Nvidia sued after senior employee accidentally showed off confidential files taken from previous employer during a video meeting (fortune.com)
Seems an engineer stole source code, docs, presentations…etc related to car technology.
Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers (futurism.com)
Sports Illustrated was publishing articles under seemingly fake bylines. We asked their owner about it — and they deleted everything.
Blade Runner director Ridley Scott calls AI a "technical hydrogen bomb" | "we are all completely f**ked" (www.techspot.com)
Blade Runner director Ridley Scott calls AI a “technical hydrogen bomb” | “we are all completely f**ked”::undefined
Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer files (www.theregister.com)
Google Drive misplaces months’ worth of customer files::The horror of logging in only to find everything since May has vanished
In a surprising finding, light can make water evaporate without heat (news.mit.edu)
In a surprising finding, light can make water evaporate without heat::At the interface of water and air, light can, in certain conditions, bring about evaporation without the need for heat, according to an MIT study.
Tired Of Being Ripped Off By Monopolies, Cleveland Launches Ambitious Plan To Provide Citywide Dirt Cheap Broadband (www.techdirt.com)
Tired Of Being Ripped Off By Monopolies, Cleveland Launches Ambitious Plan To Provide Citywide Dirt Cheap Broadband::Cleveland has spent years being dubbed the “worst connected city in the U.S.” thanks to expensive, patchy, and slow broadband. Why Cleveland broadband sucks so badly isn’t really a mystery: consolidated...
Tata ordered to cough up $210M in code theft trial (www.theregister.com)
New “Stable Video Diffusion” AI model can animate any still image (arstechnica.com)
San Francisco says tiny sleeping 'pods,' which cost $700 a month and became a big hit with tech workers, are not up to code (www.businessinsider.com)
San Francisco says tiny sleeping ‘pods,’ which cost $700 a month and became a big hit with tech workers, are not up to code::The pods, which are 4-foot-high boxes constructed from wood and steel, made headlines after tech workers praised the spaces.
UNESCO and Interpol Collaborate to Build a Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Artifacts (artcentron.com)
History of Search Engines: From 1945 to Google Today (www.searchenginehistory.com)
Australia to amend law to regulate digital payments like Apple, Google Pay (www.reuters.com)
Broadcom lays off many VMware employees after closing its $69 billion acquisition of the company (www.businessinsider.com)
DOS_deck offers free, all-timer DOS games in a browser, with controller support (arstechnica.com)
NASA Sent A Laser Message Beamed Over 10 Million Miles; Achieves Historic Milestone (samrome58.substack.com)
The technology behind ChatGPT is evolving insanely fast (www.axios.com)
It's been only a year since OpenAI released ChatGPT, but the technology has evolved at such a rapid pace that the original now seems almost quaint....
Heat-pump water heaters are a winner for the climate — and your wallet (www.canarymedia.com)
Marginalia Search - browse:random (search.marginalia.nu)
Browse random websites found using alternative search engine marginalia.nu - personally gave me a pleasant flashback to stumbleupon. The search engine itself is fully open source and improving all the time.
AWS turns Amazon's Fire TV Cube into a thin client (www.theregister.com)
Firefox Monitor question (monitor.firefox.com)
poking around mozilla/firefox account. What does ‘resolved’ mean? It asked if I wanted to resolve using an alias firefox.com email address. okay. not even sure what that meant. …mozilla.org/…/resolve-breaches-firefox-monitor
Big brands keep dropping X over antisemitism; $75M loss, report estimates (arstechnica.com)
Big brands keep dropping X over antisemitism; $75M loss, report estimates::Creators worried advertisers dropping X could hurt revenue-sharing payouts.
Telstra: Telecommunications company fined $300k for customer safety and privacy breaches (www.9news.com.au)
What part of ‘get rid of my data’ don’t companies get? (www.fastcompany.com)
What part of ‘get rid of my data’ don’t companies get?::undefined