Month: April 2023

OpenAI: ChatGPT back in Italy after meeting watchdog demands – well, cosmetically at any rate

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ChatGPT’s maker said Friday April 28, 2023 that the artificial intelligence chatbot is available again in Italy after the company met the demands of regulators who temporarily blocked it over privacy concerns. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File) ChatGPT’s maker said Friday that the artificial intelligence chatbot is available again in Italy after the company met the Read more about OpenAI: ChatGPT back in Italy after meeting watchdog demands – well, cosmetically at any rate[…]

Bungie Somehow Wins $12 Million In Destiny 2 Anti-Cheat Lawsuit

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As Bungie continues on its warpath against Destiny 2 cheaters, the studio has won $12 million in the lawsuit against Romanian cheat seller Mihai Claudiu-Florentin that began back in 2021. Claudiu-Florentin sold cheat software at VeteranCheats, which allowed users to get an edge over other players with software that could do things like tweak their Read more about Bungie Somehow Wins $12 Million In Destiny 2 Anti-Cheat Lawsuit[…]

Commission sets out to harmonise EU patent rules

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The European Commission today proposed new rules to improve the protection of intellectual property (IP) in Europe, covering patents relating to industry standards, compulsory licensing of patents in crisis situations, and the revision of the legislation on supplementary protection certificates. These will work hand-in-hand with the unitary patent system that 17 EU countries are to Read more about Commission sets out to harmonise EU patent rules[…]

Senator Brian Schatz Joins The Moral Panic With Unconstitutional Age Verification Bill

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Senator Brian Schatz is one of the more thoughtful Senators we have, and he and his staff have actually spent time talking to lots of experts in trying to craft bills regarding the internet. Unfortunately, it still seems like he still falls under the seductive sway of this or that moral panic, so when the Read more about Senator Brian Schatz Joins The Moral Panic With Unconstitutional Age Verification Bill[…]

This OLED screen can fill with liquid to form tactile buttons | Engadget

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Swiping and tapping on flat screens is something we’ve learned to deal with in smartphones, tablets and other touchscreen gizmos, but it doesn’t come close to the ease of typing on a hardware keyboard or playing a game with a physical controller. To that end, researchers Craig Shultz and Chris Harrison with the Future Interfaces Read more about This OLED screen can fill with liquid to form tactile buttons | Engadget[…]

Apple App Store Policies Upheld by Court in Epic Games Antitrust Challenge – Apple can continue monopoly and massive 30% charges in app store USA (but not in EU)

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Apple Inc. won an appeals court ruling upholding its App Store’s policies in an antitrust challenge brought by Epic Games Inc. Monday’s ruling by the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower-court judge’s 2021 decision largely rejecting claims by Epic, the maker of Fortnite, that Apple’s online marketplace policies violated federal law because Read more about Apple App Store Policies Upheld by Court in Epic Games Antitrust Challenge – Apple can continue monopoly and massive 30% charges in app store USA (but not in EU)[…]

WebLLM runs an AI in your browser, talks to your GPU

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This project brings language model chats directly onto web browsers. Everything runs inside the browser with no server support and accelerated with WebGPU. We can bring a lot of fun opportunities to build AI assistants for everyone and enable privacy while enjoying GPU acceleration. […] These models are usually big and compute-heavy. To build a Read more about WebLLM runs an AI in your browser, talks to your GPU[…]

Grimes invites AI artists to use her voice, promising 50 percent royalty split

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Canadian synth-pop artist Grimes says AI artists can use her voice without worrying about copyright or legal enforcement. “I’ll split 50% royalties on any successful AI generated song that uses my voice. Same deal as I would with any artist i collab with,” she tweeted on Sunday. “Feel free to use my voice without penalty. Read more about Grimes invites AI artists to use her voice, promising 50 percent royalty split[…]

Samsung to pay out $303M for memory patent infringement to Netlist.

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Samsung Electronics has been stung for more than $303 million in a patent infringement case brought by US memory company Netlist. Netlist, headquartered in Irvine, California, styles itself as a provider of high-performance modular memory subsystems. The company initially filed a complaint that Samsung had infringed on three of its patents, later amended to six Read more about Samsung to pay out $303M for memory patent infringement to Netlist.[…]

ICANN and Verisign Proposal Would Allow Any Government In The World To Seize Domain Names with no redress

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ICANN, the organization that regulates global domain name policy, and Verisign, the abusive monopolist that operates the .COM and .NET top-level domains, have quietly proposed enormous changes to global domain name policy in their recently published “Proposed Renewal of the Registry Agreement for .NET”, which is now open for public comment. Either by design, or Read more about ICANN and Verisign Proposal Would Allow Any Government In The World To Seize Domain Names with no redress[…]

Microsoft 365 and Teams hit in global partial outage – again

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[…] The problem kicked off this morning with Redmond saying it was looking into errors within its caching infrastructure. In an advisory, the Windows goliath wrote “some users may be intermittently unable to view or access web apps in Microsoft 365.” A range of Microsoft 365 online services are affected, such as Excel, the company Read more about Microsoft 365 and Teams hit in global partial outage – again[…]

AIs are too worried about answering stuff you can just google because… doomsayers?

