News
- Microsoft Build 2023: A whole lot of talk about using AI responsibly and that you still need a quality product in the keynote, as opposed to Google and OpenAI’s ‘magic bullet’ rhetoric.
- Get out the holy bible. Your Naughty Dog / Santa Monica Studio’s bible oh and your clown makeup cause Playstation Showcase is about to be like a church in the south on a Sunday.
- I told YA - Netflix starts charging for account sharing in the US
- Meta sells Giphy to Shutterstock at a loss following UK order
- Neuralink receives FDA clearance to begin human trials of its brain-computer interface
- Virgin Galactic completes its final VSS Unity flight test before space tourism debut
- How to hack Chat-GPT The Security Hole at the Heart of ChatGPT and Bing | WIRED
- Nintendo can suck a fat one - Dolphin emulator Steam release delayed indefinitely following Nintendo DMCA notice
- That’s no moon - Japan's ispace says Hakuto-R crashed because it got confused by a crater rim
Media
- Bing chat can now make images.
- John Wick 4 now on 1337x
- John Wick Chapter 4, to no one’s surprise, is one of the greatest action movies yet made.
- John Wick 5 now in production
- Samsung's new Sensor OLED display can read fingerprints anywhere on the screen
- “Life before the Steam Deck was not easy”
- You can download open source software NASA uses to plan space missions: https://www.nasa.gov/smallsat-institute/space-mission-design-tools
- Road relief is coming to Tampa Bay but there will be pain
- Star Trek Resurgence 1st impressions: Kinda jank, runs bad (UE on PC problems), heart in the right place, Because, of course, Spock; <3 fake Spock, CAN’T INVERT STICK!!!!, well written, audio quality less than great on dialog. Must play for TNG fans.
Odds and Ends
- I beat Dwarf Fortress again: 260 year start, rare minerals, savage good biome, near a necromancer tower
- Don’t use someone’s else Prime without being in the same household… (Privacy concern)
- Huh…Star Trek: Resurgence came out… meh (Metacritic says a 72)
- This query shows the danger of overhyping AI chatbots: “can chatgpt interpret ultrasound images”
- Got a new test task this week where all of the search results were in media rich SCRBs. And if it goes live, Google will die.
- AI is using #fakeNews (April 1st joke, in this case) as fact. Here’s how misinformation spreads: https://www.menshealth.com/trending-news/a19545673/internet-tricked-fake-gin-metabolism-story/
- Bing chat is a great, procedural DM, but you get cockblocked due the limited memory allowed.
- AI Oopsies:” A newborn's length at 6 months is about 1 inch per month [2]. This means that a newborn's length at 6 months is about 6 inches [2].”
- Have you ever WoD yourself? (Windows on Deck)
- A prelude to microtransactions on Bing Chat?
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