Hong Kong police arrested 12 people involved in a cross-border money laundering scheme that relied on crypto and over 500 stooge bank accounts to launder HK$118 million ($15 million), local news outlets reported. The syndicate was dismantled on May 15, resulting in the arrest of nine men and three women in mainland China and Hong … Read more
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Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 1.1. Spatial Digital Twins (SDTs) 1.2. Applications 1.3. Different Components of SDTs 1.4. Scope of This Work and Contributions 2. Related Work and 2.1. Digital Twins and Variants 2.2. Spatial Digital Twin Case Studies 3. Building Blocks of Spatial Digital Twins and 3.1. Data Acquisition and Processing 3.2. … Read more
Public internet infrastructure is the critical speed and performance constraint on high-throughput blockchain networks, according to Austin Federa, co-founder and CEO of DoubleZero, a project developing high-speed fiber optic communication rails for blockchains. “The downside of the public internet is it was never built for high-performance systems. It was always built for this sort of … Read more
Yesterday, Reuters ran a story with the headline “Weeks after Amazon’s Alexa+ AI launch, a mystery: where are the users?,” in which it detailed its difficulty locating first-hand accounts of the AI-upgraded assistants’ use online. The Verge asked Amazon about the story, and the company has responded to say that the idea that Alexa Plus … Read more
Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 1.1. Spatial Digital Twins (SDTs) 1.2. Applications 1.3. Different Components of SDTs 1.4. Scope of This Work and Contributions 2. Related Work and 2.1. Digital Twins and Variants 2.2. Spatial Digital Twin Case Studies 3. Building Blocks of Spatial Digital Twins and 3.1. Data Acquisition and Processing 3.2. … Read more
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Moody’s credit rating agency downgraded the credit rating of the United States government from Aaa to Aa1, citing the rising national debt as the primary driver behind the reduction in creditworthiness. According to the May 16 announcement from the rating agency, US lawmakers have failed to stem annual deficits or reduce spending over the years, … Read more
While Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says he likes podcasts, he might not actually be listening to them anymore. That tidbit comes towards the end of a longer Bloomberg profile of Nadella, with a focus on Microsoft’s AI strategy and its complicated relationship with OpenAI. To illustrate how much he uses the company’s Copilot AI assistant … Read more
MIT says that due to concerns about the “integrity” of a high-profile paper on the effects of artificial intelligence on the productivity of a materials science lab, the paper should be “withdrawn from public discourse.” The paper in question, “Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Discovery, and Product Innovation,” was written by a doctoral student in the university’s … Read more
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The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Ignition Facility increased the yield of the experiment in recent attempts.
As those of you who have read my other articles know, I am passionate about the study of empathy and AI. Today, I look at what AIs have to say for themselves about empathy and feelings. Empathy The definitions of being empathetic vary, but generally match one of these: The spontaneous taking on of someone … Read more
Users aren’t buying xAI’s explanation after Musk’s Grok started randomly injecting “white genocide” into conversations.
A former DoorDash delivery driver pleaded guilty this week to conspiracy to a wire fraud conspiracy that scammed DoorDash out of over $2.5 million, the US Attorney’s Office in California’s Northern District announced on Tuesday. He and others made it happen over a period of months using fake customer accounts, deliveries that never happened, driver … Read more
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