Call of Duty to Begin Using AI to Assess Voice Chat for Toxicity (www.extremetech.com)
Call of Duty to Begin Using AI to Assess Voice Chat for Toxicity::undefined
Pension fund sues Jeff Bezos and Amazon for not using Falcon 9 rockets (arstechnica.com)
Pension fund sues Jeff Bezos and Amazon for not using Falcon 9 rockets::Plaintiffs: Amazon decision “lays bare the extent” of Bezos’ personal rivalry with Musk.
Right to repair's most unlikely opponents: Scientologists (www.theregister.com)
Browser extensions spy on you, even if its developers don't (vitonsky.net)
NYPD using drones to check out noisy backyard parties over Labor Day weekend (arstechnica.com)
NYPD using drones to check out noisy backyard parties over Labor Day weekend::Critic says it may violate NYC’s Public Oversight of Surveillance Technology Act.
Call Of Duty using AI to listen out for hate speech during online matches (news.sky.com)
Call Of Duty using AI to listen out for hate speech during online matches::The tool, which will monitor voice chat for any bullying and harassment, will be part of Modern Warfare III - the next game in the series - when it launches in November.
Many workers are faking knowledge of AI to make sure they aren't left behind (www.techradar.com)
Many workers are faking knowledge of AI to make sure they aren’t left behind::There’s a need for more AI training, report finds
India launches space mission to the sun a week after moon landing (www.theguardian.com)
EXCLUSIVE: Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes (www.hackingbutlegal.com)
When China’s prodigious tech influencer, Naomi Wu, found herself silenced, it wasn’t just the machinery of a surveillance state at play. Instead, it was a confluence of state repression and the sometimes capricious attention of a Western audience that, as she asserts, often views Chinese activists more as ideological tokens...
NASA awards startup $850,000 to develop space debris capture bag | NASA awarded space logistics startup TransAstra a contract to develop an inflatable capture bag capable of transporting orbital de... (interestingengineering.com)
NASA awards startup $850,000 to develop space debris capture bag | NASA awarded space logistics startup TransAstra a contract to develop an inflatable capture bag capable of transporting orbital de…::undefined
SAG-AFTRA Seeks Approval for Second Strike Against Video Game Companies (variety.com)
SAG-AFTRA Seeks Approval for Second Strike Against Video Game Companies::SAG-AFTRA on Friday called for a strike authorization vote as it prepares to negotiate a new video game contract.
Watch a swarm of drones autonomously track a human through a dense forest (www.theverge.com)
Linux Desktop Market share keeps increasing, 3.19% now. +0.07% for August (gs.statcounter.com)
Chrome OS saw a good raise too. OS X(Mac) saw a decrease.
Very, Very Few People Are Falling Down the YouTube Rabbit Hole | The site’s crackdown on radicalization seems to have worked. But the world will never know what was happening before that (www.theatlantic.com)
Very, Very Few People Are Falling Down the YouTube Rabbit Hole | The site’s crackdown on radicalization seems to have worked. But the world will never know what was happening before that::The site’s crackdown on radicalization seems to have worked. But the world will never know what was happening before that.
Robotic dog-mounted rifles are now a thing thanks to US Army (interestingengineering.com)
USA Today and Other Newspapers Are Churning Out AI-Generated Sports Stories (futurism.com)
Lede AI, the company powering Gannett's AI sports efforts, is supplying a number of local news publishers with the same service.
GPTZero Case Study (Exploring False Positives) (gonzoknows.com)
There's no way for teachers to figure out if students are using ChatGPT to cheat, OpenAI says in new back-to-school guide (www.businessinsider.com)
There’s no way for teachers to figure out if students are using ChatGPT to cheat, OpenAI says in new back-to-school guide::AI detectors used by educators to detect use of ChatGPT don’t work, says OpenAI.
It's not just you — no one is posting on social media anymore (www.businessinsider.com)
Social media is on the decline. Instagram is all ads. No one's posting on BeReal. TikTok is for influencers. The new place for sharing: group chats.
People Are Increasingly Worried AI Will Make Daily Life Worse (www.wired.com)
People Are Increasingly Worried AI Will Make Daily Life Worse::A Pew survey finds that a majority of Americans are more concerned than excited about the impact of artificial intelligence—adding weight to calls for more regulation.
Community contributions to Element Web (Matrix client) are often not welcomed (github.com)
It seems that community contributions to Element Web (Matrix client) are often effectively rejected. For example, see:...
Lidl recalls Paw Patrol snacks after website on packaging displayed porn (techcrunch.com)
X/Twitter has updated its Terms of Service to let it use Posts for AI training (stackdiary.com)
Here’s the kicker: based on these AI-assigned definitions in the updated terms, your access to certain content might be limited, or even cut off. You might not see certain tweets or hashtags. You might find it harder to get your own content seen by a broader audience. The idea isn’t entirely new; we’ve heard stories of...
Oscilloscope Watch Ships After 10 Years on Kickstarter (www.tomshardware.com)
New York police will use drones to monitor backyard parties this weekend, spurring privacy concerns (apnews.com)
New York police will use drones to monitor backyard parties this weekend, spurring privacy concerns::Those attending outdoor parties or barbecues in New York City this weekend may find an uninvited guest looming over their festivities: a police drone.
