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pheras, 3 months ago to random

AT&T mobile network fails.

HW fault, SW fault, Heissenbug?

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/22/tech/att-cell-service-outage/index.html

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'A California regulator has "suspended" until June 19 an application by Waymo to expand its robotaxi services to parts of the Los Angeles area and San Francisco's peninsula, amid rising safety concerns over autonomous vehicles.'
https://www.reuters.com/technology/california-suspends-waymos-application-expand-parts-la-sfs-peninsula-2024-02-21

pheras, 3 months ago to random Spanish

The State of the Culture, 2024

Or a glimpse into post-entertainment society (it's not pretty)

By Ted Gioia

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-state-of-the-culture-2024

pheras, 3 months ago to random Spanish

Have AI companies infringed copyright law?

Does fair use apply beyond personal or academic context when a product commercialized at global scale is involved?

Regarding copyright law: when AI companies train their models with copyrighted material, are they doing something similar to what Google did scanning books?

https://www.understandingai.org/p/the-ai-community-needs-to-take-copyright

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https://rachel.fast.ai/posts/2024-02-20-ai-medicine/

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Object Storage and In-Process Databases (SQLite, DuckDB) are Changing Distributed Systems
https://blog.colinbreck.com/object-storage-and-in-process-databases-are-changing-distributed-systems/

cc @bert_hubert

pheras, 3 months ago to random Spanish

Data Centers costs

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/drought-stricken-communities-push-back-against-data-centers-n1271344

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/04/25/data-centers-drought-water-use/

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220914-how-the-tide-turned-on-data-centres-in-europe

"Not so long ago, European countries were falling over each other to welcome the firms that run these warehouses, known as data centres or bit barns.

Wide-eyed politicians trumpeted investments and dreamt of creating global tech hubs.

But then the dream went sour."

pheras, 3 months ago to random

US Campus Antisemitism — How Did We Get Here? (Draft for comments)
By Professor @vardi
https://medium.com/@vardi/us-campus-antisemitism-how-did-we-get-here-draft-for-comments-25d16d8d2d2d

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https://jacobin.com/2024/02/yanis-varoufakis-techno-feudalism-capitalism-interview/

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https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-02-16/rafah-gaza-hospitals-surgery-israel-bombing-ground-offensive-children

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https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2024/01/24/edgar-morin-faced-with-the-polycrisis-humanity-is-going-through-the-first-resistance-is-that-of-the-spirit_6460205_23.html

pheras, 3 months ago to random

The New Yorker:

Is the Media Prepared for an Extinction-Level Event?

Ads are scarce, search and social traffic is dying, and readers are burned out. The future will require fundamentally rethinking the press’s relationship to its audience.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-weekend-essay/is-the-media-prepared-for-an-extinction-level-event

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Software Liability
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/02/on-software-liabilities.html

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AayZuuDDKP0

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https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/coming-flood-disinformation

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PLEASE RETWEET:
A free Open Access copy of "The Elephant and the Blind" (MIT Press, 2024) can be downloaded at https://mpe-project.info or at http://tinyurl.com/2b3ryd63.

by Prof. @metzinger

pheras, 3 months ago to random

FT: China on cusp of next-generation chip production despite US curbs.

"SMIC is aiming to use its existing stock of US and Dutch-made equipment to produce more-miniaturised 5-nanometre chips. The production line will make Kirin chips designed by Huawei’s HiSilicon unit and destined for new versions of its premium smartphones."

https://www.ft.com/content/b5e0dba3-689f-4d0e-88f6-673ff4452977

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What the world gets wrong about ‘civilisation’

Josephine Quinn is a professor of ancient history at the University of Oxford. Her book ‘How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History’ is published by Bloomsbury on February 29

https://westobserver.com/business/what-the-world-gets-wrong-about-civilisation/

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"I consider myself a Luddite not because I want to halt progress or reject technology itself. But I believe, as the original Luddites argued in a particularly influential letter threatening the industrialists, that we must consider whether a technology is “hurtful to commonality”—whether it causes many to suffer for the benefit of a few—and oppose it when necessary."

@brianmerchant in The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/02/new-luddites-ai-protest/677327/

pheras, 4 months ago to random

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2024/2/279537-computing-education-in-the-era-of-generative-ai/fulltext#FNL

pheras, 4 months ago to random

"Understanding is not a computational process"

Roger Penrose - What is Consciousness?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdjHRA7fV10

pheras, 4 months ago to random Spanish

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/21/we-need-to-come-together-british-artists-team-up-to-fight-ai-image-generating-software