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Společnost Epic Games vydala verzi 5.4 svého proprietárního multiplatformního herního enginu Unreal Engine (Wikipedie). Podrobný přehled novinek v poznámkách k vydání.

Raný vývoj hvězd je pro nás stále do značné míry záhadou. Je to dané mimo jiné tím, že hvězdná „mláďata“ bývají obklopena hustými mračny plynu a prachu, v nichž není snadné něco zkoumat. Tým japonské Kjúšúské univerzity ve městě Fukuoka využil soustavu radioteleskopů ALMA v Chile a pozoroval s ním ...

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Meta’s Open Source Llama 3 Is Already Nipping at OpenAI’s Heels
Will Knight | Wired
“OpenAI changed the world with ChatGPT, setting off a wave of AI investment and drawing more than 2 million developers to its cloud APIs. But if open source models prove competitive, developers and entrepreneurs may decide to stop paying to access the latest model from OpenAI or Google and use Llama 3 or one of the other increasingly powerful open source models that are popping up.”

BIOTECH

‘Real Hope’ for Cancer Cure as Personal mRNA Vaccine for Melanoma Trialed
Andrew Gregory | The Guardian
“Experts are testing new jabs that are custom-built for each patient and tell their body to hunt down cancer cells to prevent the disease ever coming back. A phase 2 trial found the vaccines dramatically reduced the risk of the cancer returning in melanoma patients. Now a final, phase 3, trial has been launched and is being led by University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH). Dr Heather Shaw, the national coordinating investigator for the trial, said the jabs had the potential to cure people with melanoma and are being tested in other cancers, including lung, bladder and kidney.”

DIGITAL MEDIA

An AI Startup Made a Hyperrealistic Deepfake of Me That’s So Good It’s Scary
Melissa Heikkilä | MIT Technology Review
“Until now, all AI-generated videos of people have tended to have some stiffness, glitchiness, or other unnatural elements that make them pretty easy to differentiate from reality. Because they’re so close to the real thing but not quite it, these videos can make people feel annoyed or uneasy or icky—a phenomenon commonly known as the uncanny valley. Synthesia claims its new technology will finally lead us out of the valley.”

ENERGY

Nuclear Fusion Experiment Overcomes Two Key Operating Hurdles
Matthew Sparkes | New Scientist
“A nuclear fusion reaction has overcome two key barriers to operating in a ‘sweet spot’ needed for optimal power production: boosting the plasma density and keeping that denser plasma contained. The milestone is yet another stepping stone towards fusion power, although a commercial reactor is still probably years away.”

FUTURE

Daniel Dennett: ‘ Why Civilization Is More Fragile Than We Realized’
Tom Chatfield | BBC
“[Dennett’s] warning was not of a takeover by some superintelligence, but of a threat he believed that nonetheless could be existential for civilization, rooted in the vulnerabilities of human nature. ‘If we turn this wonderful technology we have for knowledge into a weapon for disinformation,’ he told me, ‘we are in deep trouble.’ Why? ‘Because we won’t know what we know, and we won’t know who to trust, and we won’t know whether we’re informed or misinformed. We may become either paranoid and hyper-skeptical, or just apathetic and unmoved. Both of those are very dangerous avenues. And they’re upon us.'”

ENVIRONMENT

California Just Went 9.25 Hours Using Only Renewable Energy
Adele Peters | Fast Company
“Last Saturday, as 39 million Californians went about their daily lives—taking showers, doing laundry, or charging their electric cars—the whole state ran on 100% clean electricity for more than nine hours. The same thing happened on Sunday, as the state was powered without fossil fuels for more than eight hours. It was the ninth straight day that solar, wind, hydropower, geothermal, and battery storage fully powered the electric grid for at least some portion of the time. Over the last six and a half weeks, that’s happened nearly every day. In some cases, it’s just for 15 minutes. But often it’s for hours at a time.”

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TECH

AI Hype Is Deflating. Can AI Companies Find a Way to Turn a Profit?
Gerrit De Vynck | The Washington Post
“Some once-promising start-ups have cratered, and the suite of flashy products launched by the biggest players in the AI race—OpenAI, Microsoft, Google and Meta—have yet to upend the way people work and communicate with one another. While money keeps pouring into AI, very few companies are turning a profit on the tech, which remains hugely expensive to build and run. The road to widespread adoption and business success is still looking long, twisty and full of roadblocks, say tech executives, technologists and financial analysts.”

