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Apr 27, 2023

2,600-year-old stone busts of ‘lost’ ancient Tartessos people discovered in sealed pit in Spain

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Archaeologists in Spain have unearthed five life-size busts of human figures that could be the first-known human depictions of the Tartessos, a people who formed an ancient civilization that disappeared more than 2,500 years ago.

The carved stone faces, which archaeologists date to the fifth century B.C., were found hidden inside a sealed pit in an adobe temple at Casas del Turuñuelo, an ancient Tartessian site in southern Spain. The pieces were scattered amongst animal bones, mostly from horses, that likely came from a mass sacrifice, according to a translated statement (opens in new tab) published April 18.

Apr 27, 2023

Is our Universe standing still? Examining Einstein’s key theory through the cosmic “yin-yang”

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Is there such a thing as absolute motion? Modern science, as represented by Einstein’s theory of relativity, says no. After all, absolute motion would require that there exists a single coordinate system — or common reference point — that all observers could agree is stationary. Such a coordinate system doesn’t exist.

But modern science has also found a way to observe the coordinate system of the entire visible Universe. If one can find a coordinate system in which the visible Universe is stationary, isn’t that the “right” one? What’s the truth behind this, and does it invalidate Einstein’s theory? And how does the yin-yang symbol come into play?

Einstein’s theory of relativity makes many counterintuitive claims, but those claims are consequences of one fundamental assumption: that any individual is perfectly justified in assuming that they are the one, unmoving, thing in the entire Universe. This assertion could be called the “cosmic egotist principle.” Essentially, you are the one thing around which the entire Universe revolves.

Apr 26, 2023

Take your commute to new heights under 100k with Jetson’s eVTOL

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Apr 26, 2023

Survey: Massive Retooling Around Large Language Models Underway

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Over half (53.3%) of data scientists and engineers say they plan to deploy large language model (LLM) applications into production in the next 12 months or “as soon as possible” Learn more about why and how this massive retooling is happening — and how enterprises can be ready.

Apr 25, 2023

Ispace HAKUTO-R Mission 1: Landing Live Stream

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This is the official ispace landing coverage of HAKUTO-R Mission 1.

Apr 25, 2023

Hackers Exploit Outdated WordPress Plugin to Backdoor Thousands of WordPress Sites

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Hackers are exploiting an outdated WordPress plugin, Eval PHP, to secretly backdoor websites in an ongoing campaign.

Apr 24, 2023

The HUGE Problem with ChatGPT

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Very interesting piece.


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Apr 24, 2023

The A.I. Dilemma — Tristan Harris & Aza Raskin — Center for Humane Technology — March 9, 2023

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This video is from a presentation at a private gathering in San Francisco on March 9th with leading technologists and decision-makers with the ability to influence the future of large-language model AIs. This presentation was given before the launch of GPT-4.

Center for Humane Technology.

Original video : https://vimeo.com/809258916/92b420d98a

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Apr 24, 2023

Hackers can breach networks using data on resold corporate routers

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Enterprise-level network equipment on the secondary market hide sensitive data that hackers could use to breach corporate environments or to obtain customer information.

Looking at several used corporate-grade routers, researchers found that most of them had been improperly wiped during the decommissioning process and then sold online.

Apr 24, 2023

Information Mastery Scale

Posted by in categories: cosmology, futurism

The possible levels of information mastery in the future of technology.


This series focus will be on the Information Mastery version of the Kardashev scale. In his book, The Cosmic Connection, Carl Segan proposed an alternative approach to the Kardashev Scale. He added another dimension to the original scale in addition to the pure energy usage that was first used to characterize different civilizations. Sagan believed that the amount of information available to a civilization should be an important criterion when trying to come up with a useful metric to measure different types of civilizations. So he assigned a lettered scale from A-Z where each letter meant an order of magnitude increase in the volume of information a civilization can hold. This information, he proposed, could be described in terms of bits, the number of yes or no statements concerning different civilizations, and the universe that such civilizations occupy.

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