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  • Voyager 1 Just Phoned Home From 24 Billion Kilometers Away On A Transmitter Not Used Since 1981

    10/31/2024 11:45:39 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 88 replies
    IFL Science ^ | October 31, 2024 | Dr. Alfredo Carpineti
    Communication with the craft was interrupted, but Voyager 1 itself found an unorthodox solution. Voyager 1 has gone through a lot over the last 12 months. Image credit: NASA Voyager 1 continues to amaze. After 47 years, having crossed together with its twin into interstellar space, you’d think the spacecraft would stop surprising us. No chance. The probe had another glitch in the last few weeks that caused a loss of communication, but it managed to find a fix all by itself using hardware that had not been used since 1981. The probe is more than 24 billion kilometers (15...
  • Leaked Biden draft shows Lebanon deal would include global oversight, Israeli freedom to act

    10/30/2024 1:46:40 PM PDT · by dennisw · 22 replies
    The Times of Israel --- MSN ^ | 10-30 | Lazar Berman
    The ceasefire proposal between Israel and Hezbollah that the US is pushing begins with a 60-day implementation period, during which time the Lebanese army will deploy along the border and confiscate Hezbollah arms in southern Lebanon, according to a draft agreement published by Kan news. IDF forces will exit Lebanon within seven days of the end of hostilities and will be replaced by the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF), with UN peacekeepers facilitating the transition. Ultimately, there will be 10,000 LAF troops along the border with Israel. At the end of the 60 days, Israel and Lebanon will hold indirect negotiations...
  • Julia Roberts Reminds Us - Your Vote, Your Choice [Video]

    10/30/2024 11:48:45 AM PDT · by servo1969 · 15 replies
    YouTube.com/Vote Common Good ^ | 10-28-2024 | Vote Common Good
    Julia Roberts reminds us that what we do in the voting booth stays in the voting booth. In the one place where women still have the right to choose, you can do the right thing.
  • DJT stock soars amid Donald Trump's rise in the betting markets

    10/29/2024 2:25:40 PM PDT · by dennisw · 10 replies
    MSN---CBS ^ | 10 29 | Aimee Picchi
    The stock has surged more than 340% since hitting a low of $11.75 a share in September. Tuesday's spike came as the Nasdaq Composite Exchange, where Trump Media shares trade, rose 0.9% and stayed on track to close the day at a record high. While the polls show that the presidential race is extremely close, the betting markets such as Polymarket are now predicting that Trump is favored to win the election. "The price of DJT closely mirrors Trump's chances in prediction markets," S3 analysts said Tuesday in a note to investors. While Polymarket last week said a sole French...
  • How can I be Sure my Vote isn't Stolen?

    10/29/2024 12:18:32 PM PDT · by Responsibility2nd · 28 replies
    10-29-2024 | Me!
    How many votes were falsely stolen in the 2020 presidential election? Naturally Google Search and AI searches won't say. Even when I posted this question: "Election Deniers claim how many votes were stolen in the 2020 election"? They won't say.And to no one's surprise internet searches actually finds and posts a few examples of where Biden votes were undercounted. It's not a surprise that one cannot expect truth or transparency from search engine searches.But I ask these questions as I'll be early voting tomorrw and I want to know if there is a way I can track my ballot choices...
  • AI ‘Will Enhance’ Nuclear Command and Control, Says STRATCOM Boss

    10/29/2024 10:49:56 AM PDT · by USAF1985 · 43 replies
    Air and Space Forces Magazine ^ | 10/28/2024 | Greg Hadley
    The Pentagon nuclear command, control, and communications enterprise is decades old and desperate for an upgrade, says the head of U.S. Strategic Command, and artificial intelligence could help fortify nuclear C3 for its no-fail mission. STRATCOM is “exploring all possible technologies, techniques, and methods to assist with the modernization of our NC3 capabilities,” said Air Force Gen. Anthony J. Cotton, who has led the command since December 2022. More at link.
  • Kamala Harris Wins Nickelodeon’s ‘Kids Pick the President’ Poll With 52% of Votes, Trump Grabs 48%

    10/28/2024 4:12:54 PM PDT · by millenial4freedom · 36 replies
    The Wrap ^ | 10/28/2024 | Kayla Cobb
    The kids in America have spoken, and they’ve chosen Kamala Harris as the winner of the 2024 presidential election. Nickelodeon’s seasonal “Kids Pick the President” poll ended with the Democratic nominee securing 52% of the vote compared to Republican nominee Donald Trump’s 48%.
  • AI: Will ChatGPT and Co. Further Deepen Inequality?