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Apple Releases Eight Small AI Language Models Aimed at On-Device Use
Benj Edwards | Ars Technica
“In the world of AI, what might be called ‘small language models’ have been growing in popularity recently because they can be run on a local device instead of requiring data center-grade computers in the cloud. On Wednesday, Apple introduced a set of tiny source-available AI language models called OpenELM that are small enough to run directly on a smartphone. They’re mostly proof-of-concept research models for now, but they could form the basis of future on-device AI offerings from Apple.”

SPACE

If Starship Is Real, We’re Going to Need Big Cargo Movers on the Moon and Mars
Eric Berger | Ars Technica
“Unloading tons of cargo on the Moon may seem like a preposterous notion. During Apollo, mass restrictions were so draconian that the Lunar Module could carry two astronauts, their spacesuits, some food, and just 300 pounds (136 kg) of scientific payload down to the lunar surface. By contrast, Starship is designed to carry 100 tons, or more, to the lunar surface in a single mission. This is an insane amount of cargo relative to anything in spaceflight history, but that’s the future that [Jaret] Matthews is aiming toward.”

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Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a targeted operation against Ukraine that has been found leveraging a nearly seven-year-old flaw in Microsoft Office to deliver Cobalt Strike on compromised systems. The attack chain, which took place at the end of 2023 according to Deep Instinct, employs a PowerPoint slideshow file ("signal-2023-12-20-160512.ppsx") as the starting point, with

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a targeted operation against Ukraine that has been found leveraging a nearly seven-year-old flaw in Microsoft Office to deliver Cobalt Strike on compromised systems. The attack chain, which took place at the end of 2023 according to Deep Instinct, employs a PowerPoint slideshow file ("signal-2023-12-20-160512.ppsx") as the starting point, with Newsroomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]

Švýcarský PocketBook představuje InkPad Eo a tentokrát je to více než jen čtečka. „Zařízení pro psaní e-poznámek a čtení e-knih,“ píše se v tiskové zprávě. Displej je pochopitelně e-ink, ale tentokrát je barevný a opravdu velký. E-Ink Kaleido 3 s úhlopříčkou 10,3" je uzpůsobený pro ruční psaní a ...

Filamenty pro 3D tisk jsou hygroskopické • Vody je zbaví trouby, speciální sušičky a hromada silikagelu • FilaDryer S4 dostala za úkol vysušit strunu po 96 hodinách ve vodě

Během dubna se vrhá do kin už druhý akční snímek, co se řídí mottem, že pomsta chutná nejlépe hodně krvavá. Po Opičím muži, jenž zabalil příběh o pomstě do indických kulis a hinduistických motivů, přichází na řadu novinka Boy Kills World, jež by svým přístupem snad ani nemohla být odlišnější.

Přívěsek Limitless Pendant patrně vysoko pozvedne obočí všem ochráncům soukromí, ale určitě usnadní život zapomnětlivcům. Zapomínáte úkoly od šéfa? Přívěsek Limitless Pendant si za vás bude pamatovat vše podstatné Výrobce ho na svém webu definuje jako „Nejnositelnější umělou inteligenci na ...

Skupina českých středoškoláků nazvaná Lasar v americkém Houstonu zažila obrovský úspěch. Vyhrála rovnou dvě ze tří cen ocenění Conrad Challenge týkající se kosmonautiky, letectví a vesmíru. Jak na sociální síti X zveřejnil jejich mentor z evropské vesmírné agentury ESA Jan Spratek, pětice českých ...

Patenty jsou velmi zajímavé, často však končí v šuplíku • Podle analytiků Apple využije v produktech jen 30 % z nich • Toto jsou tři, které mají největší šanci na komerční nasazení

Podcasty se těší ohromné oblibě z mnoha důvodů. Podívejte se, kde podcasty hledat a hlavně jak je co nejpohodlněji poslouchat.

An ongoing social engineering campaign is targeting software developers with bogus npm packages under the guise of a job interview to trick them into downloading a Python backdoor. Cybersecurity firm Securonix is tracking the activity under the name DEV#POPPER, linking it to North Korean threat actors. "During these fraudulent interviews, the developers are often asked

An ongoing social engineering campaign is targeting software developers with bogus npm packages under the guise of a job interview to trick them into downloading a Python backdoor. Cybersecurity firm Securonix is tracking the activity under the name DEV#POPPER, linking it to North Korean threat actors. "During these fraudulent interviews, the developers are often asked Newsroomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]

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