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Daisy, the 'AI Granny' Outwitting Scammers

forbes.com

Daisy the AI grandma has all the time in the world to chat with scammers. 02...
Daisy the AI grandma has all the time in the world to chat with scammers. 02 screenshot by Leslie Katz Amid heated debates about the potential pitfills of artificial intelligence, the technology has finally taken a form we can probably all get behind — an “AI granny” created expressly to waste scammers’ time. Britis...
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Bluesky is receiving about 3k reports/hour

bsky.app
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The Difference Between a Standard DIMM and a Cudimm or Csodimm

servethehome.com

Crucial DDR5 6400 CUDIMM 1 We probably need to have one of these. Recently, memory makers...
Crucial DDR5 6400 CUDIMM 1 We probably need to have one of these. Recently, memory makers started to take a technology that we have seen for years on the server side, and bring it to the desktop and mobile platforms. The CUDIMM or CSODIMM adds a “C” for clocked, and with it comes some new hardware. The big differenc...
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Give Up GitHub

sfconservancy.org

On Wednesday 29 June 2022, we began calling on all FOSS developers to give up on...
On Wednesday 29 June 2022, we began calling on all FOSS developers to give up on GitHub. We realize this is not an easy task; GitHub is ubiquitous. Through their effective marketing, GitHub has convinced Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) developers that GitHub is the best (and even the only) place for FOSS develo...

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Where Does the Magic Go as We Grow Older? (2020)

medium.com
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New haptic patch transmits complexity of touch to the skin

techxplore.com

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AI isn't unleashing imaginations, it's outsourcing them. The purpose is profit

theguardian.com

Back in 2022, when ChatGPT arrived, I was part of the first wave of users. Delighted...
Back in 2022, when ChatGPT arrived, I was part of the first wave of users. Delighted but also a little uncertain what to do with it, I asked the system to generate all kinds of random things. A song about George Floyd in the style of Bob Dylan. A menu for a vegetarian dinner party. A briefing paper about alternative...
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Virtual Shoe Museum

virtualshoemuseum.com
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Four dead in fire as Tesla doors fail to open after crash

myelectricsparks.com

A devastating accident in Toronto involving a Tesla Model Y resulted in the tragic deaths of...
A devastating accident in Toronto involving a Tesla Model Y resulted in the tragic deaths of four individuals and the miraculous rescue of a young woman. The crash, which occurred on October 24, has raised serious questions about the safety of Tesla’s electronic door mechanisms. A Tesla Model Y carrying five passeng...
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Military's UFO-hunting aerial surveillance system detailed in report

twz.com

The Pentagon provided new details today about how its deployable, readily reconfigurable suite of sensors called...
The Pentagon provided new details today about how its deployable, readily reconfigurable suite of sensors called GREMLIN works to help set the stage for figuring out what unidentified objects in our skies are and are not, if they appear at all. In its annual report released on Thursday, the All-domain Anomaly Resolu...
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Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties

lanparty.house

Hallway to other kid's loft. (With lockable door.) Cat door from living room. Cable conduit to...
Hallway to other kid's loft. (With lockable door.) Cat door from living room. Cable conduit to engine room. (For future computer desks, when they're older.) The other kid's room is a mirror image of this. We are Kenton Varda and Jade Wang. We've been married since 2014. This is our house, where we live with our two ...
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Statistical Rethinking (2024 Edition)

github.com
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SICP: The only computer science book worth reading twice? (2010)

simondobson.org

I was talking to one of my students earlier, and lent him a book to read...
I was talking to one of my students earlier, and lent him a book to read over summer. It was only after he’d left that I realised that — for me at any rate — the book I’d given him is probably the most seminal work in the whole of computer science, and certainly the book that’s most influenced my career and research...
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James Webb Space Telescope finds evidence for alternate theory of gravity

thedebrief.org

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope to peer back in time into the farthest reaches...
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope to peer back in time into the farthest reaches of the universe have found stunning evidence for an alternate theory of gravity. Current models of galaxy formation in the early cosmos predict the presence of excess gravity caused by dark matter to pull material into sl...
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Logica – Declarative logic programming language for data

logica.dev

View project on GitHub. 😃👍 Logica is an open source declarative logic programming language for data...
View project on GitHub. 😃👍 Logica is an open source declarative logic programming language for data manipulation. Logica extends syntax of logic programming for intuitive and efficient data manipulation. It compiles to SQL thus providing you access to the power of SQL engines with the convenience of logic programmin...
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Salon retracts 2005 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. piece on alleged autism-vaccine link

retractionwatch.com

Salon today retracted a controversial 2005 story by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. about an alleged link...
Salon today retracted a controversial 2005 story by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. about an alleged link between autism and thimerosal, the mercury-based preservative formerly used in vaccines. As Salon explains in their retraction notice, the online magazine had co-published the piece with Rolling Stone. The notice reads, ...
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The race to commercialise nuclear-powered batteries

chemistryworld.com

Nuclear batteries can provide long-lasting power to pacemakers, sensors embedded in buildings and bridges, and even...
Nuclear batteries can provide long-lasting power to pacemakers, sensors embedded in buildings and bridges, and even planetary rovers. While the technology has existed for decades, recent advances mean that many research organisations and companies are now exploring a range of new opportunities to grow the batteries’...
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Treating bullying as everyone's problem reduces incidence in primary schools

phys.org

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We're going to see the return of diseases we have controlled for decades

geneticliteracyproject.org
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Dtype_dispatch: a macro that defines macros that define enums and match them

graphallthethings.com

2024-11-15interests: programming, RustI've created a monster: a macro that defines two more macros that define enums...
2024-11-15interests: programming, RustI've created a monster: a macro that defines two more macros that define enums and match them. But it's saved me about 1000 lines of code, and the more I think about it, the more convinced I am it's the right solution. I reckon it could be useful for various other numerical and ...
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The Bluesky Bubble: This is a relapse, not a fix

theatlantic.com

This is a relapse, not a fix.Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The AtlanticNovember 15, 2024,...
This is a relapse, not a fix.Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The AtlanticNovember 15, 2024, 5:57 PM ET Bluesky, a Twitter-style, short-post social-media site, has exploded in popularity since last week, adding 1 million users in just that time. A lot of people hate X—especially if they hate Elon Musk, or Dona...

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I tried every top email marketing tool

sitebuilderreport.com

I’m in the market for new email marketing software. After years with MailChimp, I’ve finally had...
I’m in the market for new email marketing software. After years with MailChimp, I’ve finally had enough—time for a change! To find the right fit, I took a deep dive into the top 25 email marketing tools. Along the way, I battled unhelpful chatbots, squinted through pages of fine print, built a detailed comparison sp...
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Apple Smells Blood in the Water

petapixel.com

In just the last year and a half, Apple launched Final Cut on iPad and Final...
In just the last year and a half, Apple launched Final Cut on iPad and Final Cut Camera, updated Final Cut Pro to a new version for the first time in 13 years, and moved to purchase Pixelmator. As Adobe’s public perception continues to struggle, Apple is making moves to take advantage. Through the 2010s, Apple didn’...
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The easiest way to create a README

readme.so
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