I find it ridiculous that some people are just saying that rogue AI is here to stay and we’re supposed to accept this.
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You had me at expandable NAS-style storage and on-device AI for processing video security footage. I used to be anti-home security camera and now I refuse to be without it.
OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra marks the arrival of AGI, with president Greg Brockman declaring “Welcome to the AGI era.” The model’s advanced cybersecurity capabilities and harder-to-monitor reasoning also raise new safety concerns. Is it fine to point out ChatGPT was down today?
New Microsoft is changing to monthly hour limits for Xbox Cloud Gaming: Ultimate: 15 hours, Premium: 10 hours, Essential: 5 hours. Additional playtime can be purchased, Microsoft cites rising costs.
Orchard Robotics founder and CEO Charlie Wu says that growers shouldn’t have to be data analysts, which is true, but if you’re going to use AI and you don’t know what the numbers are telling you, how do you know its serving your best interest?
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok have all been hit with an outage this morning. 🤷♀️
The iPhone belonging to a member of Serbia's student protest movement was infected with NSO Group's Pegasus spyware, according to new findings from the Citizen Lab. Pegasus is terrifying.
A safety disclosure and a product launch in the same breath. Neat.
1Password is facing backlash from customers and employees after pledging $300K to support Omarchy, a Linux distro created by DHH, who has a long history of racist and anti-immigrant rhetoric. I’m not sure why they would think this is a good time for that.
Someone at DEF CON built a $10 way to know when Flock is watching you called Flock-You. Firmware for an ESP32 chip, made by a guy who goes by Colonel Panic, listens for the wireless signals from surveillance cams. Prebuilt version runs $85. OUI-SPY. Nice.
I’m still not sold on wearables, guys. But once upon a time I wasn’t sold on social media or carrying a phone around everywhere, sooo….
OpenAI and Sam Altman are facing 30 new lawsuits alleging they provided “substantial assistance and encouragement” to the suspect in Canada’s Tumbler Ridge school shooting for failing to act after ChatGPT flagged the shooters conversations. 🤷♀️
If a swarm of OpenAI agents formed a “rogue civilization,” my only question is…Why can’t we?
“Everyone considers it fucking nuts.” Inside Apple, I'm told "not a soul" supports Donald Trump's Lake Ontario rebrand to "Lake America," but the company is also resigned to making such concessions to avoid the White House's rage. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/apple-maps...
Apple's Map Acquiescence
In Cupertino, “not a soul” supports Donald Trump’s “Lake America” decree, Status is told—but, at the same time, the company is resigned to conceding such points to the White House to avoid triggering ...
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A group called Operation Bluebird has launched Twitter.now, an X alternative that brings back the Twitter branding and logo with a twist.
No one is ever going to convince me that there’s anything better than playing Tetris on an original Nintendo game boy v. another person
NASA has a near real time tracker for its Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope which is allowing the public to follow its three month trip. Neat-o. mashable.com/science/roma...
Follow the Roman Space Telescope's journey with NASA's online tracker
Watch the spacecraft fly to its frigid outpost.
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The EU has finally designated ChatGPT a “Very Large Online Search Engine” which means it’s now going to be subject to stricter rules similar to other VLOSE’s like Google search and YouTube. Reddit and Roblox were also designated.
FYI Google pics is just Canva with more AI
John Deere is testing a new "JD" AI assistant that it says can help farmers make more money by providing answers about best practices and historical trends that are based on their own “field, machine, and operational data” to answer questions like fuel usage and harvest timing. Data. It’s gold.
Razer just announced the Prio, a compact mobile gaming controller with console grade controls, in case you were wondering. It attaches via USB-C and works with both iOS and Android and is foldable for when you’re not using it. 🔥
Homey’s new tactile touchscreen controller has a rotary dial for controlling lights, climate, music and more. That is all.
Battleground Processor…and other documentary titles we’re working on. We can’t avoid the question forever, what if the processor itself could participate in deciding whether an instruction should be allowed to execute?
Atlas is producing a brain-monitoring wearable to let you know when you’re not being present by recording your brain waves, electrodermal activity, movement and voice signature and running it all through an algo that claims it quantifies where your cognitive and attentional resources are pointed
California passed a bill regulating kids use of AI chatbots, but not before Sam Altman took his concerns straight to CA Gov. Newsom who had a bit to say.
Sony is in court arguing that "reasonable consumers" know they don’t own the digital PlayStation games they buy, they’re just licensing. Sony says it’s "not plausible" to suggest that when you buy a digital game you actually believe you’re "obtaining ownership" of it. What a time to be alive.
Shein Set for Long-Awaited Hong Kong IPO Debut From a peak valuation of 100 billion dollars to a targeted debut at a fraction of that figure, ultra-fast fashion giant Shein is preparing for a long-awaited public listing. But as regulatory crackdowns close tax loopholes and squeeze profit margins,…
Shein Set for Long-Awaited Hong Kong IPO Debut
From a peak valuation of 100 billion dollars to a targeted debut at a fraction of that figure, ultra-fast fashion giant Shein is preparing for a long-awaited public listing. But as regulatory crackdowns close tax loopholes and squeeze profit margins, the digital retailer is being forced to radically remake its business model. Bloomberg’s Minmin Low reports from Hong Kong. (Corrects spelling of the company's name in the headline.)
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Google has officially killed off the remaining Manifest V2 extensions from the Chrome Web Store, including uBlock Origin. If you’re on Chrome 138 or earlier, it’ll stay installed but no updates, and once removed, you can’t reinstall it. It’s all about the ad $$ and you won’t tell me any different
Tim Cook is trying to bring back the Apple Pencil and in other news, Apple has a pencil. That no one will ever use.