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Apple’s next nebulous idea: smart home robots (www.theverge.com)

The future of the smart kitchen: robots, apps, and AI, oh my! (www.theverge.com)

Humane AI Pin Owners Told to Stop Using Charging Cases Due to ‘Fire Safety Risk’ (gizmodo.com)

How Elon Musk's Starlink Turned Remote Amazon Tribe Into Social Media And Pornography Addicts (in.mashable.com)

Google Cloud explains how it accidentally deleted a customer account (arstechnica.com)

Earlier this month, Google Cloud experienced one of its biggest blunders ever when UniSuper, a $135 billion Australian pension fund, had its Google Cloud account wiped out due to some kind of mistake on Google’s end. At the time, UniSuper indicated it had lost everything it had stored with Google, even its backups, and that...

Archie, the Internet’s first search engine, is rescued and running (arstechnica.com)

Google unveils Veo, a high-definition AI video generator that may rival Sora (arstechnica.com)

On Tuesday at Google I/O 2024, Google announced Veo, a new AI video-synthesis model that can create HD videos from text, image, or video prompts, similar to OpenAI’s Sora. It can generate 1080p videos lasting over a minute and edit videos from written instructions, but it has not yet been released for broad use.

Comcast to Launch Peacock, Netflix and Apple TV+ Bundle at a ‘Vastly Reduced Price’ (variety.com)

Comcast later this month will launch a streaming bundle with Peacock, Netflix and Apple TV+ at a deep discount, Comcast chief Brian Roberts said.

Elon Musk’s X can’t invent its own copyright law, judge says (arstechnica.com)

Flood of AI-Generated Submissions ‘Final Straw’ for Small 22-Year-Old Publisher (www.404media.co)

A small publisher for speculative fiction and roleplaying games is shuttering after 22 years, and the “final straw,” its founder said, is an influx of AI-generated submissions....

Huawei's woes really were just a flesh wound – profits just soared 564 percent (www.theregister.com)

The Dangerous Rise of GPS Attacks (www.wired.com)

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‘Eugenics on steroids’: the toxic and contested legacy of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute (www.theguardian.com)

Post Office executive denies cover-up over Horizon back door (www.bbc.co.uk)

End of coding? Microsoft framework makes devs AI supervisors (vulcanpost.com)

Figure 01, the robot closest to the humanoid machines of science fiction (english.elpais.com)

The world's semiconductor industry hinges on a single quartz factory in North Carolina (www.tomshardware.com)

An AI robot is spotting sick tulips to slow the spread of disease through Dutch bulb fields (apnews.com)

Experts war-gamed what might happen if deepfakes disrupt the 2024 election. Things went sideways fast. (www.nbcnews.com)

OpenAI aims to make its own AI processors — chip venture in talks with Abu Dhabi investment firm: report (www.tomshardware.com)

Sam Bankman-Fried deserves 40-50 years in prison for FTX fraud, prosecutors say (www.reuters.com)

NEW YORK, March 15 (Reuters) - Sam Bankman-Fried should spend between 40 and 50 years in prison after being convicted for stealing $8 billion from customers of his now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange, prosecutors said on Friday. … “Even now Bankman-Fried refuses to admit what he did was wrong,” prosecutors wrote in a...

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