Nvidia has announced that it will take steps to ensure RTX 3060 GPUs wind up in the hands of gamers, not crypto miners. On Thursday, the company said it would launch a new lineup of CMP (Crypto-Mining Processor) cards, while also restricting the maximum performance of the RTX 3060 when mining Ethereum.

 https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/320116-nvidia-limits-rtx-3060-crypto-performance-tells-miners-new-cmp-cards

Alphabet Inc’s Google fired staff scientist Margaret Mitchell on Friday, they both said, a move that fanned company divisions on academic freedom and diversity that were on display since its December dismissal of AI ethics researcher Timnit Gebru. Google has recruited top scientists with promises of research freedom, but the limits are tested as researchers increasingly write about the negative effects of technology and offer unflattering perspectives on their employer’s products.

 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-google-research/second-google-ai-ethics-leader-fired-she-says-amid-staff-protest-idUSKBN2AJ2JA

Linux Is Now on Mars, Thanks to NASA's Perseverance Rover Previous NASA Mars rovers mostly used an operating system from Wind River Systems. But this time, the space agency chose Linux for Perseverance's Ingenuity helicopter drone.

 https://au.pcmag.com/drones/85727/linux-is-now-on-mars-thanks-to-nasas-perseverance-rover

Facebook's botched Australia news ban hits health departments, charities and its own pages

 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/feb/18/facebook-blocks-health-departments-charities-and-its-own-pages-in-botched-australia-news-ban

The technology that’s replacing the green screen The green screen might be doomed. And that’s a good thing.

 https://www.vox.com/21529002/green-screen-mandalorian

new research from CSIRO’s Data61 in partnership with South Korea’s Sungkyunkwan University and the Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre (CSCRC) has revealed that these object detectors can be exploited with relative ease. Through manipulation involving the use of simple objects, researchers have discovered that it is possible for people to digitally disappear and bypass detection despite the fact they are clearly in the video.

 https://algorithm.data61.csiro.au/new-research-reveals-its-possible-to-digitally-disappear-from-camera-detection/?utm_source=CSIROscope&utm_medium=Blog&utm_campaign=Cloaking

How artificial intelligence will impact K-12 teachers

 https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/public-and-social-sector/our-insights/how-artificial-intelligence-will-impact-k-12-teachers#

‘Real’ Programming Is an Elitist Myth

 https://www.wired.com/story/databases-coding-real-programming-myth/

Netflix CEO on paying sky-high salaries: ‘The best are easily 10 times better than average’. The researchers expected that the best programmer would outperform his average counterpart by a factor of two or three. But it turned out that the most skilled programmer far outperformed the worst. He was 20 times faster at coding, 25 times faster at debugging, and 10 times faster at program execution than the programmer with the lowest marks.

 https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/08/netflix-ceo-reed-hastings-on-high-salaries-the-best-are-easily-10x-better-than-average.html

Move Over, Moore’s Law: Make Way for Huang’s Law Graphics processors are on a supercharged development path that eclipses Moore’s Law, says Nvidia’s Jensen Huang

https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/computing/hardware/move-over-moores-law-make-way-for-huangs-law

Elon Musk shows Neuralink brain implant working in a pig "It's like a Fitbit in your skull," the SpaceX and Tesla leader says of Neuralink's brain-computer link technology.

 https://www.cnet.com/news/elon-musks-neuralink-brain-computer-how-to-watch-working-demo-reveal-live/

WINDOWS 95 IS 25 YEARS OLD TODAY

 https://www.theverge.com/21398999/windows-95-anniversary-release-date-history