MilliMobile is a tiny, self-driving robot powered only by light and radio waves (www.verticalfarmdaily.com)
Microsoft’s Nadella to Testify at Google Antitrust Trial Monday - Bloomberg (www.bloomberg.com)
cross-posted from !google...
Blizzard bans 250,000 Overwatch 2 cheaters, says its AI that analyses voice chat is warning naughty players and can often 'correct negative behaviour immediately' (www.pcgamer.com)
Blizzard bans 250,000 Overwatch 2 cheaters, says its AI that analyses voice chat is warning naughty players and can often ‘correct negative behaviour immediately’::Overwatch 2 has not been having a good time of it in 2023. May brought the unwelcome news that Blizzard’s original plans for the game’s post-launch support...
X updates its terms to ban crawling and scraping (techcrunch.com)
The new terms, which are effective from September 29, ban any kind of scraping or crawling without “prior written consent.”...
Toyota says filled disk storage halted Japan-based factories (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Toyota says filled disk storage halted Japan-based factories::Toyota says a recent disruption of operations in Japan-based production plants was caused by its database servers running out of storage space.
New AI systems collide with copyright law (www.bbc.co.uk)
Uber, Lyft pay $328 million for “cheating drivers” out of earnings, NY says (arstechnica.com)
Uber, Lyft pay $328 million for “cheating drivers” out of earnings, NY says::Wrong deductions “withheld hard-earned pay from drivers,” NY AG says.
Outside the US? Then you’ll be getting worse versions of the Google Pixel 8 and iPhone 15 (www.techradar.com)
An unequal approach
People are speaking with ChatGPT for hours, bringing 2013’s Her closer to reality (arstechnica.com)
People are speaking with ChatGPT for hours, bringing 2013’s Her closer to reality::Long mobile conversations with the AI assistant using AirPods echo the sci-fi film.
Whose voice is it anyway? Actors take on AI copycats (www.japantimes.co.jp)
Artists around the world are joining forces to protect their jobs, and their souls, from the ramifications of AI that sounds just like them.
Private AI summit with senators, titans of tech garners controversy — With 14 of 22 attendees being CEOs, some experts say key voices were missing (arstechnica.com)
Private AI summit with senators, titans of tech garners controversy — With 14 of 22 attendees being CEOs, some experts say key voices were missing::With 14 of 22 attendees being CEOs, some experts say key voices were missing.
Artificial intelligence technology behind ChatGPT was built in Iowa -- with a lot of water (apnews.com)
Artificial intelligence technology behind ChatGPT was built in Iowa – with a lot of water::As they race to capitalize on a craze for generative AI, leading tech developers including Microsoft, OpenAI and Google have acknowledged that growing demand for their AI tools carries hefty costs, from expensive semiconductors to an...
The World’s Largest Time Capsule Won’t Be Opened For Another 6,000 Years (www.iflscience.com)
The World’s Largest Time Capsule Won’t Be Opened For Another 6,000 Years::“The world is engaged in burying our civilization forever, and here in this crypt we leave it to you.”
[video] Fully levitating LK-99 sample claimed replicated (www.douyin.com)
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Nvidia released a paper about a 100KB text-to-image model that only trained for 4 minutes but claims to be better than bigger models (research.nvidia.com)
They also claim that it only takes about 8 seconds to generate various good images.
British Library Still Reeling After Major Cyber Incident (www.infosecurity-magazine.com)
The UK’s national library is still suffering what it describes as a “major technology outage” due to a “cyber incident” it experienced over the weekend.
Leica camera has built-in defense against misleading AI, costs $9,125 (arstechnica.com)
Caroline Ellison tells jury Alameda took $14 billion from FTX customers (www.cnbc.com)
Caroline Ellison tells jury Alameda took $14 billion from FTX customers::Caroline Ellison, the former head of Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto hedge fund, took the stand Tuesday as the prosecution’s star witness against the FTX founder
Godfather of AI tells '60 Minutes' he fears the technology could one day take over humanity (www.yahoo.com)
Godfather of AI tells ‘60 Minutes’ he fears the technology could one day take over humanity::Computer scientist and cognitive psychologist Geoffrey Hinton says despite its potential for good, AI could one day escape our control.
India shifted launch of its Chandrayaan-3 moon lander to avoid space objects (spacenews.com)
The delay was only 4 seconds. This time. But with 30,000 trackable objects in orbit and more every day, this is going to become commonplace and the delays are going to be worse.
EU spares Apple from mandatory RCS, for now (www.androidpolice.com)
First observations ever of the outskirts of a supermassive black hole's accretion disk (phys.org)
In Reversal Because of A.I., Office Jobs Are Now More at Risk (www.nytimes.com)
The American workers who have had their careers upended by automation in recent decades have largely been less educated, especially men working in manufacturing....
An Iowa school district is using AI to ban books (www.engadget.com)
Will I ever need math? A mathematician explains how math is everywhere – from soap bubbles to Pixar movies (theconversation.com)
Will I ever need math? A mathematician explains how math is everywhere – from soap bubbles to Pixar movies::Math is more than memorizing times tables and doing homework problems. It is woven into more aspects of your life than you might think.
