Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. For the first time, a brown rat has been caught on camera actively hunting bats . The never-before-seen footage shows the rat grabbing a snack at hibernation sites in northern Germany. While it's undeniably impressive that rats can grab their supper mid-air, the new footage does not bode well for the bats. According to a study recently published in the journal, rat predation may cause enough damage to significantly threaten local bat populations .

A 32-year-old man died Monday while he was attempting to cross a freeway in Orange County after apparently trying to steal copper piping from a local business. The crash occurred around 11:35 a.m. The man, identified as Alberto Huizar, 32, was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Department. Huizar appeared to be homeless, authorities said. First responders arrived to find a woman pinned underneath a self-driving car with'multiple traumatic injuries.'

These days, so-called generative AI can (allegedly) make art, write books, and compose poetry. Systems like Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, and ChatGPT are seemingly quite good at it. But for some artists, this creates problems. Namely, determining what legal rights they have when their work is scraped by these tools. Faced by the rise in these systems, authors and artists are pushing back.

That some horrible things are being done with Artificial intelligence is without question. What is a question is how best to avoid that. The European Union has recently decided that there is a need to regulate certain types of Machine Learning Models. Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to suggest future episode topics you would like us to cover. Tackler of advanced Cloud and Hadoop challenges in a world of open-source technologies.

Ever since he beat the greatest chess player who ever lived, Hans Niemann has been called a cheat. The 19-year-old's surprising victory over Magnus Carlsen in St. Louis on September 4 led to accusations that he'd been taking cues from a chess-playing AI, or chess "engine." Niemann later admitted to having done just that on two occasions--both times when he was even younger, and while he was playing chess online. But he'd beaten Carlsen fairly, he insisted. For weeks now, chess experts have been trying to assess that claim, posting what they've found on social media.

Any credible list of influential books about tech from the last decade would include AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley and the New World Order by Kai-Fu Lee. Considered the world's foremost authority on artificial intelligence, Taipei-born Lee got an early start, writing a pioneering speech-recognition program while a student at Carnegie Mellon in the 1980s. He later had a career in China and the U.S. at Apple, Microsoft, Silicon Graphics and Google, where he was president of Google China. Now based in Beijing, Lee runs a venture capital firm called Sinovation, which focuses on AI investments. The interview with Lee took place (virtually) in early October.

An AI-driven health monitoring and disease detection platform was able to catch the signs of the Wuhan viral outbreak approximately a week before government agencies warned the public, providing a look at how AI can be used to catch disease outbreaks in a timely fashion. While the official World Health Organization notification of the Wuhan virus went out on January ninth and the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) received word of the outbreak on January sixth, the first warning signs of the outbreak were picked up by a Canadian health monitoring system almost a week prior. As Wired reported, the AI-driven health system BlueDot warned its clients about the possible outbreak on December 31st. Bluedot uses AI algorithms to monitor different global news sources and detect patterns in health reports. It also takes into account information on plant and animal disease networks. Using the information it collects, BlueDot epidemiologists then delivers warnings and predictions about possible health risks and outbreaks to its subscribers.

Among the many things we've become addicted to on our smartphones is checking the weather. If you're anything like me, you open a weather app at least twice a day: in the morning to know what to expect for the day ahead, maybe before your commute home so you can prepare for possible rain or snow, and sometimes before bed to get an idea of what to wear or what activities to plan for the next day. Depending where you live, how much time you spend outside, and how prone your area is to rapid weather changes, maybe you check the forecast even more frequently than that. The fact that our phones now contain hour-by-hour breakdowns of temperature and likelihood of precipitation means we can be well-informed and well-prepared. But these forecasts are coming at a greater cost than we know, and they're not always right.

Is AIOps--or artificial intelligence operations--poised to revolutionize the way sysadmins do their jobs? Or is it just another IT fad that will fade in time? If it's not a fad, how can sysadmins actually take advantage of AIOps? Keep reading for an overview of what IT pros need to know about the state of AIOps today. Gartner coined the term "AIOps" in 2016.

The 8-year-old daughter of Anwar al-Awlaki, the radical cleric and U.S. citizen who was killed in a drone strike in 2011, was reportedly among those killed Sunday during a raid in Yemen. The Guardian reported that Nawar al-Awlaki was killed after suffering a gunshot wound to the neck. The girl's grandfather told the paper that he did not believe the girl was targeted. "I don't think this incident was intentional," the former government minister said. He told the paper that the location of the strike was confusing because it was not a hotbed for Al Qaeda, rathera tribal sheikhs fighting the government, which is supported by Iran-backed Houthis.