Anyone who works as a freelancer these days has to be at least a bit familiar with techie things. But it isn’t just that. When I was a kid and those vaguely SF puppet shows were on the television and all the other kids wanted to be Greg Gogetem or Steve Savetheuniverse, I wanted to be the guy in a white coat and glasses called Doc or Brains. Here are some technology-related feeds I find useful and/or entertaining.
New Scientist – News » AI can tell a person's sex from brain scans with 90 per cent accuracy
A new kind of brain-scanning method may give a way to tell men’s and women’s brains apart, but a long history of incorrect claims in this field suggests the findings need to be further tested [Link]
Slashdot » Meizu Moves Away From Smartphone Business, Will Invest All in AI
Meizu is quitting the smartphone business. The company, owned by car maker Geely, said AI is the future and will invest "All in AI". From a report: According to a post on Weibo, the FlymeOS team will be restructured into working on new AI terminal devices that will use globally available LLM (large language model) such as Open AI. Meizu … [Link]
Slashdot » How One Developer Earned Over $300K From Games Made in 30 Minutes
An anonymous reader shares a report: "The first one, I'll be honest, probably took seven or eight hours," says TJ Gardner. "But the subsequent ones — Stroke the Beaver, for example — would have taken about half an hour." Gardner is the creator of the "Stroke" video games, available to download from the PlayStation Store for $4 a pop. Each … [Link]
Slashdot » Biden Administration Is Said To Slow Early Stage of Shift To Electric Cars
An anonymous reader shares a report: In a concession to automakers and labor unions, the Biden administration intends to relax elements of one of its most ambitious strategies to combat climate change, limits on tailpipe emissions that are designed to get Americans to switch from gas-powered cars to electric vehicles, according to three people familiar with the plan. Instead of … [Link]
Slashdot » Capital One Is Buying Discover
Capital One is buying Discover Financial (non-payalled source) in a deal that would marry two of the largest credit-card companies in the U.S. WSJ: The all-stock deal could be announced Tuesday, according to people familiar with the matter. Discover has a market value of $28 billion, and the takeover would be expected to value it at a premium to that. … [Link]
Slashdot » Nintendo Switch 2 Will Now Launch in 2025, Reports Say
VGC: Nintendo's next console could launch later than expected, in early 2025, it's claimed. That's according to Brazilian journalist Pedro Henrique Lutti Lippe, who claims in a new OX do Controle video that he received the information from five separate sources. According to the sources, they are also working on games targeting Q1 2025, to launch alongside the console itself, … [Link]
Slashdot » Why Some of Apple's Biggest Fans Are Returning Their Vision Pros
Apple is probably at least 18 months away from launching a second-generation Vision Pro. Based on the early response to the first version, that may be a long time for some people to wait. Bloomberg: Since the Vision Pro debuted on Feb. 2, it's become clear that the mixed-reality headset is still a work in progress. Despite the dazzling demos … [Link]
New Scientist – News » Monster black hole powers the brightest known object in the universe
Astronomers have found a quasar 12 billion light years away hosting a supermassive black hole that gobbles up a sun-sized amount of mass every day [Link]
New Scientist – News » Niacin supplements linked to greater risk of heart attacks and strokes
People with higher levels of niacin in their blood may be more at risk of a heart attack or stroke, possibly because too much of the vitamin inflames blood vessels [Link]
New Scientist – News » Is it time for a more subtle view on the ultimate taboo: cannibalism?
New archaeological evidence shows that ancient humans ate each other surprisingly often – sometimes for compassionate reasons. The finds give us an opportunity to reassess our views on the practice [Link]
New Scientist – News » Underwater photo competition showcases stunning images of marine life
Diving seabirds, a tiny octopus and a close encounter with a grey whale feature in breathtaking entries for the 2024 Underwater Photographer of the Year competition [Link]
Slashdot » Tech Leaders Fled San Francisco During the Pandemic. Now, They're Coming Back.
