holo_nexus

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A new measure attempts to force the Senate’s hand on passing legislation to ban TikTok or mandate the app’s sale.

[–] holo_nexus@kbin.social 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

School districts are quick to buy Chromebooks and go "1:1", but cheap out on IT and cybersecurity.

[–] holo_nexus@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago

Yea this is sketchy AF. Not to mention concerning due to its potential implications. Going to be interesting how not only YouTube but other platforms deal with this.

[–] holo_nexus@kbin.social 11 points 11 months ago

All this will do is piss off creators due to monetization reasons, lead them to complain against YouTube, forcing YouTube to change their monetization process, which will lead to again changing the way videos are made.

And at the end, they will find a way to again shove ads in your face more efficiently.

 

The executive order comes after a series of non-binding agreements with AI companies.

The order has eight goals: to create new standards for AI safety and security, protect privacy, advance equity and civil rights, stand up for consumers, patients, and students, support workers, promote innovation and competition, advance US leadership in AI technologies, and ensure the responsible and effective government use of the technology.

[–] holo_nexus@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You get access to news from publishers like WSJ, Wired, LA Times, National Review, as well as magazines from many others. You also get access to news audio which is not bad.

[–] holo_nexus@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Im already finding it a hard sell for my News+ sub. This price increase may just lead me to cancel at this point.

[–] holo_nexus@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Oh in no way am I saying that Google is a good guy here. I’m sure that if it were up to them, they would keep the current status quo.

They are only doing this due to the pressure they’re getting for their poor track record of supporting their devices. But it is still a step in the direction nonetheless.

[–] holo_nexus@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Agreed. This and Googles announcement last month of supporting new chromebooks for 10 years is a step in the right direction.

[–] holo_nexus@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (8 children)

That’s a potential solution but the problem is that IT departments in schools are replacing them when they reach EOL in regards to security patches (since testing software isn’t supported). While there may be people interested, I can’t see many wanting to buy chromebooks that won’t be getting security patches and are sluggish.

[–] holo_nexus@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (12 children)

The amount of Chromebooks that go to waste in K-12 schools is insane. So it is nice to see Google taking action on this, especially since its largest market are schools.

 

In a pivotal moment for the autonomous transportation industry, California chose to expand one of the biggest test cases for the technology.

 

Sony is now confirming it’s launched a public beta test of PS5 cloud gaming — one that streams games to a PS5 at up to 4K resolution, according to gamers who are now receiving invitations.

 

The fight for who will own your Thread mesh network is creating an even more fractured smart home.

[–] holo_nexus@kbin.social 74 points 1 year ago (11 children)

It won’t just be electric cars, it’ll be all new model cars from manufacturing companies. At least until ICE is phased out.

[–] holo_nexus@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I just kept thinking of Abode Security

 

A significant personnel change is afoot at OpenAI, the artificial intelligence juggernaut that has nearly single-handedly inserted the concept of generative AI into global public discourse with the launch of ChatGPT. Dave Willner, an industry veteran who was the startup’s head of trust and safety, announced in a post on LinkedIn last night that he has left the job and transitioned to an advisory role.

[–] holo_nexus@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

His culture war bullshit is getting so stale (and borderline cringe) at this point. Don’t want a guy chasing companies and institutions for being “woke” and not do shit for their people as president.

 

Netflix reported substantial growth in subscribers in the months following its push to stop users from sharing accounts with people outside of their household.

 

Apple is creating its own AI-powered chatbot that some engineers are calling “Apple GPT,” according to a report from Bloomberg. The company reportedly doesn’t have any solid plans to release the technology to the public yet.

As noted by Bloomberg, the chatbot uses its own large language model (LLM) framework called “Ajax,” running on Google Cloud and built with Google JAX, a framework created to accelerate machine learning research. Sources close to the situation tell the outlet that Apple has multiple teams working on the project, which includes addressing potential privacy implications.

 

Around the time J. Robert Oppenheimer learned that Hiroshima had been struck (alongside everyone else in the world) he began to have profound regrets about his role in the creation of that bomb. At one point when meeting President Truman Oppenheimer wept and expressed that regret. Truman called him a crybaby and said he never wanted to see him again. And Christopher Nolan is hoping that when Silicon Valley audiences of his film Oppenheimer (out June 21) see his interpretation of all those events they’ll see something of themselves there too.

 

After multiple years of delays, it looks like the Cybertruck is finally on its way to consumers.

 

Just a couple of months ago, a leaked memo said to be from a Google researcher cast doubt on the company’s future in AI, stating that it has “no moat” in the industry — and now, we seemingly have confirmation that it was real. In an interview with Decoder, Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google’s DeepMind, told The Verge that although he believes the memo was legitimate, he disagrees with its conclusions.

 

G/O Media, who owns popular tech site Gizmodo along with a slew of other outlets, began publishing AI-generated articles last week, despite strong objections from many of the members of its staff, according to The Washington Post. The articles are all credited to various bots — Gizmodo Bot, for example — with no other indication that the article was created using an AI chatbot. Unsurprisingly, the stories needed a lot of work.

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