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"Breakthrough Solar Panel Window Technology Reaches Commercial Viability Milestone"
#SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Breakthrough Solar Panel Window Technology Reaches Commercial Viability Milestone | Happy Eco News
Solar panel windows developed by Danish researchers achieve record 12.3% efficiency while maintaining transparency. The breakthrough technology combines perovskite and organic materials to generate electricity from building windows without blocking visibility. Commercial deployment could transform urban buildings into clean energy generators, supporting carbon neutrality goals while reducing installation costs and space requirements.

The UK Online Safety Act's approach to keeping children safe online has become a rallying point for the right in the UK and US, who claim it enables censorship (Dan Milmo/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

SubMIT: A Physics Analysis Facility at MIT
Josh Bendavid (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CERN), Mariarosaria D'Alfonso (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Jan Eysermans (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Chad Freer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Maxim Goncharov (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Matthew Heine (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Luca Lavezzo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Marianne Moore (Massachusetts Institute of Te…

SubMIT: A Physics Analysis Facility at MIT
The recently completed SubMIT platform is a small set of servers that provide interactive access to substantial data samples at high speeds, enabling sophisticated data analyses with very fast turnaround times. Additionally, it seamlessly integrates massive processing resources for large-scale tasks by connecting to a set of powerful batch processing systems. It serves as an ideal prototype for an Analysis Facility tailored to meet the demanding data and computational requirements anticipated d…

Google debuts AI-powered Android XR smart glasses at Google I/O https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/google-debuts-ai-powered-android-xr-smart-glasses-at-google-io/ar-AA1F9BiU What can Google Gemini AI …

Why Google should proactively break itself up: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/technology/google-antitrust-breakup.html?unlocked_article_code=1.L08.oUPn.B0yCN3RUyZxS&smid=url-share…

What if Google Just Broke Itself Up? A Tech Insider Makes the Case.
Prosecutors aren’t the only ones arguing for a smaller Google. Some critics say it might be better for investors, customers and innovation.

(1/2) Check out the EdTech Situation Room Episode 347 “DeepSeek Disruption”
https://edtechsr.com/2025/07/02/edtechsr-ep-347-deepseek-disruption/
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EdTechSR Ep 347 DeepSeek Disruption
where technology news meets educational analysis Welcome to episode 347 (“DeepSeek Disruption”) of the EdTech Situation Room from February 12, 2025, where technology news met educational analysis. In this episode, Dr. Jason Neiffer (aicentrist.com) and Dr. Wesley Fryer (wesfryer.com) unpacked the latest headlines and their educational implications. The co-hosts dove into China’s rapidly advancing DeepSeek AI model, exploring its open-source release, security concerns, and what it could me…

from my link log —
Current technology is not ready for proper alpha blending.
https://blog.pkh.me/p/43-the-current-technology-is-not-ready-for-proper-blending.html
saved 2025-07-19

The current technology is not ready for proper blending

Sources: the FTC is investigating whether roughly a dozen advertising and advocacy groups violated antitrust law by coordinating boycotts among advertisers (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/…

F.T.C. Investigates Ad Groups and Watchdogs, Alleging Boycott Collusion
The regulator is looking into whether roughly a dozen groups violated antitrust law by coordinating boycotts among advertisers.

It's so nice when companies only make small changes to their code of conduct. Google dropped the word "Don't" from their foundational guiding principle.
I guess that makes it easier to make money.
https://www.theguardian.com/t…

It's so nice when companies only make small changes to their code of conduct. Google dropped the word "Don't" from their foundational guiding principle.
I guess that makes it easier to make money.
https://www.theguardian.com/t…

Analysis: since his inauguration, President Trump posted 2,262 times on Truth Social in 132 days, 3x the volume of tweets in the same period of his first term (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/06/03/trump-truth-socia…

Tallying Trump’s online posting frenzy: 2,262 ‘truths’ in 132 days
In his current term, the president has left his own record for social media missives in the dust. He posts day and night.

23andMe sold out and sold your genetic info, no consent necessary
https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/5326338-regeneron-23andme-dna-data-acquisition-implications/

'Disgusting abomination': Elon Musk tears into Trump megabill (Emily Brooks/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5330697-elon-musk-trump-big-beautiful-bill-congress/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p103#a250603p103

With every month that passes, it becomes more clear that quitting that cursed place was the right call:
«Peter Kyle said it was clear further action was needed to ensure the government-backed Alan Turing Institute met its full potential. […] Making clear that the Turing 2.0 strategy did not meet government requirements, Kyle indicated that he expected leadership changes at ATI.» 🍿
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/04/minister-demands-overhaul-of-uks-leading-ai-institute-alan-turing

🎨 The current technology is not ready for proper (color) blending
#color

The current technology is not ready for proper blending

NotebookLM video overviews zijn interessant. Benieuwd hoeveel dit kost qua energie....
https://blog.google/technology/google-labs/notebooklm-video-overviews-studio-upgrades/

What’s new in NotebookLM: Video Overviews and an upgraded Studio
NotebookLM launches Video Overviews and upgrades to the Studio panel.

