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US scientist John Jumper to leave Google Deep Mind for Anthropic
1+ hour, 59+ min ago (645+ words) Senior research scientist John Jumper said on Friday he would leave Google Deep Mind to join AI startup Anthropic, the latest "high-profile departure at the Big Tech giant's AI research and development division. Jumper, "who won a Nobel prize alongside…...
Problem with Firefox
1+ day, 18+ hour ago (151+ words) Has anyone encountered problems with he latest Firefox update? It started crashing virtually every time I select a Web site to visit. I've switched several favorites to Brave, and they work fine. It's just weird, because Firefox has been so…...
AI Governance " Do We Need a Constitutional Convention?
4+ day, 5+ hour ago (993+ words) My brain has been percolating on this for a bit, so apologies for not having all the background here. Tuesday morning, 0645, bad night's sleep, and my brain decided it wanted to tackle AI governance. Some thoughts I couldn't shake: Every…...
Anthropic Pulls Claude Fable and Mythos AI Models After Feds Claim Jailbreak
5+ day, 3+ hour ago (256+ words) Anthropic pulled access to its newly released AI models Mythos 5 and Fable 5 over the weekend after the US government imposed sweeping restrictions on who could use them. The government imposed what are known as export controls on the products, which…...
Invasive hammerhead worm found in St. Louis County Park
5+ day, 5+ hour ago (223+ words) ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. " An invasive hammerhead worm was reportedly found earlier this week at a St. Louis County Park for the first time. A county park official says the worm was spotted in Cliff Cave Park along the Mississippi…...
W. H. O. Warns "Blind Spots" Could Obscure Full Extent of Ebola Outbreak
6+ day, 19+ hour ago (397+ words) Olivier le Polain, an epidemiologist with the World Health Organization (W. H. O.), said on Friday that there are still "many blind spots in some areas that are high risk," so the full extent of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of…...
Today's Cryptogram
1+ week, 2+ day ago (187+ words) IWYOX CWY ZFL IY JYLQ CYZNO VZX RVSLJB IWX FLOPSJJDFJ VLN IVOIXJXOO; IWXB KYLDFOX MYRMYOSIB CSIW NSQLSIB, DJVKKSNSIB CSIW XVOX, VLN GFJP CSIW DYZKX. -- WXLZB CVIOYL DYCJXZ Clue: Change C to W Ready for a mental workout? " A Cryptogram is…...
The "Skynet" moment has happened, no one noticed.
1+ week, 2+ day ago (977+ words) Several months ago I was fast talked into buying a new i Phone at Walmart during a "Black Friday" event. The saleswoman lied from beginning to end, the monthly rate was misstated, the purchase cost, the term that the phone…...
Starmer 'wants spyware on every phone in the UK'
1+ week, 5+ day ago (346+ words) Starmer wants spyware to be installed on every single phone in the country " that's unlikely to actually protect children but will raise significant risks for your privacy. This government will not stand by while children are put at risk online....
Cloudflare CEO says bot internet traffic has overtaken humans
1+ week, 6+ day ago (404+ words) "Welp, that happened faster than I predicted." That's what Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince had to say as his company released data finding that there's now more traffic from bots than humans on the internet. "Thought it would be end of…...