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March 4, 2025

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Reddit – Dive into anything

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March 4, 2025

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Why Elon Musk is targeting a free tax-filing software package | Technology

Hello, and welcome back. In this week’s Techscape: the cost of Elon Musk’s cost-cutting, the emotional shutdown of Skype, and a new documentary on immigration and surveillance. Elon Musk’s cost savings will be very expensive for the US On Saturday, Elon Musk took aim at his next target in the federal government: the technology division of the General Services Administration (GSA), which the Guardian was among the first to report. The GSA, according to its website, “manages federal property and provides contracting options for government agencies”. Its tech division was known as 18F – and was made up of some

March 4, 2025

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The Download: Woolly mice, and data centers in space

They’re small, fluffy and kind of cute, but these mice represent a milestone in de-extinction efforts, according to their creators. The animals have undergone a series of genetic tweaks that give them woolly mammoth-like features—and their creation may bring scientists a step closer to resurrecting the ancient, giant animals that roamed the tundra thousands of years ago. Scientists at Colossal have been working to “de-extinct” the woolly mammoth, since the company was launched four years ago.  Now, her team has shown that they can create healthy animals that look the way the team wants them to look—and pave the way

March 4, 2025

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MIPS launches Atlas chip designs for industrial robots and autonomous cars

MIPS is launching its Atlas chip designs for physical AI platforms such as industrial robots and autonomous cars. The aim is to drive real-time intelligence into physical AI, said Sameer Wasson, CEO of MIPS, in an interview with GamesBeat. The new MIPS Atlas product suite delivers compute subsystems that empower autonomous edge solutions to sense, think and act with precision, driving innovation across the growing physical AI opportunity in industrial robotics and autonomous platform markets. San Jose, California-based MIPS is targeting its MIPS Atlas portfolio at automotive, industrial and embedded technology companies so they can deploy safe, secure and efficient

March 4, 2025

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Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 Successfully Lands on the Moon

A robotic spacecraft from an American startup gently set down on a lava plain on the moon’s near side early Sunday morning. The Blue Ghost lander, built by Firefly Aerospace of Cedar Park, Texas, touched down at 3:34 a.m. Eastern time. “You all stuck the landing,” Will Coogan, the Blue Ghost chief engineer, said during a livestream from the flight operations room. “We’re on the moon.” A few minutes later, Jason Kim, the chief executive of Firefly, proudly declared, “We got some moon dust on our boots.” Within about half an hour, the spacecraft sent back its first photograph of

March 4, 2025

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Asian tech stocks fall as Trump doubles down on tariffs, keeping investors on edge

Employees move semiconductor testers on the assembly line of the Advantest Corp. plant in Ora, Japan on Aug. 10, 2012. Tomohiro Ohsumi | Bloomberg | Getty Images Asian tech and chip-related stocks fell Tuesday after U.S. President Donald Trump made it clear that tariffs on Mexico and Canada would go into effect as planned. Trump said the U.S. would impose 25% tariffs on goods imported from Canada and Mexico, adding that there was “no room left for Mexico or for Canada” to negotiate an alternative to the tariffs. Trump also said he would impose an additional 10% tariff on imports from China, having already levied 10% duties

March 4, 2025

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Trump purge hits Chips Act office, two-fifths of staff to be terminated: Report

Two-fifths of the staff of the U.S. Chips Program Office, responsible for managing the Chips and Science Act, have been laid off by the Trump administration. 60 total employees will be cut by the end of today. According to Bloomberg, 20 employees previously accepted resignations last week, with the other 40 being “probationary” employees who had begun their positions within the last two years; those probationary workers were to be terminated by the end of Monday. It is no secret that President Trump is not a fan of the Chips Act. The law signed by the previous President Biden devotes

March 4, 2025

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GPT-4.5 review: improved verbal intelligence, contextual adaptation, abstract writing, and better taste and aesthetics, but not ideal for reasoning or coding (Zvi Mowshowitz/Don't Worry About the Vase)

Zvi Mowshowitz / Don’t Worry About the Vase: GPT-4.5 review: improved verbal intelligence, contextual adaptation, abstract writing, and better taste and aesthetics, but not ideal for reasoning or coding  —  It’s happening.  —  The question is, what is the it that is happening?  An impressive progression of intelligence? Source link

March 4, 2025

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Researchers Find Less-Educated Areas Adopting AI Writing Tools Faster

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Since the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022, experts have debated how widely AI language models would impact the world. A few years later, the picture is getting clear. According to new Stanford University-led research examining over 300 million text samples across multiple sectors, AI language models now assist in writing up to a quarter of professional communications across sectors. It’s having a large impact, especially in less-educated parts of the United States. “Our study shows the emergence of a new reality in which firms, consumers and even international organizations substantially