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.
Tesla profits nosedive as more job cuts announced (www.bbc.com)
Tesla has seen its profits more than halve this year, and says it will bring forward the launch of new models after announcing thousands of job cuts to try to reverse its fortunes....
AI Can Tell Your Political Affiliation Just by Looking at Your Face, Researchers Find (gizmodo.com)
Mercedes becomes the first automaker to sell autonomous cars in the U.S. that don't come with a requirement that drivers watch the road (fortune.com)
As TikTok ban threatens stability in social media ecosystem, some brands settle into the fediverse (digiday.com)
The possibility of a TikTok ban is inching closer to becoming a reality at this point. On Tuesday, the Senate passed the bill that would bar the social media platform from operating in the U.S. unless ByteDance, its Chinese parent company, sells its stake....
Xbox Will Be Deleting More Of Your Game Captures As Of May 2024 (www.purexbox.com)
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McDonald’s Ice Cream Machine Hackers Say They Found the ‘Smoking Gun’ That Killed Their Startup (www.wired.com)
Kytch, the company that tried to fix McDonald’s broken ice cream machines, has unearthed a 3-year-old email it says proves claims of an alleged plot to undermine their business....
Cisco firewall 0-days under attack for 5 months by resourceful nation-state hackers (arstechnica.com)
Nurses Protest 'Deeply Troubling' Use of AI in Hospitals (www.404media.co)
“Life-and-death decisions relating to patient acuity, treatment decisions, and staffing levels cannot be made without the assessment skills and critical thinking of registered nurses,” the union wrote in the post. “For example, tell-tale signs of a patient’s condition, such as the smell of a patient’s breath and their...
Why Microsoft is a national security threat (www.theregister.com)
Google search boss warns employees of 'new operating reality,' urges them to move faster (www.cnbc.com)
At a recent all-hands meeting, Google search head Prabhakar Raghavan told employees that the world is changing and they have to adjust.
Ex-Amazon AI exec claims she was asked to ignore IP law (www.theregister.com)
Discord wants to void your right to sue them in court — but you can opt out of the practice (www.polygon.com)
Senate Passes Bill That Could Ban TikTok, Biden Expected to Sign (www.rollingstone.com)
Hackers are carrying out ransomware experiments in developing countries (arstechnica.com)
Help me understand Voice Recognition tech
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The Biggest Deepfake Porn Website Is Now Blocked in the UK (www.wired.com)
Windows 10 will start pushing users to use Microsoft accounts. How to turn it off. (mashable.com)
Well, Microsoft is getting ready to annoy its faithful Windows 10 user base with yet another prompt. This time, Microsoft wants Windows 10 users to switch from using a local account to their online Microsoft account.
Facebook opens its Android-based Quest operating system to other VR device makers – OSnews (www.osnews.com)
I'm giving up — on open source - Blog (nutjs.dev)
Sustainable open source will stay a dream
Internet Archive: Huge collection of amateur radio equipment manuals (archive.org)
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Meet QDEL, the backlight-less display tech that could replace OLED in premium TVs (arstechnica.com)
Google Blacklists California News Sites, Fires More Protesters [10:22 | Apr 23 2024 | The Hill] (youtu.be)
Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave discuss Google firing more employees over sit-ins over its cloud computing contract with Israel....