Internet providers have left rural Americans behind. One county is fighting back (www.theguardian.com)
Some AI models get more accurate at maths if you ask them to respond as if they are a Star Trek character, ML engineers say (www.businessinsider.com)
Some AI models get more accurate at maths if you ask them to respond as if they are a Star Trek character, ML engineers say::Researchers asking a chatbot to optimize its own prompts found it was best at solving grade-school math when acting like it was on Star Trek.
RTO doesn’t improve company value, but does make employees miserable: Study (arstechnica.com)
RTO doesn’t improve company value, but does make employees miserable: Study::Data is consistent with bosses using RTO to reassert control and scapegoat workers.
Telegram announces to share its 50% ad-revenue with channel owners. (graph.org)
Alternative link: telegra.ph/Telegram-announces-to-share-its-50-ad-…
Scientists aghast at bizarre AI rat with huge genitals in peer-reviewed article | It's unclear how such egregiously bad images made it through peer-review. (arstechnica.com)
Scientists aghast at bizarre AI rat with huge genitals in peer-reviewed article | It’s unclear how such egregiously bad images made it through peer-review.::It’s unclear how such egregiously bad images made it through peer-review.
Lucid Motors drops the price of its cheapest EV by more than $8,000 (www.yahoo.com)
Lucid Motors drops the price of its cheapest EV by more than $8,000::Lucid Motors is lopping thousands of dollars off the price of its most affordable electric sedans as it looks to boost demand after a disappointing year of sales. The rear-wheel drive version of the base model Lucid Air Pure will now start a $69,900, down from...
Nitter is over - It's been a fun ride (nitter.cz)
What to do now?...
Encrypted email service Skiff gets acquired, will shut down in six months (arstechnica.com)
Taylor Swift deepfakes on X falsely depict her engaging in election denialism — and have been viewed millions of times (www.nbcnews.com)
Taylor Swift deepfakes on X falsely depict her engaging in election denialism — and have been viewed millions of times::Taylor Swift is being targeted again by deepfakes, with supporters of Donald Trump posting manipulated media falsely showing her supporting Trump.
We Finally Know How Ancient Roman Concrete Was Able to Last Thousands of Years (www.sciencealert.com)
pluralistic: the alarmism around AI is just a marketing spin. (pluralistic.net)
source...
AI fraud act could outlaw parodies, political cartoons, and more (reason.com)
This tool for finding bad USB-C cables (hackaday.com)
EEVBlog also talked about this in a mailbag episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEZQvSgdA2k&t=1839s...
Visits to piracy websites have increased 12% in the past four years (www.fastcompany.com)
Visits to piracy websites have increased 12% in the past four years::undefined
GTA 5 Actor Ned Luke Calls Out 'Bulls**t' AI Chatbot That Uses His Voice (www.ign.com)
GTA 5 Actor Ned Luke Calls Out 'Bullst’ AI Chatbot That Uses His Voice::Grand Theft Auto voice actor Ned Luke, who played Michael De Santa in GTA 5, has called out a "fking bulls**t" AI chatbot which uses his voice.
Steam has now officially stopped supporting Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. (www.theverge.com)
Steam has now officially stopped supporting Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1.::95.57 percent of surveyed Steam users are already on Windows 10 and 11, with nearly 2 percent of the remainder on Linux and 1.5 percent on Mac — so we may be talking about fewer than 1 percent of users on these older Windows builds. Older...
Apple to switch to OLED displays for iPads and MacBooks - Nikkei Asia (asia.nikkei.com)
Google DeepMind used a large language model to solve an unsolvable math problem (www.technologyreview.com)
The researchers started by sketching out the problem they wanted to solve in Python, a popular programming language. But they left out the lines in the program that would specify how to solve it. That is where FunSearch comes in. It gets Codey to fill in the blanks—in effect, to suggest code that will solve the problem....
Etsy lays off 225 workers after ‘essentially flat’ sales, says CEO | Business (www.theguardian.com)
Etsy lays off 225 workers after ‘essentially flat’ sales, says CEO | Business::Staff notified via livestream Wednesday by Josh Silverman, who acknowledged ‘unfortunate’ timing during holiday season
Ted Cruz wants to stop the FCC from updating data-breach notification rules (arstechnica.com)
The Telecom Industry Is Very Mad Because The FCC MIGHT Examine High Broadband Prices (www.techdirt.com)
The Telecom Industry Is Very Mad Because The FCC MIGHT Examine High Broadband Prices::We’ve long noted how the FCC (regardless of party) largely ignores how muted competition and monopolization drives up prices for consumers. The agency often talks a good (if ambiguous) game about “bridging the digital divide,” but they...
Beeper Mini, days after launch, seems to be broken with iMessage not sending or receiving (9to5google.com)
Google calls Drive data loss “fixed,” locks forum threads saying otherwise | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
Paris mayor quits X platform, calling it a ‘gigantic global sewer’ (www.reuters.com)
Paris mayor quits X platform, calling it a ‘gigantic global sewer’::Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo on Monday announced she was quitting the X platform formerly known as Twitter, calling it a “gigantic global sewer” that was “destroying our democracies” by spreading abuse and misinformation.
Nvidia sued after senior employee accidentally showed off confidential files taken from previous employer during a video meeting (fortune.com)
Seems an engineer stole source code, docs, presentations…etc related to car technology.
