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The ‘WordPress’ fight is now a lawsuit
WP Engine is suing WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg and Automattic following a public spat over the WordPress open-source project and trademark.Jess Weatherbed (The Verge)
New $70 AI Camera works with all Raspberry Pi’s without requiring additional accelerators or a GPU
It comes with onboard AI processing that can help Raspberry Pi users develop “edge AI solutions that process visual data” with ease, according to the tiny computer maker.
The 12.3 megapixel Raspberry Pi AI Camera can capture footage at either 10 frames per second in 4056 x 3040, or 40fps at 2028 x 1520. It also has a manually adjustable focus, a 76-degree field of view, and measures 25 x 24 x 11.9mm.
It’s refreshing to see some new high-end kit released that does NOT require throwing out the older hardware and having to upgrade (looking squarely at Microsoft here!). This may in fact allow some older Pis to have new life breathed into them.
See https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/30/24258134/raspberry-pi-ai-camera-module-sony-price-availability
#Blog, #AI, #raspberrypi, #technology
This #AI #Startup "Copied" an #OpenSource Project and Got Half a Million #Dollar #Funding by Y Combinator
source: https://news.itsfoss.com/pearai-controversy/
It could be harsh to say that it was just CTRL+C → CTRL+V. However, even, when you are forking a project, and copying something, doing it better really matters. And, I don't think they have fared well here.
#news #technology #software #fork #foss #floss #money #finance #startup #economy #fail #problem #omg #wtf
This AI Startup "Copied" an Open-Source Project and Got Half a Million Dollar Funding by Y Combinator
AI startups, and open-source forks with VC funding. A bad match.Ankush Das (It's FOSS News)
The World Wide Web Consortium @w3c was founded 30 years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TfUBuIZkmQ
https://www.w3.org/about/history/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web_Consortium
video via @caribou
#W3C #OnThisDay #OTD #history #technology #internet #InternetHistory #TheWeb
#Cat accused of wiping US Veteran Affairs server info after jumping on #keyboard
Source: https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/05/hospital_cat_incident/
🙀💻🚫⚠️
#usa #Problem #news #technology #computer #Software #fail #excuse
Cat accused of wiping US Veteran Affairs server info after jumping on keyboard
US govt confirms outage, leaves feline in quantum state of uncertaintyThomas Claburn (The Register)
12 Best Free and Open Source Steganography Tools
Steganography is the art and science of concealing messages in other messages in such a way that no one, apart from the sender and intended recipient, suspects the existence of the message. It’s a form of security through obscurity. Steganography is often used with cryptography. Plainly visible encrypted messages, no matter how unbreakable they are, arouse interest. This weakness is avoided with steganography.
In most cases, no-one would even know there was a hidden message, so such means are not usually subjected to attempts to crack them.
See linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-…
#Blog, #opensource, #privacy, #Steganography, #technology
15 #cybercrime statistics you ought to know
source: https://www.independent.co.uk/advisor/vpn/cybercrime-statistics
It’s a battle for individuals and smaller companies just as much as it is for big organisations; as the digital space is expanding and as #AI is impacting our everyday lives, hackers are getting more inventive every day. And, if you’re not convinced that cybercrime is going to be an issue in your life, the statistics below will change your mind.
With the security quality of our software, the internet is only running because it is more profitable for cybercriminals to keep the internet running for ramsonware attacks.
#security #cybersecurity #digital #internet #ransomware #future #economy #news #technology #software #problem #finance #money #costs #crime
15 cybercrime statistics you ought to know
Find out what you need to know about cybercrime in 2024 with our expert-selected statisticsCamille Dubuis-Welch (Independent Advisor)
Mark #Zuckerberg Reveals "Orion" #Prototype #AR #Glasses
watch:
#Meta #Facebook #technology #economy #presentation #future #news #AugmentedReality
"I think the next logical jump on that is like [...] “Okay, and we’re also going to show you content that’s generated by an AI system that might be something that you’re interested in.”"
This is great, actually. We're soon going to be free from the oppression of social media.
via https://mastodon.social/@ricmac/113199568241275738
#news #TechNews #technology #meta #facebook #threads #AI #SocialMedia
Missed this yesterday!
