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Musk: Tesla Roadster Will Use SpaceX Tech and Have Rocket Boosters

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Musk made the claims in an interview with former CNN personality Don Lemon, saying that a flying Roadster is “not out of the question.” Before buying Twitter, he tweeted that the car would be available with a SpaceX package that adds 10 “small rocket thrusters arranged seamlessly around the car.”

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Weaponized Robots Letter Calls for Policy, Tech Fixes

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There have been a bunch of high-profile examples of robot misuse recently (that we’re not going to link to), and the companies building the robots being misused have taken it personally—as they should, because those misused robots are very easy to identify. One area of particular concern is weaponization.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

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A PDF version is available on IEEE Xplore. It would have been quite different had Warnock and company not been in the right place at the right time to meet the right person. And the right person was Apple founder Steven Jobs, who invented the first, hoped for the second, and told Adobe to tough out the third. What’s NeXT?

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The Creepy New Digital Afterlife Industry

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After the initial suggestion, you forget about it until today, when 4evru emails to say that your father’s bot is available for use. Consider that Microsoft has a patent for creating a conversational chatbot of a specific person using their “social data.” The chatbot would then talk “as” that person.

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Eugene H. Spafford: Malware Nemesis

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Spafford then went to Georgia Tech to pursue a master’s degree in information and computer science. The faculty [at Georgia Tech] had me design and teach a class in hardware support for operating systems,” he recalls. “I Fast forward to today, and looking at any major system in use, no person alive can do the same thing.

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Driving Dystopia: Automakers Selling User Data for Pennies, Senators Ask FTC to Get Involved

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A letter to the Federal Trade Commission has revealed that these automakers are not only selling off your personal data, they’re doing it for a pathetically small sum of money. Automakers are effectively attempting to create novel revenue streams by copying what social media and tech companies have been doing for years. Penned by U.S.

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Open-Source AI Is Good for Us

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government has begun to compel reports from the developers of certain AI models, and will soon launch a public inquiry into the regulation of “widely-available” AI models. Parliament, the next wave of digital services should not rely solely on a few “black box” systems operated by a cluster of big tech firms. Congress and U.K.

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