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Modern Tesla vehicles are equipped with extensive surveillance capabilities, including multiple cameras and sensors that collect significant amounts of data about the car's surroundings and occupants. While Tesla claims to protect user privacy through data anonymization and limited collection practices, investigations have revealed concerning privacy breaches and employee misuse of customer data. Privacy experts express skepticism about Tesla's data protection measures and policy transparency.
A key FDA advisory panel meeting for selecting next winter's flu vaccine strains has been unexpectedly canceled, raising concerns about US vaccine policy effectiveness and decision-making processes. The cancellation's implications could impact vaccine preparation timelines and public health readiness for the upcoming flu season.
Mozilla is introducing a Terms of Use for Firefox and updating its Privacy Notice to provide clearer transparency about user rights and data practices. The changes reflect Mozilla's commitment to user privacy while ensuring Firefox's functionality, with new terms becoming effective in March for new users and later this year for existing ones.
Geometric Algebra provides a unified mathematical framework for understanding vector spaces and geometric transformations across multiple dimensions. The framework encompasses vectors, bivectors, and higher-dimensional elements, with practical applications in 2D and 3D rotations. Complex numbers, quaternions, and dual quaternions emerge naturally as subalgebras, enabling powerful geometric operations.
DualPipe is a bidirectional pipeline parallelism algorithm that optimizes computation-communication overlap in neural networks by achieving full overlap of forward and backward phases. The solution, presented in the DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report, reduces pipeline bubbles and requires implementation of custom overlapped forward-backward methods for specific modules.
Scientists are questioning traditional definitions of intelligence as evidence mounts of sophisticated behaviors in plants, fungi, bacteria, and other organisms without brains, leading to calls for a paradigm shift in how we understand cognition and intelligence as fundamental biological functions rather than human-exclusive traits.
A fascinating exploration of river bifurcations reveals how natural water splits create massive 'bifurcation islands' that challenge our understanding of traditional island geography. Notable examples include the Casiquiare Canal connecting the Amazon and Orinoco river systems, and the Committee's Punch Bowl in Canada which creates a bifurcation island larger than Greenland.
Memory safety vulnerabilities have been a persistent security challenge costing billions, prompting a call for industry-wide standardization and secure-by-design practices. Recent advancements in memory-safe languages like Rust and hardware technologies offer promising solutions for widespread adoption. Google advocates for establishing a common framework to assess memory safety assurances and drive industry-wide adoption of secure practices.
SpaceX is launching a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a mini data center to the moon as part of Lonestar Data Holdings' mission to establish lunar data storage facilities. The project aims to protect sensitive data from Earth-based hazards and bypass data sovereignty restrictions through space-based storage solutions. The initiative faces challenges like latency and maintenance but offers advantages including natural cooling and potential renewable power operations.
Frederick Monsen, a Norwegian-American photographer born in 1865, documented Native American life and the American Southwest from 1886-1911 with remarkable spontaneity and pathos. His work, utilizing Kodak's innovative handheld camera technology, captured candid moments of various tribes and settlers, though most of his collection was lost in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
A detailed walkthrough of modifying an iMac G4 to house a modern M4 Mac Mini, including replacing the original display with a 4K Sharp LCD and creating custom mounting solutions. The project involved overcoming various technical challenges like cable routing through the iMac's neck and designing custom parts for proper integration of modern components.
A developer shares their experience building an autonomous AI system to play Pokémon FireRed using LLMs, RetroArch emulation, and memory management techniques. The project faced challenges with emulator input control and battle handling, while successfully implementing navigation, text parsing, and conversation systems. The implementation demonstrates potential applications for AI-driven gaming content creation.
Jeff Bezos announced a new libertarian direction for The Washington Post's opinion sections, focusing exclusively on personal liberties and free markets, leading to Opinions Editor David Shipley's resignation. The change represents a significant shift from the paper's traditional broad-based opinion approach and follows recent controversies including the killed Kamala Harris endorsement that caused massive subscription cancellations.
A detailed guide explains how to create and view 3D photos using simple eye-crossing techniques without special equipment. The process leverages the brain's natural ability to construct 3D images from two slightly different perspectives, enabling anyone to capture and experience stereoscopic images. The guide emphasizes the artistic potential of 3D photography, particularly for capturing complex scenes like forests and caves.
A former Meta engineer, laid off in 2023, successfully transitioned to game development and launched Ballionaire on Steam. The game, inspired by Luck Be A Landlord, has sold approximately 200,000 units in its first 10 weeks after a year of intense development.
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ForeverVM provides a secure sandbox environment for running Python code with persistent state through memory snapshots, eliminating session expiration limitations. The platform enables long-running applications and agents through a REPL interface, with seamless worker allocation and state management.
A detailed profile of Irving V. Link, a longtime regular at the Beverly Hills Hotel, chronicles his 42-year daily routine at the iconic establishment until its closure by the Sultan of Brunei in December 1992. The narrative explores Link's role as a business middleman and witness to Hollywood's golden age, while also revealing the hotel's architectural history through Paul Williams, its black architect.
Jeff Bezos announced that Washington Post's opinion pages will exclusively focus on personal liberties and free markets, leading to the departure of opinion editor David Shipley. The shift comes as Amazon faces antitrust litigation, with critics suggesting Bezos is prioritizing his business interests over editorial independence.
DARPA has issued a special notice for research and development in large bio-mechanical space structures, with responses due March 27, 2025. The contract focuses on basic research in national defense R&D services, specifically targeting physical, engineering, and life sciences applications.