Founders and investors who moved to Miami and elsewhere are returning to a boom in AI and an abundance of tech talent. From a report: In 2020, venture capitalist Keith Rabois urged startup founders to join him in ditching San Francisco for Miami, praising the city's safety, lower taxes and tech-friendly mayor. The self-proclaimed contrarian investor, who made a fortune … [Link]
Slashdot » Wyze Says Camera Breach Let 13,000 Customers Briefly See Into Other People's Homes
An anonymous reader shares a report: Wyze's problems with letting its security camera customers briefly see into other customer homes is a lot worse than we thought. Last week, co-founder David Crosby said that "so far" the company had identified 14 people who were able to briefly see into a stranger's property because they were shown an image from someone … [Link]
Slashdot » FBI Warns Chinese Malware Could Threaten Critical US Infrastructure
The FBI is "laser focused" on Chinese efforts to insert malicious software code into computer networks in ways that could disrupt critical US infrastructure, according to the agency's director Christopher Wray. From a report: Wray said he was acutely concerned about "pre-positioning" of malware. He said the US recently disrupted a Chinese hacking network known as Volt Typhoon that targeted … [Link]
Slashdot » The Linux Kernel Prepares For Rust 1.77 Upgrade
An anonymous reader shared this post from Phoronix: With Linux 6.8 the kernel's Rust code was brought up to Rust 1.75 while new patches posted this weekend port the code over to Rust 1.76 and then the upcoming Rust 1.77… With Rust 1.77 they have now stabilized the single-field "offset_of" feature used by the kernel's Rust code. Rust 1.77 also … [Link]
New Scientist – News » Cosmic dust may have been crucial to the beginnings of life on Earth
Earth lacks some of the ingredients that would have been key to the origins of life – they may have been delivered to glacial ponds by tiny specks of cosmic dust [Link]
Slashdot » Why Are California's EV Sales Dropping?
"After years of rapid expansion, California's booming EV market may be showing signs of fatigue," reports the Los Angeles Times, "as high vehicle prices, unreliable charging networks and other consumer headaches appear to dampen enthusiasm for zero-emission vehicles. "For the first time in more than a decade, electric vehicle sales dropped significantly in the last half of 2023…" Sales of … [Link]
New Scientist – News » Stem cells grown in labs for experimental therapies pose a cancer risk
Around one-fifth of the stem cells grown in laboratories for as-yet-unapproved medical treatments have cancer-causing mutations [Link]
Slashdot » VC Firm Sequoia Capital Begins Funding More Open Source Fellowships
By 2022 the VC firm Sequoia Capital had about $85 billion in assets under management, according to Wikipedia. Its successful investments include Google, Apple, PayPal, Zoom, and Nvidia. And now the VC firm "plans to fund up to three open source software developers annually," according to TechCrunch, which notes it "a continuation of a program it debuted last year." The … [Link]
The Joy of Tech » Privacy at the Pharmacy
Hint, there's little! [Link]
Slashdot » 'Luddite' Tech-Skeptics See Bad AI Outcomes for Labor – and Humanity
"I feel things fraying," says Nick Hilton, host of a neo-luddite podcast called The Ned Ludd Radio Hour. But he's one of the more optimistic tech skeptics interviewed by the Guardian: Eliezer Yudkowsky, a 44-year-old academic wearing a grey polo shirt, rocks slowly on his office chair and explains with real patience — taking things slowly for a novice like … [Link]
Slashdot » MIT Researchers Build Tiny Tamper-Proof ID Tag Utilizing Terahertz Waves
A few years ago, MIT researchers invented a cryptographic ID tag — but like traditional RFID tags, "a counterfeiter could peel the tag off a genuine item and reattach it to a fake," writes MIT News. "The researchers have now surmounted this security vulnerability by leveraging terahertz waves to develop an antitampering ID tag that still offers the benefits of … [Link]
Slashdot » EU to Fine Apple $500M+ for Stifling Music Competitors Like Spotify
"Apple will reportedly have to pay around €500 million (about $539 million USD) in the EU," reports the Verge, "for stifling competition against Apple Music on the iPhone. Financial Times reported this morning that the fine comes after regulators in Brussels, Belgium investigated a Spotify complaint that Apple prevented apps from telling users about cheaper alternatives to Apple's music service…. … [Link]
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