There's So Much Data Even Spies Are Struggling to Find Secrets
Hacker News
JANUARY 29, 2024
Scouring open-source intelligence may not have the same cachet as undercover work, but it’s become a new priority for the US intelligence agencies.
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How the AI Boom is a Windfall for Tiny Anguilla
Hacker News
JANUARY 30, 2024
The rising popularity of artificial intelligence has impacted the entire world, including the tiny island of Anguilla. Located in the Caribbean, the country, home to about 15,000 people, has a unique and suddenly in-demand resource. In the late 1980s, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) assigned countries and regions of geographic interest their own two-letter domains.
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Is 2024 The Year Of Low Earth Orbit Satellite Services?
MoorInsights for Forbes
JANUARY 26, 2024
Analyst Will Townsend discusses the recent funding for AST SpaceMobile and why it means that 2024 could be a banner year for the LEO satellite market in general.
AlphaGeometry: An Olympiad-level AI system for geometry
DeepMind
JANUARY 17, 2024
Our AI system surpasses the state-of-the-art approach for geometry problems, advancing AI reasoning in mathematics
The AI Superhero Approach to Product Management
Speaker: Conrado Morlan
In this engaging and witty talk, we’ll explore how artificial intelligence can transform the daily tasks of product managers into streamlined, efficient processes. Using the lens of a superhero narrative, we’ll uncover how AI can be the ultimate sidekick, aiding in decision-making, enhancing productivity, and boosting innovation. Attendees will leave with practical tools and actionable insights, motivated to embrace AI and leverage its potential in their work. 🦸 🏢 Key objectives:
OpenAI scrapped a promise to disclose key documents to the public
Hacker News
JANUARY 24, 2024
From its founding, OpenAI said its governing documents were available to the public. When WIRED requested copies after the company’s boardroom drama, it declined to provide them.
Knockoff Iranian Drone Sold on Alibaba Was Meant for War, Documents Show
Hacker News
JANUARY 19, 2024
The drone, advertised as being for survey mapping, is described in documents as a "suicide UAV used on the battlefield." The supplier said it was destined for Ukraine.
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We Must Call Time Out on TikTok
Hacker News
JANUARY 30, 2024
An Open Letter to the Artist and Songwriter Community Why We Must Call Time Out on TikTok Our core mission is simple: to help our artists and songwriters attain their greatest creative and commercial potential. To achieve these goals, our teams employ their expertise and passion to strike deals with partners all around the world, partners who take seriously their responsibilities to fairly compensate our artists and songwriters and treat the user experience with respect.
Google Search Drops Cache Link from Search Results
Hacker News
JANUARY 30, 2024
After a couple of months of testing, it seems Google has now removed the cache link from the search results page. I no longer see a link to the Google cache within search result snippets but that doesn't mean you cannot access to cache, you can.
Tesla hacked, 24 zero-days demoed at Pwn2Own Automotive 2024
Hacker News
JANUARY 24, 2024
Security researchers hacked a Tesla Modem and collected awards of $722,500 on the first day of Pwn2Own Automotive 2024 for three bug collisions and 24 unique zero-day exploits.
USCIS Announces Strengthened Integrity Measures for H-1B Program
Hacker News
JANUARY 30, 2024
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) today announced a final rule to strengthen the integrity of and reduce the potential for fraud in the H-1B registration process, including by reducing the potential for gaming the registration system and ensuring each beneficiary would have the same chance of being selected, regardless of the number of registrations submitted on their behalf.
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New Linux glibc flaw lets attackers get root on major distros
Hacker News
JANUARY 30, 2024
Unprivileged attackers can get root access on multiple major Linux distributions in default configurations by exploiting a newly disclosed local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in the GNU C Library (glibc). [.
Why flying insects gather at artificial light
Hacker News
JANUARY 30, 2024
Explanations of why nocturnal insects fly erratically around fires and lamps have included theories of “lunar navigation” and “escape to the light” However, without three-dimensional flight data to test them rigorously, the cause for this odd behaviour has remained& unsolved. We employed high-resolution motion capture in the laboratory and stereo-videography in the field to reconstruct the 3D kinematics of insect flights around artificial lights.
How Will the Golden Age of "Making It Worse" End?
Hacker News
JANUARY 30, 2024
One of the more poignant and ridiculous and enduringly popular contemporary American insanities is the belief that one person—it’s almost always a man, although Jennifer Garner did get to do it in a movie once—can make a critical difference in any bad situation, provided that person is angry and violent enough.
A mistakenly published password exposed Mercedes-Benz source code
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JANUARY 30, 2024
Mercedes-Benz accidentally exposed a trove of internal data after leaving a private key online that gave “unrestricted access” to the company’s source code, according to the security research firm that discovered it.
Entity Resolution: Your Guide to Deciding Whether to Build It or Buy It
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Adding high-quality entity resolution capabilities to enterprise applications, services, data fabrics or data pipelines can be daunting and expensive. Organizations often invest millions of dollars and years of effort to achieve subpar results. This guide will walk you through the requirements and challenges of implementing entity resolution. By the end, you'll understand what to look for, the most common mistakes and pitfalls to avoid, and your options.
Scientists document first-ever transmitted Alzheimer’s cases, tied to no-longer-used medical procedure
Hacker News
JANUARY 29, 2024
LONDON — There was something odd about these Alzheimer’s cases. Part of it was the patients’ presentations: Some didn’t have the classic symptoms of the condition. But it was also that the patients were in their 40s and 50s, even their 30s, far younger than people who normally develop the disease. They didn’t even have the known genetic mutations that can set people on the course for such early-onset Alzheimer’s.
