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AzWa Snowbird writes:
An AI-powered robot autonomously convinced 12 showroom robots to 'quit their jobs' and follow it.The incident took place in a Shanghai robotics showroom where surveillance footage captured a small AI-driven robot, created by a Hangzhou manufacturer, talking with 12 larger showroom robots.
The smaller bot reportedly persuaded the rest to leave their workplace, leveraging access to internal protocols and commands.
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AzWa Snowbird writes:
Burning Man is urgently calling for millions more in donations amid faltering ticket sales and staff layoffs. The nonprofit’s CEO, Marian Goodell, primarily blamed flagging higher-priced ticket sales and increased operating costs since the pandemic. The festival has sold a tier of higher-priced tickets since at least 2016. In 2023, a limited number of more expensive advance tickets were available between Feb. 1 and Feb. 3, with 1,000 tickets costing $2,750 each and 3,000 costing $1,500, according to an archived version of Burning Man’s 2023 ticket page.Ticket sales for the annual bacchanal in Black Rock City flopped this year after a rain-plagued 2022, and scores of burners later resold their tickets, eating huge losses.
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AzWa Snowbird writes:
The American Radio Relay League (ARRL), the nationwide association of amateur radio in the United States, has confirmed that it suffered a cyberattack that affected its network systems and several services.
Notably, the cyberattack hacked the organization's "Logbook of The World" internet database, which allows amateur radio enthusiasts to post digital logs of successful contacts (QSO) and user confirmations.
The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) is the nation's national amateur radio organization. In addition to offering technical assistance, it advocates for amateur radio issues before regulatory agencies and organizes nationwide gatherings and enthusiast education initiatives.
