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Economy
Used thin client PCs are an unsexy, readily available Raspberry Pi alternative
Enlarge / This ThinkCentre M90n-1 Nano from 2019, passively cooled with a big heatsink, was $145 when the author last…
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Economy
Nvidia wins award for AI that can play Minecraft on command
Enlarge / MineDojo’s AI can perform complex tasks in Minecraft. (credit: Nvidia) A paper describing MineDojo, Nvidia’s generalist AI agent…
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Investing
Diamond, Dybvig, and Government Deposit Insurance
The 2022 Nobel Prize in Economics is to be shared by Ben S. Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond, and Philip H.…
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Economy
European Parliament DDoSed after declaring Russia a sponsor of terrorism
Enlarge / An iteration of what happens when your site gets shut down by a DDoS attack. The European Parliament…
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Economy
Apple iPhone factory workers clash with police in China
Enlarge / Workers walk outside Hon Hai Group’s Foxconn plant in Shenzhen, China, in 2010. (credit: Getty) Violent worker protests…
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Economy
Meta researchers create AI that masters Diplomacy, tricking human players
Enlarge / A screenshot of an online game of Diplomacy, including a running chat dialog, provided by a Cicero researcher.…
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Economy
Thinking about taking your computer to the repair shop? Be very afraid
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) If you’ve ever worried about the privacy of your sensitive data when seeking a computer or…
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Economy
Nvidia’s Magic3D creates 3D models from written descriptions, thanks to AI
Enlarge / A poison dart frog rendered as a 3D model by Magic3D. (credit: Nvidia) On Friday, researchers from Nvidia…
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Investing
Bank and Crypto Runs: F(ac)TX vs Fiction
On October 10th, Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig won the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences, sharing it with Ben…
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Economy
New Meta AI demo writes racist and inaccurate scientific literature, gets pulled
Enlarge / An AI-generated illustration of robots making science. (credit: Ars Technica) On Tuesday, Meta AI unveiled a demo of…
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