OpenAI says Sky voice in ChatGPT will be paused after concerns it sounds too much like Scarlett Johansson (www.tomsguide.com)
The EV industry can’t shake its human rights abuse problem (www.theverge.com)
AI and Robots Are Automating the IVF Process: Here's How It's Already Helped 11 Women Get Pregnant (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
Hopeful parents who continue to struggle with infertility have found an unlikely ally in Science and the advancements of in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) as a laboratory in Guadalajara, Mexico harnesses the power of Artificial Intelligence and robotics to help streamline the IVF process.
China Uses Giant Rail Gun to Shoot a Smart Bomb Nine Miles Into the Sky (tech.slashdot.org)
Introducing Copilot+ PCs (blogs.microsoft.com)
The Toilet Theory of the Internet: Google is serving an audience that wants quick and easy results. That may lead to disaster. (www.theatlantic.com)
Empowering Developers and Non-Coders Alike to Build Interactive Web Applications Effortlessly (www.marktechpost.com)
OpenAI founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman go on the defensive after top safety researchers quit (www.businessinsider.com)
TII Releases Falcon 2-11B: The First AI Model of the Falcon 2 Family Trained on 5.5T Tokens with a Vision Language Model. (www.marktechpost.com)
Archie, the Internet’s first search engine, is rescued and running (arstechnica.com)
Apple slashes iPhone prices in China amid fierce Huawei competition (www.reuters.com)
Microsoft says “Prism” translation layer does for Arm PCs what Rosetta did for Macs (arstechnica.com)
Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse (www.pcgamer.com)
Hearing is be-leafing: Students invent quieter leaf blower (hub.jhu.edu)
Cubic millimetre of brain mapped in spectacular detail (www.nature.com)
Not Dead Yet: WD Releases New 6TB 2.5-Inch External Hard Drives - First Upgrade in Seven Years (www.extremetech.com)
Chaos Reigns Inside Tesla as Workers Await Next Slew of Job Cuts – One worker likened the state of the company to ‘Squid Game,’ the TV series where contestants fight for survival. (www.bloomberg.com)
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Is This the End of Plastic? Visa's New Technology Could Replace Physical Cards (www.cnet.com)
“Unprecedented” Google Cloud event wipes out customer account and its backups (arstechnica.com)
Google Cloud accidentally deleted UniSuper’s account and backups, causing a major data loss and downtime for the company....
"I lost trust": Why the OpenAI team in charge of safeguarding humanity imploded (www.vox.com)
OpenAI pauses ChatGPT-4o voice 'Sky' that fans said ripped off Scarlett Johansson (arstechnica.com)
Google CEO Sundar Pichai on AI-powered search and the future of the web (www.theverge.com)
Bluesky Is Building The Decentralized Social Media Jack Dorsey Wants, Even If He Doesn’t Realize It (www.techdirt.com)
‘Quantum internet’ demonstration in cities is most advanced yet (www.nature.com)
Experiments generate quantum entanglement over optical fibres across three real cities, marking progress towards networks that could have revolutionary applications.
