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ICE Is Using a University Building as a Deportation Office and the University Says It Can't Do Anything About It (404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/ice-is-using-a-university-building-as-a-deportation-office-and-the-university-says-it-cant-do-anything-about-it/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251028/p98#a251028p98

Manche der von der Google-KI auf die Frage nach Literaturhinweisen gegebenen Antworten schaffen es, mich zu verblüffen, weil es sich eben nicht um "Halluzinationen" handelt; zB existiert der auf die Frage "Gibt es Publikationen zur Bedeutung des Suseok im Film Parasite?" angegebene Artikel mit dem Titel "Using Parasite’s Scholar’s Stone (水石) in a Critical Race Decoding of Racism and Class" tatsächlich.

I am enthusiastic about GenAI , it's possible applications and added value in specific usescases, but please let's not start using CoPilot in Excel with these accuracy numbers...😆 Imagine that workers would actually start using this and not checking their work. It could destroy productivity...

Donald Trump has been using fictional figures to justify his controversial military strikes on alleged drug-trafficking boats in the Caribbean near Venezuela.
“Every boat kills about 25,000 people,” Trump said in a speech last week.
“Every one of those boats is responsible for the death of 25,000 American people, and the destruction of families,”
he said in a speech Sunday.
“Probably saved at least 100,000 lives, American lives
– Canadian lives
– by taking …

Fact check: Trump’s absurd claim that he saved 100,000 lives by attacking alleged Venezuelan drug boats
President Donald Trump has been using fictional figures to justify his controversial military strikes on alleged drug-smuggling boats in the Caribbean near Venezuela.

"In a first, a data center is using a big battery to get online faster"
#Batteries #Energy
https://www.

In a first, a data center is using a big battery to get online faster
Aligned Data Centers will pay to build a 31-megawatt battery, an early example of how AI developers can move fast if they’re willing to be flexible.

@… https://member.everbridge.net/1332612387832012/notif/uz00MkjMj
EDIT: "[AlertDC] The U.S. military will conduct an aircraft …

(PhD thesis, 2024) Prototyping phosphene vision: Simulation-based optimization of visual neuroprosthetics using deep learning #BCI

Ubuntu Touch is an important project for a freer future for mobile platforms, but current alternative operating systems are simpler to use at the moment.
https://theprivacydad.com/using-ubuntu-touch-on-a-pixel-3a-phone/

I don't use YouTube much. Mostly for the occasional research. I've been using it since before Google bought it, since when you could only post 10 minute videos on it. I stopped using the YouTube app because of the ads, and for a while, just using Firefox with ublock would block them. But now, it doesn't. So now, I watch YouTube with Firefox in desktop mode, even on my phone. That works, for now. But for how long, who knows. I guess what I'm trying to get at here is that Googl…

On Monday, researchers at cybersecurity giant Kaspersky published a report identifying a new spyware called Dante
that they say targeted Windows victims in Russia and neighboring Belarus.
The researchers said the Dante spyware is made by Memento Labs,
a Milan-based surveillance tech maker that was formed in 2019
after a new owner acquired and took over early spyware maker
Hacking Team.
Memento chief executive
Paolo Lezzi confirmed to TechCrunch that…

Exclusive: CEO of spyware maker Memento Labs confirms one of its government customers was caught using its malware
Security researchers found a government hacking campaign that relies on Windows spyware developed by surveillance tech maker Memento Labs. When reached by TechCrunch, the spyware maker's chief executive blamed a government customer for getting caught.