sytheticvoid

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i’m sure this will go well

New: Amazon is selling Android TV boxes laced with malware, security researchers confirm.

When reached, an Amazon spokesperson declined to comment. The malware-infected models are still for sale.

More: https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/18/popular-android-tv-boxes-sold-on-amazon-are-laced-with-malware/

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walking around with fancy squirt guns, depositing mushroom spores.

genius.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/3ak84j/guerilla-gardeners-magic-mushrooms

People Are Secretly Growing Magic Mushrooms in the Wild

Guerilla gardeners are using squirt guns and spore-infused water to spread hallucinogenic fungi in forests.

The stages of playing with GPT-3:

- OMG this can do anything
- There goes my job
- I should start a business around this
- Some of the responses aren’t too good
- Actually, some of these responses are just awful
- This isn’t really intelligence
- This is just spicy autocomplete

(as was forwarded to me w/no attribution)

In a field dominated by men, Chien-Shiung Wu became one of the most influential nuclear physicists of the 20th century.

Her research tested the fundamental laws of nuclear & quantum physics. She was the first Chinese-American elected to the National Academy of Sciences & the first female president of the American Physical Society.

Wu was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1975 & the Wolf Prize in Physics in 1978. She passed away in 1997.
https://theconversation.com/new-postage-stamp-honors-chien-shiung-wu-trailblazing-nuclear-physicist-154687 #HistoryRemix #science

New postage stamp honors Chien-Shiung Wu, trailblazing nuclear physicist

Chinese American physicist Wu worked on the Manhattan Project and performed groundbreaking experiments throughout her long career.

The Conversation
The sound of the dialup modem, pictured 😲
https://www.windytan.com/2012/11/the-sound-of-dialup-pictured.html
The sound of the dialup, pictured

If you ever connected to the Internet before the 2000s, you probably remember how it sounded. But what do these sounds mean?

absorptions
it’s hardly a coup attempt , they attacked the congress building on a sunday when nobody was there
Three days before Christmas, one of the top children's hospitals in the world announces it's dealing with a severe ransomware attack that impacts its operations and that it'll be weeks before it's fully online again. https://www.sickkids.ca/en/news/archive/2022/update-on-sickkids-response-to-cybersecurity-incident/
Twitter ends its ban on covid misinformation.
Doctors and public health officials say Musk’s decision is a ‘huge step backwards’ and will lead to more deaths https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/29/twitter-covid-misinformation-policy/ #journalism #media #twitter #tech #technology #musk #twittermigration
Twitter ends its ban on covid misinformation

The rollback of Twitter’s covid misinformation policy is just the latest pivot since Elon Musk took control of the company a month ago.

The Washington Post