Leben (Life aka misc) Technology
Google: 60% Of The Internet Is Duplicate
Google says “60% of the internet is duplicate.” Gary Illyes from Google posted this slide at the Google Search Central Live in Singapore the other day.
Crypto Leben (Life aka misc)
‘Partner-Swapping, Pills…’ NY Post Investigates Sam Bankman-Fried’s ‘FTX Party House’
Are we missing some clarifying details in the saga of Sam Bankman-Fried? The New York Post seems to think so, writing among other things, that inside a glamorous Bahamas penthouse, 10 roommates became “a group of financial renegades that dropped speed, blithely swapped in and out of relationships with one Read more…
Crypto Leben (Life aka misc)
Harvard Paper To Central Banks: Buy Bitcoin
A new working paper by Matthew Ferranti — a fifth-year PhD candidate in Harvard’s economics department and advisee of Ken Rogoff, a former economist at the IMF and the Federal Reserve Board of Governors who is now a Harvard professor — has caused a minor splash. From a report: In Read more…
Leben (Life aka misc)
FDA Approves Most Expensive Drug Ever, a $3.5 Million-per-Dose Gene Therapy For Hemophilia B
U.S. health regulators this week approved the first gene therapy for hemophilia, a $3.5 million one-time treatment for the blood-clotting disorder. The Food and Drug Administration cleared Hemgenix, an IV treatment for adults with hemophilia B, the less common form of the genetic disorder which primarily affects men. Currently, patients Read more…
CODE Leben (Life aka misc) Technology
Google’s Secret New Project Teaches AI To Write and Fix Code
Google is working on a secretive project that uses machine learning to train code to write, fix, and update itself. This project is part of a broader push by Google into so-called generative artificial intelligence, which uses algorithms to create images, videos, code, and more. It could have profound implications Read more…
Leben (Life aka misc) Technology
UK To Criminalize Deepfake Porn Sharing Without Consent
The Ministry of Justice has announced changes to the law which are aimed at protecting victims of revenge porn, pornographic deepfakes and other abuses related to the taking and sharing of intimate imagery without consent — in a crackdown on a type of abuse that disproportionately affects women and girls. Read more…
Creativity Leben (Life aka misc)
‘Avatar 2’ Is So Expensive It Must Become the ‘Fourth or Fifth Highest-Grossing Film in History’ Just To Break Even
How expensive is “Avatar: The Way of Water”? Early reports have claimed the production budget alone was in the $250 million range, but director James Cameron isn’t willing to give a hard number just yet. The only answer Cameron would give about the sequel’s budget when asked by GQ magazine Read more…