Protesters Gather Outside OpenAI Headquarters after Policy Against Military Use is Quietly Removed (www.bloomberg.com)
Protesters Gather Outside OpenAI Headquarters after Policy Against Military Use is Quietly Removed::Protesters at OpenAI’s office demanded the startup cease military work. But first…
US patent office confirms AI can’t hold patents (www.theverge.com)
US patent office confirms AI can’t hold patents::The US Patent and Trademark Office maintains that only natural humans can get patents, but people do have to disclose if they used AI for the invention.
Can you manage your house with a local, no-cloud voice assistant? Mostly, yes. (arstechnica.com)
Sadiq Khan says fake AI audio of him nearly led to serious disorder (www.bbc.co.uk)
London Mayor Sadiq Khan says deepfake audio of him supposedly making inflammatory remarks before Armistice Day almost caused “serious disorder”.
Minnesota burglars are using Wi-Fi jammers to disable home security systems (www.techspot.com)
Minnesota burglars are using Wi-Fi jammers to disable home security systems::undefined
Waymo issued a recall after two robotaxis crashed into the same pickup truck (www.engadget.com)
Last year, two Waymo robotaxis in Phoenix “made contact” with the same pickup truck that was in the midst of being towed, which prompted the Alphabet subsidiary to issue a recall on its vehicles’ software. A “recall” in this case meant rolling out a software update after investigating the issue and determining its root...
Broadcom-owned VMware kills the free version of ESXi virtualization software (arstechnica.com)
Since Broadcom’s $61 billion acquisition of VMware closed in November 2023, Broadcom has been charging ahead with major changes to the company’s personnel and products. In December, Broadcom began laying off thousands of employees and stopped selling perpetually licensed versions of VMware products, pushing its customers...
The Tech Plutocrats Dreaming of a Right-Wing San Francisco (newrepublic.com)
The Tech Plutocrats Dreaming of a Right-Wing San Francisco::A rogue’s gallery of big tech edgelords and their reactionary hangers-on have a plan to remake the city by the bay in their own weirdo image.
Nerd Goggle Wars Intensify As Mark Zuckerberg Rips Apple's Vision Pro (www.businessinsider.com)
How is Ubuntu Touch in 2024?
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Early Adopters of Microsoft’s AI Bot Wonder if It’s Worth the Money (www.wsj.com)
Artificial-intelligence aide handles email, meetings and other things, but its price and limited use have some skeptical...
PornHub Sister Company Wins $2.1m Piracy Damages, But No Blocking Order. (torrentfreak.com)
Passkeys might really kill passwords (www.theverge.com)
Passkeys: how do they work? No, like, seriously. It’s clear that the industry is increasingly betting on passkeys as a replacement for passwords, a way to use the internet that is both more secure and more user-friendly. But for all that upside, it’s not always clear how we, the normal human users, are supposed to use...
Walmart in talks to buy Vizio for more than $2 bln, WSJ reports (www.reuters.com)
Walmart in talks to buy Vizio for more than $2 bln, WSJ reports::Walmart is in talks to buy smart-television manufacturer Vizio for more than $2 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, a move that could bolster its advertising business and give it control of more than a fifth of the U.S. television market.
NYC fails controversial remote learning snow day ‘test,’ public schools chancellor says (www.nbcnews.com)
NYC fails controversial remote learning snow day ‘test,’ public schools chancellor says::New York City’s public schools chancellor said the city did not pass Tuesday’s remote-learning “test” because of technical issues.
The Dating App Paradox: Why dating apps may be 'worse than ever' (www.npr.org)
The Dating App Paradox: Why dating apps may be ‘worse than ever’::undefined
Google Pulls the Plug: The End of Third-Party Cookies and What it Means | TWiT.TV (twit.tv)
This episode of Security Now covered Google’s plan to deprecate third party cookies and the reaction from advertising organizations and websites....
Tesla worker killed in fiery crash may be first ‘Full Self-Driving’ fatality (www.washingtonpost.com)
Tesla worker killed in fiery crash may be first ‘Full Self-Driving’ fatality::undefined
Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI: Read the memo | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Stability AI Introduces Stable Cascade: A Modular, Efficient, and Easy-to-Train Text2Img Model (stability.ai)
“Stable Cascade is exceptionally easy to train and finetune on consumer hardware thanks to its three-stage approach.”
Tesla's Cybertruck may not be so stainless after all (www.theregister.com)
Tesla’s Cybertruck may not be so stainless after all::‘Literally bulletproof’ but needs constant cleaning to stave off corrosion