Don’t know how many of you know about how the greatest Windows ‘Blue Screen Of Death’ of all time. It was at the preview of Windows 98 with Bill Gates on stage 😂

The #microsoft/ #cloudstrike outage reminds us of the frightening fragility of our cloud-based civilisation. I fear one day historians will talk about the Silicon Age Collapse - and we'll leave no stone tablets/ easily readable records to tell the tale🗿 thestack.technology/crowdstrike-ou…

Quantum Entanglement in Your Brain Is What Generates Consciousness, Radical Study Suggests popularmechanics.com/science/a61854…

People in crypto are so brainwashed by the transparent paradigm, they can't understand how people can organize anon online without realnames and KYC. The true internet native way is using pseudonyms and forming affinity groups online with trust networks. This was the internet of

Google's Willow quantum chip has smashed a major benchmark and appears to have sparked a #crypto flash crash. So what's the truth about fears that #quantum is going to render traditional #encryption redundant, sending the price of Bitcoin to zero? machine.news/google-willow-…

This could be an incredible revolution in Cosmology. The Dark Energy model of the universe, which won a Nobel Prize in 2011, may be completely wrong. The accelerating expansion instead is simply because time runs faster in the voids between galaxies. Let me explain:

A dramatic warning about the dangers of autonomous #AI from an unexpected source. 🤖 Hugging Face has said that superintelligent independent agents should NOT be developed. ⚙️ Why? Find out below... Thanks to Avijit Ghosh for sharing his insights... machine.news/hugging-face-i…

Glad for all the discourse our position paper on fully autonomous AI agents (with MMitchell, Sasha Luccioni, PhD 🦋🌎✨🤗 , and Giada Pistilli) has sparked! Some followup thoughts to add some nuance to our admittedly very strong position (h/t Jasper Hamill for the questions): Do you think

The language of AI is leaking into the mainstream. Here's a new jungle tune from Sully named after my favourite phrase of the past few years: Model Collapse. Hoping for a banger called quantum weirdness when the next tech wave breaks...

Thank goodness. No more rapidly evolving digital landscapes (at least from my instance of ChatGPT)...

It's rare to see a phrase like "where's the secret lair of the lich king?" in a patent. So why is Meta trying to dox the lich lord? It's levelling up NPCs with GenAI - characters controlled by the game, not the player... A Machine story: machine.news/meta-npc-genai…

Americans are paying tens of thousands of dollars to go and shoot rare wild Pakistani sheep. After the hunt, they smuggle the dead animals back in their luggage. Pretty grim hobby... From U.S. Department of Justice...

OpenAI's Deep Research is "on the cusp" of letting "novices" build bioweapons. And what about nukes? It can't say for certain right now... Will the next buzzy industry category be p(doom)-as-a-service? machine.news/openai-doesnt-…

How does Salesforce boss Marc Benioff feel about his plan to give ZERO humans an engineering job this year amid a "digital labour revolution"? "It's pretty awesome." Here's his vision of the brave new world awaiting our species: machine.news/its-pretty-awe…

How can the UK compensate artists, writers, journalists and musicians caught up in the Great British AI Copyright Heist? A Green Party baroness has an idea: Giving universal basic income to creatives who've been robbed by Big Tech... Do you agree? machine.news/baroness-sugge…

Meta wants to automatically capture images of "interesting moments" in your life, a new patent suggests. The company formerly known as Facebook's ever-so-slightly creepy invention can peer through the cameras on phones, smart glasses and other devices to snap a picture when it:

I absolutely love that the EU still uses British spelling. Long may it last! Gone but not forgotten. Maybe destined to return one day...

Was X really involved in 88% of foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) campaigns in 2024? Would love to know what Elon Musk says about the EU's report... machine.news/russia-and-chi…

Interesting post on how far the Common Vulnerabilities Exposure process doesn't work with AI. (TLDR: traditional software flaws are easy-to-list code. AI flaws can be suspect data, corrupt ML algorithms). Is AI security good enough? No. qa.com/resources/blog…

Australian academics asking the questions that matter on AI.