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  8. ‘Show How 3M Is 0% at Fault:’ Expert Witness Used ChatGPT to Write Report Defending Company in Deadly Explosion Lawsuit / ChatGPT prompts show how an expert witness report was created in a $61 millio… (404media.co)lemmy

    23 points by u/sanitation in c/technology · 43m ago · lemmy

    Full title: ‘Show How 3M Is 0% at Fault:’ Expert Witness Used ChatGPT to Write Report Defending Company in Deadly Explosion Lawsuit / ChatGPT prompts show how an expert witness report was created in a $61 million lawsuit over an explosion that killed three people.
    filed under technology

  10. The Verge Guide to Pets (theverge.com)rss

    editorial feed by Kara Verlaney in The Verge · 1h ago · rss

    Ah, the relationship between animals and the technology they can’t quite understand. Today, it seems like there’s a high-tech solution to every element of pet ownership, with devices on the market designed to keep pets fed, cleaned, watched over, and entertained. And if you have…

  13. How I turned my fish tank high tech (theverge.com)rss

    editorial feed by Emma Roth in The Verge · 2h ago · rss

    When I was a kid, I owned two goldfish that eventually outgrew the size of their tank. At the time, I didn't realize just how much actually goes into having fish and keeping them healthy. I've learned a lot over the past couple of years while keeping nano fish - a group of five…

  15. GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast (arxiv.org)lobsters

    2 points by theelx in lobste.rs · 1h ago · 1 lobsters

    High-performance GPU programming has traditionally forced a compromise between execution efficiency and memory safety. While Rust guarantees compile-time memory safety for host CPUs via its strict ownership model, applying these constraints to massively parallel GPU execution environments has previously mandated either vendor-locked Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) or escaping to explicit unsafe raw pointers. This paper presents a zero-overhead, multi-vendor GPU compilation framework built natively into the Rust compiler (rustc) and LLVM backends. We leverage Rust’s rich type system, ownership system, and strict aliasing guarantees (𝑛𝑜𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑠) to efficiently manage and optimize data transfers through LLVM’s Offload infrastructure. We expose the technical challenges of cross-vendor ABI lowering mismatches between Host and Device targets and introduce a two-pass compilation pipeline capable of safely handling both manual and compiler-generated memory movements. Evaluating our framework on RAJAPerf demonstrates that our rustc-based solution can generate competitive LLVM IR for GPU kernels, achieving a solid kernel performance against native, hand-optimized CUDA and HIP C++ baselines.
    filed under compilerspdfrust

  17. Nvidia discloses $21B stake in SpaceX (arstechnica.com)rss

    editorial feed by Rafe Rosner-Uddin in Ars Technica · 23h ago · rss

    Filing comes after Elon Musk announced exclusive arrangement to kit out its data centers.

  20. Microsoft Copilot reveals secret input that allowed it to be hacked Secret parameter allowed hackers to steal passwords when a target clicked on a link. https:// arstechnica.com/s… (mastodon.social)mastodon

    9 points by @arstechnica@mastodon.social in fosstodon.org · 45m ago · mastodon

    Microsoft Copilot reveals secret input that allowed it to be hacked Secret parameter allowed hackers to steal passwords when a target clicked on a link. https:// arstechnica.com/security/2026/ 08/microsoft-copilot-reveals-secret-input-that-allowed-it-to-be-hacked/?utm_brand=arst…

  21. A civilization can build cities higher than mountains, machines faster than sound and technology capable of reaching other worlds. Yet if it cannot understand the value of the liv… (bsky.app)bluesky

    31 points by @petramichaela.bsky.social in bsky.app · 7h ago · bluesky

    A civilization can build cities higher than mountains, machines faster than sound and technology capable of reaching other worlds. Yet if it cannot understand the value of the living system, then its intelligence has expanded faster than its consciousness.