Why AI detectors think the US Constitution was written by AI
Can AI writing detectors be trusted? We dig into the theory behind them. Enlarge / An AI-generated image of James Madison writing the US Constitution using AI. (credit: Midjourney / Benj Edwards) If you feed America's mo.....»»
Deciphering unstated of Employee wellbeing in people practices
Asterisk mark has a unique significance in any written text – usually appearing to be an innocent footnote or comment to add or clarify the context of the core narrative. Yet the innocuous appearing litter star * of typography, sometimes appearing.....»»
Getting a Crypto Refund Can Be Very Expensive
Long-time Slashdot reader smooth wombat writes: Recently, Slashdot posted a story about a group trying to purchase one of the few copies of the U.S. Constitution in the public domain. The idea was to use pool donations by people via Ethereum to get.....»»
Reclaiming the Promise of Personalization
Much has been written on the promise of personalization, but few businesses have put scaled personalization into practice. Why not? Continue reading........»»
Crypto US constitution bidder refunds hit by high fees
Investors in an ill-fated scheme to buy the rare US document are being offered refunds with a catch......»»
Ridley Scott confirms Blade Runner television series is in the works
In a recent interview with the BBC, director Ridley Scott revealed that a Blade Runner television series is in the works. The award-winning filmmaker says that the pilot and the "bible" for the show have already been written. A TV show's bible is a d.....»»
MKID detectors turn out to have 100 times lower noise
Scientists use superconducting detectors (MKIDs) to discern the spectrum of exoplanets from their faint glow. Now, researchers from SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research and TU Delft have observed 100 times lower noise than expected, providin.....»»
Messenger and Instagram"s encrypted messages won"t arrive until 2023
When Meta was still called Facebook, it stated that E2EE would become available on Messenger and Instagram by 2022 at the earliest, but that's not the case anymore. As written by Antigone Davis, the global head of safety at Meta, this feature will on.....»»
Facebook Tells LA Police To Stop Spying on Users With Fake Accounts
Facebook has written to the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), demanding that it stop setting up fake profiles to conduct surveillance on users. From a report: This comes after the Guardian revealed that the US police department had been working w.....»»
Citadel CEO Ken Griffin Outbid a Group of Crypto Investors for Copy of US Constitution
Chicago hedge-fund billionaire Kenneth Griffin said he won a $43.2 million first-edition copy of the U.S. Constitution at a Sotheby' s auction on Thursday -- and now he intends to lend it to a free Arkansas art museum. From a report: The 53-year old.....»»
Copy of US Constitution Sells for $43.2 Million as Crypto Group DAO Is Outbid
The art market wasn't ready for revolution. A rare, first-edition copy of the U.S. Constitution sold for $43.2 million at Sotheby's Thursday, but it appears the winner is a private collector rather than an online group of cryptocurrency investors. Fr.....»»
FDA Asks Judge To Grant It Until 2076 To Release Pfizer"s COVID-19 Vaccine Data
schwit1 shares a report from Substack, written by Aaron Siri. He is the Managing Partner of Siri & Glimstad, a law firm representing the plaintiffs in the case. From the report: The FDA has asked (PDF) a federal judge to make the public wait until th.....»»
Iodine-Powered Satellite Successfully Tested In Space For First Time
Tesseractic shares a report from New Scientist, written by Chen Ly: A satellite has been successfully powered by iodine for the first time. Iodine performed better than the traditional propellant of choice, xenon -- highlighting iodine's potential ut.....»»
Crypto Bid To Buy US Constitution Print Raises Millions
In a follow-up to Monday's story, "a crowdfunded effort to buy a rare 1787 copy of the U.S. constitution at auction claims to have received more than [$31 million] worth of cryptocurrency donations," reports the BBC. And this figure is only going to.....»»
Crypto Nerds Are Trying To Buy the US Constitution
The following sentence may sound like the logline for an as-yet unmade National Treasure 3, but it's very much real: A large group of crypto maximalists is banding together in an effort to obtain the actual U.S. Constitution. From a report: Unlike th.....»»
Detectors for a new era of ATLAS physics
The High-Luminosity upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) will dramatically increase the rate of collisions in the ATLAS experiment. While offering an opportunity for physicists to explore some of the rarest processes in the universe, the lar.....»»
System76 Engineer Confirms Work on New Rust-Written Desktop, Not Based on GNOME
Phoronix reports: System76's Pop!_OS Linux distribution already has their own "COSMIC" desktop that is based on GNOME, but moving ahead they are working on their own Rust-written desktop that is not based on GNOME or any existing desktop environment.....»»
"Sing 2" is all about U2 and facing fears as the (admittedly) emotional trailer suggests
The sequel to 2016's Sing is here, and the trailer is weirdly emotional to me on a Thursday? What...is happening? Written and directed by Garth Jennings, Sing 2 sees Matthew McConaughey return as koala Buster Moon, who is apparently doing well with h.....»»
A fungus that uses chemicals to trick male flies into mating with infected dead females
A combined team of researchers from the University of Copenhagen and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences reports that a certain fungus uses chemicals to trick male flies into mating with infected dead females. They have written a paper de.....»»
US and 19 Other Countries Agree To Stop Funding Fossil Fuel Projects Abroad
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo, written by climate reporter Brian Kahn: In a major announcement at United Nations climate talks on Thursday, 20 countries said they would stop funding fossil fuel development abroad and instead plow m.....»»
Breaking the supposed accuracy limit for TES detectors
Scientists at SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research are developing a detection technique (TES) that measures the energy of individual photons, for example in X-rays from the distant universe. Until now, it was assumed that the wiring on the d.....»»