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Submission + - Free speech dies in Britian (breitbart.com)

Submitted by noshellswill
noshellswill writes: Brit neo-Stalinist speech laws have resulted in arrest of 60-thousand Brits during the last five years. Angle-Saxon common law has been overwrit by Trotsky-slut OxBridge agendistas. So USA computer /devs traveling to Britain had better review past code & email posts to ensure they does not cause arrest upon arrival.

Submission + - Uber is firing 10% of its employees

Submitted by greytree
greytree writes: Uber is laying of 10% of its employees worldwide.

If you had these cliches on your bingo card, you win:

  — "removing layers, simplifying team structures"
  — "focusing our people"
  — "This wasn’t a decision we made lightly"
  — "It’s our job as leaders to make these difficult calls"
  — "The decisions we’re making today are difficult, but they will help us build an even stronger Uber for the years ahead."

https://www.uber.com/us/en/new...

Submission + - I teach calculus at Berkeley. Some of my students can't do middle school math (sfstandard.com)

Submitted by fjo3
fjo3 writes: I teach mathematics at UC Berkeley. Three days a week, I stand in front of lecture halls with 500 to 1,400 students. By the second week of the semester, I already know who is in trouble. Some students are five to eight years behind in mathematics. Office hours that should be spent discussing integrals instead become lessons on fractions and basic algebra you would expect students to learn in middle school.

That is why this spring and summer, thousands of faculty members across all 10 UC campuses — including more than two-thirds of UC’s mathematics faculty — signed open letters(opens in new tab) urging the system to restore the SAT and ACT in admissions. Five Nobel laureates joined us, along with professors from across the university, including Beatriz Manz, Berkeley’s first Latina full professor.

Submission + - Doomscrolling at work wastes time, but the real cost is what happens after (phys.org)

Submitted by alternative_right
alternative_right writes: While doomscrolling is often dismissed as a productivity issue, the researchers found the consequences extend beyond the time spent looking at a screen.

"What we find is that workers who doomscroll on the clock are less engaged, in part because their mind is preoccupied, sort of replaying the images and messages that they encountered during their doomscrolling sessions," Hughes said.

The relationship was especially strong among people with higher levels of neuroticism, a personality trait associated with anxiety and worry.

Submission + - Ukrainian's claim Ubiquiti Supplying Russia's 'Human Safari' Drone Kill Zone (aol.com)

Submitted by AmiMoJo
AmiMoJo writes: DiCello Levitt LLP today filed a human rights lawsuit against Ubiquiti Inc., alleging the New York-based technology company helped power the battlefield communications network Russia uses to hunt, target, and kill Ukrainian civilians with drones.

Filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, the lawsuit is brought by Ukrainian civilians and family members of civilians killed or injured in Russian drone and drone-assisted attacks. It alleges that Ubiquiti's long-range wireless radio bridge antennas and airMAX technology became critical infrastructure in Russia's command-and-control network — connecting drone pilots, reconnaissance feeds, commanders, and attack units in real time across a roughly 100-kilometer "kill zone" that Russian operators have turned into a "human safari."

Submission + - Ukraine Finds Nvidia AI Chip in New Russian Missile (kyivpost.com)

Submitted by AmiMoJo
AmiMoJo writes: Ukraine’s military intelligence (HUR) has identified an Nvidia Jetson Orin computer module inside Russia’s new S-71 Monochrome air-launched cruise missile, potentially indicating the use of artificial intelligence technology in the weapon, the agency said Wednesday, Aug. 12.

The finding was published in the “Components in Weapons” section of the HUR’s War&Sanctions portal, which documents foreign electronic components found in Russian weapons used against Ukraine.

The latest research identified 35 electronic components in Russian weapons, according to the HUR.

HUR specialists identified the Nvidia Jetson Orin module in the S-71 Monochrome, a new Russian air-launched cruise missile.

The agency said the use of the computer module may indicate the integration of artificial intelligence technologies into the missile.

The HUR did not provide further details on the specific functions performed by the Nvidia module in the weapon.

Submission + - Local PBS station loses access to 50TB of data as cloud storage vendor goes dark (current.org)

Submitted by Agnapot
Agnapot writes: Nine PBS in St. Louis filed a lawsuit against Iron Mountain Data Centers July 28, seeking to recover over 50 terabytes of archival materials, comprising 70 years of TV history, stored in one of the company’s Denver-based data centers. The lawsuit alleges that the station’s cloud-storage vendor, Open Source Storage, abruptly cut off access to Nine PBS’ data earlier this year without warning when it went “defunct,” leaving Nine PBS’ archives in a data center operated by Iron Mountain, who have refused to return the materials to the station.

This wouldn't have been an issue if the organization bought a $1,000 NAS and populated it with a few hard drives!

Submission + - AI push is putting banks at mercy of tech firms, warns Moody's (theguardian.com)

Submitted by Alain Williams
Alain Williams writes: The rating agency Moody’s has said the race to adopt AI is putting big banks at the mercy of a small group of Silicon Valley firms, leaving them vulnerable to widespread outages and price gouging by profit-hungry tech bosses.

The financial sector’s efforts to integrate AI into day-to-day operations will eventually cut costs and increase revenues across the City and Wall Street, Moody’s said.

But that will require “substantial investments”, and with so many rivals racing towards the same goal, many of those benefits will end up being “competed away”.

AI will also create bigger risks around data privacy, cybersecurity, fraud and so-called “deposit flight”, as well as an overdependence on a small number of tech firms, the rating agency warned.

Submission + - Terrifying crashes, baffling trips, broken traffic laws yet no tickets for Waymo (nypost.com)

Submitted by alternative_right
alternative_right writes: Waymo robotaxis have escaped a single enforcement notice in Los Angeles during the first month California police were given the power to cite autonomous vehicle companies for traffic violations.

This is despite a string of viral incidents showing the driverless cars blocking roads, trapping motorists and breaking traffic laws.

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