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WIRED

At the Defcon hacker conference tomorrow, Enrique Nissim and Krzysztof Okupski, researchers from the security firm IOActive, plan to present a vulnerability in AMD chips they’re calling Sinkclose. The flaw would allow hackers to …

Reuters

Aug 10 (Reuters) – YouTube’s former chief executive and long-time Google executive Susan Wojcicki died on Saturday at the age of 56 after a two-year battle with lung cancer. “It is with profound sadness that I share the news of Susan Wojcicki passing.

Science Daily

Date: August 7, 2024; Source: California Institute of Technology; Summary: The new device uses sound waves to gather blood pressure data from blood vessels, monitoring the response with ultrasound. The new technique, called resonance sonomanometry, …

The New York Times

In a report released this week, OpenAI revealed that it had considered the potential for users to form an emotional reliance on its new, humanlike voice mode, which is featured in its popular artificial intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT.

Science Daily

It may be possible to turn anxiety into a superpower in some scenarios, recent research indicates. The study found that if entrepreneurs preparing to make a funding pitch connected their pitch anxiety to their passion for their venture, judges ranked their …

The Sydney Morning Herald

Susan Wojcicki, who helped turn Google from a start-up in her garage into an internet juggernaut, and who became one of Silicon Valley’s most prominent female executives with her leadership of YouTube, died on Friday. She was 56.

ABC News

My beloved wife of 26 years and mother to our five children left us today after two years of living with non-small cell lung cancer,” he wrote on Facebook. Google chief executive Sundar Pichai …

Science Daily

Electronic waste, or e-waste, is a rapidly growing global problem, and it’s expected to worsen with the production of new kinds of flexible electronics for robotics, wearable devices, health monitors, and other new applications, including single-use …

BBC News

Kirklees Council said plans had been approved to upgrade the day care facilities at Mill Dale and Crescent Dale in Heckmondwike. The facilities will cater for up to 40 adults with profound and multiple learning disabilities and autism …

PBS NewsHour

Deepfake and AI technology’s ability to manipulate photos and even videos has made the problem of sexual images being posted online without consent even worse. Google recently announced new steps to combat sexually explicit deepfakes in their search …