Life as a teen without social media isn't easy. These families are navigating adolescence offline (apnews.com)
Google to start permanently deleting users’ location history (www.theguardian.com)
10 big things we think will happen in the next 10 years (www.vox.com)
Why Is There an AI Hype? | The Luddite (theluddite.org)
Companies are training LLMs on all the data that they can find, but this data is not the world, but discourse about the world. The rank-and-file developers at these companies, in their naivete, do not see that distinction…So, as these LLMs become increasingly but asymptotically fluent, tantalizingly close to accuracy but...
China shows off machine-gun-toting robot dog and its AI-powered puppy (www.theregister.com)
How Google Ruined the Internet | Adam Conover (www.youtube.com)
Are you chatting with a pro-Israeli AI-powered superbot? (www.aljazeera.com)
China Uses Giant Rail Gun to Shoot a Smart Bomb Nine Miles Into the Sky (tech.slashdot.org)
MIT-educated brothers accused of stealing $25 million in cryptocurrency in 12 seconds in Ethereum blockchain scheme (www.cbsnews.com)
SGE, ChatGPT and the likes are the stupidest thing to come from AI
This may be an unpopular opinnion… Let me get this straight. We get big tech corporations to read the articles of the web and then summarize to me, the user the info I am looking for. Sounds cool, right? Yeah, except that why in the everloving duck would I trust Google, Microsoft, Apple or Meta to give me the correct info,...
This Week in AI: OpenAI considers allowing AI porn | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Report: Facebook Parent Company Meta has been Censoring and Shadow Banning Pro-Palestinian Accounts (medium.com)
Is Tesla Feeling the BYD? A Chinese Giant Shakes Up the EV Electric Car Landscape (www.arktrek.shop)
Facebook opens its Android-based Quest operating system to other VR device makers – OSnews (www.osnews.com)
Commodore 64 claimed to outperform IBM's quantum system — sarcastic researchers say 1 MHz computer is faster, more efficient, and decently accurate (www.tomshardware.com)
Humane AI Pin review: not even close (www.theverge.com)
The BBC Won't Use AI to Promote Doctor Who Again After Being Yelled at by Fans (gizmodo.com)
The backlash was immediate, but it didn’t stop the BBC from using text generated by LLMs—and purportedly checked and copy-edited by a human before approval—in two marketing emails and mobile push notifications to advertise Doctor Who. But now, the corporation will stop the experimentation entirely after a wave of official...
World’s 1st nuclear fusion-powered electric propulsion drive unveiled - Interesting Engineering (interestingengineering.com)
NASA needs your smartphone during April's solar eclipse (www.popsci.com)
File over App Philosophy (stephango.com)
I personally wouldn’t recommend obsidian (mentioned at the end of the article), but still, I think the article is worth reading.
_Real_ gaming router - GTA Vice City on a TP-Link router (www.youtube.com)
Just came across this gem. The creator also did a write-up if you wanted to replicate it yourself: kittenlabs.de/real-gaming-router/
A Google AI Watched 30,000 Hours of Video Games—Now It Makes Its Own (singularityhub.com)
Researchers jailbreak AI chatbots with ASCII art -- ArtPrompt bypasses safety measures to unlock malicious queries (www.tomshardware.com)
Former Twitter executives sue Elon Musk for more than $128 million in severance (www.npr.org)
Twitter’s former CEO Parag Agrawal, Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal, Chief Legal Counsel Vijaya Gadde and General Counsel Sean Edgett claim in the lawsuit filed Monday that they were fired without a reason on the day in 2022 that Musk completed his acquisition of Twitter, which he later rebranded X....
Did Reddit year-end recaps expose Russian interference in Alberta? (www.stalbertgazette.com)
Did Reddit year-end recaps expose Russian interference in Alberta?::Online anti-LGBTQ+ harassment and engaging with small communities are documented foreign interference tactics, but they have so far not been observed in Canada.
