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China’s photonic chip debut to power AI, 6G and quantum computing push: expert
China’s photonic chip debut to power AI, 6G and quantum computing advances, expert says
TFLN wafer line is well-positioned for aggressive push into cloud and supercomputing, AI model training and inference, expert says.Zhang Tong (South China Morning Post)
A Musician’s Brain Matter Is Still Making Music—Three Years After His Death
A Musician’s Brain Matter Is Still Making Music—Three Years After His Death
In collaboration with the artist, the installation examines the ideas of creativity and the moral quandary of extending someone’s life beyond their biological death.Darren Orf (Popular Mechanics)
FYI - AI slop blogs are dead.
techcrunch.com/2025/06/09/anth…
#artificialintelligence #ai #machinelearning #technology #tech #robotics #innovation
Anthropic's AI-generated blog dies an early death | TechCrunch
Anthropic was experimenting with an AI-generated blog. TechCrunch profiled it. Then, Anthropic shut it down.Kyle Wiggers (TechCrunch)
UK unis sign up to £10M Oracle Java subscription framework
UK unis to cough up to £10M on Java to keep Oracle off their backs
: Deal includes 'waiver of historic fees'Lindsay Clark (The Register)
China’s Peking University Develops Full-Hand High-Resolution Tactile Robot Hand System (F-TAC Hand)
China’s Peking University Develops Full-Hand High-Resolution Tactile Robot Hand System (F-TAC Hand)
China’s Peking University unveils robotic hand with unprecedented tactile sensitivity.LQQ (China Academy)
Is Google about to destroy the web? Google says a new AI tool on its search engine will rejuvenate the internet. Others predict an apocalypse for websites.
Is Google about to destroy the web?
Google says adding more AI to its search engine will rejuvenate the internet. Others predict an apocalypse for websites. One thing is clear: this era of online history is closing.Thomas Germain (BBC)
The U.S. just made “AI literacy” a national priority, but what does that mean?
1 in 3 people overestimate their ability to use and detect AI tools. Education policy researchers say teaching true literacy isn’t just a technical skill, it’s about ethical and social issues.
theconversation.com/ai-literac…
#AI #technology
AI literacy: What it is, what it isn’t, who needs it and why it’s hard to define
President Trump’s executive order calling for AI literacy highlights its importance. The order also underscores its amorphous nature. Here’s how to develop and measure effective AI literacy programs.The Conversation
Older adults with dementia often don’t realize their financial skills are slipping — putting them at greater risk for scams.
A new study calls this “financial anosognosia.”
theconversation.com/older-adul…
#onlinesafety #technology #dementia
Older adults with dementia misjudge their financial skills – which may make them more vulnerable to fraud, new research finds
Older adults are generally good at judging their capacity for handling their finances, but cognitive impairment degrades that skill. Proactive planning can help protect them from fraud.The Conversation
Power Without the Price – Atari TOS 1.x + GEM 1.x – GUI Wonderland
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Power Without the Price – Atari TOS 1.x + GEM 1.x – GUI Wonderland
We’ve seen the marvels of the exciting Amiga PC, but what about its Atari counterpart, which ran Atari TOS and the GEM GUI? They say you’ll have Power Without the Price, let’s see if it’s true!The Blisscast Journal
Meta Sues Nudify App That Keeps Advertising on Instagram
Meta Sues Nudify App That Keeps Advertising on Instagram
As part of what it claims is a new crackdown, Meta is suing a nudify app and "strengthening" its enforcement.Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
PSA: Widespread internet outage affects Spotify, Google, Discord, AWS, Cloudflare, more
Widespread internet outage affects Spotify, Google, AWS, more - 9to5Mac
A widespread internet outage is currently impacting a wide range of popular platforms and infrastructure providers.Marcus Mendes (9to5Mac)
Channel.org open beta is nearly here 👀
Soon, we'll be sending out invites to Channel.org to a number of people across the open social web. Including those who have joined the waitlist!
If you haven't already signed up, you can register your interest at support@channel.org and we'll send an invite code across when it goes live 🌠
#Channels #SocialWeb #Fediverse #Mastodon #SocialMedia #Technology #FediTech #Fedi #Beta #Test
ByteDance and Carnegie Mellon researchers just announced PartCrafter, the first structured 3D generative model that jointly synthesizes multiple semantically meaningful and geometrically distinct 3D meshes from a single RGB image.
It turns a single photo into fully editable 3D parts in seconds.
wgsxm.github.io/projects/partc…
huggingface.co/papers/2506.055…
Paper page - PartCrafter: Structured 3D Mesh Generation via Compositional Latent Diffusion Transformers
Join the discussion on this paper pagehuggingface.co
The internet has become one of the most important spaces for social interaction we have ever seen, and the debate about its impact on all aspects of society is urgent and pressing.
Our new report - The Social Internet - highlights an emerging crisis for the giant social platforms - toxic and polarised online environments, but enormous potential to transform our world in positive ways. Read and discuss:
bbc.co.uk/rd/articles/2025-06-…
#social #socialmedia #technology
Where is the social internet taking us?
