TSMC unveils 1.6nm process technology with backside power delivery, rivals Intel's competing design (www.tomshardware.com)
AI Is Poisoning Reddit to Promote Products and Game Google With 'Parasite SEO' (www.404media.co)
US teacher charged with using AI to frame principal with racist audio (www.theguardian.com)
Passkeys: A Shattered Dream (fy.blackhats.net.au)
Offline llama3 says it sends corrections back to Meta's server; I was not aware of it (jeena.net)
Elon Musk is a pigeon CEO, 'he comes, sh*ts all over us, and goes', says former Tesla manager (electrek.co)
Tesla Cybertruck turns into world's most expensive brick after car wash (www.theregister.com)
Bulletproof? Is it waterproof? Ts&Cs say: ‘Failure to put Cybertruck in Car Wash Mode may result in damage’
Tesla’s in its flop era (www.theverge.com)
When Tesla releases its first quarter earnings this afternoon, the company’s CEO Elon Musk will field the usual questions about new products, new factories, and progress toward its futuristic vision of self-driving cars and robot workers. But Musk will also face increasingly urgent questions about its current state of affairs...
Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads (www.lowpass.cc)
Roku is exploring ways to show consumers ads on its TVs even when they are not using its streaming platform: The company has been looking into injecting ads into the video feeds of third-party devices connected to its TVs, according to a recent patent filing....
You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000 (arstechnica.com)
Fisker now expects to go bankrupt within 30 days (www.arenaev.com)
IBM to buy HashiCorp in $6.4 billion deal to expand cloud software (www.reuters.com)
Reddit, AI spam bots explore new ways to show ads in your feed (arstechnica.com)
Nvidia to buy Israeli deep learning co Deci AI - report (en.globes.co.il)
US chip giant Nvidia Corp. has struck a deal to acquire Israeli deep learning developer Deci AI, “The Information” reports, according to a person involved in the deal. The report follows hard on the heels of yesterday’s official announcement by Nvidia that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Israeli AI...
After 48 years, Zilog is killing the classic standalone Z80 microprocessor chip (arstechnica.com)
Musk moves Tesla's goalposts, investors happily move shares higher (www.theregister.com)
You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000 (arstechnica.com)
The future is going to be great!
Honor and Huawei topped China's smartphone market in Q1 (www.gsmarena.com)
School athletic director arrested for framing principal using AI voice synthesis (arstechnica.com)
VideoGigaGAN: Towards Detail-rich Video Super-Resolution (videogigagan.github.io)
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Baltimore County educator framed principal with AI-generated voice, police say (www.thebaltimorebanner.com)
Baltimore County Police arrested****Pikesville High School’s former athletic director Thursday morning and charged him with allegedly using artificial intelligence to impersonate Principal Eric Eiswert, leading the public to believe Eiswert made racist and antisemitic comments behind closed doors....
Paedophiles create nude AI images of children to extort from them, says charity | Internet safety | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
Internet Watch Foundation has found a manual on dark web encouraging criminals to use software tools that remove clothing. The manipulated image could then be used against the child to blackmail them into sending more graphic content, the IWF said.
Congo questions Apple over knowledge of conflict minerals in its supply chain (abcnews.go.com)
Apple AirPods are designed to die: Here’s what you should know (pirg.org)
VASA-1: Lifelike Audio-Driven Talking Faces (www.microsoft.com)
Single portrait photo + speech audio = hyper-realistic talking face video with precise lip-audio sync, lifelike facial behavior, and naturalistic head movements, generated in real time.