Collaborate Disseminate
America’s highest court heard Sam Bankman-Fried’s request for a new trial on Thursday, CNN reports. But they add that “the former crypto mogul who was convicted of defrauding investors by secretly diverting billions of dollars of their money” also aske… Continue reading Sam Bankman-Fried, Former Crypto Billionaire, Appeals His Conviction To the US Supreme Court
Phoronix reports:
AMD is building out what they are describing as an “elite” team of developers for driving Rust code “deep into the GPU stack” from firmware to drivers, shader compilers, and other GPU software in Rust. AMD Senior Fellow Harsh Meno p… Continue reading AMD Working To ‘Push Rust Deep into the GPU Stack’
It looks like a spaceship hovering over South Los Angeles, writes CNN, with futuristic tube-like elevators and an exhibition of Banksy murals. There’s a room featuring Luke Skywalker’s X-34 Landspeeder, but in its gardens there’s a 19th-century cast of… Continue reading Three Cities, 16 Years And $1 Billion Later, ‘Defiant’ Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Opens To Mixed Reviews
“A team at Google’s research arm used Google Maps to reroute a small portion of drivers in 10 U.S. cities,” reports SFGate — including San Francisco and Los Angeles.
“Through their experiment, which was published in the journal Nature Cities in… Continue reading Why Google Told Drivers to Drive a Longer Way On Purpose
The Brave web browser published a new round of benchmarks claiming its desktop browser uses less system resources than Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Firefox — and also loads pages faster.
The blog Linuxiac reports:
According to Brave’s testing, th… Continue reading Does Brave Browser Load Faster Than Chrome, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge?
Switzerland has a population of 9,154,242. And its federal government just launched a pilot program to test open source alternatives to Microsoft 365 on 3,000 workstations, reports the blog It’s FOSS. “That’s about 7% of the federal workforce.”
Last year the writing program at the University of Baltimore used an app that tracks students while they’re writing in Google Docs, offering teachers a video playing back revisions “with a scoreboard of all the edits, pastes and minutes spent on it,” w… Continue reading Instead of Fighting AI, Some Teachers Work It Into Their Lessons
The EV blog Electrek reports:
A Clinton Township, Michigan man was charged $418 for a single EV charging session at Elder Hyundai’s Macomb Township store after finding the charger listed as publicly available on the EVgo app, but didn’t discover the c… Continue reading A Man Charged His EV at a Dealership – and Was Billed $418
“Billionaire Bill Ackman’s life was upended this February when his 26-year-old daughter collapsed in her Brooklyn apartment, suffering a brain hemorrhage that would render her unable to move, speak or see,” writes the Washingon Post. But then…
The h… Continue reading ‘She Lost Her Sight. Her Billionaire Father Bet On a Daring New Treatment.’
A new article about AI in The Economist argues that “Initial effects of the technology on employment look positive.”
Perhaps AI will eventually make many humans unemployable — but there is no sign of it yet. On September 4th the Bureau of Labour… Continue reading ‘The Jobs Apocalypse Is Postponed. An AI Jobs Boom Is Here’