    10/28/2024 8:30:44 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 56 replies
    Statista ^ | 10/28/2024 | Florian Zandt
    Half of all respondents with leading roles in their companies surveyed by Deloitte at the end of 2023 believe that generative AI is more likely to cause consolidation of power and increased economic equality. Despite many decision makers seeing AI-powered media generation as positive for their own business, these results nevertheless highlight that, as Statista's Florian Zandt explains below, unchecked growth and development of ever more capable large language models might be a net negative for society.30 percent of the 2,835 respondents surveyed over two months said generative AI will help to distribute power more fairly and reduce disenfranchisement, while...
  • You’re being tracked secretly by 3 settings on your phone By Kim Komando

    10/26/2024 11:37:27 AM PDT · by dennisw · 57 replies
    Kim Komando ^ | October 26, 2024 | Kim Komando
    Find out if you're accidentally sharing your location with Google, Apple apps and services blog.google, support.apple.com When mobile apps first hit the scene, many were designed to make our phones more useful. This included new tools for productivity, as well as apps for entertainment. Many of today’s apps, though, are packed with sneaky permission requests and hidden trackers. These tactics are legal because app developers (and the companies behind them) have to give you a choice to opt in or out of these tracking permissions. Unfortunately, not everyone knows how to do that … or the developers make it really...
  • JD Vance: Housing costs are biggest threat to the American dream

    10/25/2024 10:19:11 AM PDT · by millenial4freedom · 13 replies
    NewsNation ^ | 10/24/2024 | Andrew Dorn
    Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance called high housing costs “the biggest threat to the American dream” during a NewsNation town hall Thursday. “So many people in my generation — they’re delaying having families, they’re delaying getting married because they can’t afford a place to raise a family,” Vance told NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo. Low inventory, elevated mortgage rates and record-high prices have turned buying a home from a dream into a nightmare in recent years. At the same time, rising child care costs have stretched families’ finances and caused others to delay having kids altogether.
  • TSMC’s Arizona Factory Produces Better Yield Than Semiconductor Plants in Taiwan

    10/25/2024 9:09:49 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 16 replies
    Techopedia ^ | 10/25/2024 | Tushar Mehta, Fact checked by Duncan Proctor
    Key TakeawaysTSMC’s Arizona plant has exceeded its Taiwanese facilities in yield.The first of three plants in Arizona is on track to reach full volume production in 2025.TSMC aims to start other facilities by 2028 and manufacture 2nm chips in the US by 2030.TSMC, the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturer, has achieved better yield in its new Arizona factory than its Taiwan facilities. Taiwanese giant TSMC’s new chipset manufacturing unit in the US has overtaken its domestic plants in terms of yield—a key metric in semiconductor production. The update from TSMC’s newly commenced plant in Phoenix, Arizona is good news for the...
  • Record For Largest Known Prime Number Broken By Amateur Mathematician Using Free Software

    10/24/2024 12:36:35 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 19 replies
    IFL Science ^ | October 23, 2024 | James Felton
    It is the 52nd Mersenne prime to be found since they were first studied over 350 years ago. A spiral representing primes. Image credit: Bocskai Istvan/Shutterstock.com The largest prime number ever discovered has been found by an amateur mathematician using Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS). Prime numbers, as you likely learned in school, are numbers that can only be divided by one and themselves. There are an infinite number of them, with all numbers greater than 1 being either a prime number or a composite of primes. But having discovered a whole lot of them, new primes are now...
  • Tim Burton: The internet makes me quite depressed

    10/24/2024 8:39:49 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 35 replies
    bbc ^ | 10/24/2024 | Charlotte Gallagher & Leisha Chi-Santorelli
    Director Tim Burton has revealed that being on the internet makes him feel "quite depressed". Ahead of the opening of a major career retrospective in London, he told BBC News: "Anybody who knows me knows I'm a bit of a technophobe. "If I look at the internet, I found that I got quite depressed," the 66-year-old said. "It scared me because I started to go down a dark hole. So I try to avoid it, because it doesn't make me feel good." The World of Tim Burton at the Design Museum features 600 items which organisers say give "a rare...
  • This is odd. When I try to copy urls to repost the url disappears. Instead I am provided with a statement that SAYS SEARCH OR TYPE URL. This is occurring on X, YOUTUBE, and other media. This is new. Not with FR.

