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One of science fiction’s greatest writers warned us about a AI. Does he also hold the remedy? | Alan Finkel

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One of science fiction’s greatest writers warned us about a AI. Does he also hold the remedy? | Alan Finkel

What might a modern day equivalent of Isaac Asimov’s laws of robotics look like? Guided by the author, I propose the three laws of AI Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk predicted in July that legions of AI-powered robots would dominate the…

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Xiaomi’s debut full-size hybrid SUV can cover 314 electric miles before it touches a drop of gasoline

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Xiaomi’s debut full-size hybrid SUV can cover 314 electric miles before it touches a drop of gasoline

Xiaomi officially launches SkyNomad N70 and N90 SUVs Both pair a 1.5-liter gasoline engine with huge 76 kWh NMC battery packs Hybrid technology allows for more than 1,000 miles of driving Fresh off the success of the SU7 and YU7…

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Jaja Santiago makes PVL return with Creamline ahead of US stint

Jaja Santiago makes PVL return with Creamline ahead of US stint

MANILA, Philippines — The rich got richer, as Jaja Santiago joined powerhouse Creamline for the Premier Volleyball League (PVL) Invitational Conference. Michele Gumabao, the Cool Smashers’ veteran, first posted about the signing of the…

A Three-Layer Setup for Multiple GitHub Accounts on One Machine

A Three-Layer Setup for Multiple GitHub Accounts on One Machine

A three-layer setup routes Git commit identity, HTTPS push credentials, and the GitHub CLI account by repository folder, including in headless shells. TL;DR. Two GitHub accounts on one machine, routed entirely by which folder a repo lives…

Benchmarking Cheap LLMs for Production Agent Traces

Benchmarking Cheap LLMs for Production Agent Traces

We run one LLM call on every agent trace we ingest: it reduces the trace to a short, searchable digest. Because it runs on every trace from every customer, it is the most frequent LLM call we make, and its cost is the one that grows…

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UAV with explosives found at Leipzig Airport equipped with 5G antennas — TV

Sources in security agencies told ZDF that this indicates drone control via mobile communications

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You’ll Never Win the Microsecond. Own the Month Instead

You’ll Never Win the Microsecond. Own the Month Instead

A latency arbitrage race on the London Stock Exchange lasts between five and ten millionths of a second. That's the entire event. A signal fires, a handful of firms sprint for the same stale quote, one of them wins, and the whole thing is…

Castro to VP Duterte: A true professional stays to lead during calamity

Castro to VP Duterte: A true professional stays to lead during calamity

MANILA, Philippines — Palace press officer Claire Castro on Friday said it is not her but Vice President Sara Duterte who lacks professionalism due to her trips abroad in times of calamities and alleged failure to face allegations thrown…

When AI Automation Measures the Wrong Thing

When AI Automation Measures the Wrong Thing

You called your bank last week, or your airline, or your phone company. And somewhere in the first thirty seconds you did the thing everybody does. You pressed zero. Or you said “operator.” Or you said “representative” a little louder than…

BIP-110 Is Coming: Can Bitcoin Users Take Back the Network?

BIP-110 Is Coming: Can Bitcoin Users Take Back the Network?

The controversial BIP-110, a soft fork with which normal Bitcoin users will take the power back from suitcoiners and scammers, is upon us. Learn all about it below… but first… The BIP-110 Train Remains On Schedule I failed the BIP-110…

Token Debt Is the New Technical Debt

In almost twenty-five years in development I have watched the economics of software change: we paid for servers, then for compute, then for requests and data. In 2020, after the GPT-3 API launched, we started paying per token, and the…

WATCH: Fil-Am singer H.E.R. impresses with ‘Maging Sino Ka Man’ rendition

WATCH: Fil-Am singer H.E.R. impresses with ‘Maging Sino Ka Man’ rendition

Filipino-American R&B singer-songwriter H.E.R. celebrated her Filipino roots and showcased her love for OPM with her rendition of the classic “Maging Sino Ka Man.” H.E.R., whose real name is Gabriel Sarmiento Wilson, visited a Filipino…