Ethereum to Accelerate the Cross-chain Interoperability (notes.ethereum.org)
Part of the tech is extended email-like addressing standard where @ will send your funds directly to specified Ethereum compatible blockchain or rollup
Biohybrid's Neural Implant Connects to the Brain With Living Neurons (singularityhub.com)
To get around the problem of damaging 10,000 neurons just to connect with 1,000, Biohybrid is experimenting with an approach that makes donor neurons a part of the implant itself - potentially allowing for dramatically better connection scaling.
Apple to pay $95 million to settle Siri privacy lawsuit (www.reuters.com)
"SPINACH": LLM-based tool to translate "challenging real-world questions" into Wikidata SPARQL queries (en.wikipedia.org)
More generally, this kind of task is called "Knowledge Base Question Answering" (KBQA). The authors observe that many benchmarks have been published for it over the last decade, and that recently, the KBQA community has shifted toward using Wikidata as the underlying knowledge base for KBQA datasets. However, they criticize...
Welcome to the Public Domain in 2025 | Internet Archive Blogs (blog.archive.org)
9 Things I Find Joyful About Tech in 2024 (mudkip.me)
I listed things I found positive in tech in 2024, including fields like Linux desktop developments, handheld gaming devices, the fediverse and open platforms.
One NZ launches nationwide D2C texting service with Starlink (www.rcrwireless.com)
Tech In Plain Sight: Incandescent Bulbs (hackaday.com)
Humanoid robots set for widespread use in 2025 (caliber.az)
Does current AI represent a dead end? (www.bcs.org)
The Paper Passport Is Dying (www.wired.com)
The CAP Theorem of Clustering: Why Every Algorithm Must Sacrifice Something (blog.codingconfessions.com)
Waymo dominated U.S. robotaxi market in 2024, but Tesla and Amazon's Zoox loom (www.cnbc.com)
Inside Japan's futuristic care homes where robots look after elderly (www.the-express.com)
Possible ban on Chinese-made drones dismays U.S. scientists (www.science.org)
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/50462283
Watching the Generative AI Hype Bubble Deflate (ash.harvard.edu)
Scottish Government bans use of WhatsApp for official business (www.scotsman.com)
Data centers consumed 4.4% of US power in 2023, could hit 12% by 2028 (www.datacenterdynamics.com)
Startup set to brick $800 kids robot is trying to open source it first (arstechnica.com)
guy builds WOPR. bad news wardialers, doesnt include a modem for game mayhem. (www.hackster.io)
Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, WOPR has been reborn and is intent on world domination. With a Raspberry Pi upgrade, it might succeed.