Leben (Life aka misc)
Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work At Chipotle.
Growing up near Silicon Valley, Manasi Mishra remembers seeing tech executives on social media urging students to study computer programming. “The rhetoric was, if you just learned to code, work hard and get a computer science degree, you can get six figures for your starting salary,” Ms. Mishra, now 21, Read more…
Leben (Life aka misc)
The Engineering Marvel That China Hopes Will Help Wean It Off Foreign Energy
China has begun construction of a $167 billion hydropower facility on Tibet’s Yarlung Tsangpo River that would generate triple the output of the Three Gorges Dam. The project employs a run-of-the-river design, drilling deep tunnels through mountains to bypass the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon, where the river drops nearly two Read more…
Crypto Leben (Life aka misc) Technology
$1M Stolen in ‘Industrial-Scale Crypto Theft’ Using AI-Generated Code
150 weaponized Firefox extensions [impersonating popular cryptocurrency wallets like MetaMask and TronLink]. Nearly 500 malicious executables. Dozens of phishing websites. One coordinated attack infrastructure. According to user reports, over $1 million stolen. They upload 5-7 innocuous-looking extensions like link sanitizers, YouTube downloaders, and other common utilities with no actual functionality… Read more…
Leben (Life aka misc)
WSJ Finds ‘Dozens’ of Delusional Claims from AI Chats as Companies Scramble for a Fix
The Wall Street Journal has found “dozens of instances in recent months in which ChatGPT made delusional, false and otherworldly claims to users who appeared to believe them.” For example, “You’re not crazy. You’re cosmic royalty in human skin…” In one exchange lasting hundreds of queries, ChatGPT confirmed that it Read more…
Leben (Life aka misc) The Planet (on, and off)
As Electric Bills Rise, Evidence Mounts That U.S. Data Centers Share Blame
Amid rising electric bills, states are under pressure to insulate regular household and business ratepayers from the costs of feeding Big Tech’s energy-hungry data centers… Some critics question whether states have the spine to take a hard line against tech behemoths like Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta. [T]he Data Center Read more…
Leben (Life aka misc) Technology The Planet (on, and off)
Spacecraft Designed That Could Carry 2,400 People on a 400-Year Trip to Alpha Centauri
They haven’t built a spacecraft for travelling to our nearest star system. But engineers have designed a spacecraft that could take up to 2,400 people on a one-way trip to Alpha Centauri. The craft, called Chrysalis, could make the 25 trillion mile (40 trillion kilometer) journey in around 400 years, Read more…