"Ceefax was the world's first teletext service, going live on 23 September 1974. In a pre-internet world, the revolutionary system allowed people to check the latest BBC news and sport updates at the touch of a few buttons."
https://www.bbc.com/articles/cvg360rr91zo
#OTD #OnThisDay #history #technology #teletext #ceefax
BBC Archive: Ceefax and the birth of interactive TV
The world’s first teletext service went live on 23 September 1974Nicola Kenny (BBC)
When software company Salesforce hired comedian John Mulaney to do some standup at their Dreamforce event last week, they may have got more than they bargained for. The corporate gig turned into something of a roast, with Mulaney telling the crowd: “If AI is truly smarter than us and tells us that [humans] should die, then I think we should die,” looking out to the crowd from center stage. “So many of you feel imminently replaceable.” He concluded the 45-minute no-mercy set by thanking attendees “for the world you’re creating for my son … where he will never talk to an actual human again." Here, more highlights, courtesy of the San Francisco Standard.
#Tech #Technology #Comedy #Salesforce #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #SanFrancisco #JohnMulaney
Comedian John Mulaney roasts SF techies at Dreamforce
"Let me get this straight," the comedian said. "You're hosting a 'future of AI' event in a city that has failed humanity so miserably?"Kevin V. Nguyen (The San Francisco Standard)
Many new technologies enhance air travel safety and efficiency, but they can also make the entire system more fragile and vulnerable.
Here are 6 strategies:
✈️ Pack smart for potential delays.
✈️ Be kind to airline employees and airport staff.
✈️ Purchase your tickets directly from airlines.
✈️ Have a plan B.
✈️ Bring healthy snacks and other supplies.
✈️ Don’t stew at the gate - enjoy the airport.
https://theconversation.com/airline-strategies-237372
#travel #technology #business
If new technologies snarl your airline experience, here are old-school strategies to cope
Digital technology can make flying safer, but it can also disrupt air travel.The Conversation
#3Movies about our future with #AI worth watching …
1) Maybe you know one of the opening scenes from 2001 ( ) where the apes invented the first tool with the bones. Then an ape throws a bone into the air and in the next cut you can see a space station orbiting the earth. This is a metaphor for the fact that we invented the tool first and then later we can no longer live without our tool. Although not as brilliantly as in 2001, the film recommended here poses the question of whether AI is still a tool or whether humans have already become a tool for AI? A.I. Rising: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/505914-a-i-rising
2) If AI controls everything for us in the near future, will everything be easier for us or can it be more difficult? Afraid: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1062215-afraid
3) Is humanity even worth saving? In an ethical discourse with an AI. Terminator Zero: https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/239287-terminator
#movie #entertainment #ethics #technology #future #scifi #scienceFiction #humanity #control #horror
Afraid
Wanneer Curtis de kans wordt geboden om een baanbrekend nieuw AI-systeem op de markt te brengen, maakt hij van de gelegenheid gebruik om Aia thuis samen met zijn gezin uit te testen.The Movie Database
Walkie-talkies and solar equipment exploded in Beirut in a second wave of attacks targeting devices, a day after pagers used by Hezbollah blew up.
Secretly attacking the supply chain is not a new technique in intelligence and military operations – the U.S. military has done it, too.
Read more from an electrical engineer:
https://theconversation.com/pagers-hezbollah-went-low-tech-for-communications-239283
#news #technology #politics #Israel
Pagers and walkie-talkies over cellphones – a security expert explains why Hezbollah went low-tech for communications
Smartphones may be indispensable to modern life, but they’re also perfect tools for spying on their owners. Anyone looking to avoid being tracked – like, say, militant groups – tends to ditch them.The Conversation
Some of you don't know this:
#TruthSocial is #Mastodon
I mean, the #technology
Mastodon gGmbH was talking of suing them once: you have to post the source code if you use Mastodon code (AGPL-3.0 license). #Trump avoided a lawsuit by doing that
Anyway its corporate owner #TrumpMedia isn't doing so well
Too bad, so sad
It's like #crypto: a meme stock. No inherent value, purchased by degenerates playing casino hoping other fools will buy in so they can cash out at a profit
Just another conjob
United Nations wants to treat AI with same urgency as climate change
UN report: Organization should take much more active role in AI monitoring, oversight.Ars Technica
How Memphis became a battleground over Elon Musk’s xAI supercomputer
"When the supercomputer gets to full capacity, the local utility says it’s going to need a million gallons of water per day and 150 megawatts of electricity — enough to power 100,000 homes per year."
A million gallons of water a day. A DAY.