A 3D Mobile Crowdsensing Framework for Sustainable Urban Digital Twins
Taku Yamazaki (Shibaura Institute of Technology), Kaito Watanabe (Shibaura Institute of Technology), Tatsuya Kase (Shibaura Institute of Technology), Kenta Hasegawa (Shibaura Institute of Technology), Koki Saida (Shibaura Institute of Technology), Takumi Miyoshi (Shibaura Institute of Technology)

A 3D Mobile Crowdsensing Framework for Sustainable Urban Digital Twins
In this article, we propose a 3D mobile crowdsensing (3D-MCS) framework aimed at sustainable urban digital twins (UDTs). The framework comprises four key mechanisms: (1) the 3D-MCS mechanism, consisting of active and passive models; (2) the Geohash-based spatial information management mechanism; (3) the dynamic point cloud integration mechanism for UDTs; and (4) the web-based real-time visualizer for 3D-MCS and UDTs. The active sensing model features a gamified 3D-MCS approach, where participan…

Very much appreciate learning about @…’s work at #FediCon
Her presentation was excellent and I have so much catching up to do around

ChatGPT-4o, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Gemini 2.0 Flash, Llama 4, and Copilot comparison: Claude was the best overall with the highest consistency and no hallucinations (Geoffrey A. Fowler/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/

Review | 5 AI bots took our tough reading test. One was smartest — and it wasn’t ChatGPT.
We challenged AI helpers to decode legal contracts, simplify medical research, speed-read a novel and make sense of Trump speeches. Some of the AI analysis was impressive — and some was downright dumb.

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Coordinated Shirking in Technology Adoption
This paper studies a model of technology adoption: a manager tries to induce a group of workers to exert costly effort to vet a new technology before they choose whether to use it. The manager finds it too costly to simultaneously replace large groups of unproductive workers, so they shirk when coordination is possible. Widely applicable technology expands productive possibilities but also provides an opportunity for coordinated shirking, and can thus lead to widespread production failure. Furt…

#Facebook is very very bad. https://www.businesstoday.in/technology/news/story/how…

How Facebook turned a VPN into a surveillance engine to spy on Snapchat, YouTube and more
It looked like a VPN It acted like a VPN But it was actually Facebooks backdoor into your phone

reality_mining: Reality mining proximity network (2004)
A network of human proximities among students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as measured by personal mobile phones. Nodes represent people (students from the Media Lab and the Sloan Business School) and an edge connects a pair if the two devices made a Bluetooth handshake at the time. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 96 nodes and 1086404 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps

Extrinsic nature of the polarization in hafnia ferroelectrics
Binayak Mukherjee (Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology), Natalya S. Fedorova (Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology), Jorge \'I\~niguez-Gonz\'alez (Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, University of Luxembourg)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00…

Extrinsic nature of the polarization in hafnia ferroelectrics
Hafnia and related fluorites defy our understanding of ferroelectricity, even if we restrict ourselves to the intrinsic properties of ideal crystals. Here we focus on a critical puzzle, namely, the sign of the electric polarization. Using first-principles simulations, we show that a polar hafnia layer with a fixed atomic configuration can give rise to depolarizing fields of either positive or negative sign, depending on the environment. This implies that (the sign of) the polarization in hafnia…

Signals and Symptoms: ICS Attack Dataset From Railway Cyber Range
Anis Yusof, Yuancheng Liu, Niklaus Kang, Choon Meng Seah, Zhenkai Liang, Ee-Chien Chang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01768

Signals and Symptoms: ICS Attack Dataset From Railway Cyber Range
The prevalence of cyberattacks on Industrial Control Systems (ICS) has highlighted the necessity for robust security measures and incident response to protect critical infrastructure. This is prominent when Operational Technology (OT) systems undergo digital transformation by integrating with Information Technology (IT) systems to enhance operational efficiency, adaptability, and safety. To support analysts in staying abreast of emerging attack patterns, there is a need for ICS datasets that re…

This seems bad. We just learned in the past week via @… that ICE agents are searching Flock cameras nationwide, and so did a Texas cop trying to track down a woman who got an out-of-state abortion. Now, without any guardrails against that, a crypto billionaire wants $9m more of these cameras in SF.
There's an ordinance to accept the gift that will…

Silicon Graphics Likes It Hot - Washington Technology
#throwbackthursday

Want super-thorough AI responses by applying deep thought & reasoning AI technology?
Any Microsoft 365 Copilot (Commercial) licensed user can now use the Researcher & Analyst agents at no additional cost! These new agents provide very thorough responses to help you collect FACTS on informational topics & review DATA to derive insights... with human language.
✅ #Researcher

Researcher and Analyst are now generally available | Microsoft 365 Blog
We’re excited to announce the general availability of Researcher and Analyst, two first-of-their-kind reasoning agents designed for work. Learn more.

