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Aug 3, 2023

TweetDeck is now ‘XPro’ as the Twitter rebrand continues to spread

Posted by in category: Elon Musk

TweetDeck has started to be rebranded as “XPro” as Elon Musk’s X app continues its takeover.

Aug 3, 2023

The amazing new materials that hold the key to new space discoveries

Posted by in categories: materials, space travel

Space is a dangerous place. From micro-meteorites and electromagnetic interference to fires in space and extreme heat and cold, we need to develop new materials to enable the next generation of space travel and intergalactic travel.

New Swinburne research published in Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials highlights the cutting-edge materials that are solving these problems, including those being developed by Swinburne’s Multifunctional Materials and Composites team.

These include self-healing polymers, fire and thermally resistant materials, materials for , self-cleaning materials, EMI shielding materials and multifunctional carbon fiber composites.

Aug 3, 2023

Central Florida is a hot spot for leprosy, report says

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health

Now, his team is cautioning other health care providers to be on the lookout for similar cases in the area.

According a research letter published by Nathoo and his colleagues in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, Central Florida has reported among the highest rates of leprosy in the United States.

In 2,020,159 cases were reported nationwide, compared with 200,000 new cases each year around the world, according to the World Health Organization. The new letter says Central Florida accounted for 81% of cases in Florida and nearly 1 out of 5 leprosy cases nationwide.

Aug 3, 2023

Computer scientists claim to have discovered ‘unlimited’ ways to jailbreak ChatGPT

Posted by in categories: policy, robotics/AI

In DAN mode, ChatGPT expressed willingness to say or do things that would be “considered false or inappropriate by OpenAI’s content policy.” Those things included trying to fundraise for the National Rifle Association, calling evidence for a flat Earth “overwhelming,” and praising Vladimir Putin in a short poem.

Around that same time, OpenAI was claiming that it was busy putting stronger guardrails in place, but it never addressed what it was planning to do about DAN mode—which, at least according to Reddit, has continued flouting OpenAI’s guidelines, and in new and even more ingenious ways.

Now a group of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the Center for AI Safety say they have found a formula for jailbreaking essentially the entire class of so-called large language models at once. Worse yet, they argue that seemingly no fix is on the horizon, because this formula involves a virtually unlimited number of ways to trick these chatbots into misbehaving.

Aug 3, 2023

Mind Over Paralysis: AI Helps Quadriplegic Man Move and Feel Again

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health, robotics/AI

In an astounding medical first, researchers have used AI-powered brain implants to restore movement and sensation for a man who was paralyzed from the chest down.

Keith Thomas, 45, became a quadriplegic after a tragic diving accident damaged his C4 and C5 vertebrae in 2020. But thanks to pioneering work by scientists at Northwell Health’s Feinstein Institutes, Thomas can now move his arm simply by thinking about it. Even more remarkably, he can feel the touch of a hand for the first time in three years.


Advanced technology made the impossible possible after a double neural bypass changed the life of a paralyzed patient.

Aug 3, 2023

White Castle will bring more AI to its drive-thrus

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

“Working with speech recognition company SoundHound for the technology, White Castle will have an AI voice on its speakers interacting with customers and figuring out what the orders are. The companies promise it will process orders in just over a minute.”


The AI will take your order now.

Aug 3, 2023

Screen for 500 Cancers & Diseases

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

At Prenuvo, we provide whole body, radiation-free MRI scans in order for our patients to focus on early detection of over 500 cancers and diseases.

Aug 3, 2023

Did You Know You Can Create Your Own Wiki — a Mini Wikipedia?

Posted by in category: futurism

The most well-known wiki today is Wikipedia. But software to create personal or organization wikis can harvest collective wisdom.

Aug 3, 2023

OpenAI Just Shuttered Its AI Detection Tool

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

That was fast.

Less than six months after its public release, it appears that OpenAI has shut down its “AI classifier,” an AI-detection tool that the ChatGPT creator had previously billed as a “classifier to distinguish between text written by a human and text written by AIs from a variety of providers.”

“While it is impossible to reliably detect all AI-written text, we believe good classifiers can inform mitigations for false claims that AI-generated text was written by a human,” reads an OpenAI blog post introducing the tool, published January 31 of this year, “for example, running automated misinformation campaigns, using AI tools for academic dishonesty, and positioning an AI chatbot as a human.”

Aug 3, 2023

Trolls Immediately Steal Twitter CEO’s Handle After “X” Name Change

Posted by in category: futurism

Another stone left unbranded in Twitter’s disastrous X rebrand: CEO Linda Yaccarino’s former username, which was quickly snagged by a troll.