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Monday March 18, 2024. 08:21 PM
Two investment advisors have reached settlements with the US Securities and Exchange Commission for allegedly exaggerating their use of AI, which in both cases were purported to be cornerstones of their offerings. From a report: Canada-based Delphia and San...
An anonymous reader shares a report: The Apex Legends Global Series is currently in regional finals mode, but the North America finals have been delayed after two players were hacked mid-match. First, Noyan 'Genburten' Ozkose of DarkZero suddenly found himself able to see...
Published scientific papers include language that appears to have been generated by AI-tools like ChatGPT, showing how pervasive the technology has become, and highlighting longstanding issues with some peer-reviewed journals. From a report: Searching for the phrase 'As of...
Multinational technology giant Fujitsu confirmed a cyberattack in a statement Friday, and warned that hackers may have stolen personal data and customer information. From a report: 'We confirmed the presence of malware on multiple work computers at our company, and as a...
Google researchers have developed a new AI system that can generate lifelike videos of people speaking, gesturing and moving -- from just a single still photo. From a report: The technology, called VLOGGER, relies on advanced machine learning models to synthesize startlingly ...
xAI has opened sourced its large language model Grok. From a report: The move, which Musk had previously proclaimed would happen this week, now enables any other entrepreneur, programmer, company, or individual to take Grok's weights -- the strength of connections between...
Starting Monday, YouTube creators will be required to label when realistic-looking videos were made using artificial intelligence, part of a broader effort by the company to be transparent about content that could otherwise confuse or mislead users. From a report: When a...
SofiaWW writes: Microsoft has announced that the next subscription-free version of its Office suite will launch later this year. A commercial preview of Office LTSC 2024 will be available from next month, with a full launch scheduled for later in the year. The Office...
Last week 50 people were injured when a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner experienced a sudden mid-air drop — raising concerns about the possibility of a new safety issue. But the Wall Street Journal offers a follow-up report. 'A flight attendant hit a switch on the pilot's seat while ...
The Guardian reports that this week 'Bernie Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont who twice ran for the Democratic presidential nomination, introduced a bill to establish a four-day US working week.' 'Moving to a 32-hour workweek with no loss of pay is not a radical...
Israeli outlet Calcalist: Nvidia is in advanced negotiations to acquire AI infrastructure orchestration and management platform Run:ai, Calcalist has learned. The value of the deal is estimated at many hundreds of millions of dollars and could even reach $1 billion. The...
Apple is in talks to build Google's Gemini AI engine into the iPhone, Bloomberg News reported Monday, citing people familiar with the situation, setting the stage for a blockbuster agreement that would shake up the AI industry. From the report: The two companies are in...
Databricks CTO Matei Zaharia 'said that Databricks had to keep track of scheduling a million things,' remembers adjunct MIT professor Michael Stonebraker. ' He said that this can't be done with traditional operating system scheduling, and so this was done out of a Postgres...
In 2020 Oregon passed Measure 110, decriminalizing possession of small amounts of drugs. But now 'America's most radical experiment with drug decriminalization has ended,' writes the Atlantic, 'after more than three years of painful results.' Oregon Governor Tina Kotek has...
Sunday March 17, 2024. 11:56 PM
A PBS reporter 'digs into a new report covering the plastic industry's tactics to push recycling — and avoid regulation,' according to a new video from PBS News Weekend: A new report by the Center for Climate Integrity, an environmentalist group, says newly uncovered...
Mozilla Location Service offered 'a free, open way to offer GPS-style location detection features' for developers on devices without GPS hardware, remembers the Linux blog OMG Ubuntu. It used signals like Wi-Fi access points and Bluetooth beacons 'without any of the privacy...
'Dell's strict new RTO mandate excludes fully remote workers from promotion,' reports Business Insider. The site calls it 'one of the most abrupt changes to remote work policies,' noting that Dell 'has had a hybrid working culture in place for more than a decade — long before...
Amazon announced a new AI-powered chatbot last month — still under development — 'to help you figure out what to buy,' writes the Washington Post. Their conclusion? '[T]he chatbot wasn't a disaster. But I also found it mostly useless...' 'The experience encapsulated my...
An anonymous reader shared this report: After 20 years of development, the open source GnuCOBOL 'has reached an industrial maturity and can compete with proprietary offers in all environments,' said OCamlPro founder and GnuCOBOL contributor Fabrice Le Fessant, in a FOSDEM...
The Street interviewed Chad Anderson, founder/managing partner of the 'space economy' investment firm Space Capital, who calls SpaceX's progress 'unprecedented,' and believes their next launch could carry 'operational' payloads like Starlink satellites. Anderson added that...
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