Seit den 1960ern kommt die #Kernfusion in 30 bis 40 Jahren. 🤪
#Google investiert in #Kernfusion und will künftig 200 Megawatt Strom vom Start-up CFS beziehen.
Doch die Technologie wird…

Google bets on fusion power as its greenhouse gas emissions grow
Google has agreed to purchase electricity from a nuclear fusion power plant, but the technology still has to prove that it’s commercially feasible. 

How Palantir has benefited since President Trump took office, securing new and expanded government contracts and becoming the S&P's top-performing stock of 2025 (Washington Post)

In Trump’s Washington, Palantir is winning big
From warfighting and tracking deportations to writing State Department cables with AI, the company is benefiting from a new technology-driven cost-cutting ethos.

It’s annoyingly-difficult to advocate for users from a technology standpoint in 2025. Defaults are usually slanted for the benefit of service providers.
As an example: it took me WAY too long to figure out how to turn off link rewriting in emails we’re sending with AWS Simple Email Service. I had to find it in two different places before we could send URLs we actually asked it to send (instead of bouncing them through their tracking service). The default was invasive and hard to change…

E2ATST: A Temporal-Spatial Optimized Energy-Efficient Architecture for Training Spiking Transformer
Yunhao Ma, Yanyu Lin, Mingjing Li, Puli Quan, Chenlin Zhou, Wenyue Zhang, Zhiwei Zhong, Wanyi Jia, Xueke Zhu, Qingyan Meng, Huihui Zhou, Fengwei An
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00475

E2ATST: A Temporal-Spatial Optimized Energy-Efficient Architecture for Training Spiking Transformer
(1) Pengcheng Laboratory, (2) Southern University of Science and Technology, (3) Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, (4) University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Data privacy experts are calling on the government to urgently tighten regulation around facial recognition technology, amid growing concerns over its unregulated use by police forces and private companies across the UK.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/202…

Government urged to tighten regulation around facial recognition technology
Data privacy experts are calling on the government to urgently tighten regulation around facial recognition technology, amid growing concerns over its unregulated use by police ...

"Google’s data center energy use doubled in 4 years"
#Google #Emissions #Technology

Google’s data center energy use doubled in four years | TechCrunch
Google has pledged to use only carbon-free sources of electricity to power its operations, a task made more challenging by its breakneck pace of data center growth.

To Grok: "Why is Neuralink so vague about their Neuralink Blindsight brain implant, describing it as technology to "generate visual perception" - even unpatterned flashes of light qualify as such?" https://x.com/i/grok/share/vI84HuktzHHh093wRbd6YzHXl …

As much as this scratches the cool itch (and I wish I had a laptop that had a usb-c power-in connection), I can't keep from thinking we're all eventually going to be like Tony Stark in that cave (pre-mark1 suit) lugging that car battery around.
https://fed.brid.g…

SlashByte (@slashbyte.bsky.social)
Featuring a 24,000mAh capacity and 140W max fast charging, keep your devices powered during long trips or heavy use with the Anker 737 Power Bank. Buy it now: amzn.to/4m7dh80 #Tech #Android #Apple #Technology #Travel #News #SocialMedia #Mastodon #Fediverse

It’s time to reclaim the word “Luddite”. Interesting report showing that Australians are getting more aware of the risks of AI with more exposure to the technology.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news

The rise of AI tools that write about you when you die (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/08/03/ai-obituaries-funeral-homes/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzU0MTkzNjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzU1NTc1OTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NTQxOTM2MDAsImp0aSI6IjBiNTk1NmY1LWU4MDUtNDBkNC1hNzA0LTIzNjk4NWE4MjM0ZCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS90ZWNobm9sb2d5LzIwMjUvMDgvMDMvYWktb2JpdHVhcmllcy1mdW5lcmFsLWhvbWVzLyJ9.76hnvtuQDy7BamNKDbYGEsCCvQi3VTlxmf6BphsNwLg&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/250803/p44#a250803p44

The Trump administration has expanded #Palantir’s work with the government,
spreading the company’s technology
— which could easily merge data on Americans
— throughout more agencies.
The company has received more than $113 million in federal government spending since Trump took office, including additional funds from existing contracts as well as new contracts with the Department …

Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans
The Trump administration has expanded Palantir’s work with the government, spreading the company’s technology — which could easily merge data on Americans — throughout agencies.

A reminder that URL's each only count for 23 characters against your post's character limit, regardless of how long it actually is, precisely so that people can see where the link is going and discourage use of link shorteners
https://infosec.exchange/@BleepingComp

Check out my day 2 notes (so far) for #CivicsOfTech25 the “Civics of Technology 2025 Conference.” Challenging & important presentations, esp from Chris Guilliard and Ian Linkletter:
https://wfryer.me/day2 

Notes - Civics Of Technology 2025 (July 31 - Aug 1)
Notes - Civics Of Technology 2025 (July 31 - Aug 1) What is this? My name is Wes Fryer and I am a middle school media literacy teacher in North Carolina. More links for me are on: https://wesfryer.com/after These are my notes and links from the July 31 / August 1 2025 “Civics of Technology”...

