of Justice wants Google to sell off its Chrome browser as part of its final remedy proposal in a landmark antitrust case.The proposal, filed Friday afternoon, says that Google must “promptly and fully divest Chrome, along with any assets or services necessary to successfully complete the divestitur...
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AI Thinks It Cracked Kryptos. The Artist Behind It Says No Chance

wired.com
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Discworld Rules

venkateshrao.com

The Contraptions Book club March pick is Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition by Frances Yates....
The Contraptions Book club March pick is Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition by Frances Yates. Chat thread here. We will discuss this the week of March 24th.I’ll be co-hosting an online salon Silicon Archipelago: A Salon On Open Distributed Southeast Asian Tech Futures on Friday, March 14 (Southeast Asia time)...
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Learn Arabic

arabic.fi

In the beginning, I found it difficult to learn Arabic. Now, since I overcame the first...
In the beginning, I found it difficult to learn Arabic. Now, since I overcame the first obstacles, learning Arabic is only fun and easy. I have built this website - Learn Arabic - to make it easier to learn Arabic. I use smart functionality to help people overcome the obstacles that hindered me to learn Arabic. Star...
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New MacBook Air Fixes This Decades-Long Design Oversight

macrumors.com

In a move that probably won't make headlines but should delight detail-oriented Mac users everywhere, Apple...
In a move that probably won't make headlines but should delight detail-oriented Mac users everywhere, Apple has quietly corrected a 26-year-old design inconsistency on its keyboards. The Mute key, a staple on Mac keyboards since the PowerBook G3 'Lombard' debuted in 1999, has finally received a logical redesign on t...

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What We Lose When Our Memories Exist in Our Phones

bloomberg.com
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Unpopular Defaults for High-Performing Tech Organizations

avivbenyosef.com

“No one ever quit!” “Look at our hackathon!” “We hard-allocate time to fight tech debt.” Ostensibly,...
“No one ever quit!” “Look at our hackathon!” “We hard-allocate time to fight tech debt.” Ostensibly, good things. In reality? Just the advice to follow… if you want to lead a mediocre team. You’re often tempted to follow the “common” playbook as a tech leader. But what if that playbook is the very thing holding your...
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Why most countries are struggling to shut down 2G

restofworld.org

Last November, Nguyen Thi Que’s mobile phone suddenly stopped working as telecom companies in Vietnam permanently...
Last November, Nguyen Thi Que’s mobile phone suddenly stopped working as telecom companies in Vietnam permanently shut down the 2G network. “I thought of buying a new phone, but I don’t have money,” the 73-year-old, who sells iced tea at a bus stop in Hanoi, told Rest of World in late January. Vietnam’s plan was sim...

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US support to maintain UK's nuclear arsenal is in doubt

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