#ai #xai #ElonMusk #electricity #water #ClimateChange #environment #ClimateCrisis #tech #technology #computer #news #npr
https://www.npr.org/2024/09/11/nx-s1-5088134/elon-musk-ai-xai-supercomputer-memphis-pollution
What #AI will do for us in the #future ... 😨
watch: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1062215-afraid
#entertainment #movie #technology #dystopia #drama
Afraid
Wanneer Curtis de kans wordt geboden om een baanbrekend nieuw AI-systeem op de markt te brengen, maakt hij van de gelegenheid gebruik om Aia thuis samen met zijn gezin uit te testen.The Movie Database
Good morning #AI #Future 🤔
source: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/09/advice-for-the-gen-z-techno-optimist/679875/
Why learn the names of flowers, plants, trees, birds, insects, or other aspects of nature? Just point your #smartphone at whatever you’re looking at, and in a snap it’ll tell you what it is. No nature guide (book or human) could possibly compete.
#technology #youth #education #knowledge #news #society #humanity #brain
Advice for the Gen Z Techno-Optimist
Musings from an oldster for today’s younger generationDouglas Hofstadter (The Atlantic)
Billionaire #LarryEllison says a vast #AI -fueled #surveillance #system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior'
"We're going to have supervision," Ellison said. "Every police officer is going to be supervised at all times, and if there's a problem, AI will report that #problem and report it to the appropriate person. Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on."
To learn from China means learn to win 🤔
#future #orwell #bigbrother #news #security #cctv #police #news #camera #technology #society #china
Larry Ellison: AI-fueled surveillance system could police citizens
Billionaire Oracle cofounder Larry Ellison said he expects AI surveillance systems to reach a point where all citizens are under constant watch.Kenneth Niemeyer (Insider)
#TikTok was in court today to overturn a U.S. law that would force the video app to divorce from its China-based parent company or be banned.
It’s the latest development in a lengthy saga over the app that many politicians in Washington fear is a security risk.
But why is TikTok controversial?
Here’s a quick rundown of reads from #cybersecurity, #socialmedia and legal experts:
https://theconversation.com/tiktok-ban-goes-to-the-court-5-essential-reads-on-the-case-and-its-consequences-239160
#news #technology
TikTok ban goes to the court: 5 essential reads on the case and its consequences
Lawyers for the popular video app warned of ‘staggering’ consequences for free speech if ban is allowed to happen.The Conversation
What can go wrong? https://qz.com/tiktok-owner-bytedance-reportedly-design-ai-chips-tsmc-1851649056
#china #ai #technology #tiktok #bytedance #economy #news #future
TikTok's owner wants to design its own AI chips
ByteDance is reportedly expecting to mass produce two chips it designed with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company by 2026Britney Nguyen (Quartz)
Of the thousands and thousands of archived hard disk drives from the 1990s that clients ask the company to work on, around one-fifth are unreadable.
Source: https://www.mixonline.com/business/inside-iron-mountain-its-time-to-talk-about-hard-drives
#news #technology #backup #Problem #hd #Harddisk #data #storage #archive #computer
Inside Iron Mountain: It’s Time to Talk About Hard Drives
By Steve Harvey. Iron Mountain sounds the alarm: Aging tracks created through an all-digital workflow aren't guaranteed to play back.Steve Harvey (Mixonline)
#Russia Covering #Aircraft With Tires Is About Confusing Image-Matching #Missile Seekers U.S. #Military Confirms
A “sort of classic unclassified example that exists is like a picture of a plane from the top, and you’re looking for a plane, and then if you put tires on top of the wings, all of a sudden, a lot of #computer vision models have difficulty identifying that that’s a plane,” Moore said as part of a larger discussion about #AI models and data sets.
#war #warfare #classification #technology #Problem #defense #news
Russia Covering Aircraft With Tires Is About Confusing Image-Matching Missile Seekers U.S. Military Confirms
Russia's efforts to confuse munitions with seekers with imaging-matching capabilities speak to issues that go beyond the war in Ukraine.Joseph Trevithick (The War Zone)
#Intel Solidifies $3.5 Billion #Deal to Make Chips for #Military
The secretive program, called #SecureEnclave, seeks to establish production for advanced chips with military and #intelligence applications. It spans multiple states, including a #manufacturing facility in #Arizona,
#news #usa #technology #economy #politics #dod #Pentagon #NSA #cia #cpu
Concern over how – and how much – their children are using media is a common source of parental guilt.
Some of this comes from the fact that parents themselves break their own rules.
Remember: Screen guilt can help guide you in creating a more balanced diet of media, and reflect on your own rules or choices.
https://theconversation.com/guilt-over-kids-screen-time-is-common-uncomfortable-and-can-stress-family-relationships-but-it-can-have-a-silver-lining-229164
#parenting #parent #technology #socialmedia
Guilt over kids’ screen time is common, uncomfortable and can stress family relationships − but it can have a silver lining
Screen use has a PR problem, and many parents feel guilty about how much time they and their children spend on it. Examining that guilt could help you make changes and improve your family dynamics.The Conversation