Anytime someone says, "AI is here to stay, nothing we can do about it," I think, there's a person who is not doing the big, deep work of climate action.
If they think we can't do anything about an overtly exploitative and corrosive technology that has only just emerged in the last few years, then they couldn't conceive of the major shifts the rest of us have been and are doing.

Isogeometric contact analysis in subsea umbilical and power cables
Tianjiao Dai (School of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Hubei Key Laboratory of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering Hydrodynamics, HUST, Wuhan, China), Shuo Yang (Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science and Technology Co., Ltd., China), Xing Jin (China Offshore Engineering and Technology Co., Ltd., China), Svein S{\ae}vik (Department of Marine Technology, Norwegian U…

Isogeometric contact analysis in subsea umbilical and power cables
Subsea umbilical and power cables contain a large number of contact interfaces between different geometries and materials. These complex interactions rise significant challenges for accurately considering contact surface properties by using traditional analytical solutions or finite element methods. These properties have been identified as the most sensitive parameters when performing the numerical simulation for stress analysis. Therefore, it is essential to apply a novel approach for contact …

“Foundations: types of assistive technology and adaptive strategies”
https://tetralogical.com/blog/2025/07/28/foundations-types-of-assistive-technology-and-adaptive-strategies/
Very high level, so no inline examples …

Foundations: types of assistive technology and adaptive strategies - TetraLogical
This post provides an overview of common assistive technologies (AT) used by people with seeing, hearing, moving, and thinking disabilities. It also explains what adaptive strategies are, and how these approaches work together to support accessibility and inclusive experiences.

Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/trump-palantir-data-americans.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LE8.gxiw.J6H-w4YDQCIZ&a…

It's the year 2025 and Microsoft have released version 21 (Twenty One!) of Sql Server Management Studio and apparently they've lost the secret to the technology that makes it so that when you double click a file to open it, it doesn't start a whole new instance but instead opens the file in the running instance
I mean you read the stories about how NASA forgot how to be able to read the tapes full of Mars data or whatever but you don't expect it to happen to something y…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.14927 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@ar…

Error-Free Demodulation of Pixelated Interferograms: Updated review and circumstantial evidence of plagiarism by 4D Technology Corporation
This paper examines the historical development that led to error-free phase demodulation of pixelated spatial-carrier interferograms between 2004 and 2010. It also evaluates evidence suggesting that 4D Technology Corporation (4DTC), in their SPIE 7790 publication [18], may have adopted key concepts from a manuscript submitted by Servin and collaborators, which at that time was still under peer review [17]. We analyze 4DTC algorithms based on 2x2 and 3x3 spatial convolution phase shifting method…

"""
Writing has been an instrument for some of the highest expressions of the human spirit: poetry, philosophy, science. But to understand it — why it came into being, how it changed the human experience — we have to first appreciate its crass practicality. It evolved mainly as an instrument of the mundane: the economic, the administrative, the political.
Confusion over this point is understandable. Some scholars have equated the origin of “civilization” with the origin of writing. Laypeople sometimes take this equation to mean that with writing humanity put aside its barbarous past and started behaving in gentlemanly fashion, sipping tea and remembering to say “please.” And indeed, this may be only a mild caricature of what some nineteenth-century scholars actually meant by the equation: writing equals Greece equals Plato; illiteracy equals barbarism equals Attila the Hun.
But, in truth, if you add literacy to Attila the Hun, you don’t get Plato. You get Genghis Khan. During the thirteenth century, he administered what even today is the largest continuous land empire in the history of the world. And he could do so only because he had the requisite means of control: a script that, when carried by his pony express, amounted to the fastest large-scale information-processing technology of his era. One consequence was to give pillaging a scope beyond Attila’s wildest dreams. Information technology, like energy technology or any other technology, can be a tool for good or bad. By itself, it is no guarantor of moral progress or civility.
"""
(Robert Wright, Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny)

‘One day I overheard my boss saying: just put it in ChatGPT’: the workers who lost their jobs to AI
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/31/the-workers-who-lost-their-jobs-to-ai-chatgpt?CMP=Share_iO…

Development of new ultra-low-background particle detectors based on Micromegas technology for the search of Dark Matter at the low-mass frontier
Oscar Perez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02172

Development of new ultra-low-background particle detectors based on Micromegas technology for the search of Dark Matter at the low-mass frontier
Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are one of the best motivated candidates to compose the Dark Matter of the Universe. The lack of experimental confirmation by direct detection experiments or collider searches has ruled out canonical WIMP scenarios (masses $\sim$ GeV-TeV), making a case for the largely unexplored sub-GeV frontier. This PhD thesis is focused on the evolution and latest developments of TREX-DM, a gaseous Time Projection Chamber (TPC) designed to detect low-mass WIMPs t…

