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Nineteenth Century Scientists Set Out to Solve the "Problem of American Storms"
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National Endowment for the Humanities
Storm Patrol
Life as a Signal Corps weatherman was dangerous, and not only because inclement weather could, and did, inflict occasional casualties. For observer-sergeants, “other duties as assigned” could include dealing with labor riots, conflicts with Native Americans…
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Neanderthals hunted dangerous cave lions, study shows
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phys.org
Neanderthals hunted dangerous cave lions, study shows
Neanderthals hunted cave lions and used the skin of this dangerous carnivore, a new study has shown for the first time.
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Removal of Mazda Connected Services Integration
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Home Assistant
Removal of Mazda Connected Services integration
Why the integration has been removed from Home Assistant in 2023.10.2.
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"Hallucinating" AIs sound creative, but let's not celebrate being wrong
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The MIT Press Reader
“Hallucinating” AIs Sound Creative, but Let’s Not Celebrate Being Wrong
The term “hallucination,” which has been widely adopted to describe large language models (LLMs) outputting false information, is misleading. Its application to creativity risks compounding that.
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Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customers' cars: Ex-employees
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www.abc.net.au
Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customers' cars, ex-employees say
Between 2019 and 2022, groups of Tesla employees privately shared via an internal messaging system sometimes highly invasive videos and images recorded by customers’ car cameras, according to former employees.
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TimeGPT-1
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Text embeddings reveal almost as much as text
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Sodium ascorbate treatment for sepsis moves to next phase of human trials
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The Florey
‘Remarkable’ medical discovery for sepsis moves to next phase of human trials | The Florey
Promising results from an initial clinical trial show that sodium ascorbate – a pH-balanced formulation of vitamin C – is effective in treating sepsis.
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Histotripsy – a technique that harnesses soundwaves to attack cancer
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Michigan Engineering News
These bubbles kill cancer
It’s called histotripsy. And it could change cancer treatment forever.
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Would we still create Nebula today?
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Defined Networking
Would we still create Nebula today? - Defined Networking
Spoiler: Yes. (But the "why" matters. A lot.)
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It looks like the 23k year old human footprints at White Sands are solid
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ArcheoThoughts
It looks like the 23ky old human footprints at White Sands are solid
Two years ago, Bennet et al. (2021) made a lot of headlines with a claim of (quite amazing) 23 000 year old human footprints on the margin of paleolake Otero, at White Sands National Park in New Me…
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Equifax scores £11.1M slap on wrist over 2017 mega breach
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The Register
Equifax scores £11.1M slap on wrist over 2017 mega breach
Not quite a pound for every one of the 13.8 million affected UK citizens, and it could have been more
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MathJax: Beautiful and accessible math in all browsers
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MathJax
Beautiful math in all browsers.
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What's wrong with CVEs? Daniel Stenberg of cURL wants you to know
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Sustain
Sustain Episode 203: What’s wrong with CVEs? Daniel Stenberg of cURL wants you to know
Daniel discusses CVE issues, proposes fixes, and addresses concerns like DDOS attacks while Dan shares insights on NVD and improving CVE quality.
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The whole of the Whole Earth Catalog is now online
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WIRED
The Whole of the 'Whole Earth Catalog' Is Now Online
The seminal DIY catalogs, journals, and magazines printed by the techno-hippie Whole Earth publishing house are finally available online in digital form, all for free.
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iSponsorBlockTV v2: SponsorBlock for TVs and game consoles
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GitHub
GitHub - dmunozv04/iSponsorBlockTV: SponsorBlock client for all YouTube TV clients.
SponsorBlock client for all YouTube TV clients. Contribute to dmunozv04/iSponsorBlockTV development by creating an account on GitHub.
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The MP3mobile (1998)
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utter.chaos.org.uk
The MP3mobile!
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Ads on your phone can aid government surveillance
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WSJ
How Ads on Your Phone Can Aid Government Surveillance
Technology embedded in our devices to serve up ads can end up aiding federal agencies that buy the data in bulk.
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Chat Control 2.0: EU set to approve end of private messaging, secure encryption
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Patrick Breyer
Chat Control 2.0: EU governments set to approve the end of private messaging and secure encryption
By making a minor concession EU governments hope to find a majority next week to approve the controversial „chat control“ bill. According to the proposed child sexual abuse regulation (CSAR), providers of messengers, e-mail and chat services would be forced…
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Extinct goat was cold-blooded (2009)
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phys.org
Extinct goat was cold-blooded
(PhysOrg.com) -- An extinct goat that lived on a barren Mediterranean island survived for millions of years by reducing in size and by becoming cold-blooded, which has never before been discovered in ...
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Playing Pokemon Red with Reinforcement Learning
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GitHub
GitHub - PWhiddy/PokemonRedExperiments: Playing Pokemon Red with Reinforcement Learning
Playing Pokemon Red with Reinforcement Learning. Contribute to PWhiddy/PokemonRedExperiments development by creating an account on GitHub.
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