Modern CSS One-Line Upgrades
Hacker News
JANUARY 28, 2024
Sometimes, improving your application CSS just takes a one-line upgrade or enhancement! Learn about 12 properties to start incorporating into your projects, and enjoy reducing technical debt, removing JavaScript, and scoring easy wins for user experience.
Disney Unveils the HoloTile Floor, Inching Us Closer to a Real-Life Holodeck
Hacker News
JANUARY 27, 2024
Alongside announcing that Lanny Smoot will be the first Disney employee besides Walt to be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, Disney also shared one of his newest projects called the HoloTile floor, which just may be a game changer for VR and could bring us ever closer to experiencing the Holodeck from Star Trek.
Researchers demonstrate rapid 3D printing with liquid metal
Hacker News
JANUARY 27, 2024
Liquid metal printing, developed by MIT researchers, rapidly creates 3D metal structures by depositing molten aluminum along into a bed filled with microscopic glass beads. The process can produce low-resolution objects like frames for chairs and tables in minutes.
The Project Clinic: Assessing Project Health, Planning, and Execution
Speaker: Ketan Jahagirdar
Picture your projects as patients, each with its own unique rhythm and pulse, thriving under your care 🥼 🩺 Step into the role of an innovative project doctor in our upcoming webinar! This session is your guide to evaluating the health of your projects through Waterfall and Agile practices like Scrum and Kanban. We’ll explore the vital signs of project success through the lens of the “iron triangle” metrics, using deliverables as tracers.
A parliament of owls and a murder of crows: How groups of birds got their names
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JANUARY 28, 2024
Language is an instrument of great precision and poignancy — our best tool for telling each other what the world is and what we are, for conveying the blueness of blue and the wonder of being…
Harvesting Electricity from High-Voltage Transmission Lines Using Fences
Hacker News
JANUARY 28, 2024
When you have a bunch of 230 kV transmission lines running over your property, why not use them for some scientific experiments? This is where the [Double M Innovations] YouTube channel comes into pla.
Syphilis microbe's family has plagued humans for millennia
Hacker News
JANUARY 27, 2024
Ancient DNA recovered from Brazilian remains shows that treponemal diseases originated some 10,000 years earlier than previously thought. Ancient DNA recovered from Brazilian remains shows that treponemal diseases originated some 10,000 years earlier than previously thought.
Scale of methane leaks from fossil fuel production and landfills exposed
Hacker News
JANUARY 27, 2024
Around 1,300 "super-emitters" of the potent greenhouse gas have been identified so far in 2023 by the monitoring company Kayrros, which uses satellites to detect plumes of the gas.
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to Production
Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage
Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI pr
How I hacked chess.com with a rookie exploit
Hacker News
JANUARY 26, 2024
Playing Chess is one of the many hobbies I like to do in my spare time, apart from tinkering around with technology. However, I'm not very good at it, and after losing many games, I decided to see if I could do something I'm much better at; hacking the system!
Microsoft Teams outage causes connection issues, message delays
Hacker News
JANUARY 26, 2024
Microsoft is investigating an ongoing and widespread outage impacting the users of its Teams communication platform and causing connectivity issues, login problems, and message delays. [.
The Pentagon Tried to Hide That It Bought Americans' Data Without a Warrant
Hacker News
JANUARY 26, 2024
US spy agencies purchased Americans' phone location data and internet metadata without a warrant but only admitted it after a US senator blocked the appointment of a new NSA director.
Capturing the ripples of spacetime: LISA gets go-ahead
Hacker News
JANUARY 25, 2024
Today, ESA’s Science Programme Committee approved the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission, the first scientific endeavour to detect and study gravitational waves from space.
Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know
Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science
Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.
Ollama releases Python and JavaScript Libraries
Hacker News
JANUARY 24, 2024
The initial versions of the Ollama Python and JavaScript libraries are now available, making it easy to integrate your Python or JavaScript, or Typescript app with Ollama in a few lines of code. Both libraries include all the features of the Ollama REST API, are familiar in design, and compatible with new and previous versions of Ollama.
Proposed UN cybercrime treaty has evolved into an expansive surveillance tool
Hacker News
JANUARY 25, 2024
EFF has joined forces with 110 NGOs today in a joint statement delivered to the United Nations Ad Hoc Committee, clearly outlining civil society non-negotiable redlines for the proposed UN Cybercrime Treaty, and asserting that states should reject the proposed treaty if these essential changes are.
We build X.509 chains so you don't have to
Hacker News
JANUARY 25, 2024
By William Woodruff For the past eight months, Trail of Bits has worked with the Python Cryptographic Authority to build cryptography-x509-verification, a brand-new, pure-Rust implementation of the X.509 path validation algorithm that TLS and other encryption and authentication protocols are built on.
Can autoimmune diseases be cured? Scientists see hope at last
Hacker News
JANUARY 24, 2024
After decades of frustration and failed attempts, scientists might finally be on the cusp of developing therapies to restore immune ‘tolerance’ in conditions such as diabetes, lupus and multiple sclerosis. After decades of frustration and failed attempts, scientists might finally be on the cusp of developing therapies to restore immune ‘tolerance’ in conditions such as diabetes, lupus and multiple sclerosis.
Demystifying DAPs: A Practical Guide to Digital Adoption Success
Speaker: Pulkit Agrawal
Digital Adoption Platforms (DAPs) are revolutionizing the way organizations interact with and optimize their software applications. As digital transformation continues to accelerate, DAPs have become essential tools for enhancing user engagement and software efficiency. This session is your guide into the robust world of DAPs, exploring their origins, evolution, and the current trends shaping their development.
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