Archive for the 'Technology' Category
“All New Cars Today Are Privacy Nightmares On Wheels”
September 25th, 2024This is nuts. Via: ColdFusion:
California Fast Food Chains Replacing Employees with Robots
September 23rd, 2024Via: Daily Mail: Chipotle has introduced two robots that can take over tasks normally done by its workers. The ‘autocado’ can peel, stone and cut an avocado for guacamole in 26 seconds. Meanwhile, a ‘digital makeline’ portions up salads and bowls based on orders on the app. The machines are part of an automation drive […]
Texas Man Gets in Shootout with a Police Robot, Loses
September 20th, 2024Via: KCBD: One person is in custody after Lubbock authorities responded to a barricaded subject Wednesday morning. Felix Delarosa, 39, is charged with aggravated assault against a public servant following a SWAT standoff that lasted nearly two hours. … Authorities used the Lubbock Regional Bomb Squad Robot to help take Delarosa into custody. When the […]
Microsoft Electricity Purchase Agreement Will Restart Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant for AI Data Centers
September 20th, 2024Via: The Verge: Microsoft just signed a deal to revive the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. If approved by regulators, the software maker would have exclusive rights to 100 percent of the output for its AI data center needs. Constellation, the owner of the Three Mile Island plant, announced a power purchase agreement […]
Australia’s Biggest Medical Imaging Lab Is Training AI on Its Scan Data Without Patient Consent
September 19th, 2024Via: Crikey: Australia’s biggest radiology company has handed over the private medical scans of potentially hundreds of thousands of patients, without their knowledge, to a start-up company that will use the scans to train artificial intelligence, in what privacy experts say is a practice that the law should protect against.
New York Times Claims Israel Built Explosives Into Pagers
September 19th, 2024I had assumed that the equipment was intercepted and modified by the Israelis, but this appears to not be the case. The New York Times claims that the Israelis built the pagers and sold them to Hezbollah. Via: Daily Mail: The Israeli secret service didn’t just tamper with the deadly Hezbollah pagers — they made […]
Omnipresent AI Cameras Will Ensure Good Behavior, Says Larry Ellison
September 17th, 2024In 2017, I wrote about where I thought mass surveillance was headed in the U.S.: I think the reality is that a dossier on every “citizen” is being automatically maintained. The dossier contains everything from purchases to Internet activity, audio from phone calls, to full contents of emails. Income. Library records. Travel records. etc. Additionally, […]
Ukrainian Drone Hunts Russians INSIDE Building
September 14th, 2024Maybe your last chance/holdout piece should be a 12 gauge shotgun loaded with bird shot. RT correspondent Andrei Filatov filmed an FPV drone attack that happened during his live report. from May 2024 in Krasnogorovka pic.twitter.com/nybySUYVTS — Tony (@Cyberspec1) September 12, 2024
AI Chatbots Could Be Used To Convince People That Conspiracy Theories Aren’t Real
September 14th, 2024Science Magazine: AI Chatbots Could Be Used To Convince People That Conspiracy Theories Aren't Real pic.twitter.com/0UREofJbDX — cryptogon (@cryptogon) September 15, 2024 Via: Science: Widespread belief in unsubstantiated conspiracy theories is a major source of public concern and a focus of scholarly research. Despite often being quite implausible, many such conspiracies are widely believed. Prominent […]
OpenAI Releases o1, Its First Model with ‘Reasoning’ Abilities
September 13th, 2024Via: The Verge: OpenAI is releasing a new model called o1, the first in a planned series of “reasoning” models that have been trained to answer more complex questions, faster than a human can. It’s being released alongside o1-mini, a smaller, cheaper version. And yes, if you’re steeped in AI rumors: this is, in fact, […]