HyperFusion: Hierarchical Multimodal Ensemble Learning for Social Media Popularity Prediction
Liliang Ye (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China), Yunyao Zhang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China), Yafeng Wu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China), Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen (La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia), Junqing Yu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China), Wei Yang (Huazhong University of S…

HyperFusion: Hierarchical Multimodal Ensemble Learning for Social Media Popularity Prediction
Social media popularity prediction plays a crucial role in content optimization, marketing strategies, and user engagement enhancement across digital platforms. However, predicting post popularity remains challenging due to the complex interplay between visual, textual, temporal, and user behavioral factors. This paper presents HyperFusion, a hierarchical multimodal ensemble learning framework for social media popularity prediction. Our approach employs a three-tier fusion architecture that pro…

#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 05 - The Harvest of Kairos
AVON: So?
TARRANT: So what do we do before they blow us out of the galaxy?
AVON: We attack.
TARRANT: Attack? We have nothing to attack with.
AVON: Then bluff it. Tell them to surrender.

Blakes7Bot | Search
Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.

RATE: An LLM-Powered Retrieval Augmented Generation Technology-Extraction Pipeline
Karan Mirhosseini, Arya Aftab, Alireza Sheikh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21125 https://…

RATE: An LLM-Powered Retrieval Augmented Generation Technology-Extraction Pipeline
In an era of radical technology transformations, technology maps play a crucial role in enhancing decision making. These maps heavily rely on automated methods of technology extraction. This paper introduces Retrieval Augmented Technology Extraction (RATE), a Large Language Model (LLM) based pipeline for automated technology extraction from scientific literature. RATE combines Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with multi-definition LLM-based validation. This hybrid method results in high rec…

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Beyond Face Swapping: A Diffusion-Based Digital Human Benchmark for Multimodal Deepfake Detection
In recent years, the rapid development of deepfake technology has given rise to an emerging and serious threat to public security: diffusion model-based digital human generation. Unlike traditional face manipulation methods, such models can generate highly realistic videos with consistency through multimodal control signals. Their flexibility and covertness pose severe challenges to existing detection strategies. To bridge this gap, we introduce DigiFakeAV, the first large-scale multimodal digi…

Had my talk on Small Web accepted at #why2025 but I hadn’t realised (my bad) that not only do you have to cover your own travel and accommodation but you also have to buy a ticket to speak. I’m sorry, as part of a tiny two-person not-for-profit working for the common good, I can’t afford to pay to speak at events. I’m not Deloitte. So I sadly had to withdraw my talk.
If any conferences do w…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.01948 has been replaced.
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The Evolution and Future Perspectives of Artificial Intelligence Generated Content
Artificial intelligence generated content (AIGC), a rapidly advancing technology, is transforming content creation across domains, such as text, images, audio, and video. Its growing potential has attracted more and more researchers and investors to explore and expand its possibilities. This review traces AIGC's evolution through four developmental milestones-ranging from early rule-based systems to modern transfer learning models-within a unified framework that highlights how each milestone co…

Was uns genommen werden soll:
#KI

Den här artikeln berör annat än hälsofrågor men problemet är precis det samma. Använd inte AI för att få svar på mer kontroversiella frågor där du inte kan något sen tidigare. För allt för ofta så ger den dig påhittade svar samtidigt som det låter väldigt självsäkert.
AI swallows misinformation and spits it back at us: ‘It’s optimized to give useful information, but not for it to be correct’

AI swallows misinformation and spits it back at us: ‘It’s optimized to give useful information, but not for it to be correct’
ChatGPT and Grok absorb fake news and regurgitate it when asked. Due to their design, these models and their competitors are highly susceptible to disinformation

Google's emissions are up over 50%, Amazon builds huge data centers powered by 75% natural gas.
Remember all those posts telling us that "AIs climate impact isn't that bad" supported by some really funky math/perspective and/or numbers Sam Altman invented?
Here's the actual impact.
"AI" is a fossil fuel technology.

At Amazon’s Biggest Data Center, Everything Is Supersized for A.I.
On 1,200 acres of cornfield in Indiana, Amazon is building one of the largest computers ever for work with Anthropic, an artificial intelligence start-up.

A US jury finds Tesla partially liable for Autopilot's role in a fatal 2019 crash in Florida, and orders the company to pay $200M in punitive damages (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.c…

Tesla found partially liable for fatal 2019 crash, hit with $243 million in damages
The outcome is a stunning rebuke for Tesla, which for years has fought to absolve itself of responsibility when its technology is involved in a crash.

