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Neuroscientist's AI-Powered Startup Aims To Transform Human Cognition With Perfect, Infinite Memory https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/04/12/0640253/neuroscientists-ai-powered-startup-aims-to-transform-human-cognition-with-perfect-infinite-memory?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #TechNews #TechTips

As weather betting grows on prediction markets, climate experts are debating whether it improves forecasts by aggregating knowledge or is simply a zero-sum game (Bloomberg) http://www.techmeme.com/260412/p7?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon#a260412p7 #TechNews #TechTips

Police report: Sam Altman's home appears to have been targeted in a second attack after a gun appeared to have been fired at his home from a car early Sunday (Jonah Owen Lamb/The San Francisco ...) http://www.techmeme.com/260412/p10?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon#a260412p10 #TechNews #TechTips

A look at the escalating global AI arms race, as the US, China, Russia, and others rush to build AI-backed autonomous weapons and defense systems (New York Times) http://www.techmeme.com/260412/p9?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon#a260412p9 #TechNews #TechTips

Adobe unveils Firefly AI Assistant, which can orchestrate and execute multistep tasks across Creative Cloud apps, available in public beta in the coming weeks (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) http://www.techmeme.com/260415/p35?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon#a260415p35 #TechNews #TechTips

Trainer maker Allbirds, which sold last week for $39M after its valuation fell from $4B in 2021, says it aims to become an AI compute provider; BIRD jumps 150%+ (Bryce Elder/Financial Times) http://www.techmeme.com/260415/p24?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon#a260415p24 #TechNews #TechTips

AMD, Arm, and Qualcomm invest $60M in London-based self-driving tech startup Wayve as part of an extension to its $1.2B Series D, announced in February (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch) http://www.techmeme.com/260415/p25?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon#a260415p25 #TechNews #TechTips

'Super Mario Galaxy Movie' and 'Project Hail Mary' Combine for Best Box Office in 7 Years https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/26/04/12/2010229/super-mario-galaxy-movie-and-project-hail-mary-combine-for-best-box-office-in-7-years?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #TechNews #TechTips

Filings: Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz donated $25M to pro-AI super PAC Leading the Future, bringing the group's total cash on hand to over $51M (Bloomberg) http://www.techmeme.com/260415/p30?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon#a260415p30 #TechNews #TechTips

Sources: UK regulators plan to warn banks, insurers, and exchanges about security risks exposed by Claude Mythos Preview at a meeting within the next two weeks (Martin Arnold/Financial Times) http://www.techmeme.com/260412/p6?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon#a260412p6 #TechNews #TechTips

Q&A with Jensen Huang on Nvidia's supply chain moat, competition from ASICs like Google's TPU, investing in AI labs and neoclouds, selling to China, and more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast) http://www.techmeme.com/260415/p37?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon#a260415p37 #TechNews #TechTips

Greg Kroah-Hartman Tests New 'Clanker T1000' Fuzzing Tool for Linux Patches https://linux.slashdot.org/story/26/04/12/063252/greg-kroah-hartman-tests-new-clanker-t1000-fuzzing-tool-for-linux-patches?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #TechNews #TechTips

Anna's Archive Loses $322 Million Spotify Piracy Case Without a Fight https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/04/15/1831241/annas-archive-loses-322-million-spotify-piracy-case-without-a-fight?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #TechNews #TechTips

Sources: Apple is testing four AI glasses designs with rectangular and oval frames, multiple colors, and a camera system with vertically oriented oval lenses (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) http://www.techmeme.com/260412/p5?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon#a260412p5 #TechNews #TechTips

Google launches a Gemini Mac app, featuring a keyboard shortcut, screen sharing for better context, image generation with Nano Banana, and more (Abner Li/9to5Google) http://www.techmeme.com/260415/p34?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon#a260415p34 #TechNews #TechTips

Crypto Billionaire Pardoned In Prison By Trump Just Wrote a Memoir https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/04/11/2331242/crypto-billionaire-pardoned-in-prison-by-trump-just-wrote-a-memoir?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #TechNews #TechTips

Hisense's New Backlit RGB LED TV 'a Shot Against OLED's Bow', and Includes a DP Port https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/04/12/1854206/hisenses-new-backlit-rgb-led-tv-a-shot-against-oleds-bow-and-includes-a-dp-port?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #TechNews #TechTips

Flipkart and Amazon's quick commerce push in India is intensifying competition in an already crowded space where profitability remains under pressure (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch) http://www.techmeme.com/260412/p4?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon#a260412p4 #TechNews #TechTips

WPP, Dentsu, and Publicis settle with the FTC over claims they colluded on misinformation policies that denied ad revenue to conservative publishers (David McCabe/New York Times) http://www.techmeme.com/260415/p36?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon#a260415p36 #TechNews #TechTips

London-based Gizmo, which uses AI to turn young students' notes into gamified study materials, raised a $22M Series A led by Shine Capital and reports 13M users (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios) http://www.techmeme.com/260415/p26?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon#a260415p26 #TechNews #TechTips

