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The 737 MAX is grounded again after a cabin depressurization incident.
This just after Boeing asked for safety exemptions on the 737 MAX due to a known issue with the nacelle deicer which could cause engine damage.
After debris was found in a majority of grounded planes fuel tanks.
After two total loss crashes.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67899564 https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boeing-wants-faa-to-exempt-max-7-from-safety-rules-to-get-it-in-the-air/
I'm beginning to disbelieve Boeing's commitment to safety. https://www.boeing.com/principles/safety.page
Maybe pack a parachute,
I'm beginning to disbelieve Boeing's commitment to safety. https://www.boeing.com/principles/safety.page
Maybe pack a parachute,
The collision of two trains, which injured 26 people, appears to have been caused by confusion over which vehicle had the right of way.
A crew of four transit workers was aboard the out-of-service train, which forced the rerouting of other No. 1 trains. According to the MTA officials with knowledge of the investigation, near the 96th Street station, the subway’s signal system instructed the out-of-service train to stop at a red light and gave the green light for a rerouted train to go around it on parallel tracks, then move back in front. The out-of-service train continued to inch forward, causing the slow-moving crash [and its derailing], the officials said.
Zachary Small, The New York Times, 5 Jan 2024
Hackers targeted software that many museums use to show their collections online and to manage sensitive information.
The 16-year-old was supposed to fly to Cleveland. His father said the gate agent did not scan his boarding pass.
A Chinese foreign exchange student has been found freezing but alive in the US after his parents were extorted out of tens of thousands of dollars in a cyber kidnapping scam.
Kai Zhuang was discovered “very cold and scared” in a tent in rural Utah, Riverdale Police said in a statement.
The 17-year-old is believed to have isolated himself after being manipulated by the kidnappers.
His parents were then tricked into paying around $80,000 (£62,600).
Zhuang is one of a number of foreign students targeted by so-called cyber kidnappers in the US recently, Riverdale Police added in their statement.
Police believe Kai was being controlled by the kidnappers as early as 20 December, when he was seen by officers in Provo, Utah, carrying camping equipment.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67861852
These drones have been heavily used in crucial rescue and infrastructure protection and maintenance operations. It's notable that reportedly there has never been evidence shown that these drones send data back to China, and these drones also have modes that don't connect to the Internet at all. Some observers feel this is all about protecting a single U.S. drone manufacturer. Politics in action. -L
https://uavcoach.com/asda-law/
The vessel, now off the Alaskan coast, is carrying nearly 2,000 tons of lithium-ion batteries, which contain highly flammable materials, officials said.
I've seen several news stories posted here about Tesla in the past couple of years. So, I thought I would share this article with some counterpoints to several of the stories previously reported: https://brandonpaddock.substack.com/p/are-teslas-the-most-or-least-safe
TLDR:
Additionally, some older articles about the videos of Tesla's hitting child mannequins: https://brandonpaddock.substack.com/p/does-tesla-have-a-pedestrian-problem-part-1 https://brandonpaddock.substack.com/p/does-tesla-have-a-pedestrian-problem-pt2
TLDR:
The first appears to have been created by someone who probably spent all day attempting to trick a Tesla into hitting a mannequin, eventually managing to figure out some contrived situation where they could get it to knock over the mannequin.
The second was a driver overriding the
Cybersecurity experts are warning of “significant” data privacy risks after a Vancouver rape crisis centre told clients and donors a computer server containing their sensitive personal information and banking details was stolen from its office last month.
The 3 Dec break-in at Salal Sexual Violence Support Centre's new downtown office is under investigation, Vancouver police confirmed in an email to CBC News on Friday, and at least one woman who sought counseling at Salal says she is planning to file a complaint with B.C.‘s privacy watchdog over the breach.
https://www.scmagazine.com/news/qualcomm-chip-vulnerability-enables-remote-attack-by-voice-call
CNN just threw up a tease banner “Google disables cookies for 30 million Chrome users”. Of course it's only third party cookies, because disabling first party cookies would totally break the Web, and even disabling third party cookies may break a lot of crucial stuff. That's apparently why Google is selecting guinea pigs for this without, uh, informing them about it.
Computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum was there at the dawn of artificial intelligence -“ but he was also adamant that we must never confuse computers with humans
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2023/12/19/chevy-of-watsonville-chatgpt-use/71976591007/
Hospitals and insurers are racing to find new artificial intelligence tools to give them an edge in billing and processing their part of the $4 trillion in medical expenses Americans accrue each year.
As one of the largest parts of the U.S. economy undergoes perhaps its biggest transition in decades, billions of dollars are at stake ” not only for health care providers and insurers, but also for the government, which handles millions of Medicare and Medicaid claims every year.