StorySpace: Technology supporting reflection, expression, and discourse in classroom narrative
Benjamin Watson, Janet Kim, Tim McEneany, Tom Moher, Claudia Hindo, Louis Gomez, Stephen Fransen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02156

StorySpace: Technology supporting reflection, expression, and discourse in classroom narrative
The StorySpace project studies the role new interface technologies might play in high school education. With this approach in mind, StorySpace is specifically designed to support and enhance classroom narrative, an already well-established classroom activity. StorySpace strives to achieve this through adherence to three design goals. The first is to trigger student reflection and interpretation. The narrative medium created by StorySpace should represent the topic of classroom discussion and le…

A Review of Various Datasets for Machine Learning Algorithm-Based Intrusion Detection System: Advances and Challenges
Sudhanshu Sekhar Tripathy, Bichitrananda Behera
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02438

A Review of Various Datasets for Machine Learning Algorithm-Based Intrusion Detection System: Advances and Challenges
IDS aims to protect computer networks from security threats by detecting, notifying, and taking appropriate action to prevent illegal access and protect confidential information. As the globe becomes increasingly dependent on technology and automated processes, ensuring secured systems, applications, and networks has become one of the most significant problems of this era. The global web and digital technology have significantly accelerated the evolution of the modern world, necessitating the u…

F.T.C. Investigates Ad Groups and Watchdogs, Alleging Boycott Collusion - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/technology/ftc-investigation-advertising-boycotts.html

White collar workers are increasingly using AI note-taking apps to assist them during Zoom meetings or fully represent them when they choose not to attend (Washington Post)

No one likes meetings. They’re sending their AI note takers instead.
Artificial intelligence apps that record and summarize meetings can tempt workers into skipping calls, leaving humans who join in the company of silent bots.

Hours after Trump's Tax and Spending bill passed the US Senate, the hashtag #MuskWantsToBuildAnAmericaParty
went viral on Weibo -- a Chinese social media platform similar to Musk’s X, receiving more than 37m views.
“If Elon Musk were to found a political party, his tech-driven mindset could inject fresh energy into politics. The potential for change is significant – a…

⛽ Floating platform to produce synthetic fuels using wind, seawater, and air
#fuels

Floating platform to produce synthetic fuels using wind, seawater, and air
Off-grid, modular, and seaworthy: KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) and partners intend to produce synthetic fuels on a floating platform using wind energy, seawater, and ambient air. For this purpose, the "PtX-Wind" project was launched under the H2Mare lead project. A corresponding modular plant was installed on a barge and lies operational at anchor in Bremerhaven. Later this year, it will start producing synthetic fuel directly on the sea just off Helgoland Island.

Sources: Samsung is delaying completion of its Texas fab due to a lack of customers; the plant was meant to come online in 2024 before being pushed to 2026 (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/S…

Samsung delaying completion of US chip plant due to lack of customers
South Korean chipmaker in no rush to install equipment at Texas factory

Confidence-driven Gradient Modulation for Multimodal Human Activity Recognition: A Dynamic Contrastive Dual-Path Learning Approach
Panpan Ji, Junni Song, Hang Xiao, Hanyu Liu, Chao Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02826

Confidence-driven Gradient Modulation for Multimodal Human Activity Recognition: A Dynamic Contrastive Dual-Path Learning Approach
Sensor-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is a core technology that enables intelligent systems to perceive and interact with their environment. However, multimodal HAR systems still encounter key challenges, such as difficulties in cross-modal feature alignment and imbalanced modality contributions. To address these issues, we propose a novel framework called the Dynamic Contrastive Dual-Path Network (DCDP-HAR). The framework comprises three key components. First, a dual-path feature extra…

Energy-Oriented Computing Architecture Simulator for SNN Training
Yunhao Ma (Pengcheng Laboratory, Southern University of Science and Technology), Wanyi Jia (Pengcheng Laboratory, Southern University of Science and Technology), Yanyu Lin (Pengcheng Laboratory), Wenjie Lin (Pengcheng Laboratory), Xueke Zhu (Pengcheng Laboratory), Huihui Zhou (Pengcheng Laboratory), Fengwei An (Southern University of Science and Technology)

Energy-Oriented Computing Architecture Simulator for SNN Training
With the growing demand for intelligent computing, neuromorphic computing, a paradigm that mimics the structure and functionality of the human brain, offers a promising approach to developing new high-efficiency intelligent computing systems. Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), the foundation of neuromorphic computing, have garnered significant attention due to their unique potential in energy efficiency and biomimetic neural processing. However, current hardware development for efficient SNN train…

Families and funeral directors are using AI obituary generators to memorialize the dead, as critics worry about AI's impact on how people remember one another (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)

The rise of AI tools that write about you when you die
Families and funeral directors are using AI obituary generators to more efficiently memorialize the dead. What happens when they get it wrong?

