Crypto Leben (Life aka misc)
Bitcoin Reaches and Surpasses $100k USD
Bitcoin just broke $100,000 USD for the first time and reached as high as $104k, and is now sitting at $102,857 at the time of this writing.
Leben (Life aka misc) Technology
Elon Musk’s xAI Plans Massive Expansion of AI Supercomputer in Memphis
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI plans to expand its Memphis, Tennessee, supercomputer to house at least one million graphics processing units (GPUs), as xAI races to compete against rivals like OpenAI. The move represents a massive expansion for the supercomputer called Colossus, which currently has 100,000 GPUs to train Read more…
Creativity Leben (Life aka misc) Technology
Music Sector Workers Will Lose Nearly a Quarter of Their Income to AI in 4 Years, Study Suggests
People working in the music sector will lose almost a quarter of their income to artificial intelligence within the next four years, according to the first global economic study examining the impact of the emerging technology on human creativity. Those working in the audiovisual sector will also see their income Read more…
Crypto Leben (Life aka misc)
Hard Drive Tossed in Landfill With Bitcoin Now Worth $800 Million. Lawsuits Continue
11 years ago his hard drive ended up in a U.K. landfill — with 8,000 bitcoin. It’s now worth $800 million… and James Howell wants it back. His bid to become extremely rich reached a judge on Tuesday with a team of lawyers arguing that it was still possible to Read more…
Leben (Life aka misc)
Backdoor in Compromised Solana Code Library Drains $184,000 from Digital Wallets
The Solana JavaScript SDK “was temporarily compromised yesterday in a supply chain attack, with the library backdoored with malicious code to steal cryptocurrency private keys and drain wallets. Solana offers an SDK called “@solana/web3.js” used by decentralized applications (dApps) to connect and interact with the Solana blockchain. Supply chain security Read more…
Leben (Life aka misc) Renos Technology
OpenAI Releases ‘Smarter, Faster’ ChatGPT – Plus $200-a-Month Subscriptions for ‘Even-Smarter Mode’
Wednesday OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced “12 Days of OpenAI,” promising that “Each weekday, we will have a livestream with a launch or demo…” And sure enough, today he announced the launch of two things: “o1, the smartest model in the world. Smarter, faster, and more features (e.g. multimodality) than Read more…
Leben (Life aka misc)
75 Years of Lead in Gasoline Caused 150 Million Mental Health Disorders, Study Finds
The use of lead in gasoline might have harmed the mental health of a generation. Gen X bears an extra burden of conditions such as depression, anxiety, ADHD and neurotic behavior because of the leaded gasoline they were exposed to as children, according to a study published Wednesday in the Read more…