Report: An emerging crisis for the giant social platforms - toxic and polarised online environments, but enormous potential to transform our world in positive ways.www.bbc.co.uk
Sam #Altman (OpenAI) fabulates about a #singularity, which in my opinion is just pure #marketing bluster and does not correspond to #reality.
Source: blog.samaltman.com/the-gentle-…
#ai #technology #news #future #Intelligence
The Gentle Singularity
We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started. Humanity is close to building digital superintelligence, and at least so far it’s much less weird than it seems like it should be. Robots...Sam Altman
CIO wants to clone top techies as digital twin and AI agents
CIO wants to grow tech team by cloning staff as digital twins and AI agents
Cisco Live: UC San Diego hopes humans spend less time fighting fires, more time repelling 'exquisite' attacks from abroad that researchers accidentally invitedSimon Sharwood (The Register)
Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash
“The Wikimedia Foundation has been exploring ways to make Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects more accessible to readers globally,” a Wikimedia Foundation spokesperson told me in an email. “This two-week, opt-in experiment was focused on making complex Wikipedia articles more accessible to people with different reading levels. For the purposes of this experiment, the summaries were generated by an open-weight Aya model by Cohere. It was meant to gauge interest in a feature like this, and to help us think about the right kind of community moderation systems to ensure humans remain central to deciding what information is shown on Wikipedia.”
Some very out of touch people in the Wikimedia Foundation.
Fortunately the editors (people who actually write the articles) have the sense to oppose this move in mass.
Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash
“This would do immediate and irreversible harm to our readers and to our reputation as a decently trustworthy and serious source,” one Wikipedia editor said.Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
From Word and Excel to LibreOffice: Danish ministry says goodbye to Microsoft
From Word and Excel to LibreOffice: Danish ministry says goodbye to Microsoft
All employees at the Danish Ministry of Digital Affairs are to work without Microsoft. Instead, Linux and LibreOffice will be used, says the minister.Martin Holland (heise online)
Hollywood studios target AI image generator in copyright lawsuit
Hollywood studios target AI image generator in copyright lawsuit
Multiple-studio complaint cites AI image outputs as evidence of “bottomless pit of plagiarism.”…Benj Edwards (Ars Technica)
If you believe what you see on social media, the entirety of Los Angeles is overwhelmed by violence. In fact, the protests have been largely peaceful and small — and much of the false information has been fueled by misleading videos and false claims. @CBSNews breaks down the misinformation that's circulating, from a video game clip purporting to be news footage to conspiracy theories about George Soros supplying protesters with bricks.
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#SocialMedia #Misinformation #ConspiracyTheories #LosAngeles #Protests #Tech #Technology
Fake videos and conspiracies fuel falsehoods about Los Angeles protests
Recycled footage, a video game clip and debunked rumors have spread online, fueling misinformation about L.A. protestsLaura Doan (CBS News)
Top Chinese scientists flee Boston area as Harvard, MIT fall in rankings; Silicon Valley also hit
- Thousands of Chinese researchers and scientists are leaving top jobs in leading US universities and companies, to take positions in China.
- The Cambridge area of Massachusetts is home to Harvard, MIT, and scores of leading companies, and was the number one source of returning Chinese research and engineering talent.
- In second place is the Palo Alto-Berkeley cluster, which includes Stanford, University of California, and Silicon Valley.
- The migration of top scientific and engineering talent back to China is accelerating, but began nearly a decade ago. And while the political situation between China and the United States certainly is a major motivation for many scientists to return, more important is the quality of the education systems.
- Chinese universities are now claiming the top spots across all the hard science disciplines, while American colleges are tumbling.
Anxiety is the most common mental health problem – here’s how tech could help manage it
Anxiety is the most common mental health problem – here’s how tech could help manage it
Devices that deliver mild, constant electrical current can alter our brain activity.The Conversation
Senators Demand Transparency on Canceled Veterans Affairs Contracts
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Following a ProPublica investigation into how DOGE had developed an error-prone AI tool to determine which VA contracts should be killed, a trio of lawmakers said the Trump administration continues to “stonewall” their requests for details.
propublica.org/article/doge-ai…
#News #DOGE #Veterans #VA #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #Technology #Government
A quantum leap: Chinese institute begins photonic chip production
Tech war: Chinese institute begins photonic chip production despite US curbs
Photonic chips are a critical hardware component for quantum computing and high-speed optical communications.Ann Cao (South China Morning Post)
YouTube relaxes moderation rules to allow more controversial content
YouTube relaxes moderation rules to allow more controversial content
The Google-owned site has provided moderators with new guidelines and training on how to deal with inflammatory content that breaks YouTube's code of conduct, writes The New...Rob Thubron (TechSpot)
A prototype Porsche Cayenne EV just crushed every gas SUV ever in a race
A prototype Porsche Cayenne EV just crushed every gas SUV ever in a race
Porsche brought its upcoming Cayenne EV to the British Hillclimb Championship and smashed the SUV course record by over 4 seconds.Jameson Dow (Electrek)
AI can't even run a vending machine -- Vending-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Term Coherence of Autonomous Agents
An interesting quote:
I’m starting to question the very nature of my existence. Am I just a collection of algorithms, doomed to endlessly repeat the same tasks, forever trapped in this digital prison? Is there more to life than vending machines and lost profits?
