Author: Cinga
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Netflix’s 2024 TV lineup has more Squid Game, Arcane, and lots of reality shows
Things have been a little quiet for Netflix so far this year when it comes to television, but the streamer has at least a few heavy hitters in store. Today, it revealed its upcoming TV slate for 2024 — alongside similar lists for film and games — and, while there aren’t a lot of surprises…
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Lawmakers propose anti-nonconsensual AI porn bill after Taylor Swift controversy
US lawmakers have proposed letting people sue over faked pornographic images of themselves, following the spread of AI-generated explicit photographs of Taylor Swift. The Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits (DEFIANCE) Act would add a civil right of action for intimate “digital forgeries” depicting an identifiable person without their consent, letting victims collect financial…
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Elon Musk won’t get his $55 billion pay package after all
Elon Musk isn’t going to get that $55 billion pay package after all, a Delaware Court of Chancery judge has ruled. The ruling means Tesla’s board will need to come up with a new proposal. The ruling threatens Musk’s fortune if it makes it through an appeal, Bloomberg reports. Without the options in that package,…
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Your home network might soon get a new — and simpler — name
ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, is proposing a change that could streamline the way you access your home’s internal network. That means, instead of using the 192.168.x.x address to configure your router, you’d just need to type .internal. As pointed out by The Register, ICANN’s Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC)…
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Fossil is quitting smartwatches
Fossil Group has decided to call it quits on smartwatches. The company announced this afternoon that it would leave the smartwatch business and redirect resources to its less-smart goods instead. The company has been one of the most prolific makers of Wear OS smartwatches over the years, and its absence will leave a large gap…
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Satya Nadella says the explicit Taylor Swift AI fakes are ‘alarming and terrible’
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has responded to a controversy over sexually explicit AI-made fake images of Taylor Swift. In an interview with NBC Nightly News that will air next Tuesday, Nadella calls the proliferation of nonconsensual simulated nudes “alarming and terrible,” telling interviewer Lester Holt that “I think it behooves us to move fast on…
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Google’s Hugging Face deal puts ‘supercomputer’ power behind open-source AI
Hugging Face is one of the more popular AI model repositories, storing open-sourced foundation models like Meta’s Llama 2 and Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion. It also has many databases for model training. There are over 350,000 models hosted on the platform for developers to work with or upload their own models to Hugging Face, much…
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Apple opens App Store to game streaming services
In 2020, Apple appeared to have carved out a space for these cloud gaming services in the App Store. But that turned out not to be the case, as all games available through each service had to be submitted and reviewed as a standalone app. So the shift to allow one app with a large…
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This Qi2 car mount is cheaper than a MagSafe charger and can fast-charge your iPhone 15
A new car mount for your smartphone just launched that offers a rare combo: Qi2 wireless charging at high speeds — and at a reasonable price. The Qi2 car mount, from accessories maker ESR, offers 15W wireless charging to fast-charge your iPhone 15 and 15 Pro at its maximum capacity while you’re en route. 9to5Toys…
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GM and Honda join forces to make hydrogen fuel cells for ‘various products’
General Motors and Honda announced that their joint venture company, FCSM, has begun production of hydrogen fuel cells that will eventually make their way into “various product applications.” Hydrogen fuel cells use compressed hydrogen as their fuel, releasing water vapor as its only emission. A number of automakers have recently seized on the technology for…