LAPC & Technologies

26/04/2025

Human brain matter, generated from stem cells have been able to interface with computer interfaces for some time now.

The field is emerging and in my opinion, it's to find a way to use AI models and tools without the high overhead cost of electricity when you are running these AI and tools in the matter that we are right now with graphic cards.

The second link I attached is a paper of a scientist warning the researchers that it is possible that these organoids, could have some form of sentience or consciousness... When I think of this statement, it gives me goosebumps and imagine a poor entity that is subject to pleasant and obstructive signals being fired at it for "feedback learning" in perpetuality.

sources:

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/science/articles/10.3389/fsci.2023.1017235/full

https://bigthink.com/health/organoid/

Recent advances in human stem cell-derived brain organoids promise to replicate critical molecular and cellular aspects of learning and memory and possibly a...

26/04/2025

Human brain matter(specically neurons) generated from stem cells are now possible to interface with computer interfaces.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/williamhaseltine/2023/04/28/forget-ai-organoid-intelligence-may-soon-power-our-computers/

https://bigthink.com/health/organoid/

While the world has been captivated by artificial intelligence, researchers at Johns Hopkins University have identified a new form of intelligence: organoid intelligence. A future where computers are powered by lab-grown brain cells may be closer than we could ever have imagined.

04/03/2025

🌍 African Innovation Shocks U.S Engineers! 🤯 | A.I-Powered ProstheticsMeet David Gathu and Moses Kiuna, two self-taught Kenyan inventors who built an A.I-p...

20/02/2025

https://youtu.be/Kev_-HyuI9Y?si=tzRihAjyLrjlO9b0

Suchir Balaji worked as an engineer for Sam Altman building AI, until he decided that Altman was committing crimes. Balaji became a whistleblower, and soon a...

07/01/2025

Well damn

The 5070 supposedly will have the same performance as the 4090 (which absolutely blows the remaining 40 series cards out of the water) thanks to AI tweaks.

26/12/2024

The Nokia vs Amazon is still on going into 2025.

Quick recap:
Nokia filed a suit against both Amazon and HP as a last ditch effort to get their attention. The suit accuses the two companies for using video codecs in their streaming services and other online based services for several years without fair compensation.
You can go back previously in my timeline to see my other coverage on the topic.

The International Trades Commission (ITC) is now recommending to banning U.S. imports of certain Amazon tech based products that goes against Nokia's patents.

"Amazon Blink, Amazon Echo, Amazon Fir, Amazon Kindle and Amazon Ring (doorbells, cameras etc.)"

The suit with HP was dismissed. I'm not certain on why yet.

What can come out of this? Well, Nokia stock price will go up 📈 and nothing really will happen to Amazon. Along Microsoft and Google, they are powering many of your favourite applications, websites and in home automations (if you aren't using HomeAssistant 😉) so... yeah. We'll see how this unfolds.

sources:

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67928543/nokia-technologies-oy-v-amazoncom-inc/

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67928650/nokia-technologies-oy-v-hp-inc/?fbclid=IwAR2KXWsBumo4NkQPXRFKgTs3wQYuqYFImSKuGhkGJAag8GQAcPbqe0i5wIY

https://ipfray.com/itc-judge-recommends-u-s-import-ban-on-amazon-streaming-devices-due-to-violation-of-4-out-of-5-nokia-multimedia-patents/

Docket for Nokia Technologies Oy v. Amazon.com, Inc., 1:23-cv-01236 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information.

26/12/2024

Any and every account you have that has a payment method or the ability to purchase things, make sure to look for an option in the account for you to enable MFA or 2FA. This will help tremendously help in securing your account from unauthorized access and mishaps.

You can use publicly hosted ones, or you can use many open-source ones and make backups of the database file on your own.

Ones I'd suggest using which are compatible on all Android, Apple, Windows and Linux:

# Aegis -- I personally use this and have set up in the app to have the database backed up to my Nextcloud (Cloudbackup) instance.
# KeePassXC
# Vaultwarden

These will allow you to have an offline authenticator that only you should have access to.

19/09/2024

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/09/nintendo-the-pokemon-company-sue-palworld-maker-pocketpair/

As expected

Japanese patent infringement lawsuit follows "investigation" announced in January.

25/07/2024

You can now find a list of latest common vulnerability exposures on this page of my site.

https://lapc.ca/common-vulnerability-and-exposures/

The information is being aggregated from:

NVD
EPSS
CISA
KEV

Latest CVE's CVE-2024-7106 - Spina CMS CSRF VulnerabilityCVE-2024-41809 - OpenObserve Cross-Site Scripting VulnerabilityCVE-2024-7105 - ForIP Tecnologia PABX SQL Injection VulnerabilityCVE-2024-38289 - R-HUB TurboMeeting SQL InjectionCVE-2024-40324 - E-Staff CRLF Injection Vulnerability High and Cri...

19/07/2024

The outage could take days to resolve.

29/05/2024

Recently had a client purchase this laptop:

https://www.amazon.ca/Acer-A314-23P-R3QA-Quad-Core-Processor-Graphics/dp/B0BSLVF5F5/ref=sr_1_13?crid=1SVS4E8C2XB6W&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.6tL4Tj-4tVs61-isScL3ySWQ3zHqI74DWKS6UohYd0YX9qZI2XRI-4J4lDfyK48aqxUwVO-UI8YrfJsL2gF82iPngT5WjpGCPPPSHyNhe4bBLkJaJp2tr6bDmHgTw_LhW0HROS_uNCRiFIR4VHge0UTeVsnI8ixWYBmuPqLWBG8vCjwq1U5VPm4XBUfO-htOiLETvukg7y6pZypOJA5YOAyP_cHf0LOBJj_DDg_DrkJKKubQJxAGOrYu0ykah4PhsS4wg6hFg3ZC6HPj1_gmcDXUnGUvJ9cN0K05P4ld9aE.bF33aNX7v8Lbtw9Aidc9OC5UvF-V-rw6fragMB5cmIA&dib_tag=se&keywords=acer+aspire+3&qid=1716985784&sprefix=acer+aspire+3+%2Caps%2C70&sr=8-13

Laptops nowadays with these Ryzen APU's are so powerful!

We got it under 600$ while it was on sale... Amazing deal for what it can do + motherboard supports RAM upgrade up to 16GB and allows changing the nvme ssd.

Mobile platforms are super powerful now a days... Is this the end of desktop platforms? 🤔

Purposeful Design: Travel with ease and look great doing it with the Aspire 3 thin, light design. Ready-to-Go Performance: The Aspire 3 is ready-to-go with the latest AMD Ryzen 5 7520U Processor with Radeon Graphics—ideal for the entire family, with performance and productivity at the core. Visib....