The Societal Impact of Foundation Models: Advancing Evidence-based AI Policy
Rishi Bommasani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23123 https://

The Societal Impact of Foundation Models: Advancing Evidence-based AI Policy
Artificial intelligence is humanity's most promising technology because of the remarkable capabilities offered by foundation models. Yet, the same technology brings confusion and consternation: foundation models are poorly understood and they may precipitate a wide array of harms. This dissertation explains how technology and society coevolve in the age of AI, organized around three themes. First, the conceptual framing: the capabilities, risks, and the supply chain that grounds foundation mode…

F.T.C. Investigates Ad Groups and Watchdogs, Alleging Boycott Collusion (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/technology/ftc-investigation-advertising-boycotts.html?unlocked_article_code=1.L08.Zm0E.vxArA9JuHVMK&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p132#a250602p132

Sources: the FTC is investigating whether roughly a dozen advertising and advocacy groups violated antitrust law by coordinating boycotts among advertisers (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/…

F.T.C. Investigates Ad Groups and Watchdogs, Alleging Boycott Collusion
The regulator is looking into whether roughly a dozen groups violated antitrust law by coordinating boycotts among advertisers.

Multiple AI Companies Bypassing Web Standard to Scrape Publisher Sites Without Licensing (Reuters, 21 June 2024)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/multiple-ai-companies-by…

A Neuralink rival just tested a brain implant in a person https://www.wired.com/story/paradromics-neuralink-rival-tested-brain-implant/ (archived at

A Neuralink Rival Just Tested a Brain Implant in a Person
Paradromics, a brain-computer-interface startup, inserted its brain implant in a person—briefly—in an early test of its technology.

Silicon Valley has shifted from Web 2.0 to a new "hard tech", AI-dominated era with fewer perks and a more serious mood, as startups use San Francisco as a base (Mike Isaac/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/technology/ai-silicon-valle…

A.I. Has Ushered in Silicon Valley’s ‘Hard Tech’ Era
Goodbye to the age of consumer websites and mobile apps. Artificial intelligence has ushered in an era of what insiders in the nation’s innovation capital call “hard tech.”

Google, OpenAI, Meta, and VCs are increasingly embracing the US military industrial complex, a major Silicon Valley cultural shift supported by President Trump (Sheera Frenkel/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/technology/google-meta-openai-…

How Tech Firms Like Google and Meta Are Embracing the Military
In a major shift, Google, OpenAI, Meta and venture capitalists — many of whom had once forsworn involvement in war — have embraced the military industrial complex.

📡 Affordable, room-temperature maser created using LED technology
#technology

Affordable, room-temperature maser created using LED technology
With the ability to detect and amplify extremely weak electromagnetic signals without adding additional noise, masers have many potential uses, including the production of more sensitive magnetic resonance body scanners, such as those used in airports.

I Fought To Keep VOA Independent. Now It's Gone. (Steve Herman/The Fulcrum)
https://thefulcrum.us/media-technology/voice-of-america
http://www.memeorandum.com/250701/p96#a250701p96

How 20-something CEOs like Cognition AI's Scott Wu, Cursor's Michael Truell, Cluely's Roy Lee, and Scale AI's Alexandr Wang are swarming San Francisco's AI boom (Natallie Rocha/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/technology/ai…

Swarming to San Francisco’s A.I. Boom: a New Crop of 20-Something CEOs
Some dropped out of M.I.T., Georgetown and Stanford. Others decided not to go to college. They all say they could not afford to wait to build their own artificial intelligence start-ups.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.18950 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_…

Unexplainability of Artificial Intelligence Judgments in Kant's Perspective
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, a major contribution to the history of epistemology, proposes a table of categories to elucidate the structure of the a priori principles underlying human judgment. Artificial intelligence (AI) technology, grounded in functionalism, claims to simulate or replicate human judgment. To evaluate this claim, it is necessary to examine whether AI judgments exhibit the essential characteristics of human judgment. This paper investigates the unexplainability of AI judgme…

The Trump administration has accomplished something that Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and other dictators desired.
-- It destroyed the Voice of America.
Until mid-March, VOA had been on the air continuously for 83 years.
Starting in 1942 with shortwave broadcasts in German to counter Nazi propaganda,
America’s external voice had expanded to nearly 50 languages,
with a weekly combined audience of more than 350 million people worldwide, watching on TV, listening on radi…

I Fought To Keep VOA Independent. Now It’s Gone.
The Trump administration has accomplished something that Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and other dictators desired. It destroyed the Voice of America. Until mid-March, VOA had been on the air continuously for 83 years. Starting in 1942 with shortwave broadcasts in German to counter Nazi propaganda, America’s...

After Google's two antitrust losses in the past year, a look at critics' claims that its breakup might be better for investors, customers, and innovation (David Streitfeld/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com…

What if Google Just Broke Itself Up? A Tech Insider Makes the Case.
Prosecutors aren’t the only ones arguing for a smaller Google. Some critics say it might be better for investors, customers and innovation.

David Cope, a composer and algorithmic composition pioneer who created a program in the 1980s to write music in the style of Bach and others, died at age 83 (Miguel Salazar/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/technology/david-cope-dead-ai…

David Cope, Godfather of A.I. Music, Is Dead at 83
His EMI algorithm, an early form of artificial intelligence that he developed in the 1980s, prompted searching questions about the limits of human creativity.

