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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)}

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}

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

https://www.huaweicentral.com/huawei-reportedly-built-eda-chip-making-tools-to-produce-kirin-9020/

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…

#technology #3dprinting #ai

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 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)}

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.

flip.it/G_w012
#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. protests

^{Laura Doan (CBS News)}

• 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.

Top Chinese scientists flee Boston area as Harvard, MIT fall in rankings ; Silicon Valley also hit

Bullets:

^{Kevin Walmsley (Inside China / Business)}

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

Senators Demand Transparency on Canceled VA Contracts

^ProPublica

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

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.

news.elenarossini.com/fedivers…

#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 it

^{Elena Rossini}

https://www.pcmag.com/news/report-trump-administration-ignored-advice-on-starlink-installation-at

#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)}

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)}