AI Is Building Highly Effective Antibodies That Humans Can’t Even Imagine (www.wired.com)
machine learning algorithm designs antibodies to target specific diseases, then automated robotic systems build and grow them in lab, run tests, and feed data back into algorithm, all with limited human supervision.
Machine Threat Level Scale
For no reason whatsoever here’s a proposal for a scale for the threat to humanity posed by machine intelligence....
How WeWork is nearing failure after a valuation of $47 billion in 2019 (www.foxbusiness.com)
China’s property crisis deepens as another huge developer risks default (www.cnn.com)
Investor confidence in China’s troubled property sector has been rocked again this week by reports that one of the country’s largest private building conglomerates missed interest payments on two bonds.
Reddit Moderator Professionalism, everybody... (lemmy.world)
And they wonder why the place is a shithole.
Lahaina, Hawaii (Maui) has been completely destroyed by fires (lemmy.one)
High winds from a hurricane fed fires in Maui, HI. A fire swept through Lahaina Town. Once the capital of Hawaii this place was really popular with tourists and locals. I can’t believe the amount of destruction that happened in less than 12 hours.
Why were we able to stamp out Nazism but not the Taliban?
It occurred to me that Nazi ideology was entrenched in the German people from as early as the 1920s and officially since 1933 to 1945. You’d think that such a systemic worldview would be difficult to eradicate but it would seem Nazism was quickly removed after the Allies and Russians conquered them....
Twitter/X anonymous login and no Government censorship
Today I realized that is possible login on twitter with a temp mail through VPN in a complete anonymous way. I think it’s a very good thing. I don’t understand why here a lot of people criticize Elon Musk. I think that now it’s a platform more open to debates, it’s almost free speech. No other popular big tech platform...
Gift for Muslim Family
We have next door neighbors that are Muslim and are so very kind. They bring us plates of food when they cook and they even scared away some kids trying to steal our car at 2 in the morning....
What helps people get comfortable on the command line? (jvns.ca)
No ONE is ready for what's coming in weeks, it's going to be bad | Redacted with Clayton Morris (rumble.com)
CIA plans for Zelensky...
'World’s first mass-produced' humanoid robot to tackle labour shortages amid ageing population (www.euronews.com)
AI summary:...
What are the best zoom alternatives? (nitter.net)
After this announcement, I am planning to reject meetings organised in zoom. But the problem is that it’s really good. So, is there any privacy friendly and viable alternatives to zoom? It does not have to be open source because I nearly tried all alternatives. Your experiences?
Hosting windows to play games
I saw from a post that you can basically host your own mini windows inside of linux to play games with, and you can choose what to share with that little windows so microsoft can’t track you in any way. Does anyone have a tutorual/guide for that? Also what Distro would be best for it?
Mental health meter (files.catbox.moe)
China's new high-speed train just set a new record as the world’s fastest — and it could travel faster than an airplane (www.thecooldown.com)
Ukraine DISAPPEARS U.S. Journalist For Criticizing Zelensky! (www.youtube.com)
AI summary:...
"I'm What You Call A Repeat Offender! I Repeat, I Will Offend Again!" (lemmus.org)
Robocop 1987...
Cortana, once a flagship feature of Windows phones, is slowly being shut down (arstechnica.com)
How has Instagram largely avoided being associated with Facebook/Meta?
I’d guess the simple answer may be that people don’t care/know, but for those that have ditched Facebook for whatever reason, yet still use Instagram, it’s a little surprising....
Baldur's Gate III has passed the All-Time time peak players of Apex Legends and entered into the Top 10 Highest Players for a game in the History of Steam. 630,000+ concurrent players and climbing (twitter.com)
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The steam main Window is now also the launch window, thus you cannot browse steam while launching a game. (lemmy.world)
Launching a game means that the entire Steam Window fades and it will become entirely unusable until the game starts. That is not a separate startup window, thats just an embedded element inside the main one. If you accidentally click outside, the game startup gets canceled....
If you ever needed a reason to justify ad blockers (beehaw.org)
Alt text: a screenshot of an article that is over 90% covered by ads.