Welcome to Edition 8.14 of the Rocket Report! We’re now more than a week into a federal government shutdown, but…
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“Like putting on glasses for the first time”—how AI improves earthquake detection
https://www.profitablecpmrate.com/f4gf1m6aq?key=e28e6e2f58fe83729138b8818d2623a7 On January 1, 2008, at 1:59 AM in Calipatria, California, an earthquake happened. You haven’t heard of this earthquake;…
Read MoreAI models can acquire backdoors from surprisingly few malicious documents
https://www.profitablecpmrate.com/f4gf1m6aq?key=e28e6e2f58fe83729138b8818d2623a7 Fine-tuning experiments with 100,000 clean samples versus 1,000 clean samples showed similar attack success rates when the number of…
Read MoreChildhood vaccines safe for a little longer as CDC cancels advisory meeting
https://www.profitablecpmrate.com/f4gf1m6aq?key=e28e6e2f58fe83729138b8818d2623a7 An October meeting of a key federal vaccine advisory committee has been canceled without explanation, sparing the evidence-based childhood…
Read MoreRubik’s Cube gets a $299 update, complete with IPS screens and its own apps
The Rubik’s Cube has been reinvented with more games and many more screens for much more money. What has long…
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Discord says hackers stole government IDs of 70,000 users
https://www.profitablecpmrate.com/f4gf1m6aq?key=e28e6e2f58fe83729138b8818d2623a7 Discord says that hackers made off with images of 70,000 users’ government IDs that they were required to provide…
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Tesla FSD gets worse at driving, NHTSA opens new investigation
https://www.profitablecpmrate.com/f4gf1m6aq?key=e28e6e2f58fe83729138b8818d2623a7 At least six crashes have been reported to the agency under its standing general order, which requires an automaker…
Read MoreApple and Google reluctantly comply with Texas age verification law
https://www.profitablecpmrate.com/f4gf1m6aq?key=e28e6e2f58fe83729138b8818d2623a7 Apple yesterday announced a plan to comply with a Texas age verification law and warned that changes required by…
Read MoreYouTube prepares to welcome back banned creators with “second chance” program
https://www.profitablecpmrate.com/f4gf1m6aq?key=e28e6e2f58fe83729138b8818d2623a7 A few weeks ago, Google told US Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) that it would allow creators banned for COVID…
Read MoreIt’s time for game developers to bring back the cheat code
For gamers of a certain age, gibberish character sequences like idkfa, torg, ABACABB, and UUDDLRLRBA are akin to long-lost magical…
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