Researchers at Oxford and elsewhere developed a method that figures out the most likely number and size of dimension in which to format a string of bits, with applications to interpreting messages from extraterrestrial intelligence (METI), if we were to receive them. The new method “looks at every possible combination Read more…
Yevgeny V. Prigozhin heads the Russia-backed paramilitary Wagner Group — and was also “a close confidant of Russian president Vladimir Putin until he launched an alleged coup,” according to Wikipedia. The New York Times notes Prigozhin’s remarkable ability to bypass government censorship: Despite years of creeping Kremlin control over the Read more…
A US judge has fined two lawyers and a law firm $5,000 after fake citations generated by ChatGPT were submitted in a court filing. A district judge in Manhattan ordered Steven Schwartz, Peter LoDuca and their law firm Levidow, Levidow & Oberman to pay the fine after fictitious legal research Read more…
The NFC Forum has revealed a roadmap for NFC technology that extends from now to 2028. The roadmap outlines five key initiatives for the direction of the technology over the next two to five years, including increasing the range of NFC connections, increasing wireless charging over NFC, enabling multiple-purpose taps, Read more…
Meta has confirmed that it will remove all news content from Facebook and Instagram for users in Canada, following the passing of the Online News Act by the Canadian Parliament. Engadget reports: “Today, we are confirming that news availability will be ended on Facebook and Instagram for all users in Read more…
Introduction to Computer Science (CS50) will be encouraged to use AI to help them debug code, give feedback on their designs, and answer individual questions about error messages and unfamiliar lines of code. “Our own hope is that, through AI, we can eventually approximate a 1:1 teacher [to] student ratio Read more…
A significant proportion of people paid to train AI models may be themselves outsourcing that work to AI, a new study has found. It takes an incredible amount of data to train AI systems to perform specific tasks accurately and reliably. Many companies pay gig workers on platforms like Mechanical Read more…