For providers, the dream is an AI tool that can quickly and aggressively code procedures and file claims. Insurers ” and the government agencies that pay for health care ” want comparable technology to scrub those bills. […]
But Congress has barely begun to grapple with how AI could affect these issues. And the administration is just beginning to work out its approach to regulating the technology ” even as the ground is shifting for hospitals, doctors and insurers vying for a tech edge. […]
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/31/ai-medical-expenses-00132557
I found this article pretty interesting, and true: https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/25/the_war_of_the_workstations/
I guess it's an inevitable and universal consequence of disruptive innovation.
For the dystopian future, see this article about the IDF “gospel” AI (what a name!):
Neri Oxman, a former MIT professor, is accused of copying from Wikipedia. Her husband, Bill Ackman, vowed to check the work of the entire MIT faculty.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/05/us/plagiarism-bill-ackman-neri-oxman-claudine-gay-harvard.html
Mike Masnick writes:
from the /it's-okay-when-we-do-it,-we're-the-new-york-times/ dept
This week The NY Times somehow broke the story <https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/27/business/media/new-york-times-open-ai-microsoft-lawsuit.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare> of… well, the NY Times suing OpenAI and Microsoft. I wonder who tipped them off. Anyhoo, the lawsuit <https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.612697/gov.uscourts.nysd.612697.1.0.pdf> in many ways is similar to some of the over a dozen lawsuits filed by copyright holders against AI companies. We’ve written about how silly <https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/11/a-bunch-of-authors-sue-openai-claiming-copyright-infringement-because-they-dont-understand-copyright/> many of these lawsuits are, in that they appear to be written by people who don’t much understand copyright law. And, as we noted <https://www.techdirt.com/2023/12/04/if-creators-suing-ai-companies-over-copyright-win-it-will-further-entrench-big-tech/>, even if courts actually decide in favor of the copyright holders, it’s not like it will turn into any major windfall. All it will do is create another corruptible collection point, while locking in only a few large AI companies who can afford to pay up.
I’ve seen some people arguing that the NY Times lawsuit is somehow “stronger” and more effective than the others, but I honestly don’t see that. Indeed, the NY Times itself seems to think its case is so similar to the ridiculously bad Authors Guild case, that it’s looking to combine the cases <https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.612697/gov.uscourts.nysd.612697.3.0.pdf>.
But while there are some unique aspects to the NY Times case, I’m not sure they are nearly as compelling as the NY Times and its supporters think they are. Indeed, I think if the Times actually wins its case, it would open the Times itself up to some fairly damning lawsuits itself, given its somewhat infamous journalistic practices regarding summarizing other people’s articles without credit. But, we’ll get there. […]
Below are 5 Wikipedia sites that I have added to over the years, trying to be helpful by adding useful information about books and journals on the relevant topics.
I have, naturally, included the following 2 useful items—both are open-source (!!):
Stephen Mason and Daniel Seng, editors, Electronic Evidence and Electronic Signatures (5th edition, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies for the SAS Humanities Digital Library, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2021) https://uolpress.co.uk/book/electronic-evidence-and-electronic-signatures/
Digital Evidence and Electronic Signature Law Review https://journals.sas.ac.uk/index.php/deeslr
For some reason best known to themselves, some person has totally removed our book from all of these web sites, and in some cases, the journal as well.
I am somewhat perturbed, as you can imagine. Both are free. I and my authors are not seeking financial gain. We only want to share knowledge.
Do you or any of your readers know how to reinstate these references in such a way that they will not be removed again??
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_evidence
External links: all the books I added have been removed, including the Digital Evidence and Electronic Signature Law Review
Apps that remotely track and control cars are being weaponized by abusive partners. Car manufacturers have been slow to respond, according to victims and experts.
In a new paper, researchers discuss methods to enhance privacy on AirTags and prevent stalkers from abusing them. Will Apple implement any of their suggestions?
https://www.pcmag.com/news/researchers-suggest-new-airtag-stalker-preventions-that-balance-privacy
> Everything is a System. Every system can be more efficient with AI
As I wrote earlier: ”If the purpose [of the economic system] is the long term thriving of the human race, then capitalism is a terrible system: the thing you are optimisimg for (called profit) is actually a form of friction and loss to the system, as stores of value (money) get extracted from the economic cycle and stashed away unproductively.”
If AI makes capitalism more “efficient” at extracting profit from the economy and accumulating wealth for billionaires at the expense of everyone else, then AI will only make things even worse.
> … you're using VCS to host your documentation? Why? Are you going to > merge your old documents and your new documents? Oh, so you didn't have to > setup a CMS (content management system).
I'm not sure CMS means what you think it means, but that aside:
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