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.....»»
Proposing an Alternative To Renting or Owning a House: Publicly-Owned Housing
"Renting is terrible. Owning is worse. A third option is necessary," argues a recent article in the Atlantic, "a way to rent without making someone else rich." It's written by Shane Phillips, who's the Housing Inititiative Project Manager at UCLA's.....»»
Why it’s not surprising to see nine-figure AI rounds
This week Scale AI raised a $325 million Series E. The company, as TechCrunch has written, works in the data labeling space. And it has been on a fundraising tear over the last few years. Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly st.....»»
Linus Torvalds Says Rust Closer for Linux Kernel Development, Calls C++ "A Crap Language"
Google's Android team supports Rust for developing the Android operating system. Now they're also helping evaluate Rust for Linux kernel development. Their hopes, among other things, are that "New code written in Rust has a reduced risk of memory saf.....»»
Social audio startup Stationhead looks beyond music as it hits 100K monthly active users
When I’ve written about Stationhead in the past, I’ve focused on how the startup aims to recapture bring personality and interactivity of a live radio broadcast to streaming music. But CEO Ryan Star said his ambitions are broader now: &#.....»»
Retracing his steps: Professor guides researchers as they replicate his fieldwork 50 years later
Half a century had passed, but UC Santa Barbara Professor Armand Kuris was sure he'd been here before. In fact, he was completely certain. After all, he had detailed notes of the location, written carefully in India ink when he was still a graduate s.....»»
UPPERCASE or lowercase? The way brands write their names sends a subtle message to consumers
Brand names are often written using a combination of uppercase and lowercase letters. Others defy convention by using all lowercase, such as amazon or ebay, or all uppercase, such as IKEA......»»
“There are 360 degrees. Why stick to one?”: The real legacy of architect Zaha Hadid
Iraqi-born Zaha Hadid—aka the Queen of the Curve—fundamentally altered the contours of modern architecture and design. In the five years since Zaha Hadid’s passing, much has been written about the glorious and towering legacy the.....»»
Please stop doing this when you create a new password
One of the things that often goes hand-in-hand with the countless hacks and data leaks we've written about in the past, and which continues to dominate cybersecurity news headlines, is the frequency with which people keep making the same dumb passwor.....»»
Language supermodel: How GPT-3 is quietly ushering in the A.I. revolution
GPT-3 is best known as a text-generating system, but now that it's out in the wild, it's being used for far more than just written words......»»
Long-awaited review reveals journey of water from interstellar clouds to habitable worlds
Dutch astronomer Ewine van Dishoeck (Leiden University, the Netherlands), together with an international team of colleagues, has written an overview of everything we know about water in interstellar clouds thanks to the Herschel space observatory. Th.....»»
Biden admin could set emissions limits so low gas cars can’t meet them
New rules will be written with climate mitigation in mind, new EPA chief said. Enlarge (credit: Thomas Kienzle / AFP / Getty Images) The Environmental Protection Agency will be issuing revised fuel economy standards by the end of July, said ne.....»»
Weather Service Internet Systems Are Crumbling As Key Platforms Are Taxed and Failing
An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from a Washington Post article, written by Matthew Cappucci and Jason Samenow: The National Weather Service experienced a major, systemwide Internet failure Tuesday morning, making its forecasts and warnings inac.....»»
SCO Linux FUD Returns From the Dead
wiredog shares a ZDNet report: I have literally been covering SCO's legal attempts to prove that IBM illegally copied Unix's source code into Linux for over 17 years. I've written well over 500 stories on this lawsuit and its variants. I really thoug.....»»
Why People"s Expensive NFTs Keep Vanishing
An anonymous reader shares a report from Motherboard, written by Ben Munster: When you buy an NFT for potentially as much as an actual house, in most cases you're not purchasing an artwork or even an image file. Instead, you are buying a little bit o.....»»
NFTs are part of a larger economic development in finance capital
Before NFTs are written off as a flash in the pan, it might be worth considering that NFTs were never designed to be very useful in traditional investment frameworks. Dominik Schiener Contributor Sha.....»»
Venus Flytraps Have Magnetic Fields Like the Human Brain
An anonymous reader shares a report from Motherboard (Editor's note: the article was written last week based on findings published in January): [F]or the first time in history, a group of mavericks out of Switzerland have detected a magnetic signal i.....»»
Wind energy and bat fatalities: How improving acoustic monitoring could protect biodiversity
In order to assess the risk of bats dying at wind turbines, it is common practice to record the acoustic activity of bats within the operating range of the rotor blades. For this purpose, ultrasonic detectors are attached to the nacelles of the mast.....»»
Linus Torvalds On Where Rust Will Fit Into Linux
An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from a ZDNet article, written by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Linux is the poster-child for the C language. But times change. The Rust language has been slowly gathering support for use as a system language in Linu.....»»
Atlanta Journal-Constitution Names OneStream Software LLC a Winner of the Metro Atlanta Top Workplaces 2021 Award
OneStream Recognized for its Engaging and Transparent Employee Culture ROCHESTER, Mich.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–OneStream Software LLC has been awarded a Top Workplaces 2021 honor by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Top Workplaces. The list is ba.....»»
Cold molecular clouds as cosmic ray detectors
The ionization of the neutral gas in an interstellar molecular cloud plays a key role in the cloud's evolution, helping to regulate the heating and cooling processes, the chemistry and molecule formation, and coupling the gas to magnetic fields. Usua.....»»