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Musk vs OpenAI, Odysseus moon landing, and AI Worms
Weekly report for Mar. 3rd
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Weekly issue #12
MY PICKS 👇️
Musk vs. OpenAI lawsuit 🤖 — Musk believes that OpenAI cofounders “betrayed” original nonprofit AI mission
Wendy’s digital menus 🍔 — The price of a Frosty could change throughout the day with “dynamic pricing” beginning in 2025
Odysseus moon landing 🚀 — The privately-owned Odysseus is the first spacecraft in over 50 years to land on the moon
Combating Alzheimer’s disease 🧠 — A flicker of light and a buzz of sound may hold the key to combating Alzheimer’s disease
AI Worms 🪱 — Researchers create AI worms that spread from one system to another, with potential to steal data or deploy malware in the process
HIGHLIGHTS 🔍️
💿 Revolutionary disc stores a petabyte, fitting a lifetime of movies
🚘 Apple's canceled car project cost over $10 billion
👁️ 3D-printed prosthetic eyes mimic real ones
💊 Bacteria becomes high-efficiency drugs with 91% success using radio waves
🤰 Study: Microplastics pervasive in human placentas
⚖️ Lawsuit over iCloud's 5GB free storage cap
🚨 Mass attack on GitHub with cloned repos containing malware
🔭 NASA's planned telescope might pinpoint Earth-like planets
💧 New water batteries remain stable under pressure
⏳ A time crystal endures for an astounding 40 minutes
OTHER NEWS 📰
🤩 Vending machines with facial recognition removed at college
🏢 White House's coding advice: move on from C/C++
🎮 PlayStation cuts 900 jobs and shuts London studio
✈️ Myth debunked: Airplane mode not needed on flights
📉 EA cuts 670 jobs, phases out licensed IPs
📱 Chinese phones dominate African market over Samsung, Apple
🔌 Toyota prefers buying credits over investing in EVs
🚔 FBI uses push notifications to track sexual predators
🕶️ Meta to delete all Oculus accounts end of month
🔚 Facebook to discontinue news tab in US, Australia
🔒 FBI alerts of Russian & Chinese hackers targeting small office routers
💻 Lenovo unveils laptop with transparent screen
🦾 Titanium structure 3D printed in Australia boasts unprecedented strength
☀️ MIT shares blueprint for perovskite solar cell commercialization
💡 Photonic device could mark quantum computing's new age
🔍 Using jellyfish protein to enhance fingerprint detection
🌊 Stingray-inspired soft robots could aid underwater exploration
👅 Artificial tongue designed to combat bacteria
📡 Innovative 3D-printed antennas could transform satellite communication
🚫 Open-source HDMI 2.1 driver support by AMD declined
TOP REPOSITORIES 🧑💻
AUTOMATIC1111 / stable-diffusion-webui — Stable Diffusion web UI
vinta / awesome-python — An opinionated list of awesome Python frameworks, libraries, software and resources.
huggingface / transformers — Transformers: State-of-the-art Machine Learning for Pytorch, TensorFlow, and JAX.
taikoxyz / taiko-mono — A based rollup.
langchain-ai / langchain — Build context-aware reasoning applications
laurent22 / joplin — the secure note taking and to-do app with synchronization capabilities
apache / superset — Apache Superset is a Data Visualization and Data Exploration Platform
Ryujinx / Ryujinx — Experimental Nintendo Switch Emulator
omnivore-app / omnivore — Omnivore is a complete, open source read-it-later solution for people who like reading
Stability-AI / stablediffusion — High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models
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