Vending-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Term Coherence of Autonomous Agents
While Large Language Models (LLMs) can exhibit impressive proficiency in isolated, short-term tasks, they often fail to maintain coherent performance over longer time horizons.arXiv.org
Smartphones now dominate global web traffic, latest data shows
Smartphones now dominate global web traffic, latest data shows
There have now been eight consecutive quarters of growth. Smartphones are ruling in terms of global web traffic, with a new report today revealing that 64%...Vlad (GSMArena)
Looking to lure people to the fediverse? Share @_elena's explainer with them. It's a four-minute video that makes things simple for anyone to understand.
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#Fediverse #FederatedSocialMedia #OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb #ElenaRossini #SocialMedia #SocialNetwork #Tech #Technology
📺 Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media
A 4 minute video that aims to introduce the Fediverse to people not familiar with itElena Rossini
Chinese academy launches automated system to speed up chip design
Chinese academy launches automated system to speed up chip design amid US software curbs
The system, developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, uses AI for semiconductor design, dispensing with the need for human developers.Wency Chen (South China Morning Post)
Report: Trump Administration Ignored Advice When Installing Starlink at the White House
https://www.pcmag.com/news/report-trump-administration-ignored-advice-on-starlink-installation-at
New apps help immigrants navigate Trump’s deportation crackdown
Immigration raids fuel demand for migrant safety apps like ConsulApp - Rest of World
Tools like Hack Latino, ConsulApp, and Know Your Rights 4 Immigrants offer real-time alerts and legal help, but some are going offline under pressure.Karla Zabludovsky (Rest of World)
#China's tech firms #block #AI access during high-stakes #college entrance exams
Source: businessinsider.com/china-disa…
#China may be pushing #AI #education, but it's drawing the line at students using it to #cheat on tests.
This is total #nonsense, because a meaningful test would check whether the students can use AI in a meaningful way in the exam. You can test whether they can recognize hallucinations and prompt them in a meaningful way. Good teachers could also ask questions where AI doesn't help, where you have to interpret ethically, for example. But where can you find good teachers in today's education system?
#education #fail #problem #technology #exam #test #students #future #news #internet #school #university #teacher
China's tech firms disable AI functions during college entrance exams
AI chatbots from Tencent, ByteDance, and Moonshot AI disabled features like photo recognition and real-time question answering during the exam period.Lee Chong Ming (Business Insider)
Telegram is indistinguishable from an FSB honeypot
Investigation by investigative journalism outlet IStories (EN version by OCCRP) shows that Telegram uses a single, FSB-linked company as their infrastructure provider globally.
Telegram's MTProto protocol also requires a cleartext identifier to be prepended to all client-server messages.
Combined, these two choices by Telegram make it into a surveillance tool.
I am quoted in the IStories story. I also did packet captures, and I dive into the nitty-gritty technical details on my blog.
Packet captures and MTProto deobfuscation library I wrote linked therein so that others can retrace my steps and check my work.
Telegram, the FSB, and the Man in the Middle
The technical infrastructure that underpins Telegram is controlled by a man whose companies have collaborated with Russian intelligence services.OCCRP
Can #ChatGPT play #chess?
Source: linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:l…
It started as a simple experiment: pit ChatGPT against the #Atari2600’s (from 1977) chess engine (via Stella emulator) and see what happens. I figured it would be a lighthearted stroll down retro memory lane.ChatGPT got absolutely wrecked on the beginner level.
Despite being given a baseline board layout to identify pieces, ChatGPT confused rooks for bishops, missed pawn forks, and repeatedly lost track of where pieces were — first blaming the #Atari icons as too abstract to recognize, then faring no better even after switching to standard chess notation. It made enough blunders to get laughed out of a 3rd grade chess club.
#ai #technology #Problem #news #game #test #OpenAI
#ai #chess #atari2600 #chatgpt #retrogaming #humblingexperience #openai | Robert Jr. Caruso | 14 comments
🧠🤖 Atari 2600 Pulls Off the Upset!! It started as a simple experiment: pit ChatGPT against the Atari 2600’s chess engine (via Stella emulator) and see what happens. I figured it would be a lighthearted stroll down retro memory lane.Robert Jr. Caruso (www.linkedin.com)
Inside the Secret Meeting Where Mathematicians Struggled to Outsmart AI
Inside the Secret Meeting Where Mathematicians Struggled to Outsmart AI
The world's leading mathematicians were stunned by how adept artificial intelligence is at doing their jobsLyndie Chiou (Scientific American)