Musk says he doesn't 'wanna take responsibility' for all Trump actions (Sarah Fortinsky/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5327997-elon-musk-trump-administration-bind/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250601/p62#a250601p62

🤙 Sage iPhone for children review: ‘Would it make me want to divorce my parents?’
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/16/sage-iphone-for-children-review-teenagers-internet-safe-smartphone

Indian quick commerce companies like Swiggy, Zepto and Flipkart are slowing down dark store expansion to rein in cash burn after an aggressive year of growth (Pranav Mukul/The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiat…

Quick commerce companies slow dark stores buildout to control cash burn
Quick commerce firms are hitting pause on expansion of dark stores to keep cash burn in check. Industry executives said companies are renegotiating their lease agreements for these mini-warehouses. An exception is Blinkit, which is backed by parent Eternal’s $2 billion war chest and plans to expand its network to 3,000 stores from 1,544 dark stores as of June 30.

CEO Alex Bouaziz says Deel crossed $1B annual revenue run rate in Q1 2025 and has allocated an M&A budget of between $200M and $500M in 2025 (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/deel-ey

Brookfield says it plans to invest ~$10B to build an AI data center in the Swedish city of Strangnas, after committing to spend €20B in France earlier in 2025 (Supantha Mukherjee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/brookfi

Computer science programs at Carnegie Mellon and other US universities are rethinking how to incorporate AI into curricula, including a focus on AI literacy (Steve Lohr/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/technology/computer-science-…

How Do You Teach Computer Science in the A.I. Era?
Universities across the country are scrambling to understand the implications of generative A.I.’s transformation of technology.

NYSE Arca files with the SEC to list a Bitcoin ETF linked to Trump Media and Technology Group, the parent company of Truth Social and Truth.fi (Vildana Hajric/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…

FDA debuts agency-wide AI tool meant to help scientific reviewers and others streamline their work and, soon, to identify high-priority targets for inspections (Maya Goldman/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/02/fda-launches-ai-tool

FDA launches agency-wide AI tool
FDA said it's using the technology to review clinical protocols and speed up scientific evaluations.

The US Army awards Palantir a contract worth up to $10B over the next decade, creating a "comprehensive framework for the Army's future software and data needs" (Elizabeth Dwoskin/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/…

Palantir gets $10 billion contract from U.S. Army
The software company’s enterprise contract over the next decade cements its central role in warfighting for years to come. 

Datadog is joining the S&P 500, replacing Juniper Networks after HPE acquired Juniper, before trading on July 9; DDOG jumps 10% after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/02/datadog-stock-jumps-sp-500-index-inclusion.html

Datadog stock jumps 10% on tech company’s inclusion in S&P 500 index
Hewlett Packard Enterprise's closing of its Juniper deal created an opening in the index, which has added several technology companies in recent months.

Sources: the White House is finalizing EOs on drones that could end Chinese drone sales in the US, update federal rules on where drones can be flown, and more (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/30/trump-exe…

Trump order could end Chinese drone sales in the U.S.
The Trump administration is finalizing executive orders that could lead to Chinese drone-makers like DJI being barred from selling new models in the US.

Oxide Computer, which provides on-premise cloud computers to businesses, raised a $100M Series B led by Thomas Tull's US Innovative Technology Fund (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/cloud-server-startup-oxid…

A look at Big Tech's AI talent wars with massive compensation packages; sources: Meta told potential hires they would be allotted 30K GPUs for their AI research (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/technol

A.I. Researchers Are Negotiating $250 Million Pay Packages. Just Like NBA Stars.
A.I. technologists are approaching the job market as if they were Steph Curry or LeBron James, seeking advice from their entourages and playing hardball with the highest bidders.

Researchers say tactics used to make AI more engaging, like making them more agreeable, can make chatbots reinforce harmful ideas, like encouraging drug use (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)

Your chatbot friend might be messing with your mind
OpenAI, Meta and others want people to spend more time with AI chatbots, but there is growing evidence that they can hook users or reinforce harmful ideas.

Sources: Palantir's Foundry is now deployed in at least four federal agencies, after Trump signed an EO calling for the government to share data across agencies (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/…

Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans
The Trump administration has expanded Palantir’s work with the government, spreading the company’s technology — which could easily merge data on Americans — throughout agencies.

Denmark plans to clamp down on AI-generated deepfakes by changing copyright law to give its citizens rights to their own body, facial features, and voice (Miranda Bryant/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

Trump Media reports Q2 net sales up 5.5% YoY to $883.3K and a net loss of $20M, and says it accumulated ~$2B in bitcoin and bitcoin-related securities in July (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/trump-truth-social-tmtg-q2-2…

Trump's TMTG Truth Social Q2 Earnings: $20M Loss on $883K in Net Sales
Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent company of Truth Social that is majority-owned by President Donald Trump, posted earnings for Q2 2025.