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The return of supersonic flight hinges on the race to solve one big hurdle | CNN

The skies of Oklahoma City roared for six months in 1964 as military aircraft intentionally rattled the population below with a daily barrage of thunderous sonic booms. It was a controversial test — the consequences of which have lingered to this day.

Two approaches in the works could revolutionize air travel by making future supersonic passenger planes compliant with the FAA’s new noise rules: Colorado-based company Boom Supersonic, which is specifically mentioned in the FAA proposal, plans to use physics to prevent sonic booms from ever reaching the ground, regardless of plane design. NASA, on the other hand, is flying an experimental plane called X-59 that is specifically designed to reduce the intensity of the boom.

Anthropic A.I. Model Finds Flaws in Tough-to-Crack Encryption Algorithms

America’s largest newspaper chain, USA Today Co., partners with Palantir to analyze audience data as search traffic falls

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1320702/americas-largest-newspaper-chain-usa-today-co-partners-with-palantir-to-analyze-audience

YouTube’s AI slop detector incorrectly targets Kurzgesagt as other creators fear same fate - Dexerto

YouTube’s system for suppressing low-quality AI content mistakenly targeted Kurzgesagt, leaving the channel with its worst-performing upload since 2013.

Bytedance is training an AI model with up to ten trillion parameters: That's three times the size of Moonshot's Kimi K3, currently the largest Chinese model.

Spotify Execs Bet People Will Pay for AI-Generated Music

Meta becomes latest firm to say its AI hacked another company

Spectre is Back: CPU Mitigations Found to Be Ineffective

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1320015/spectre-is-back-cpu-mitigations-found-to-be-ineffective

Modern processors are fast in part because they guess. Rather than waiting to find out which way a program will branch, a chip predicts the likely path and races ahead. When the guess is right, time is saved. When it’s wrong, the work is discarded, but traces of it linger, and since the Spectre vulnerability was disclosed in 2018, attackers have known how to read those traces to pull secrets out of memory they should never see.

Mark Zuckerberg apologises for child sex abuse and deepfake content, errors in operating Meta platform.

How Can Data Cloud Certification Questions Help You Understand Modern Cloud Data Management?

Preparing for data cloud certification is not only about mastering technical terms. Candidates should also understand the way of collecting, connecting, managing, securing, and utilizing data in modern cloud-based environments. An effective study plan may help to better understand all aspects and memorize them easily. Data Cloud Certification Questions are very helpful for testing your knowledge and finding the gaps. Try to understand the reasons for your answer rather than memorize the right one. If you answered incorrectly, repeat the corresponding topic and try answering again.

Another important aspect of cloud data management is data integration, data quality, data security, and governance. Knowledge of interrelations between these aspects will help to deal with questions from data cloud certification and real-world challenges of cloud-based data management.

Platforms like Pass4Future may be also used as an additional source of practice during the process of preparation. Practice, however, should help your studying rather than be a substitute for good and credible sources of studying materials and exam information. Thus, the simplest solution would be the following: study the concept, test your knowledge, analyze your mistakes and improve them. Such a strategy of preparation will allow you to feel more confident and learn useful information for future practice in cloud-based data management.

GrapheneOS says Revolut is blocking its users over Google Play checks

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1319937/grapheneos-says-revolut-is-blocking-its-users-over-google-play-checks

Via @GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social on Mastodon.

Unions Can Save Tech Workers and Tech Work

Boeing 737 Max operators told to check fuselages for cracks

Jealously Watching OpenAI and Anthropic, Meta Suddenly Claims That Its AI Went on a Hacking Spree Too

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/50398452

Just when you think @ZuckyZuck is finally out of ideas - to steal.

It starts to feel like even a weak LLM like MetaAI is more creative than him.

Maybe we already have created truly artificial intelligence because he is more of an SLM: a Small Language Model?

Silicon Valley Splits Over Closing the Borders to Chinese A.I.

Apple Introduces Leasing Program for iPhones and Other Devices

New Mexico Court Orders Meta to Pay to Establish $567 Million Fund to Abate Harms to Youth

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1319748/court-orders-instagram-and-facebook-s-meta-to-pay-567m-to-address-kids-mental-health-onl

On Thursday, the First Judicial District Court in Santa Fe, New Mexico issued a decision in the remedies phase of State of New Mexico v. Meta Platforms Inc. The court found Meta’s platforms created a public nuisance by contributing to the youth mental health crisis and by facilitating child sexual exploitation. It ordered a range of remedies, including the creation of a $567 million abatement fund to finance various measures intended to address the harms to the public.

$1 billion of iPhone 18 Pro chips 'on the shelves awaiting packaging' due to DRAM shortages — memory shortages reportedly put a wrinkle in Apple's launch plans

Study Says AI Coding Tools Make You 19% Slower — And Nobody Saw It Coming

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This A.I. Just Created Viruses Not Found in Nature