Month: January 2023

Recreating a numpad for the ADM-3A

[Evan] already had a working ADM-3A (a dumb terminal from 1976) but was starting to eye the accessories hungrily. He had only seen the numpad on Wikipedia and in the manual. So when he found some authentic stackpole numpads on a surplus sale, he grabbed them and converted them to be ADM-3A compatible. Looking at

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How Telegram, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter were used to boost election fraud claims in Brazil before riots hit congress and supreme court buildings (Elizabeth Dwoskin/Washington Post)

Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: How Telegram, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter were used to boost election fraud claims in Brazil before riots hit congress and supreme court buildings  —  Researchers detected a surge in violent rhetoric from election denialists in far-right channels online ahead of Sunday’s rioting

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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine boosted European investments in dual-use tech like autonomous drones, rockets for satellites, and more (Aggi Cantrill/Bloomberg)

Aggi Cantrill / Bloomberg: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine boosted European investments in dual-use tech like autonomous drones, rockets for satellites, and more  —  European tech companies that work with the defense industry, long an investment taboo for many venture capital firms, are drawing record amounts of funding in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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Hackaday Links: January 8, 2023

Something odd is afoot in the mountains around Salt Lake City, Utah, at least according to local media reports of remote radio installations that have been popping up for at least the past year. The installations consist of a large-ish solar panel, a weatherproof box full of batteries — and presumably other electronics, including radios

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Meta says it is weeks away from announcing its decision on reinstating Trump, who continues to harass 2020 election workers by name, as recently as last week (Naomi Nix/Washington Post)

Naomi Nix / Washington Post: Meta says it is weeks away from announcing its decision on reinstating Trump, who continues to harass 2020 election workers by name, as recently as last week  —  The platform cut Trump’s indefinite suspension to two years at the urging of its Oversight Board.  But that doesn’t mean he’s coming

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Can AI Replace Your DM?

The current hotness is anything to do with artificial intelligence, and along with some interesting experiments comes a lot of mindless hype. The question is, what can it do for us! [Jesse] provides a fun answer by asking ChatGPT to perform as a Dungeons and Dragons dungeon master. There are many ways to approach a

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The Cyberspace Administration of China will start regulating “deep synthesis” tech like AI-powered image, audio and text-generation software starting next week (Karen Hao/Wall Street Journal)

Karen Hao / Wall Street Journal: The Cyberspace Administration of China will start regulating “deep synthesis” tech like AI-powered image, audio and text-generation software starting next week  —  Beijing is among the first governments to regulate hyper-realistic, AI-generated media

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