Reddit embracing all out enshittification (arstechnica.com)
Reddit, AI spam bots explore new ways to show ads in your feed...
Meta spent $4.3 billion on its VR division in three months, and made *checks figures* $440 million in return (www.pcgamer.com)
US teacher charged with using AI to frame principal with racist audio (www.theguardian.com)
ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say (www.reuters.com)
FCC restores net neutrality rules that ban blocking and throttling in 3-2 vote (arstechnica.com)
The Federal Communications Commission voted 3–2 to impose net neutrality rules today, restoring the common-carrier regulatory framework enforced during the Obama era and then abandoned while Trump was president....
Updating California’s grid for EVs may cost up to $20 billion (arstechnica.com)
School athletic director arrested for framing principal using AI voice synthesis (arstechnica.com)
Post Office executive denies cover-up over Horizon back door (www.bbc.co.uk)
ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say (www.reuters.com)
Drake threatened with lawsuit over diss track featuring AI Tupac (www.theverge.com)
Chinese battery developer unveils new tech with 1,300-mile range that could revolutionize EVs: 'An important piece of the puzzle' (www.thecooldown.com)
Congo questions Apple over knowledge of conflict minerals in its supply chain (abcnews.go.com)
If Start menu ads in Windows 11 aren't bad enough, something worse might be on the horizon (www.xda-developers.com)
VASA-1: Lifelike Audio-Driven Talking Faces (www.microsoft.com)
Single portrait photo + speech audio = hyper-realistic talking face video with precise lip-audio sync, lifelike facial behavior, and naturalistic head movements, generated in real time.
South Korean military set to ban iPhones over ‘security’ concerns | The Straits Times (www.straitstimes.com)
Baltimore County educator framed principal with AI-generated voice, police say (www.thebaltimorebanner.com)
Baltimore County Police arrested****Pikesville High School’s former athletic director Thursday morning and charged him with allegedly using artificial intelligence to impersonate Principal Eric Eiswert, leading the public to believe Eiswert made racist and antisemitic comments behind closed doors....
TSMC unveils 1.6nm process technology with backside power delivery, rivals Intel's competing design (www.tomshardware.com)
Honor and Huawei topped China's smartphone market in Q1 (www.gsmarena.com)
Google has delayed killing third-party cookies in Chrome (again) (www.engadget.com)
chatGPT login cycle
are you guys able to login these days? I’m struck with the endless login cycle on firefox and librewolf. I verify that I’m human two or three times in a row, solve the puzzle then enter the credentials but i always end up at the login page again. I tried disable ublock and umatrix in FF but with no luck.
Boeing retaliated against its own engineers working for FAA, union says (www.seattletimes.com)
Nvidia to buy Israeli deep learning co Deci AI - report (en.globes.co.il)
US chip giant Nvidia Corp. has struck a deal to acquire Israeli deep learning developer Deci AI, “The Information” reports, according to a person involved in the deal. The report follows hard on the heels of yesterday’s official announcement by Nvidia that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Israeli AI...
After 48 years, Zilog is killing the classic standalone Z80 microprocessor chip (arstechnica.com)
VideoGigaGAN: Towards Detail-rich Video Super-Resolution (videogigagan.github.io)
VideoGigaGAN