DeepSeek
China’s DeepSeek sets off AI market rout — Nasdaq futures slumped and technology shares slid in Japan as the surging popularity of a Chinese discount artificial intelligence model knocked investors’ faith in the profitability of AI and the sector’s voracious demand for high-tech chips.
LLM confabulations as a potential resource instead of a categorically negative pitfall […] perhaps hallucinations make them more like us than we would like to admit
How much growth is required to achieve good lives for all?
TikTok-loaded phones are selling for thousands online after law prevents new downloads
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Researchers say new attack could take down the European power grid […] They wondered if they could control streetlights in Berlin […] After an extensive and painstaking reverse-engineering process that took about a year, Bräunlein and Melette learned that they could indeed control the streetlights simply by replaying legitimate messages they observed being sent over the air previously. They then learned something more surprising—the very same system for controlling Berlin’s lights was used throughout Central Europe to control other regional infrastructure.
Hacking the Russian Power Grid [audio, 2019]
How to make oxygen from moon dust
On Jan. 2, the Minor Planet Center at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, announced the discovery of an unusual asteroid, designated 2018 CN41. But less than 17 hours later, the Minor Planet Center (MPC) issued an editorial notice: It was deleting 2018 CN41 from its records because, it turned out, the object was not an asteroid. It was a car. it was Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster mounted to a Falcon Heavy upper stage, which boosted into orbit around the Sun on Feb. 6, 2018
