OpenAI Said to Court Hollywood in Meetings With Film Studios, Directors (www.gadgets360.com)
A Chinese Humanoid Just Broke the Robot Speed Record—and Now It's a Race Against Time (www.popularmechanics.com)
Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time (www.theverge.com)
A top auto safety group tested 14 partial automated systems — only one passed (www.theverge.com)
Even Korea is starting to prefer an iPhone over a Samsung (www.androidpolice.com)
Self-Destructing Chips: Researchers Unveil Techniques to Thwart Sophisticated Cyberattacks (www.techradar.com)
Researchers presented new techniques to fight sophisticated hacking at a tech conference. Here are the highlights:...
Lawyers who sunk Elon Musk's big pay package are now asking for nearly $6 billion worth of Tesla stock. Musk doesn't seem happy. (www.businessinsider.com)
Lawyers who sunk Elon Musk’s big pay package are now asking for nearly $6 billion worth of Tesla stock. Musk doesn’t seem happy.::After sinking Elon Musk’s $55 billion pay package, lawyers are now asking a Delaware court for about 11% of those Tesla shares for their fee.
Older Computer Programmers & Engineers
Lately, I was going through the blog of a math professor I took at a community college back when I was in high school. Having gone the path I did in life, I took a look at what his credentials were, and found that he completed a computer science degree back sometime in the 1970s. He had a curmudgeonly and standoffish...
Could Google be using Reddit to revive an ancient, failed project? — 60,000+ Redditors may well be mTurk’ing for Google Answers 2.0 (www.techradar.com)
Apple Cancels Electric Car Project (www.macrumors.com)
Apple Cancels Electric Car Project::Apple has canceled all plans to release an autonomous, electric vehicle, reports Bloomberg. Apple has been working on an Apple Car for more than a…
Gemini is about to slide into your DMs (www.theverge.com)
Google’s AI chatbot is coming to Messages. Meanwhile, Android Auto gets some AI smarts and Google Docs will let you add handwritten comments.
Disturbing AI Images of Children Found for Sale on Shutterstock (petapixel.com)
Someone used Shutterstock's AI image generator to create them.
Greener ‘water batteries’ a step closer (www.theguardian.com)
Proton's Free plan now offers up to 5 GB (up from 1 GB) on Proton Drive and 1 GB (up from 500 MB) on Proton Mail after completing certain tasks.
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/12202255...
Twitter front-end Nitter dies as Musk wins war against third-party services (archive.ph)
“An open source project that let people view tweets without going to Twitter.com has shut down, as Elon Musk’s changes seem to have closed off all possible ways to access the Twitter network without a user account....
It's time we add friction to digital experiences and slow them down. Decades of obsessing about always going faster have left us in constant danger. (www.theregister.com)
Asahi Linux project’s OpenGL support on Apple Silicon officially surpasses Apple’s (arstechnica.com)
Court To Elon: No You Can’t Just Ignore The SEC’s Investigation Into Your Failure To Comply With The Law (www.techdirt.com)
Walmart in talks to buy Vizio for more than $2 bln, WSJ reports (www.reuters.com)
Walmart in talks to buy Vizio for more than $2 bln, WSJ reports::Walmart is in talks to buy smart-television manufacturer Vizio for more than $2 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, a move that could bolster its advertising business and give it control of more than a fifth of the U.S. television market.
Meta cuts off third-party access to Facebook Groups, leaving developers and customers in disarray (techcrunch.com)
Deepfake scammer walks off with $25 million in first-of-its-kind AI heist (arstechnica.com)
Deepfake scammer walks off with $25 million in first-of-its-kind AI heist::Hong Kong firm tricked by simulation of multiple real people in video chat, including voices.
AI chatbots tend to choose violence and nuclear strikes in wargames (www.newscientist.com)
AI chatbots tend to choose violence and nuclear strikes in wargames::undefined
New images reveal what Neptune and Uranus really look like (phys.org)
New images reveal what Neptune and Uranus really look like::Neptune is fondly known for being a rich blue, and Uranus green—but a new study has revealed that the two ice giants are actually far closer in color than typically thought.
LockBit remorseless in latest children's hospital attack (www.theregister.com)
Mark Zuckerberg explained how Meta will crush Google and Microsoft at AI—and Meta warned it could cost more than $30 billion a year (finance.yahoo.com)
Mark Zuckerberg explained how Meta will crush Google and Microsoft at AI—and Meta warned it could cost more than $30 billion a year::The Facebook cofounder said the vast trove of photos and videos shared by users on Meta’s various services is larger than the web content crawled by search engines like those of Google and...
