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A.I. Brings the Robot Wingman to Aerial Combat (www.nytimes.com)

NYT gift article expires in 30 days....

LK99 - The case for scepticism (twitter.com)

I’m not plugged into all the hype around lk99, but this person seems to be a nice balance of hype, technical background and eagerness to not be wrong about things....

UK Version of "Online Harms Bill" wants to prefilter content without due process (easydns.com)

Ireland plans build of datacenter powered by fuel cells (www.theregister.com)

GNU 40th anniversary (www.gnu.org)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/5592397...

OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot now supports prompting with voice and images (www.theverge.com)

TL;DR: OpenAI’s ChatGPT has added voice and image prompting for plus users, coming to everyone else “soon after”. You can now ask questions by speaking or uploading images. It uses advanced text-to-speech and image recognition technology, but with controlled limitations to prevent misuse.

Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You (www.joelonsoftware.com)

Boston Dynamics’ Founder on the Future of Robotics (spectrum.ieee.org)

Do you love robots?

Amazon Is Rolling Out a Generative AI Feature That Summarizes Product Reviews (m.slashdot.org)

Cryptography may offer a solution to the massive AI-labeling problem (www.technologyreview.com)

The Low Code Wall (www.spiffworkflow.org)

Meta’s Threads Could Make—or Break—the Fediverse (www.wired.com)

HP to move production of millions of PCs to Thailand, Mexico (archive.is)

Tesla now offers a $43,990 rear-wheel drive Model Y in the US (www.engadget.com)

It's the most affordable Model Y option....

Nothing's budget-friendly brand CMF debuts a $69 smartwatch and $49 earbuds (www.engadget.com)

The products will initially be available in the UK and India....

Microsoft to defend customers on AI copyright challenges | Reuters (www.reuters.com)

The SynthID watermark from Google DeepMind can detect AI-generated images - The Verge (www.theverge.com)

Google has developed a tool called SynthID that can watermark AI-generated images in a way that is imperceptible to humans but detectable by AI. The watermark is embedded in pixel values without noticeably changing the image. SynthID is being launched for use with Google Cloud’s image generator to verify original photos. While...

The first digital nomad (tim.kicker.dev)

Senators Warren & Graham Want To Create New Online Speech Police Commission (www.techdirt.com)

The proposed Digital Consumer Protection Commission Act by Senators Warren and Graham seeks to create a new federal commission to regulate large tech platforms. However, the bill contains many problematic provisions that threaten free speech and internet freedom. It would require platforms to reveal content moderation policies,...

Why Chatbots Fail to Replace Human Interaction (lucas-mcgregor.medium.com)

Large language models like ChatGPT are reviving interest in chatbots and virtual assistants. However, chatbots have failed to gain traction in the past during the rise of both websites and apps. The key issue is that users prefer to interact with their personal virtual assistants like Siri and Alexa, rather than individual...

No Bing, no Edge, no upselling: De-crufted Windows 11 coming to Europe soon (arstechnica.com)

This Is A Very Serious Situation... (By SomeOrdinaryGamers) ~ NFT Party fail, eyes and skin burned (odysee.com)

Hello guys and gals, it's me Mutahar again! This time we take a look at a situation where one of the biggest brands in the world of NFTs, Bored Apes Yacht Club hosted an event in Hong Kong that left it's attendees potentially blind for the rest of their lives....