right-livelihood-award-honors-women-taking-on-autocrats,-discrimination-and-unchecked-ai

STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Right Livelihood Award was awarded Wednesday to two women and two women-led organizations challenging authoritarian rule, violence and discrimination against women, and the harms caused by artificial intelligence, the Stockholm-based foundation said. The recipients of the international award are a Pakistani lawyer, an Ethiopian-born AI researcher,Continue Reading

cyclic-materials-opens-its-first-commercial-scale-rare-earth-magnet-recycling-plant

Cyclic Materials‘ new plant in Mesa, Arizona can process up to 25,000 metric tons of magnet-bearing end-of-life products a year, and it yields the company’s Mag-Xtract rare earth magnet material along with copper, aluminum and steel. Commercial operation has begun. MagCycle, Cyclic Materials’ process for automated mechanical separation of magnetsContinue Reading

vlc-makes-its-‘biggest-security-release-ever’

VLC 3.0.24 is out, billed as the video player’s ‘biggest security release ever’ with more than 130 fixes across the app and its bundled libraries. VideoLAN president Jean-Baptiste Kempf says the bulk of security flaws patched by the update are “hard to exploit in practice” but adds that not all of themContinue Reading

SpaceX AI Gameover for Rivals -Money Wise Minihard Crushes Even Money From Millions of Robotaxi

One new AI data center every month. If SpaceX achieves that MiniHard production pace, the consequences for AI capacity, revenue, and competitors are enormous. MiniHard will become SpaceX’s most important near-term product. Repeating a proven data-center design could turn individual construction projects into a steady stream of usable AI capacity. I compare it to massContinue Reading