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Thursday August 15, 2024. 02:30 AM
Thesps at least get final say on what their doppelgängers will say AI-generated voices in ads might become more common thanks to an agreement between SAG-AFTRA and an AI cloning upstart.…
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Fast Company's Jared Newman: With its new Pixel 9 phones, Google Assistant is getting a demotion. In its place, Google's will ship Gemini as the default voice assistant on its flagship phones. Gemini uses large language models to...
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Git blame an infrastructure update If you can't or couldn't access GitHub today, it's because the site broke itself.…
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Paramount Global will lay off 15% of its U.S. workforce, close Paramount Television Studios, and transfer its projects to CBS Studios as part of a massive restructuring plan. According to Reuters, the media company 'aims to reduce annual costs by $500 million and return to...
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In a regulatory filing on Tuesday, Intel revealed it has sold its entire stake in Arm Holdings, generating an estimated $147 million. 'The company also sold its stake in ZeroFox, a cybersecurity company, and reduced stake in Astera Labs, a developer of connectivity platforms ...
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APT42, which is believed to work for Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, targeted about a dozen people associated with both Trump’s and Biden’s campaigns this spring, according to Google’s Threat Analysis Group.
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Tuesday, Tokyo-based AI research firm Sakana AI announced a new AI system called 'The AI Scientist' that attempts to conduct scientific research autonomously using AI language models (LLMs) similar to what powers...
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Wednesday August 14, 2024. 11:33 PM
Treasury questions the retirement of the, er, Technology Retirement Office A shuttered IRS office focused on retiring and replacing legacy technology should be reopened, an audit has concluded, so that the US tax collection agency can get a firm grip on replacing its aging...
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An anonymous reader shares a report: A record 15 national heat records have been broken since the start of this year, an influential climate historian has told the Guardian, as weather extremes grow more frequent and climate breakdown intensifies. An additional 130 monthly...
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Sonos laid off approximately 100 employees this morning, a source familiar with the situation tells The Verge. Those affected -- I'm told the marketing division took a significant hit -- abruptly lost access to the company's internal...
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Don't use LLMs for anything important and don't try to reverse engineer it Microsoft is notifying folks that its AI services should not be taken too seriously, echoing prior service-specific disclaimers.…
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Ibrahim Al-Nasser, a gaming enthusiast from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, has set a Guinness World Record for the most video game consoles connected to a single television, with 444 systems hooked up simultaneously. Al-Nasser's collection spans five decades of gaming history, from...
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Popular editing software Grammarly is entering the ongoing AI content war with a tool called Authorship, which provides granular details on what portions of an author’s work are AI-generated or edited. Authorship will be available for beta testing in Google Docs for all...
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Production ramp won't kick off until Q1 2025 Nvidia's alleged Blackwell supply problem may not be as bad as first thought, according to Foxconn executives who claimed they would begin shipping a small volume of GB200 systems in the fourth quarter.…
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The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared the ongoing mpox outbreak in Africa a global health emergency. From a report: WHO convened its emergency mpox committee amid concerns that a deadlier strain of the virus, clade Ib, had reached four previously unaffected...
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In a welcomed move aimed at enhancing user trust, one of PCWorld’s top VPNs Surfshark has released its brand-new transparency report. The report is set to be updated on a quarterly basis and will include such information as DMCA requests, inquiries from government...
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Citizen Lab also spots a COLDWASTREL swimming in the Rivers of Phish Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) cyberspies, joined by a new digital snooping crew, have been conducting a massive online phishing espionage campaign via phishing against targets in the US and Europe ...
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Eric Schmidt, ex-CEO and executive chairman at Google, said his former company is losing the AI race and remote work is to blame. From a report: 'Google decided that work-life balance and going home early and working from home was more important than winning,' Schmidt said...
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There’s nothing more stressful than seeing your phone’s battery life drain down to nothing when you still have hours left in the day. That’s why you should always have a portable power bank as backup. And right now, this high-capacity Baseus power bank is a steal for...
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Lone Star State alleges GM cashed in with 'millions in lump sum payments' from the sale Texas has sued General Motors for what it said is a years-long scheme to collect and sell drivers' data to third parties - including insurance companies - without their knowledge or...
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