LogoFAIL - A malicious attack that uses the company branding on boot to run deep code that Secure Boot and Operating Systems can't detect (www.securityweek.com)
Firmware security company Binarly on Wednesday disclosed the details of an attack method that can be used to compromise many consumer and enterprise devices by leveraging malicious UEFI logo images....
Tesla Whistleblower Says 'Autopilot' System Is Not Safe Enough To Be Used On Public Roads (jalopnik.com)
Tesla Whistleblower Says ‘Autopilot’ System Is Not Safe Enough To Be Used On Public Roads::“It affects all of us because we are essentially experiments in public roads.”
I wish there were more articles about tech not tech biz
Just seems like everything is “this company did this to their employees” and less about “this novel messaging protocol offers these measured pros and cons.” Or similar...
Google Reveals Gemini, rival to GPT-4 (www.techrepublic.com)
Gemini is available to consumers in Bard or Pixel 8 Pro now, with an enterprise model coming Dec. 13.
Meta’s new AI image generator was trained on 1.1 billion Instagram and Facebook photos (arstechnica.com)
America’s Most Exciting High Speed Rail Project Gets $3 Billion Grant From Feds (www.vice.com)
America’s Most Exciting High Speed Rail Project Gets $3 Billion Grant From Feds::The Southern California-to-Las Vegas route makes total sense and involves no wishful thinking in order to be a resounding success.
Move over Nvidia: AMD unveils Instinct MI300 AI accelerators and Dell is ready to take orders right now | TechFinitive (lemmy.world)
AMD today announced the Instinct MI300 range, a direct rival to Nvidia’s H100 AI accelerators. AMD’s units promise roughly 10% to 20% faster times when inferencing and equivalent speeds for training.
If you have an Android phone have you tried Beeper Mini
It’s kind of amazing it works. I’m not clean bubble anymore....
Norwegian union join Sweden and Denmark in strike against Tesla (e24.no)
Norwegian union join Sweden and Denmark in strike against Tesla::Fellesforbundet vil sette i gang boikottaksjoner mot Tesla i Sverige hvis arbeidskonflikten ikke ender i tariffavtale innen 20. desember.
Hands-on with Gemini: Interacting with multimodal AI (www.youtube.com)
Gemini is Google’s natively multimodal AI model capable of reasoning across text, images, audio, video and code. This video highlights some of their favorite interactions with Gemini. Learn more and try the model: deepmind.google/gemini
iMessage will reportedly dodge EU regulations, won’t have to open up (arstechnica.com)
q3k :blobcatcoffee: (@[email protected]) I can finally reveal some research I've been involved with over the past year or so. (mastodon.social)
We (@redford, @mrtick and I) have reverse engineered the PLC code of NEWAG Impuls EMUs. These trains were locking up for arbitrary reasons after being serviced at third-party workshops. The manufacturer argued that this was because of malpractice by these workshops, and that they should be serviced by them instead of third...
Tesla strike in Sweden now involves Denmark, may spread to Norway and Finland — “Just like companies, the trade union movement is global in the fight to protect workers,” says chair of Danish union (cleantechnica.com)
Tesla strike in Sweden now involves Denmark, may spread to Norway and Finland — “Just like companies, the trade union movement is global in the fight to protect workers,” says chair of Danish union::Tesla is locked in a titanic struggle with Sweden’s largest labor union. The result could have repercussions around the...
Cable lobby to FCC: Please don’t look too closely at the prices we charge (arstechnica.com)
Gemini - Google DeepMind (deepmind.google)
Hands-on with Gemini: Interacting with multimodal AI (youtu.be)
Apple admits to secretly giving governments push notification data (arstechnica.com)
Just about every Windows and Linux device vulnerable to new LogoFAIL firmware attack (arstechnica.com)
Starlink has lost over 1,000 satellites totaling billions in waste. UFO conspiracy theorists are saying UFO's are destroying his rockets because both humans and aliens don't like Elon. (tiblur.com)
Twitch to shut down in Korea over ‘prohibitively expensive’ network fees (techcrunch.com)
Twitch to shut down in Korea over ‘prohibitively expensive’ network fees::Twitch, the popular video streaming service, plans to shut down its business in South Korea on February 27 after finding that operating in one of the Twitch plans to shut down its business in South Korea after network costs became “prohibitively...
Polish manufacturer accused of programming failures into its trains to gain more servicing business | Notes From Poland (notesfrompoland.com)
Introducing Gemini: our largest and most capable AI model (blog.google)
Google’s official blogpost showcasing Gemini. It seems like it’s officially available to try via Bard, but I’m not sure how to enable that? There isn’t anything on the Bard website that suggests it’s now using Gemini.