Day: January 9, 2023

We Found Subscription Menus in Our BMW Test Car. And other models have different subscriptions. WTF BMW?

Posted on by Robin Edgar

[…] We were recently playing in the menus of a 2023 BMW X1 when we came across a group of screens offering exactly that sort of subscription. BMW TeleService and Remote Software Upgrade showed a message that read Activated, while BMW Drive Recorder had options to subscribe for one month, one year, three years, or Read more about We Found Subscription Menus in Our BMW Test Car. And other models have different subscriptions. WTF BMW?[…]

John Deere signs right to repair agreement

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In what looks like a victory for farmers in the United States, the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) has struck a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with equipment vendor John Deere regarding the repairability of its machines. As farming has become more technology-driven, Deere has increasingly injected software into its products with all of its tractors Read more about John Deere signs right to repair agreement[…]

DoNotPay Offers $1M for Its AI to Argue Before Supreme Court

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[…] “DoNotPay will pay any lawyer or person $1,000,000 with an upcoming case in front of the United States Supreme Court to wear AirPods and let our robot lawyer argue the case by repeating exactly what it says,” Browder wrote on Twitter on Sunday night. “[W]e are making this serious offer, contingent on us coming Read more about DoNotPay Offers $1M for Its AI to Argue Before Supreme Court[…]

Meet GPTZero: The AI-Powered AI Plagiarism detection Program

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[…] Edward Tian, a college student studying computer science and journalism at Princeton University, recently created an app called GPTZero to help detect whether the text was written by AI or a human. The motivation behind the app was to help combat increasing AI plagiarism. […] To analyze text, GPTZero uses metrics such as perplexity Read more about Meet GPTZero: The AI-Powered AI Plagiarism detection Program[…]

LastPass is being sued following major cyberattack

Posted on by Robin Edgar

[…] According to the class action complaint filed in a Massachusetts court, names, usernames, billing addresses, email addresses, telephone numbers, and even the IP addresses used to access the service were all made available to wrongdoers. The final straw in the hat could have been the leak of customers’ unencrypted vault data, which includes all Read more about LastPass is being sued following major cyberattack[…]