Leben (Life aka misc) Technology
Pentagon Opens Sweeping Review of Clandestine Psychological Operations
The Pentagon has ordered a sweeping audit of how it conducts clandestine information warfare after major social media companies identified and took offline fake accounts suspected of being run by the U.S. military in violation of the platforms’ rules. From a report: Colin Kahl, the undersecretary of defense for policy, Read more…
Leben (Life aka misc) The Planet (on, and off)
NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover Detects Intriguing Organic Matter in Rock
The Mars rover Perseverance was the subject of a new NASA briefing Thursday. CNET describes it as a celebration of this year’s discovery of organic matter — in June NASA for the first time measured the total amount of organic carbon in Martian rocks — and a celebration of rock Read more…
Crypto Leben (Life aka misc)
The US Treasury Recommends Exploring Creation of a ‘Digital Dollar’
The Biden administration is moving one step closer to developing a central bank digital currency, known as the digital dollar, saying it would help reinforce the U.S. role as a leader in the world financial system. The White House said on Friday that after President Joe Biden issued an executive Read more…
Leben (Life aka misc) Technology
‘It Felt Like Star Wars’: Flying Hoverbike Makes Its US Debut
“Whirring as it powered up, a hoverbike lifted directly into the air in Michigan, video shows.” That’s the lead from one news report about a big debut at a U.S. auto show in Detroit: a gasoline-and-electric powered hoverbike (using a Kawasaki motor) created by Japanese manufacturing company AERWINS Technologies. They’ve Read more…
Leben (Life aka misc)
Grand Theft Auto VI Leak Is a Shock To Video Game Studio Rockstar
A hacker published authentic, pre-release footage from development of Grand Theft Auto VI, the most anticipated video game from Take-Two Interactive Software. From a report: The cache of videos offers an extensive and unauthorized look at the making of one of biggest games in the industry. A leak of this Read more…
Leben (Life aka misc) Technology
Will AI Really Perform Transformative, Disruptive Miracles?
“An encounter with the superhuman is at hand,” argues Canadian novelist, essayist, and cultural commentator Stephen Marche in an article in the Atlantic titled “Of Gods and Machines”. He argues that GPT-3’s 175 billion parameters give it interpretive power “far beyond human understanding, far beyond what our little animal brains Read more…