The problem with standalone VR and "spatial computing" (www.spacebar.news)
How Quora Died: The site used to be a thriving community that worked to answer our most specific questions. But users are fleeing. (slate.com)
Deepfake scammer walks off with $25 million in first-of-its-kind AI heist (arstechnica.com)
Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 2024 (lifehacker.com)
RSS is still the best way to track the news on the web, and these RSS readers can keep you right up to date.
Vision Pro Teardown—Why Those Fake Eyes Look So Weird (www.ifixit.com)
"Open Source Windows" ReactOS just got better GUI install setup, no GPT yet (www.neowin.net)
Fans preserve and emulate Sega’s extremely rare ‘80s “AI computer” (arstechnica.com)
Snap is recalling and refunding every drone it ever sold (www.theverge.com)
Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead (arstechnica.com)
I created an app where you can share your thoughts fully anonymously and vote for the weekly "Thought of Humanity" (www.toh-social.app)
Welcome to Thoughts of Humanity, where your thoughts take centre stage! Express yourself anonymously (for full anonymity, login as guest), connect with a diverse community, and celebrate inspiring thoughts every week on our website....
Why 404 Media Needs Your Email Address (www.404media.co)
AI stealing our work. The collapse of social networks. The need to pay journalists to produce impactful journalism. Here is why we are asking for your email address to read 404 Media.
The Cult of AI: How one writer's trip to an annual tech conference left him with a sinking feeling about the future (www.rollingstone.com)
From the (middle of the) story: The reason CES was so packed with random “AI”-branded products was that sticking those two letters to a new company is seen as something of a talisman, a ritual to bring back the (VC) rainy season.
This AI Paper Unveils the Future of MultiModal Large Language Models (MM-LLMs) – Understanding Their Evolution, Capabilities, and Impact on AI Research (www.marktechpost.com)
Brace for impact.
Exploring Reddit’s third-party app environment 7 months after the APIcalypse (arstechnica.com)
23andMe’s Fall From $6 Billion to Nearly $0 (archive.fo)
China: Carmakers Implicated in Uyghur Forced Labor, Rights Group Says (www.hrw.org)
Global carmakers, including General Motors, Tesla, BYD, Toyota, and Volkswagen, are failing to minimize the risk of Uyghur forced labor being used in their aluminum supply chains, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today....
Editing memories, spying on our bodies, normalising weird goggles: Apple’s new Vision Pro has big ambitions (theconversation.com)
Apple Vision Pro is a mixed-reality headset – which the company hopes is a “revolutionary spatial computer that transforms how people work, collaborate, connect, relive memories, and enjoy entertainment” – that begins shipping to the public (in the United States)....
Popular AI Chatbots Found to Give Error-Ridden Legal Answers (news.bloomberglaw.com)
Microsoft phases out WordPad (and Cortana) after 28 years of duty (alternativeto.net)
WordPad got into the shadow of MS Office and Notepad anyways.
I Just Wanted Emacs to Look Nice — Using 24-Bit Color in Terminals (chadaustin.me)
TL;DR: Explanation of why the escape sequence for 256 color and 24 bit color modes are weird and can vary. \E[38:5:nm is technically the correct form for 256 color, but \E[38;5;nm is the form terminals more widely support....
The Quiet Death of Ello's Big Dreams (waxy.org)
Neuralink implants brain chip in first human, Musk says (finance.yahoo.com)
Microsoft stole my Chrome tabs, and it wants yours, too (www.theverge.com)
Last week, I turned on my PC, installed a Windows update, and rebooted to find Microsoft Edge automatically open with the Chrome tabs I was working on before the update. I don’t use Microsoft Edge regularly, and I have Google Chrome set as my default browser. Bleary-eyed at 9AM, it took me a moment to realize that Microsoft...
Amazon- and Google-backed AI firm Anthropic says “general-purpose AI tools simply could not exist” if AI companies had to pay licences for the training material (www.computerweekly.com)
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) company Anthropic has claimed to a US court that using copyrighted content in large language model (LLM) training data counts as “fair use”, however....
Amazon’s $1.4B iRobot deal is dead. Now what? | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
