Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem (spectrum.ieee.org)
Experiments with Midjourney and DALL-E 3 show a copyright minefield
CES 2024: all the TVs, laptops, smart home gear, and more from the show floor (www.theverge.com)
Robovacs, AI, Apple Vision, RGB, trackers, etc....
Apple Vision Pro available in the U.S. on February 2 (www.apple.com)
I honestly doubt this will take off, but it’ll be interesting as a tech demo for what AR/VR can be at the highest end.
Passenger phone found on ground after Alaska Airlines emergency (abcnews.go.com)
“I found a phone sitting on the side of the road that had apparently fallen 16,000 feet,” Bates said in a video recorded for social media Sunday....
First Flight of the Vulcan Rocket Sends an American Lander Toward the Moon (www.nytimes.com)
How Google perfected the web (www.theverge.com)
Samsung Intros 2024 Odyssey OLED Gaming Monitors: Up to 49-Inches and 360Hz (www.anandtech.com)
Samsung Intros 2024 Odyssey OLED Gaming Monitors: Up to 49-Inches and 360Hz::undefined
NASA Sending Five Payloads to Moon on Astrobotic’s Peregrine Lander (www.nasa.gov)
the first American soft landing on the lunar surface in more than 50 years
It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware. (mastodon.world)
After injecting cancer hospital with ransomware, crims threaten to swat patients (www.theregister.com)
After injecting cancer hospital with ransomware, crims threaten to swat patients::Remember the good old days when ransomware crooks vowed not to infect medical centers?
Impulse: a new induction stove that boils water in 40 seconds, has backup battery power for outages, and burners that can be adjusted to a specific temperature instead of just a generic medium or high (www.impulselabs.com)
Researchers publish open-source repository using NLP to analyse the bias in BBC reporting on Palestine. (github.com)
Overview...
NIST Warns of Security and Privacy Risks from Rapid AI System Deployment (thehackernews.com)
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Authy authenticator apps for desktop are being discontinued in August 2024 (Apple Silicon not included) (www.ghacks.net)
Are flying cars finally here? (www.vox.com)
TransTerm: A terminal based youtube to mp3, wav and transcriber with a nice TUI (giving back to the community) (lemme.discus.sh)
After enjoying a lot of FOSS posts, I wanted to share this little utility I made to give back to the community (and to improve it haha)!...
Hackers discover way to access Google accounts without a password (www.independent.co.uk)
Hackers discover way to access Google accounts without a password::‘Exploit enables continuous access to Google services, even after a user’s password is reset,’ researcher warns
Hacktivists Shut Down Top State-Owned Belarusian News Agency (www.bankinfosecurity.com)
AirTag 2 not expected until 2025 as Apple sits on backlog of first-gen inventory (9to5mac.com)
AirTag 2 not expected until 2025 as Apple sits on backlog of first-gen inventory::If you’ve been hoping for a second-generation AirTag, you’ll have to keep waiting. According to a new report from Bloomberg,…
European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying (www.techspot.com)
Microsoft, OpenAI sued for copyright infringement by nonfiction book authors in class action claim (www.cnbc.com)
Microsoft, OpenAI sued for copyright infringement by nonfiction book authors in class action claim::The new copyright infringement lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI comes a week after The New York Times filed a similar complaint in New York.
bash.org is gone
It was a collection of silly quotes from IRC channels everywhere, many of which dated back to the 90s. It was rarely ever updated in the 2010s, but now, the URL no longer resolves....
Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem (spectrum.ieee.org)
Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem::Experiments with Midjourney and DALL-E 3 show a copyright minefield
23andMe Blames Users for Recent Data Breach as It's Hit With Dozens of Lawsuits (www.wired.com)
23andMe Blames Users for Recent Data Breach as It’s Hit With Dozens of Lawsuits::Plus: Russia hacks surveillance cameras as new details emerge of its attack on a Ukrainian telecom, a Google contractor pays for videos of kids to train AI, and more.
Senior AWS dev claims Amazon is quietly trying to encourage employees to quit in a push to covertly cut numbers (www.itpro.com)
Senior AWS dev claims Amazon is quietly trying to encourage employees to quit in a push to covertly cut numbers::A senior developer at AWS has claimed the tech giant is conducting a “silent sacking” campaign in a bid to covertly cut numbers and avoid negative press.
