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'Eugenics on steroids': the toxic and contested legacy of Oxford's FHI

theguardian.com

Two weeks ago it was quietly announced that the Future of Humanity Institute, the renowned multidisciplinary...
Two weeks ago it was quietly announced that the Future of Humanity Institute, the renowned multidisciplinary research centre in Oxford, no longer had a future. It shut down without warning on 16 April. Initially there was just a brief statement on its website stating it had closed and that its research may continue ...
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BBC presenter's likeness used in advert after firm tricked by AI-generated voice

theguardian.com

There was something strange about her voice, they thought. It was not unfamiliar but, after a...
There was something strange about her voice, they thought. It was not unfamiliar but, after a while, it started to go all over the place.Science presenter Liz Bonnin’s accent, as regular BBC viewers know, is Irish. But this voice message, ostensibly granting permission to use her likeness in an ad campaign, seemed t...
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Building an IBM 3270 terminal controller

ajk.me
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Microsoft must stop selling security as a premium offering

directionsonmicrosoft.com

In a perfect world, Microsoft would take security seriously again. It would be transparent about breaches....
In a perfect world, Microsoft would take security seriously again. It would be transparent about breaches. Its execs would stop gloating about increasing security service revenue at a time when Microsoft can’t secure its own employees, let alone customers, against incidents that are happening with increasing frequen...
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Synth wars: The story of MIDI (2023)

musicradar.com
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Autoconf and configure features that people find valuable

utoronto.ca

In the wake of the XZ Utils backdoor, which involved GNU Autoconf, it has been popular...
In the wake of the XZ Utils backdoor, which involved GNU Autoconf, it has been popular to suggest that Autoconf should go away. Some of the people suggesting this have also been proposing that the replacement for Autoconf and the 'configure' scripts it generates be something simpler. As a system administrator who in...
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Zilog Z80 CPU – Modern, free and open source silicon clone

github.com
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Tell HN: YouTube RSS feeds are gone (again)

ycombinator.com
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Mise: a polyglot tool version manager

jdx.dev
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Jimmy Carter UFO Incident

wikipedia.org

Incident regarding sighting of a UFO Part of a series on theParanormal Main articles Astral projection...
Incident regarding sighting of a UFO Part of a series on theParanormal Main articles Astral projection Astrology Aura Bilocation Breatharianism Clairvoyance Close encounter Cold spot Crystal gazing Conjuration Cryptozoology Demonic possession Demonology Ectoplasm Electronic voice phenomenon Exorcism Extrasensory per...
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Flow Field Pathfinding

redblobgames.com
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TfL's simple pop-up message led to a significant drop in paper ticket sales

ianvisits.co.uk
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Microsoft Releases DOS 4.0 Source Code but It Doesn't Compile Lunduke [video]

youtube.com

science & technology
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Airline keeps mistaking 101-year-old woman for baby

bbc.com
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Implementing Neural Networks on a "10-cent" RISC-V MCU

wordpress.com

I have been meaning for a while to establish a setup to implement neural network based...
I have been meaning for a while to establish a setup to implement neural network based algorithms on smaller microcontrollers. After reviewing existing solutions, I felt there is no solution that I really felt comfortable with. One obvious issue is that often flexibility is traded for overhead. As always, for a real...
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Is it okay to daisy chain a UPS?

eaton.com
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'Shut up and calculate': how Einstein lost the battle to explain quantum reality

nature.com

history physics quantum physics
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Using squeezed wav2vec2 to automatically detect owl calls

seangoedecke.com
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Publishing Is Designed to Make Most Authors Feel Like Losers

substack.com

This week Kathleen Schmidt of Publishing Confidential, a newsletter to which I subscribe, took some swings...
This week Kathleen Schmidt of Publishing Confidential, a newsletter to which I subscribe, took some swings at this piece by Elle Griffin, a post skewering the state of book publishing that was remarkably well-read by the standards of contemporary independent media. Schmidt is an insider with 25+ years in the industr...
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C++17 Parallel Algorithms and Hipstdpar

amd.com

c++compiler hpc memory performance
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Airline keeps mistaking 101-year-old woman for baby

bbc.co.uk

It happened when Patricia was flying between Chicago and Marquette, Michigan - a flight this reporter...
It happened when Patricia was flying between Chicago and Marquette, Michigan - a flight this reporter was also travelling on.Patricia was flying with her daughter, Kris.“My daughter made the reservation online for the ticket and the computer at the airport thought my birth date was 2022 and not 1922," she told me. "...
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Response to Scott Alexander on Medical Effectiveness

overcomingbias.com

Scott Alexander on Wednesday: I’ve spent fifteen years not responding to [Hanson’s medicine] argument, because I...
Scott Alexander on Wednesday: I’ve spent fifteen years not responding to [Hanson’s medicine] argument, because I worry it would be harsh and annoying to use my platform to beat up on one contrarian who nobody else listens to. But I recently learned Bryan Caplan also takes this seriously. Beating up on two contrarian...
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Nation state backdoor found in Cisco firewalls (again..?) [video]

youtube.com

science & technology
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The Better Boarding Method Airlines Won't Use

youtube.com

education
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