OpenAI says Sky voice in ChatGPT will be paused after concerns it sounds too much like Scarlett Johansson (www.tomsguide.com)
The company says the voices in ChatGPT were from paid voice actors. A final five were selected from an initial pool of 400 and it's purely a coincidence the unnamed actress behind the Sky voice has a similar tone to Johansson....
Slack has been scanning your messages to train its AI models (www.engadget.com)
Former Green Bay Packers Quarterback Aaron Rodgers Suggests Religion Is Used To Manipulate People (wisportsheroics.com)
falls - "Blunt" (Official Music Video) [2023, Japan, Midwest Emo] (www.youtube.com)
MusicBrainz: musicbrainz.org/…/9ac60100-78fd-42b0-9d71-0eeb5ff…
Song of the Day: Boss of Me by They Might Be Giants (youtu.be)
Wine 9.9 Released (gitlab.winehq.org)
Release notes...
Aid arriving in Gaza via US-made pier but distribution blocked, says US aid chief (www.theguardian.com)
New iQOO Neo9S Pro upgrades to the Dimensity 9300+, keeps the same price (m.gsmarena.com)
HMD introduces Pulse+ Business Edition with extended software support and warranty (m.gsmarena.com)
Physically, the phone is the same as the consumer version. There is a difference in software and support that makes deploying this phone to employees and helping them out when something goes wrong is easier....
3000 fog machines of Yahweh (sh.itjust.works)
Microsoft is testing Game Pass ads on the Windows 11 Settings homepage (www.ghacks.net)
Microsoft’s announcement: “We are introducing a new Game Pass recommendation card on the Settings homepage. The Game Pass recommendation card on Settings Homepage will be shown to you if you actively play games on your PC. As a reminder – the Settings homepage will be shown only on the Home and Pro editions of Windows 11...
Sen. Lindsey Graham Suggests Nuking Gaza, Calls Hiroshima ‘the Right Decision’ (www.thedailybeast.com)
Intel's new Thunderbolt Share provides file and screen sharing without hurting network performance (www.tomshardware.com)
cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/12671116...
Joe Biden Is Shipping Weapons to Israel Every 36 Hours (jacobin.com)
Turnip-TV, a tui iptv client (Bash) (lemmy.world)
https://gitlab.com/christosangel/turnip-tv...
Announcing Agama 8 (yast.opensuse.org)
The Bezos Earth fund has pumped billions into climate and nature projects. So why are experts uneasy? (www.theguardian.com)
But privately in the climate and biodiversity sector, the mood around the Bezos Earth Fund has turned to one of growing unease. Researchers, climate policy advisers and NGO staff voiced concerns about the level of influence the organisation holds over critical environmental institutions for halting climate change and...
Did I just solve the packaging problem? (please feel free to tell me why I'm wrong)
You know what I just realised? These “universal formats” were created to make it easier for developers to package software for Linux, and there just so happens to be this thing called the Open Build Service by OpenSUSE, which allows you to package for Debian and Ubuntu (deb), Fedora and RHEL (rpm) and SUSE and OpenSUSE (also...
I Don’t Want To Spend My One Wild And Precious Life Dealing With Google’s AI Search - Aftermath (aftermath.site)
What happened to OpenAI’s long-term AI risk team? (arstechnica.com)
Former team members have either resigned or been absorbed into other research groups.