Tesla is the next biggest union target in the United States. Sorry, Elon Musk (www.theguardian.com)
Unity bosses sold stock days before development fees announcement (www.eurogamer.net)
Unity bosses sold stock days before development fees announcement::Unity executives sold thousands of shares in the weeks leading up to last night’s hugely controversial announcement it …
Unity has changed its pricing model, and game developers are pissed off (www.theverge.com)
Unity has changed its pricing model, and game developers are pissed off::Unity has announced that starting on January 1st, 2024, it will implement a new pricing model that will charge developers based on how many times a game was installed.
Language Is a Poor Heuristic for Intelligence (karawynn.substack.com)
Yes! This is a brilliant explanation of why language use is not the same as intelligence, and why LLMs like chatGPT are not intelligence. At all.
'Brain-in-a-jar' biocomputers can now learn to control robots (newatlas.com)
Apple refused to pay bounty to Kaspersky for uncovering vulnerability in 'Operation Triangulation' - 9to5Mac (9to5mac.com)
Kaspersky uncovered iOS vulnerabilities in ‘Operation Triangulation’, reported to Apple, but was refused bounty payment...
Zoom CEO Wants an AI Avatar to Do Your Job While You’re at the Beach (gizmodo.com)
Amazon execs may be personally liable for tricking users into Prime sign-ups (arstechnica.com)
Fanfiction Community Rocked By Etsy Sellers Turning Their Work Into Bound Books (www.404media.co)
Etsy sellers are turning free fanfiction into printed and bound physical books, and listing them for sale on online marketplaces for more than $100 per book. It’s a problem that’s rattling the authors of those fanfics, as well as their fans and readers....
FTC bans antivirus giant Avast from selling its users' browsing data to advertisers (techcrunch.com)
Reddit user content being sold to AI company in $60M/year deal (9to5mac.com)
Reddit user content being sold to AI company in $60M/year deal::It’s being reported that a deal has been struck to allow an unnamed large AI company to use Reddit user…
Smaug-72B-v0.1: The New Open-Source LLM Roaring to the Top of the Leaderboard (huggingface.co)
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BitLocker encryption broken in less than 43 seconds with sub-$10 Raspberry Pi Pico — key can be sniffed when using an external TPM (www.tomshardware.com)
Ticketek ‘glitch’ appears to re-sell fan’s $659 ticket for Taylor Swift concert — “They said, ‘someone else has it, we don’t know who, we can’t check or track who has your ticket’” (au.news.yahoo.com)
Ticketek ‘glitch’ appears to re-sell fan’s $659 ticket for Taylor Swift concert — “They said, ‘someone else has it, we don’t know who, we can’t check or track who has your ticket’”::A Taylor Swift fan believed her VIP ticket was ‘stolen’ from her account by Ticketek after an apparent system ‘glitch’.
AI spam is already starting to ruin the internet (www.businessinsider.com)
AI spam is already starting to ruin the internet::We’re starting to see one prediction come true of how artificial intelligence will affect the internet: AI-generated spam is flooding the web.
Netflix password crackdown fuels sign-up surge (www.bbc.com)
Raspberry Pi is now manufacturing 70,000 Pi 5s per week, will surge to 90,000 in February (www.tomshardware.com)
CEOs say generative AI will result in job cuts in 2024 (arstechnica.com)
And last year they were all saying some variation on “don’t worry, AI is not going to cost anyone their jobs.”...
Adblocker for TV - AdGuard is available for Android TV: here is how it works (www.ghacks.net)
You're Supposed To Be Glad Your Tesla Is A Brittle Heap Of Junk (defector.com)
TikTok requires users to “forever waive” rights to sue over past harms (arstechnica.com)
Spotify axes 17% of workforce in third round of layoffs this year (apnews.com)
Arizona's solar-over-canal project will tackle its major drought issue (interestingengineering.com)
Arizona’s solar-over-canal project will tackle its major drought issue::undefined
Max users grandfathered into $15.99 ad-free plan lose 4K, HDR next month (arstechnica.com)
Max users grandfathered into $15.99 ad-free plan lose 4K, HDR next month::Number of devices you can stream from simultaneously is decreasing, too.
Laser Beams Deflected Off of Nothing but Air for First Time Ever in Breakthrough Patent Pending Process - The Debrief (thedebrief.org)
Laser Beams Deflected Off of Nothing but Air for First Time Ever in Breakthrough Patent Pending Process - The Debrief::An international team of scientists report that they have successfully used acoustics to deflect laser beams in an engineering first.