Stephen King: My Books Were Used to Train AI (literature.cafe)
One prominent author responds to the revelation that his writing is being used to coach artificial intelligence....
Another room-temperature superconductor (thequantuminsider.com)
This time, straight from a patent granted to a blockchain company, with no accompanying paper or proof....
TikTok adds text-only posts as social media battle escalates (www.bbc.com)
AI model output quality decreases when trained with AI models (futurism.com)
“Our primary conclusion across all scenarios is that without enough fresh real data in each generation of an autophagous loop, future generative models are doomed to have their quality (precision) or diversity (recall) progressively decrease,” they added. “We term this condition Model Autophagy Disorder (MAD).”...
[The Linux Experiment, video on TILvids] The AD-BASED internet is dying, and it's getting worse in the process (tilvids.com)
Link for those who prefer to watch on Youtube
Court rules automakers can record and intercept owner text messages (therecord.media)
AI tidies up Wikipedia’s references — and boosts reliability (www.nature.com)
Should I believe this headline?
Longer Commutes, Shorter Lives: The Costs of Not Investing in America - The New York Times (www.nytimes.com)
Why the US is falling behind- a lack of R&D, particularly around computers, emerging technologies, and education. And how we are starting to reinvest in critical R&D again for things like vaccines and chips....
Firefox 118 Released With Killer New Feature - OMG! Ubuntu (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
EU’s new rules for tech giants are about to kick in: All you need to know (www.aljazeera.com)
Hydrogen-powered planes almost ready for takeoff (arstechnica.com)
Tesla threatened to sue buyers who resell Cybertruck without written permission (arstechnica.com)
FCC Wants to Bolster Amateur Radio (www.radioworld.com)
There’s some good background and explanation in this comment.
Vintage Mac Community Begs Manufacturers for New Supply of Rare Dongle as Resellers Charge $250 (www.404media.co)
Microsoft in $29bn back taxes dispute in US (www.bbc.com)
Bluesky CEO responds | 2023-07-22 Letter to the Community (blueskyweb.xyz)
The social media platform Bluesky recently had an incident where a user created an account with a racial slur as the handle. The Bluesky team quickly removed the account but realized they should have had automated filters in place to prevent such issues. They are now implementing a two-step automated filtering and flagging...
Twitter is burning, Bluesky is smug. Where is the best place to do your pathetic doomscrolling? | First Dog on the Moon [COMIC] (www.theguardian.com)
Wave-Powered Desalination System Produces 13,000 Gallons of Drinking Water a Day From Each Buoy (www.goodnewsnetwork.org)
French authorities raid Nvidia office in antitrust investigation (www.gamesindustry.biz)
Creator of ElonJet Moves His Musk Flight-Tracking Account to Threads (gizmodo.com)
Pebble Shuts Down...But Starts a Mastodon Instance? (wedistribute.org)
38TB of data accidentally exposed by Microsoft AI researchers (www.wiz.io)
A DIY ‘bionic pancreas’ is changing diabetes care — what's next? (www.nature.com)
Become ungoogleable (joeyh.name)
EU unveils ‘revolutionary’ laws to curb big tech firms’ power - The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from !android...
