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Two dye patterns merge into a clean disc golf disc finish

Some craft processes are quiet enough to watch without needing much explanation. The clip shows a disc golf disc with two distinct dye patterns on its surface. The colors are mixed and worked together ...
Reuters

Equitable, Corebridge set to merge, create $22 billion US insurance giant

March 26 (Reuters) - U.S. insurers Equitable (EQH.N), opens new tab and Corebridge Financial (CRBG.N), opens new tab said on Thursday they will merge in an all-stock deal that would create a $22 ...
Bleeping Computer

AppsFlyer Web SDK hijacked to spread crypto-stealing JavaScript code

The AppsFlyer Web SDK was temporarily hijacked this week with malicious code used to steal cryptocurrency in a supply-chain attack. The payload can intercept cryptocurrency wallet addresses entered on ...
The New York Times

Europe Accuses TikTok of ‘Addictive Design’ and Pushes for Change

European Union regulators said the app’s infinite scroll and personalized algorithm led to “compulsive” behavior, especially among children. By Adam Satariano Reporting from London TikTok’s endless ...
VentureBeat

Agentic design patterns: The missing link between AI demos and enterprise value

The enterprise AI market is currently nursing a massive hangover. For the past two years, decision-makers have been inundated with demos of autonomous agents booking flights, writing code, and ...
The Conversation

AI is using your data to set personalised prices online. It could seriously backfire

You check prices online for a flight to Melbourne today. It’s $300. You leave your browser open. Two hours later, it’s $320. Half a day later, $280. Welcome to ...
InfoQ

DevGreenOps: How to Design Sustainable Digital Services

A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with ...
Cinema Blend

4 Of The Last 5 Survivor Seasons Have Had The Exact Same Glaring Early Season Problem

You would think the big fanbase takeaway from a Survivor episode that prominently featured a castaway getting bitten by a snake would be about, well, that, but a couple days after the scary moment ...
Aclu.org

Surveillance Company Flock Now Using AI to Report Us to Police if it Thinks Our Movement Patterns Are “Suspicious”

The police surveillance company Flock has built an enormous nationwide license plate tracking system, which streams records of Americans’ comings and goings into a private national database that it ...
Quanta Magazine

AI Comes Up With Bizarre Physics Experiments. But They Work.

There are precision measurements, and then there’s the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. In each of LIGO’s twin gravitational wave detectors (one in Hanford, Washington, and the ...
IEEE

An Optimal Pairwise Merge Algorithm Improves the Quality and Consistency of Nonnegative Matrix Factorization

Abstract: Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) is widely used for dimensionality reduction of large datasets and is an important feature extraction technique for source separation. However, NMF ...