Month: April 2024

Nick Bostrom’s Future of Humanity Institute closed this week in what Swedish-born philosopher says was ‘death by bureaucracy’ Oxford University this week shut down an academic institute run by one of Elon Musk’s favorite philosophers. The Future of Humanity Institute, dedicated to the long-termism movement and other Silicon Valley-endorsed ideas such as effective altruism, closed …

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Volt Typhoon hacking campaign is waiting ‘for just the right moment to deal a devastating blow’, says Christopher Wray Chinese government-linked hackers have burrowed into US critical infrastructure and are waiting “for just the right moment to deal a devastating blow”, the director of the FBI, Christopher Wray, has warned. An ongoing Chinese hacking campaign …

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Todd Baker composed the soundtrack for the indie puzzler as he was living through the loss of his mother. On the series’ 10th anniversary, he reflects on the experience ‘The part where the mother and child are separated on a red mountain, in a level quite early on in the game where you have to …

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US officials say pedal pad could come loose and get lodged in interior trim, causing vehicle to accelerate unintentionally Tesla is recalling 3,878 Cybertrucks to fix an accelerator pedal pad that could come loose and get lodged in the interior trim, the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said on Friday. A trapped accelerator …

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In this week’s newsletter: Great game adaptations are increasingly high-budget fan-fiction, thanks to a generation of writers who actually understand games • Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here I am a few episodes from the end of the series Fallout on Prime Video. It’s funny and gory, at times sentimental …

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Jonathan Hall, Britain’s reviewer of terrorism legislation, says more children could be exposed to encrypted extremist content The UK’s terror watchdog has criticised Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta for lowering the minimum age for WhatsApp users from 16 to 13, warning that the “extraordinary” move could expose more teenagers to extreme content. Jonathan Hall KC said more …

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Process has coincided with a rise in price in the past and is due to take place again on Saturday Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of bitcoin, still has an influence on the cryptocurrency nearly 14 years after disappearing. This week the protocol designed by Nakamoto – an individual or group of individuals who went …

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Campaigners express concern at new Ofcom figures, which also show that half of under-13s are on social media A quarter of three- and four-year-olds in the UK now own a smartphone, while half of children under 13 are on social media, according to new data that comes as ministers consider banning all children under 16 …

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Tech firm released early versions of its latest large language model and a real-time image generator as it tries to catch up to OpenAI Meta Platforms on Thursday released early versions of its latest large language model, Llama 3, and an image generator that updates pictures in real time while users type prompts, as it …

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Rory Gallagher | Jim Perrin’s Country Diary | Tory vacuum | A clear conscience | Smartphone addiction Nice to see Andy Welch’s article on the Fender Stratocaster reaching the age of 70 (‘With a Strat you can rule the world!’ Nile Rodgers, Bonnie Raitt and John Squire on the electric guitar that changed everything, 10 …

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