Month: January 2023

Mojo Vision, which demonstrated a working prototype of its smart contact lenses in 2022, pivots to focus on micro-LED display tech and lays off 75% of staff (Ina Fried/Axios)

Ina Fried / Axios: Mojo Vision, which demonstrated a working prototype of its smart contact lenses in 2022, pivots to focus on micro-LED display tech and lays off 75% of staff  —  Mojo Vision, a startup that had embarked on a years-long effort to create a smart contact lens with a built-in display …

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A doctor says she faced a wave of anti-vaccine harassment after Twitter ignored her pleas to stop the spread of an image of a fake tweet created in her name (Brandy Zadrozny/NBC News)

Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News: A doctor says she faced a wave of anti-vaccine harassment after Twitter ignored her pleas to stop the spread of an image of a fake tweet created in her name  —  Growing concerns over impact of medical misinformation on public health  —  When Dr. Natalia Solenkova woke up Monday morning

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GPTZero, an app made by a Princeton student to detect if an academic essay was written by a human or by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, goes viral (Tony Ho Tran/The Daily Beast)

Tony Ho Tran / The Daily Beast: GPTZero, an app made by a Princeton student to detect if an academic essay was written by a human or by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, goes viral  —  “Humans deserve to know when the writing isn’t human.”  —  Deputy Editor, Innovation & Tech … Edward Tian was fast asleep when

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Sources: Microsoft is working on incorporating existing and future versions of OpenAI’s GPT in Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and other productivity apps (Aaron Holmes/The Information)

Aaron Holmes / The Information: Sources: Microsoft is working on incorporating existing and future versions of OpenAI’s GPT in Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and other productivity apps  —  In a move that could change how more than a billion people write documents, presentations and emails, Microsoft has discussed incorporating …

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Happy New Year, Hackaday!

[Tom Nardi] and I were talking on the podcast about 2022, and how it went from the hacker’s perspective. As the global chip shortage entered its second full year, we both thought back on the ways that we all had to adapt and work around the fact that we just couldn’t get the parts we

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Put Your Serial Port on the Web

Today, everything from your computer to your dryer has wireless communications built in, but devices weren’t always so unencumbered by wires. What to do when you have a legacy serial device, but no serial port on the computer you want to connect? [vahidyou] designed a wireless serial dongle to solve this conundrum. Faced with a

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Microsoft previews Graph API proxy for developers

With Microsoft Graph Developer Proxy, the software giant is providing a command line tool intended to provide a better way to test applications that use Microsoft Graph. Graph Developer Proxy, currently in a developer preview, allows developers to mock Graph API responses and simulate Graph API errors on their local machines. Issues can be identified

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Mandiant: Russian cyberespionage group Turla piggybacked on other hackers’ decade-old malware that spread via USB drives to stealthily access victim networks (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

Andy Greenberg / Wired: Mandiant: Russian cyberespionage group Turla piggybacked on other hackers’ decade-old malware that spread via USB drives to stealthily access victim networks  —  The infamous, FSB-connected Turla group took over other hackers’ servers, exploiting their USB drive malware for targeted espionage.

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IBM SVP and Director of Research says the company will no longer pursue numeric patent leadership and will instead focus on open innovation and collaboration (Darío Gil/Fortune)

Darío Gil / Fortune: IBM SVP and Director of Research says the company will no longer pursue numeric patent leadership and will instead focus on open innovation and collaboration  —  For 29 years straight, IBM has led the United States in minting patents, at its peak filing over 10,000 US patent applications …

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