Snapchat Blames AI As It Cuts 1,000 Jobs https://slashdot.org/story/26/04/15/1737249/snapchat-blames-ai-as-it-cuts-1000-jobs?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #TechNews #TechTips

The US Energy Information Administration plans to implement a mandatory nationwide survey of data centers focused on their energy use (Molly Taft/Wired) http://www.techmeme.com/260415/p33?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon#a260415p33 #TechNews #TechTips

DNA-Level Encryption Developed by Researchers to Protect the Secrets of Bioengineered Cells https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/04/12/0511204/dna-level-encryption-developed-by-researchers-to-protect-the-secrets-of-bioengineered-cells?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #TechNews #TechTips

Neuroscientist' AI-Powered Startup AIms To Transform Human Cognition With Perfect, Infinite Memory https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/04/12/0640253/neuroscientist-ai-powered-startup-aims-to-transform-human-cognition-with-perfect-infinite-memory?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #TechNews #TechTips

AI cloud infrastructure company Parasail raised a $32M Series A led by Touring Capital and Kindred Ventures, bringing its total funding to $42M (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch) http://www.techmeme.com/260415/p31?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon#a260415p31 #TechNews #TechTips

Botched IT Upgrade Ended Liquor Sales for the Entire State of Mississippi https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/04/12/1728224/botched-it-upgrade-ended-liquor-sales-for-the-entire-state-of-mississippi?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #TechNews #TechTips

Struggling Shoe Retailer Allbirds Pivots To AI, Stock Explodes More Than 700% https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/04/15/1646259/struggling-shoe-retailer-allbirds-pivots-to-ai-stock-explodes-more-than-700?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #TechNews #TechTips

AI That Bankrupted a Vending Machine is Now Running a Store in San Francisco https://slashdot.org/story/26/04/12/0447236/ai-that-bankrupted-a-vending-machine-is-now-running-a-store-in-san-francisco?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #TechNews #TechTips

Has the Rust Programming Language's Popularity Reached Its Plateau? https://developers.slashdot.org/story/26/04/12/2329229/has-the-rust-programming-languages-popularity-reached-its-plateau?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #TechNews #TechTips

A deep dive into the debate about Claude Mythos Preview, the model's capabilities, attempts to refute Anthropic's claims, and what it means for the future of AI (Zvi Mowshowitz/Don't Worry About the Vase) http://www.techmeme.com/260412/p8?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon#a260412p8 #TechNews #TechTips

A journalist recounts how he used ChatGPT to develop a fitness plan to prepare for the Paris Marathon, resulting in a 20-pound weight loss and faster race times (Derek Wallbank/Bloomberg) http://www.techmeme.com/260412/p3?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon#a260412p3 #TechNews #TechTips

Hilbert, whose AI software connects data across teams to help companies make decisions from a single system, raised a $28M Series A led by a16z (Madison Mills/Axios) http://www.techmeme.com/260415/p29?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon#a260415p29 #TechNews #TechTips

Norway Man Cured of HIV With Brother's Stem Cells https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/04/15/076216/norway-man-cured-of-hiv-with-brothers-stem-cells?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #TechNews #TechTips

A survey of US teens: ~90% say entertainment is a reason they use TikTok, Instagram, or Snapchat, 57% Snapchat message daily, and 37% say TikTok impacts sleep (Pew Research Center) http://www.techmeme.com/260415/p28?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon#a260415p28 #TechNews #TechTips

How Good is Windows on Arm With Snapdragon X? https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/04/12/2149242/how-good-is-windows-on-arm-with-snapdragon-x?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #TechNews #TechTips

The European Commission issues a supplementary statement of objections threatening Meta with an interim ban on WhatsApp policies that allegedly block rivals (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg) http://www.techmeme.com/260415/p23?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon#a260415p23 #TechNews #TechTips

Cal.com, which provides scheduling software, is moving its core open-source codebase to a closed repository, citing the dangers of AI hacking its open code (Steven Vaughan-Nichols/ZDNET) http://www.techmeme.com/260415/p32?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon#a260415p32 #TechNews #TechTips

The Linux Kernel Organization now lets developers submit AI-generated code, as long as it complies with the guidelines, licensing, and attribution requirements (Simon Batt/XDA Developers) http://www.techmeme.com/260412/p2?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon#a260412p2 #TechNews #TechTips

Rivian's Illinois Factory Will Run On Recycled EV Batteries https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/04/15/0712256/rivians-illinois-factory-will-run-on-recycled-ev-batteries?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #TechNews #TechTips

Artemis, which aims to replace rule-based cybersecurity systems with an AI-driven centralized "brain", emerges from stealth with a $70M Series A led by Felicis (Sharon Goldman/Fortune) http://www.techmeme.com/260415/p27?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon#a260415p27 #TechNews #TechTips