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Suborbital space tourism finally arrives | FCC prepares to run public C-band auction | The big four in the U.S. launch industry — United Launch Alliance, SpaceX, Blue Origin and Northrop Grumman — hope to be one of two providers that will receive five-year contracts later this year to launch national security payloads starting in 2022. | China’s launch rate stays high | The International Space Station is the largest ever crewed object in space.

 
The Latest CMA Report Brings New Privacy...
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Venture Capital Firms Are Actually Considering Giving...
Why do they think this is a good idea? Check, Please At least one big Silicon Valley venture capital firm is considering a $6 billion cash infusion for Elon Musk’s xAI startup and its troubled chatbot, Grok. As people close to the fundraising told The Information, Musk is closing in on a first-round fundraising deal with potential investors including Sequoia Capital, which invested $800 million into Twitter when he bought it back in 2022. The insiders did not specify how...

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Computer scientists unveil novel attacks on cybersecurity
Researchers have found two novel types of attacks that target the conditional branch predictor found in high-end Intel processors, which could be exploited to compromise billions of processors currently in use. The multi-university and industry research team led by computer scientists at University of California San Diego will present their work at the 2024 ACM ASPLOS Conference that begins tomorrow. The paper, “Pathfinder: High-Resolution Control-Flow Attacks Exploiting the Conditional Branch Predictor,” is based on findings from scientists from UC...

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Three from MIT awarded 2024 Guggenheim Fellowships
MIT faculty members Roger Levy, Tracy Slatyer, and Martin Wainwright are among 188 scientists, artists, and scholars awarded 2024 fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Working across 52 disciplines, the fellows were selected from almost 3,000 applicants for “prior career achievement and exceptional promise.” Each fellow receives a monetary stipend to pursue independent work at the highest level. Since its founding in 1925, the Guggenheim Foundation has awarded over $400 million in fellowships to more than 19,000...

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Brands Chase Football Marketing Momentum at NFL...
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These 5 Tech Giants Are Most Likely...
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A musical life: Carlos Prieto ’59 in...
World-renowned cellist Carlos Prieto ’59 returned to campus for an event to perform and to discuss his new memoir, “Mi Vida Musical.” At the April 9 event in the Samberg Conference Center, Prieto spoke about his formative years at MIT and his subsequent career as a professional cellist. The talk was followed by performances of J.S. Bach’s “Cello Suite No. 3” and Eugenio “Toussaint’s Bachriation.” Valerie Chen, a 2022 Sudler Prize winner and Emerson/Harris Fellow, also performed Phillip Glass’s “Orbit.”...

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Drake Pulls Down AI-Generated Diss Track After...
A masterclass in legal threats. Down and Out After being sent a very guilt-inducing cease-and-desist, Drake has taken down his AI-generated diss track that deepfaked the voices of Tupac and Snoop Dogg. As The Verge reports, the Canadian-born rapper, née Aubrey Graham, has deleted the track “Taylor Made” from his profile on X-formerly-Twitter, though because it had been up for nearly a week, there are still tons of versions of it re-uploaded on YouTube and elsewhere. Part of his ongoing...

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A Solar Panel Standoff Threatens U.S. Climate...
CLIMATEWIRE | A flood of Chinese solar components is casting a shadow on President Joe Biden’s climate priorities. That’s creating deep divisions in the U.S. solar industry and causing political headaches for the president. American manufacturers are calling for additional trade restrictions on Asian imports amid what they say are market-flooding practices by China that are undermining U.S. plans to build a fleet of solar factories. But those calls are colliding with the interests of some renewable energy developers...

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Tesla's Autopilot and FSD Linked to Hundreds...
Tesla “did not adequately ensure that drivers maintained their attention.” Checked Out Federal regulators released a report this week in which they found that Tesla’s controversial driver assistance software was linked to hundreds of injuries and dozens of deaths. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration found that those making use of the EV maker’s misleadingly called “Full Self-Driving” software were lulled into a false sense of security and “were not sufficiently engaged in the driving task.” In short, the report...

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Sphere Is the Mind-Killer
Updated at 3:57 p.m. ET on April 26, 2024 In Las Vegas last Friday, I watched a Godzilla-sized puppy give a tongue bath to some 18,000 people. The visual—accompanied by laughter, slack jaws, and modest plumes of vaporized weed—arrived roughly three hours into a performance by Phish, the storied band, which has now been around for 40 years. At the moment in question, the band was launching into a capella scatting and mouth noising—what fans recognize as a vocal...

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Gym Teacher Arrested for Using AI to...
As dystopian as it is predictable. Blackmail Order A Baltimore-area educator has been arrested after he allegedly used AI to deepfake his school’s principal into spewing bigotry, in a misfired blackmail scheme. As the Baltimore Banner and other news outlets report, now-former athletic director Dazhon Darien has been charged with several crimes after audio surfaced of Pikesville High School principal Eric Eiswert seeming to make racist and anti-Semitic comments about students and staff. In January, Eiswert was suspended from his...

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A Tesla Vice President Just Quit and...
Cashing out. Abandon Ship Tesla is going through a crisis right now. The company, which posted disastrous first-quarter results earlier this month, isn’t just losing over ten percent of its rank-and-file workforce due to layoffs. A number of high-profile insiders have also abandoned ship. Take longtime Tesla executive Drew Baglino, who joined Tesla in 2006 — and now, just ten days after announcing his resignation, he’s sold a staggering $181.5 million worth of Tesla shares, according to a Thursday filing with the...

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NASA Grant Brings Students at Underserved Institutions...
At the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, interns from Cal State LA are learning key skills studying the origins of life. What does wastewater management in Los Angeles have to do with the search for life on Mars? Eduardo Martinez certainly didn’t make the connection when he was pursuing a master’s in civil engineering. Not at first. Then his professor pointed him toward an internship opportunity at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory for astrobiology, the study of life’s origins and the...

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Cybertruck Driver Goes Berserk With Road Rage...
“I don’t want nothing more than rip off your heads and spit down your throats.” Road Rage A thin-skinned Cybertruck driver has had enough of being teased for his questionable life choices. A video making the rounds on social media shows the driver cussing out a group of cyclists, who purportedly poked fun at him over a recent recall affecting all Cybertrucks. The driver took the time to pull over to harass the cyclists in return — with strikingly violent...

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