    10/24/2024 12:16:53 AM PDT · by Chickensoup · 48 replies
    Chickensoup | Chickensoup
    This is odd. When I try to copy urls to repost the url disappears. Instead I am provided with a statement that SAYS SEARCH OR TYPE URL. This is occurring on X, YOUTUBE, FB and other media. This is new. Not with FR. I often cut and paste across platforms. But not now. Just started yesterday. What am I doing wrong
  • Florida boy, 14, killed himself after falling in love with ‘Game of Thrones’ AI chatbot: lawsuit

    10/23/2024 11:38:04 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 13 replies
    NY Post ^ | 10/23/2024 | Emily Crane
    A 14-year-old Florida boy killed himself after a lifelike “Game of Thrones” chatbot he’d been messaging for months on an artificial intelligence app sent him an eerie message telling him to “come home” to her, a new lawsuit filed by his grief-stricken mom claims. Sewell Setzer III committed suicide at his Orlando home in February after becoming obsessed and allegedly falling in love with the chatbot on Character.AI — a role-playing app that lets users engage with AI-generated characters, according to court papers filed Wednesday. The ninth-grader had been relentlessly engaging with the bot “Dany” — named after the HBO...
  • The Donald - Trumpwave (HD remaster) (Energizing 4:40 YouTube video)

    10/23/2024 8:03:21 AM PDT · by dennisw · 4 replies
    Youtube ^ | Mar 18, 2017 | MikeyNL1038
    The Donald - Trumpwave (HD remaster) MikeyNL1038 175,481 views Mar 18, 2017 The song is My Future Girlfriend by iamMANOLIS. ************ DJT with lots of 80s 90s big hair babes. Retro Donald with pulsating music to put you in a good winning! mood. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LLTbjJD2No
  • AI software company Anthropic

    10/22/2024 5:41:12 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 8 replies
    TechCrunch ^ | 10/22/2024 | Kyle Wiggers
    Anthropic on Tuesday released an upgraded version of its Claude 3.5 Sonnet model that can understand and interact with any desktop app. Via a new “Computer Use” API, now in open beta, the model can imitate keystrokes, button clicks, and mouse gestures, essentially emulating a person sitting at a PC. “We trained Claude to see what’s happening on a screen and then use the software tools available to carry out tasks,” Anthropic wrote in a blog post shared with TechCrunch. “When a developer tasks Claude with using a piece of computer software and gives it the necessary access, Claude looks...
  • Want to feel old? Excel just entered its 40th year

    10/22/2024 10:16:20 AM PDT · by ShadowAce · 69 replies
    The Register ^ | 22 October 2024 | Liam Proven
    Microsoft Excel, the true successor to the throne of COBOL. Version 1.0 was released on the last day of September 1985, four decades ago.Since the original US English version of Windows 1.0 went to manufacturing at the end of November that year, this means that the default spreadsheet for Microsoft Windows is itself older than Windows. (The European version of Windows didn't appear until May 1986, but that doesn't really matter, nobody cared about it either.)Excel 2 wasn't pretty, but it was prettier than 1-2-3 – click to enlargeAs the old joke goes, like an "incel", it still incorrectly assumes...
  • When Did Google Search Become Totally Useless?

    10/22/2024 8:35:51 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 58 replies
    The Federalist ^ | 10/22/2024 | Rich Cromwell
    Why bother with making information accessible and usable if you can tell people what you want them to hear instead?When Google launched in the late 1990s, it quickly overtook the market for search engines. Its proprietary method of indexing led users to results they were actually looking for rather than producing the hodgepodge of results offered by other search engines of the time. Within just a few years, it was dominating the market. Today, it is a money-printing machine.It’s also increasingly horrible at the core mission that produced such success. The company’s leadership may have realized early on that to...
  • Could you please list the anti-virus softwares to replace my Kaspersky again? I lost the list and now the Kaspersky has ceased functioning. Thanks!

    10/22/2024 8:33:16 AM PDT · by EinNYC · 38 replies
    10/22/24 | Me, Myself, & I
    I meant to make notes on everything you guys suggested, but I can't find it.