Will ChatGPT write ransomware? Yes. (www.malwarebytes.com)
The race to 5G is over — now it’s time to pay the bill (www.theverge.com)
Ex-Tesla employee casts doubt on car safety (www.bbc.com)
Ex-Tesla employee casts doubt on car safety::A whistleblower believes the self-driving vehicle technology is not safe enough for public roads.
GM’s hydrogen ‘power cubes’ will be used in cement mixers and terminal tractors (www.theverge.com)
Google launches Gemini, the AI model it hopes will take down GPT-4 (www.theverge.com)
Google launches Gemini, the AI model it hopes will take down GPT-4::Gemini is a new large language model that will work across Google products, including search, ads, and Bard. Google says it matches and even bests OpenAI’s GPT-4 model.
Japanese Institute breaks optical fiber speed record with 22.9 petabits per second — 1,000 times faster than existing cables (www.tomshardware.com)
Speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out.
Twitch to terminate South Korean operations in 2024 due to high network fees (alternativeto.net)
OpenAI employees really, really did not want to go work for Microsoft (www.businessinsider.com)
DNA nanobots can exponentially self-replicate: Tiny machines made from strands of DNA can build copies of themselves, leading to exponential replication. Similar devices could one day be used to cr... (www.newscientist.com)
DNA nanobots can exponentially self-replicate: Tiny machines made from strands of DNA can build copies of themselves, leading to exponential replication. Similar devices could one day be used to cr…::Tiny machines made from strands of DNA can build copies of themselves, leading to exponential replication. Similar devices could...
Meta’s new AI image generator was trained on 1.1 billion Instagram and Facebook photos (arstechnica.com)
"Imagine with Meta AI" turns prompts into images, trained using public Facebook data.
Big AI Commons (blog.erlend.sh)
Some excerpts:...
24/7 solar towers could double energy output (techxplore.com)
Cable lobby to FCC: Please don’t look too closely at the prices we charge (arstechnica.com)
Cable lobby to FCC: Please don’t look too closely at the prices we charge::ISPs are scared about the FCC’s plan to measure broadband affordability.
Ex-Twitter security head claims the company fired him to flout regulations (www.theverge.com)
Meta and Microsoft say they will buy AMD's new AI chip as an alternative to Nvidia's (www.cnbc.com)
Just about every Windows and Linux device vulnerable to new LogoFAIL firmware attack (arstechnica.com)
Just about every Windows and Linux device vulnerable to new LogoFAIL firmware attack::UEFIs booting Windows and Linux devices can be hacked by malicious logo images.
Apple admits to secretly giving governments push notification data (arstechnica.com)
Apple admits to secretly giving governments push notification data::Apple to update transparency report to break out push notification data requests.
[Facebook] Messenger is finally getting end-to-end encryption by default - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
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.”
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.
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.
