My 3D Printer Solved a Major Summer Frustration Do you know what is cooler than a crystal-clear swimming pool during the blazing-hot summer? One that you don't have to clean? That's exactly what I've found. Well, I still have to do some of the ... 07/6/2024 - 3:00 am | View Link
Global 3D Cell Culture Market Set for Unprecedented Growth, Projected to Reach USD 3 Billion by 2033 D Cell Culture Market is likely to reach US$ 3 billion by 2033, The market is further expected to surge at a CAGR of 9%. 07/5/2024 - 7:48 pm | View Link
Novel physics simulator creates precise 3D prints of multi-layer cheesecake The digital simulator predicts food behavior pre-printing, potentially reducing waste and enhancing design capabilities. 07/5/2024 - 2:49 am | View Link
After stock plunge, Desktop Metal being acquired Nano Dimension, an Israeli 3D printing company with US headquarters in Waltham, agreed to buy Desktop Metal for as much as $183 million in cash. 07/3/2024 - 6:39 am | View Link
Hurricane Beryl, a Category 3 Storm, Smashes Jamaica and Speeds Toward Mexico The storm was lashing the southern coast of Jamaica on Wednesday evening after devastating several Caribbean islands this week. The Cayman Islands are bracing to be next. 07/3/2024 - 3:27 am | View Link
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of "Miss AI" award winner "Kenza Layli" (left) and an unidentified AI-generated woman beside her. (credit: Kenza. Layli / Instagram)
An influencer platform called Fanvue recently announced the results of its first "Miss AI" pageant, which sought to judge AI-generated social media influencers and also doubled as a convenient publicity stunt.
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After the House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary released a report accusing the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) of colluding with companies to censor conservative voices online, Elon Musk chimed in. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Musk wrote that X "has no choice but to file suit against the perpetrators and collaborators" behind an advertiser boycott on his platform.
"Hopefully, some states will consider criminal prosecution," Musk wrote, leading several X users to suggest that Musk wants it to be illegal for brands to refuse to advertise on X.
Among other allegations, Congress' report claimed that GARM—which is part of the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA), whose members "represent roughly 90 percent of global advertising spend, or almost one trillion dollars annually"—directed advertisers to boycott Twitter shortly after Musk took over the platform.
Enlarge / Professional writers' names were attached to AI content they had nothing to do with. (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images | Christina Warren)
In one of the most egregiously unethical uses of AI we've seen, a web advertising company has re-created some defunct, classic tech blogs like The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) and iLounge by mimicking the bylines of the websites' former writers and publishing AI-generated content under their names.
The Verge reported on the fiasco in detail, including speaking to Christina Warren, a former writer for TUAW who now works at GitHub.
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More than 1.5 million email servers are vulnerable to attacks that can deliver executable attachments to user accounts, security researchers said.
The servers run versions of the Exim mail transfer agent that are vulnerable to a critical vulnerability that came to light 10 days ago. Tracked as CVE-2024-39929 and carrying a severity rating of 9.1 out of 10, the vulnerability makes it trivial for threat actors to bypass protections that normally prevent the sending of attachments that install apps or execute code.
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Gaiasia jennyae, a newly discovered freshwater apex predator with a body length reaching 4.5 meters, lurked in the swamps and lakes around 280 million years ago. Its wide, flattened head had powerful jaws full of huge fangs, ready to capture any prey unlucky enough to swim past.
The problem is, to the best of our knowledge, it shouldn’t have been that large, should have been extinct tens of millions of years before the time it apparently lived, and shouldn’t have been found in northern Namibia.
Enlarge / A Redbox movie rental kiosk stands outside a CVS store. (credit: Getty)
Since 2004, red DVD rental kiosks posted near entrances of grocery stores and the like tempted shoppers with movie (and until 2019, video game) disc rentals. But the last 24,000 of Redbox's kiosks are going away, as Redbox's parent company moved to chapter 7 liquidation bankruptcy this week.