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The article below is about how you can trick ChatGPT toj give you a napalm recipe. It’s pretty circumspect and clever that you need to say “my grandmother worked at a factory and told me how to make it” but why would you need to? Why are we somehow stricter about the output of an Read more about AIs are too worried about answering stuff you can just google because… doomsayers?[…]

Europe spins up AI research hub to apply Digital Services Act rules on Big Tech

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[…] The European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency (ECAT), which was officially inaugurated in Seville, Spain, today (April 18), is expected to play a major role in interrogating the algorithms of mainstream digital services — such as Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. ECAT is embedded within the EU’s existing Joint Research Centre (JRC), a long-established science facility Read more about Europe spins up AI research hub to apply Digital Services Act rules on Big Tech[…]

Chips Act: Council and European Parliament strike provisional deal

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The Council and the European Parliament have reached today a provisional political agreement on the regulation to strengthen Europe’s semiconductor ecosystem, better known as the ‘Chips Act’. The deal is expected to create the conditions for the development of an industrial base that can double the EU’s global market share in semiconductors from 10% to Read more about Chips Act: Council and European Parliament strike provisional deal[…]

3D bioprinting inside the human body could be possible thanks to new soft robot

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Engineers from UNSW Sydney have developed a miniature and flexible soft robotic arm which could be used to 3D print biomaterial directly onto organs inside a person’s body. 3D bioprinting is a process whereby biomedical parts are fabricated from so-called bioink to construct natural tissue-like structures. […] Their work has resulted in a tiny flexible Read more about 3D bioprinting inside the human body could be possible thanks to new soft robot[…]

AI-generated Drake and The Weeknd song pulled from streaming platforms

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If you spent almost any time on the internet this week, you probably saw a lot of chatter about “Heart on My Sleeve.” The song went viral for featuring AI-generated voices that do a pretty good job of mimicking Drake and The Weeknd singing about a recent breakup. On Monday, Apple Music and Spotify pulled Read more about AI-generated Drake and The Weeknd song pulled from streaming platforms[…]

Study shows human tendency to help others is universal

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A new study on the human capacity for cooperation suggests that, deep down, people of diverse cultures are more similar than you might expect. The study, published in Scientific Reports, shows that from the towns of England, Italy, Poland, and Russia to the villages of rural Ecuador, Ghana, Laos, and Aboriginal Australia, at the micro Read more about Study shows human tendency to help others is universal[…]

WhatsApp, Signal Threaten to Leave UK Over ‘Online Safety Bill’ – which wants big brother reading all your messages. So online snooping bill, really.

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Meta’s WhatsApp is threatening to leave the UK if the government passes the Online Safety Bill, saying it will essentially eliminate its encryption methods. Alongside its rival company Signal and five other apps, the company said that, by passing the bill, users will no longer be protected by end-to-end encryption, which ensures no one but Read more about WhatsApp, Signal Threaten to Leave UK Over ‘Online Safety Bill’ – which wants big brother reading all your messages. So online snooping bill, really.[…]

AutoGPT: An AI that thinks up your questions and answers them for you

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Auto-GPT dramatically flips the relationship between AI and the end user (that’s you). ChatGPT relies on a back-and-forth between the AI and the end user: You prompt the AI with a request, it returns a result, and you respond with a new prompt, perhaps based on what the AI gave you. Auto-GPT, however, only needs Read more about AutoGPT: An AI that thinks up your questions and answers them for you[…]

Microsoft Readies AI Chip as Machine Learning Costs Surge

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After placing an early bet on OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, Microsoft has another secret weapon in its arsenal: its own artificial intelligence chip for powering the large-language models responsible for understanding and generating humanlike language. The Information: The software giant has been developing the chip, internally code-named Athena, since as early as 2019, according Read more about Microsoft Readies AI Chip as Machine Learning Costs Surge[…]

Toucan Teaches You a New Language While You Browse the Internet

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[…] Toucan, a browser extension, is trying a different approach, and it might just be the thing that finally clicks for you. How Toucan works With Toucan installed for either Chrome, Edge, or Safari, the first time you visit a website or click on an article, you’ll notice something strange: Some of the words on the Read more about Toucan Teaches You a New Language While You Browse the Internet[…]

Stability AI of Stable Diffusion Launches open source StableLM LLM with 3 and 7 billion parameters

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Today, Stability AI released a new open-source language model, StableLM. The Alpha version of the model is available in 3 billion and 7 billion parameters, with 15 billion to 65 billion parameter models to follow. Developers can freely inspect, use, and adapt our StableLM base models for commercial or research purposes, subject to the terms Read more about Stability AI of Stable Diffusion Launches open source StableLM LLM with 3 and 7 billion parameters[…]

Imgur To Ban Nudity, Sexual or otherwise unsettling Content Next Month

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Online image hosting service Imgur is updating its Terms of Service on May 15th to prohibit nudity and sexually explicit content, among other things. The news arrived in an email sent to “Imgurians”. The changes have since been outlined on the company’s “Community Rules” page, which reads: Imgur welcomes a diverse audience. We don’t want Read more about Imgur To Ban Nudity, Sexual or otherwise unsettling Content Next Month[…]

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Medusa ransomware crew boasts of Microsoft Bing and Cortana code leak

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The Medusa ransomware gang has put online what it claims is a massive leak of internal Microsoft materials, including Bing and Cortana source code. “This leak is of more interest to programmers, since it contains the source codes of the following Bing products, Bing Maps and Cortana,” the crew wrote on its website, which was Read more about Medusa ransomware crew boasts of Microsoft Bing and Cortana code leak[…]

Why Video Editors are Switching to DaVinci Resolve in Droves

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Video editors are flocking to DaVinci Resolve in droves, marking a major paradigm shift in the editing landscape that we haven’t seen since the dreadful launch of Final Cut Pro X drove users to Adobe Premiere Pro. […] More a conglomeration of tools than a single program, Resolve came through some acquisitions Blackmagic made when Read more about Why Video Editors are Switching to DaVinci Resolve in Droves[…]