August 2023 Archive
3721.
SeamlessM4T: All-in-one multimodal translation model (ai.meta.com)
3722.
Mystery company is buying up Bay Area land. Is it building a new city? (sfchronicle.com)
3723.
Readings in Database Systems, 5th edition (redbook.io)
3724.
Virtio GPU 3D acceleration for windows (github.com)
3725.
3726.
A Brazilian phone spyware was hacked and victims’ devices ‘deleted’ from server (techcrunch.com)
3727.
The Terrifying Possibility of Accidental Nuclear War (scienceswitch.com)
3728.
New York Is Full. And it’s the housing market’s fault (theatlantic.com)
3729.
Mortgage Rates Hit 7.23%, Highest Since 2001 (wsj.com)
3730.
Terry Pratchett’s hard drive steamrolled in 2017 had '10 unfinished novels' (thepopverse.com)
3731.
‘How Do I Do That?’ The New Hires of 2023 Are Unprepared for Work (wsj.com)
3732.
Radio operator exposure to RF/microwave radiation and the risk of brain tumors (2006) (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
3733.
An Iowa school district is using ChatGPT to decide which books to ban (arstechnica.com)
3734.
Using GPT as an HVAC control system (arxiv.org)
3735.
Experts starting to doubt AI ‘hallucinations’ will go away: ‘This isn’t fixable’ (fortune.com)
3736.
BRICS announces 'historic' admission of six new members (thejakartapost.com)
3737.
The challenge of designing nuclear waste warning markers to last 10k years (nightingaledvs.com)
3738.
Ask HN: Is there any hopeful news about climate change?
3739.
Kill the Boer Song Fuels Backlash in South Africa and US (nytimes.com)
3740.
Show HN: Squabblr – A Twitter/Reddit hybrid platform (squabblr.co)
3741.
A Uyghur mother pleaded for her detained son. Now she’s missing, too (thechinaproject.com)
3742.
Critical periods for language (astralcodexten.substack.com)
3743.
Ask HN: Robot vacuum but without the privacy invasion?
3744.
Two years unmasking a well-funded Silicon Valley 'apocalypse cult' (truthdig.com)
3745.
Can Vines Speed Urban Cooling? – UC Davis (ucdavis.edu)
3746.
TSMC Not Charging Apple for Defective 3nm Chips (macrumors.com)
3747.
Lawsuit accuses Tesla of exaggerating driving range to boost EV sales (washingtonpost.com)
3748.
Many Americans wrongly believe exposure to marijuana smoke is safer than tobacco (cnn.com)
3749.
RTO orders look like a way for elite, work-obsessed CEOs to grab power back (businessinsider.com)
3750.
Indiana lost more than 260 acres of wetlands since rolling back protections (wfyi.org)