PsiQuantum received $940 Million (AUD) from Austrailian government
Many science today is pseudoscience, stay skeptical
Exaggerating the relevance of one’s research is REQUIRED to get funding
Trust arguments, not people
Google’s monopoly exposed lol
Paid browser makers 10s of billions of dollars to make google their default search engine every year
Google apparently knows that ppl will still use google even if quality drops
Google will be forced to stop paying others for being the default engines
Windows has 2 loopholes vulnerable to downgrade attacks
one attack can undo bug patches
Apple now allow developers to communicate with their customers outside its App Store
GPT 4o System Card
Outlines the safety work carried out prior to releasing GPT 4o
Personal information of 3B people exposed in dark web lol
8/12/24
Google accidentally deletes $135 billion pension fund
UniSuper, an Australian pension fund that manages $135 billion worth of funds and has 647,000 members, had its entire account wiped out at Google Cloud, including all its backups that were stored on the service.
It turns out someone made it so that the default value without the parameter makes the account delete itself
UniSuper thankfully had some backups with a different provider and was able to recover its data, but according to UniSuper’s incident log, downtime started May 2, and a full restoration of services didn’t happen until May 15.
8/13/24
iPhone 17 might be Air
Tiktok spreading misinformation as alerts
Apple taking fees off Patreon now
Google Deepmind created a robot that can play pingpong
8/14/24
browser
open source browsers: verso, blitz, LadyBird
Andreas Kling made SerenityOS → changed to cross platform project, and the web browser is named LadyBird
linux not yet supported
you can built it on github (super hard)
8/15/24
Google Pixel announcements show live demo
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X and AMD Ryzen 9 9900X are live
they’re okay
meta shut down CrowdTangle (a research tool) despite strong opposition
what it showed was inconvenient lol
meta replaced it with meta content library
Grok 2
depicts real people and copyrighted characters lol
AMS experiment → in ISS, particles where it’s still in space and not on earth yet
anti particle has an opposite charge. If matter meet antimatter they annihilate and release lots of energy. This is why actually super rare for antimatter to occur
Bangladesh government shut down the internet for 5 days
many other countries like Russia and China has an internet kill button
Companies are pouring money into AI
Microsoft $19B on AI a quarter
Meta $37-40B will likely spend in 2024 year, and Llama 4.0 requires 10x more compute than Llama 3.1
CEOs can’t really answer back the question “why pour so much into AI?” > the risk of under-investing is greater than over-investing
they want their own infrastructure and not use someone else’s
Tiktok throwing $20 million a month to use OpenAI’s model
8/17/24
US has 34.8 trillion dollars of debt, and the Congressional Budget office that the US national debt cannot be paid