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Boeing whistleblower has mysteriously died 45 year-old Joshua Dean was one of
many people to come forward in recent years following two 737 Max a crashes
that killed a combined 346 people and a recent 737 max9 that suffered a blowout
at the beginning of this year both things that shake my confidence in the
practice of throwing metal tubes full of people through the air the reportedly
healthy Dean suddenly passed away at the end of last month after spending 2 weeks
in a hospital fighting a bacterial infection which eventually developed
into pneumonia just a month before 62-year-old Josh Mitch Barnett another
whistleblower was found dead just before he was to resume testimony against
Boeing nothing suspicious there Dean was working for Boeing supplier Spirit Aros
systems as a quality auditor when he was fired last year he alleges that that was
in retaliation for him raising safety concerns something that certainly sounds
like the job of a quality auditor where's that written down prove
it it's it's it's not in the handbook he wasn't the only whistleblower afraid of
backlash from Boeing however Sam salipur who as of reporting is still alive said
he feared physical violence during a US Congressional hearing last month salipur
should maybe stick to single story buildings for the time being otherwise
he may accidentally throw himself through a window those accidential
defenestrations they get you every time some of those Windows are so beautiful
in lighter news Microsoft allegedly has a new in-house AI that they think can
compete with open AI models a that's so cute that they think that the model
reportedly referred to internally as mai1 is being overseen by Google
deepmind co-founder Mustafa sulan and will have around 500 billion parameters
that's about half of what gbt 4 has to put that in perspective should you be
excited well apparently no one knows what the model will be used for but if
Microsoft's looking for ideas there's some interesting use cases that have
made headlines recently an Adjunct professor at Stanford teamed up with the
CEO of a leadership development firm to write a Wall Street Journal article
about using AI to practice tough conversations an example they used was
an associate preparing to fire an employee thankfully spending the weekend
roleplaying the exchange with chat gbt saved that associate so much heartache
thank godo that's a load off my mind millions of teens are apparently using
AI chat Bots as friends they can talk to without having to face every teen's
worst fear other teens makes sense some
adults are using AI to speak with dead relatives and deal with their grief man
Mental Health Resources certainly are in a state aren't
they the US government has announced they want to give someone a lot of money
to research digital twin technology for Semiconductor manufacturing for those
unaware a digital twin is basically a onetoone virtual ual simulation of a
physical system in the real world America's Department of Commerce is
offering $285 million in chip sact
funding to try and convince someone else to create an institution dedicated to
studying digital twin technology I mean why do it yourself when you can pay
someone the hope is that the tech can accelerate semiconductor manufacturing
by allowing companies to test processors without actually you know making them
lazy just do it you don't got the
balls the tech is currently being used in the automotive industry to test
different modes of production without affecting you know their current
manufacturing output for example Mercedes-Benz used NVIDIA's Omniverse
enterprise software to simulate one of its factories just to plan an upgrade
for Ev manufacturing now the US government seems really passionate about
this Tech because they said all the buzzwords the department of commerce's
press release states that digital twins can exist in the cloud and could
leverage emerging technology like artificial intelligence okay this was
fully written by dude in a fleece vest named Chad there's no way it wasn't he's
wearing he's wearing WF fires like Factory will be conscious and it will be
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bits oh right I I do those YouTube is
rolling out a new experimental premium feature called Jump Ahead which skips
ahead to the part of the video the algorithm thinks you're trying to find
typically the moment that most other users skip to in the past like the
Banger chorus of a hit song or that one time on the WAN Show when lonus
mistakenly claimed he used to say the hard r a lot while Luke's entire life
flashed before his eyes live on camera the front door of the building has never
look so enticing currently the jump ahead feature is only available on the
YouTube Android app and only for select English language videos so if you're an
iPhone user or if you're watching this but you don't speak English you'll just
have to wait loo authors and audiobook
listeners are divided as 40 th000 AI narrated titles have hit audible thanks
to a new beta tool Amazon introduced last year while writers are grateful for
the opportunity to save on professional voiceover fees audible subscribers are
annoyed that there's no option to filter AI audio books out human narrators
meanwhile are feeling pessimistic about their future job security personally I'm
worried about the quality of the narration on these self-published titles
not just anyone can narrate works like Chuck tingles pounded in the butt by my
book pounded in the butt by my own butt Google is is Banning ads for apps
and websites that generate distribute or promote synthetic sexually explicit
content which is fancy lawyer talk for deep fake pornography and nudes to be
fair to Google this kind of content was already implicitly prohibited as a form
of sexually explicit content like come on guys it doesn't stop being smut just
cuz a robot made it it just smells a bit more burnt yeah and it doesn't make me
feel as warm when I hug it however Google apparently felt the need to make
it explicit due to the sudden Ryzen ads promote these deep fake tools and
even some of these Services pretending to be innocuous apps in order to sneak
onto legitimate app stores kind of like a shipping a dildo in a package shaped
like a frying pan there are frying pan shaped dildos there's a market they
don't work as well they're only for pansexuals researchers the University of
Pennsylvania have developed a new type of memory that can operate at
temperatures as high as 600° C for more
than 60 hours at less than 15 volts but just imagining how many Chrome tabs I
could leave open is making s but this memory wouldn't actually be used for RAM
it's nonvolatile so it can store data without constant power and it's not made
of silicon but rather ferroelectric aluminum Scandium nitride and it's a
good thing we discovered silicon first because putting Valley in front of the other one would be a real mouthful and
the International Space Station is so dirty it's bred New Life a new NASA
study collected samples of drug resistant bacteria e buend denus quote
from various locations within the ISS and found 13 distinct strains which have
never been seen before on Earth the bacteria has apparently mutated to
survive in the extreme environment becoming even more drug resistant in the
process and helping other microorganisms survive God way stretcher it could flame
on it's become
fantastic perhaps we should make the astronauts clean up after themselves so
Humanity doesn't get taken out by a space spread super buug might I
recommend sending their moms to the ISS to shame them look at this room it's a
Pak die is this how I raised you you call this a space station and might I
recommend that you come back on Wednesday for more Tech news and clean
behind your ears what