Jasper Hamill
Tech & science journalist. Editor of The Stack and freelance copywriter. Former tech ed: @metrouk and @thesun. Big concepts & short sentences.
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machine.news | Jasper Hamill
Q&A — 6 min read It's not exactly grim up north for UK startups. But there's no doubt that centres of innovation in the south tend to hog the limelight and draw a disproportionate share of investment. It wasn't always this way. During the Industrial Revolution, Manchester was arguably the most innovative city in the world. Since then, it has slipped behind the "golden triangle" of London, Oxford and Cambridge - but is now working hard to regain its leading position.
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machine.news | Jasper Hamill
security — 5 min read Yesterday, news broke that funding for Mitre's Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Program had been cut, putting a critical global cybersecurity resource at risk. Now CISA has dramatically pulled the program back from the brink, announcing that it had extended its contract so vulnerabilities will continue to be shared with the world - but only for a limited amount of time.
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machine.news | Jasper Hamill
People absolutely love getting ChatGPT to generate images of themselves as action figures. But you know who doesn't enjoy this trend? Mother Nature. Over the past few weeks, LinkedIn has been filled with AI-generated action figure images. Just before that, it was filled with anime images in the style of Studio Ghibli. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. Each of these images has an environmental cost.
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machine.news | Jasper Hamill
CBDC — 5 min read To conspiratorially-minded people, state-backed central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are the stuff of nightmares, offering governments unparalleled abilities to monitor and control citizens' behaviour. But the powers that be have never cared much about what all those useless eaters think, so are currently going full steam ahead towards the creation of demoninations like the digital pound.
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1 week ago |
machine.news | Jasper Hamill
It's been roughly 100 years since a group of physics pioneers laid the foundation for quantum mechanics. In 1925, Max Born, Werner Heisenberg and Pascual Jordan developed matrix mechanics, in which physical quantities like position, momentum, and energy are represented as matrices. This provided a way to understand quantum jumps - sudden transitions between energy levels in an atom.
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Australian academics asking the questions that matter on AI. https://t.co/4sAehO7ovX
RT @JamieJBartlett: Interesting post on how far the Common Vulnerabilities Exposure process doesn't work with AI. (TLDR: traditional softwa…
Was X really involved in 88% of foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) campaigns in 2024? Would love to know what @elonmusk says about the EU's report... https://t.co/wWhxwthhog