Raspberry Pi releases the Pi Pico and is partnering with Arduino and Adafruit to expand the…
Year: 2021
Bitcoin falls 11% after report suggests a critical flaw in the cryptocurrency called ‘double spend’ may have occurred
A report from bitmex research suggested ‘double spend’ had occurred in the bitcoin blockchain – the…
Scientists Find 20 Million-Year-Old Giant Predatory Nightmare Worm
Trace fossils reveal an “life and death struggle between predator and prey” that played in what…
1st preserved dinosaur butthole is ‘perfect’ and ‘unique,’ paleontologist says
This was a multipurpose glory hole. Read more at livescience.com…
Another New Covid-19 Variant Discovered In L.A. Might Be Vaccine Resistant, Researcher Says; Strain First Identified In Denmark
Two days after the Los Angeles Public Health Department announced that the much-talked-about UK variant of…
AI-powered text from this program could fool the government
Volunteers couldn’t tell AI-generated comments from those penned by humans. Read more at Ars Technica…
AI Technology Will Replace Humans In the Feild of Cybersecurity By 2030
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes all-pervasive, a new report has forecast that technology would replace humans…
AI Weekly: Meet the people trying to replicate and open-source OpenAI’s GPT-3
A grassroots group of researchers is attempting to create an open source language model as powerful…
Windows 10 bug corrupts your hard drive on seeing this file’s icon
An unpatched zero-day in Microsoft Windows 10 allows attackers to corrupt an NTFS-formatted hard drive with…
Cyberpunk 2077 full development reportedly didn’t start until 2016
The demo of Cyberpunk 2077 showed at E3 in 2018 was “almost entirely fake”. Read more…
The planet is dying faster than we thought
A triple-threat of climate change, biodiversity loss and overpopulation is bearing down on Earth. Read more…
RISC-V Comes To The BeagleBoard Ecosystem With Upcoming Beagle V SBC
The Beagle V, a RISC-V-based single board computer from a collaboration between BeagleBoard and Seeed Studios…
Google trained a trillion-parameter AI language model
Researchers at Google claim to have trained a natural language model containing over a trillion parameters.…
Scientists May Have Detected a Signal That Could Change Astronomy Forever
Scientists think they may have spied the universe’s “gravitational wave background” after more than a decade…
User successfully runs Ubuntu on a jailbroken iPhone 7 – 9to5Mac
The jailbreak process lets users run several tweaks and other iOS modifications, but one user recently…
AI models from Microsoft and Google already surpass human performance on the SuperGLUE language benchmark
AI language models have surpassed human performance on a popular benchmark. But what does that really…
Birds might be conscious and self-aware like humans, groundbreaking study finds
So, calling someone a ‘bird brain’ is now a compliment? Read more at Mashable SEA…
‘Absolutely Life-changing Moment’: 17-Year-Old Wins Youth Science Competition By Making Quantum Physics Explainable
Canadian teenager Maryam Tsegaye remembers sitting in her dad’s lap as a young girl and asking…
Backdoor account discovered in more than 100,000 Zyxel firewalls, VPN gateways | ZDNet
The username and password (zyfwp/PrOw!aN_fXp) were visible in one of the Zyxel firmware binaries. Read more…