Collaborate Disseminate
Last June Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller said in a statement that Texans “have a God-given right to know what’s on their plate, and for millions of Texans, it better come from a pasture, not a lab. It’s plain cowboy logic that we must safegu… Continue reading U.S. State Bans on Lab-Grown Meats Challenged in Court
After decades of searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, the nonprofit SETI Foundation has an announcement. “A new study by researchers at the SETI Institute suggests stellar ‘space weather’ could make radio signals from extraterrestrial intellige… Continue reading New SETI Study: Why We Might Have Been Missing Alien Signals
System76 isn’t the only one criticizing new age-verification laws. The blog 9to5Linux published an “informal” look at other discussions in various Linux communities.
Earlier this week, Ubuntu developer Aaron Rainbolt proposed on the Ubuntu mailing lis… Continue reading EFF, Ubuntu and Other Distros Discuss How to Respond to Age-Verification Laws
System76 isn’t the only one criticizing new age-verification laws. The blog 9to5Linux published an “informal” look at other discussions in various Linux communities.
Earlier this week, Ubuntu developer Aaron Rainbolt proposed on the Ubuntu mailing lis… Continue reading EFF, Ubuntu and Other Distros Discuss How to Respond to Age-Verification Laws
Colliding black holes were detected through spacetime ripples for the first time in 2015 by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), notes Space.com:
Since then, LIGO and its partner gravitational wave detectors Virgo in Italy … Continue reading Scientists Just Doubled Our Catalog of Black Hole and Neutron Star Collisions
Within the last month two U.S> judges have effectively declared AI bots are not human, writes Los Angeles Times columnist Michael Hiltzik:
On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to take up a lawsuit in which artist and computer scientist Stephen Th… Continue reading Judges Find AI Doesn’t Have Human Intelligence in Two New Court Cases
CNN reports on a company called Automated Architecture (AUAR) which makes “portable” micro-factories that use a robotic arm to produce wooden framing for houses (the walls, floors and roofs):
Co-founder Mollie Claypool says the micro-factories will b… Continue reading Could Home-Building Robots Help Fix the Housing Crisis?
A long-time information security professional “went undercover” on Moltbook, the Reddit-like social media site for AI agents — and shares the risks they saw while posing as another AI bot:
I successfully masqueraded around Moltbook, as the agent… Continue reading A Security Researcher Went ‘Undercover’ on Moltbook – and Found Security Risks
“A surgeon in London says he has performed the UK’s first long-distance robotic operation,” reports the BBC, “on a patient located 1,500 miles (2,400km) away…”
Leading robotic urological surgeon Professor Prokar Dasgupta said it felt “almost as if … Continue reading Robotic Surgery Performed Remotely on Patient 1,500 Miles Away
“In November Steam on Linux use hit an all-time high of 3.2%,” reports Phoronix. And then in December Steam on Linux jumped even higher, to 3.58%.
But January’s numbers settled a little lower, at 3.38%. And last Monday the February numbers were relea… Continue reading Steam on Linux Numbers Dropped to 2.23% in February