OpenAI reportedly nears breakthrough with “reasoning” AI, reveals progress framework (arstechnica.com)
Lithium metal battery with over 500 Wh/kg developed (www.notebookcheck.net)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/17926125
Redditor has worst possible experience with Google’s new Find My Device network (www.androidpolice.com)
One Redditor tested Google’s Find My Device network against Apple’s Find My Network by shipping an AirTag and a Pebblebee tracker to a different state and tracking the package through the respective apps....
Ex-OpenAI star Sutskever shoots for superintelligent AI with new company (arstechnica.com)
Their “manifesto”:...
‘It’s the perfect place’: London Underground hosts tests for ‘quantum compass’ that could replace GPS (www.theguardian.com)
How Elon Musk Went from Innovative Car Maker to Racist Demagogue Just Like Henry Ford (medium.com)
Your phone minus the distractions (getbrick.app)
This is actually pretty brilliant and innovative....
Microsoft is warping the PC industry into something unrecognizable (www.msn.com)
Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good (arstechnica.com)
So here's a story of, by far, the weirdest bug I've encountered in my CS career. (threadreaderapp.com)
Along with @maciejwolczyk we’ve been training a neural network that learns how to play NetHack, an old roguelike game, that looks like in the screenshot. Recently, something unexpected happened.
Data-Hungry Dating Apps Are Worse Than Ever for Your Privacy | Mozilla privacynotincluded (foundation.mozilla.org)
FCC Imposes Nearly $200 Million in Fines on US Wireless Carriers (AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon) for Illegal Location Data Sharing (neuters.de)
The carriers sold “real-time location information to data aggregators, allowing this highly sensitive data to wind up in the hands of bail-bond companies, bounty hunters, and other shady actors,” FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel said in a statement....
Bethesda teases The Elder Scrolls 6 in anniversary message and brags its developers are already 'playing early builds' and loving it (www.pcgamer.com)
New Boston Dynamics Robot (bostondynamics.com)
How long before I can fuck it?
[Retro Dodo]Google is killing Retro Dodo and Other Independent Sites (retrododo.com)
I know that the source is more focused on retro gaming as a topic but the topic of this post is Google and its pagerank algorithm which is more appropriate for this community....
Here lies the internet, murdered by generative AI | Corruption everywhere, even in YouTube's kids content (www.theintrinsicperspective.com)
Here lies the internet, murdered by generative AI | Corruption everywhere, even in YouTube’s kids content::Corruption everywhere, even in YouTube’s kids content
Funimation’s solution for wiping out digital libraries could be good, if it works (www.theverge.com)
A refund should be the only option.
Google tests removing the News tab from search results | The News filter disappearing from Google search results for some users this week won’t help publishers sleep any easier. (www.niemanlab.org)
Amazon — like SpaceX — is the latest company to claim the U.S. labor board is unconstitutional, after receiving numerous labor complaints from employees (www.theverge.com)
Amazon — like SpaceX — is the latest company to claim the U.S. labor board is unconstitutional, after receiving numerous labor complaints from employees::Amazon has accused the National Labor Relations Board of being unconstitutional in a new legal filing, according to a report from The New York Times.
Are We Transitioning From Capitalism to Silicon Serfdom? (jacobin.com)
Are We Transitioning From Capitalism to Silicon Serfdom?::The idea that we are entering an era of techno-feudalism that will be worse than capitalism is chilling and controversial. We asked former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis to elucidate this idea, explain how we got here, and map out some alternatives.
These States Are Basically Begging You to Get a Heat Pump (www.wired.com)
These States Are Basically Begging You to Get a Heat Pump::You need a heat pump, ASAP. Now nine states are teaming up to accelerate the adoption of this climate superhero.
The three million toothbrush botnet story isn’t true. (cyberplace.social)
Google and Mozilla don’t like Apple’s new iOS browser rules (arstechnica.com)
Amazon is more profitable than ever after a year of mass layoffs (finance.yahoo.com)
Amazon is more profitable than ever after a year of mass layoffs::The tech giant posted the largest quarterly operating income in its history on the back of cost-cutting and faster revenue growth in key divisions.
Apple Vision Pro review: magic, until it’s not (www.theverge.com)
Apple Vision Pro review: magic, until it’s not::There’s a lot of pressure on the new Apple Vision Pro headset, which starts at $3,499 and marks the beginning of something called “spatial computing.” The ambition is enormous, but the Vision Pro also represents a series of really big tradeoffs.
