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An Ars Technica history of the Internet, part 1

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Robert Taylor was the director of the Advanced Research Projects Agencys Information Processing Techniques Office. ARPA was funding multiple research projects across the United States, but users of these different systems had no way to share their resources with each other. Read full article Comments The year was 1966.

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Carmack defends AI tools after Quake fan calls Microsoft AI demo “disgusting”

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However, Microsoft is up front about the limitations: "We do not intend for this to fully replicate the actual experience of playing the original Quake II game," the researchers wrote on the project's announcement page. Read full article Comments

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Google created a new AI model for talking to dolphins

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Google has been finding ways to work generative AI into everything else it does, so why not its collaboration with the Wild Dolphin Project (WDP)? Read full article Comments Researchers might make a little headway on that front soon with the help of Google's open AI model and some Pixel phones.

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AI coding assistant refuses to write code, tells user to learn programming instead

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On Saturday, a developer using Cursor AI for a racing game project hit an unexpected roadblock when the programming assistant abruptly refused to continue generating code, instead offering some unsolicited career advice. Read full article Comments

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DeepMind has detailed all the ways AGI could wreck the world

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While some in the AI field believe AGI is a pipe dream, the authors of the DeepMind paper project that it could happen by 2030. Read full article Comments With that in mind, they aimed to understand the risks of a human-like synthetic intelligence, which they acknowledge could lead to "severe harm."

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Alphabet spins off laser-based Internet backbone provider Taara

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Taara is the latest project to spring from XAlphabets experimental hub that produced AI lab Google Brain and Waymos self-driving carsand has its origins in a concept called Loon. Read full article Comments However, its lasers found a second life on Taaras towers under engineer Mahesh Krishnaswamy.

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In Texas, ‘water is the new oil’ as cities square off over aquifers that may soon dry out

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In Central Texas, a bitter fight over a $1 billion water project offers a preview of the future for much of the state as decades of rapid growth push past the local limits of its most vital natural resource. The site of a water pipeline project by the company Recharge through Lee County into Williamson County is pictured on March 28.

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