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AI Company Clones Musician's Voice, Then Copyright-Strikes Her Own Songs
https://rudevulture.com/ai-company-clones-musicians-voice-then-copyright-strikes-her-own-songs/

AI Company Clones Musician’s Voice, Then Copyright-Strikes Her Own Songs
Folk musician Murphy Campbell found herself at the center of a major ordeal when an entity called Timeless Sounds IR uploaded AI-generated imitations of her music to every major music platform, then used her recordings to strip her of her own income. According to sources, the scheme worked like this: someone fed YouTube videos of ... Read more

Nine years ago, predicting the rise of “self-driving news”. Now, major publishers are seeing 90 % drop-offs in traffic from search engines as LLMs generate synthesized versions of news stories instead of sending readers to read original media articles. https://anildash.com/2017/03/01/tech-a

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A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

The “neural fingerprint” of psychedelics was spotted among hundreds of brain scans of people on LSD, psilocybin, DMT, mescaline and ayahuasca,
pointing to a shared impact on the brain’s behaviour.
The finding emerged from a major study that combined 11 brain imaging datasets from around the world
in an effort to build a reliable picture of how the substances temporarily rewire the brain.
Dr Danilo Bzdok and his colleagues analysed more than 500 brain scans from 267 p…

netscience: Scientific collaborations in network science (2006)
A coauthorship network among scientists working on network science, from 2006. This network is a one-mode projection from the bipartite graph of authors and their scientific publications.
This network has 1589 nodes and 2742 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaboration, Weighted, Projection

Limiting global warming can reduce US wildfire smoke-related deaths by thousands annually #UnitedStates

Limiting global warming can reduce US wildfire smoke-related deaths by thousands annually
Using future climate scenarios based on wildfire damages in North America, scientists estimate that up to 10,000 or more lives may be saved annually in the United States if society is able to mitigate climate change by keeping the global mean surface temperature (GMST) at 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-Industrial age (1850-1900) levels. Currently, the GMST is at 1.3 to 1.4 degrees C but is projected to reach 3 degrees C with the current direction of climate change. The findings are detailed in a…

Continuing upgrades to the new ngscopeclient CI platform.
In addition to the existing release test builds, we now also do a debug build with asan/ubsan and run tests with sanitizers.
This one caught a couple of memory leaks in test harnesses that I need to troubleshoot (the leak appears to be in the harness, not the scopehal blocks being tested).
We still need a ton more tests to be written, of course. But that's orthogonal to the work on the test harness and infrastruc…

What if vaccines could be made to protect against a family of viruses, like influenza or coronaviruses, rather than just individual members of them?
✅ Scientists are working on “everything vaccines”
https://www.economist.com/science-and-tech

#ListeningClub The dialogue between some songs vaguely reminds me of the “Leave Me Alone” album by Sham 69 haha.

Scientists discover Nothing travels faster than light.
#science

Scientists Just Discovered There’s Actually Something Faster than the Speed of Light
Scientists experimentally confirmed what we’ve known to be true for half a century—darkness can “travel” faster than light.

The science in this article is a bit too hard for me but it sounds like excellent news 🙂
"Scientists achieve ‘impossible’ solar efficiency in renewables breakthrough"
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/solar-pane…

Scientists achieve ‘impossible’ solar efficiency in renewables breakthrough
‘Spin-flip’ technique promises to shatter efficiency limits