Why the NSA Is Right About Periodically Restarting Your Smartphone (gizmodo.com)
Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination (gizmodo.com)
Google rolled out AI overviews across the United States this month, exposing its flagship product to the hallucinations of large language models.
ChatGPT Answers Programming Questions Incorrectly 52% of the Time: Study (gizmodo.com)
The research from Purdue University, first spotted by news outlet Futurism, was presented earlier this month at the Computer-Human Interaction Conference in Hawaii and looked at 517 programming questions on Stack Overflow that were then fed to ChatGPT....
Neuralink Can Implant Second Person With a Brain Chip, FDA Says (gizmodo.com)
Billionaire Real Estate Mogul Hopes to Turn TikTok Into His Utopian Internet Dream (gizmodo.com)
Google Accidentally Deleted $125 Billion Pension Fund's Account (gizmodo.com)
224 Injured After Glitchy Diabetes App Drains Insulin Pump Batteries (gizmodo.com)
Powerful New Chatbot Mysteriously Returns in the Middle of the Night (gizmodo.com)
Neuralink Co-Founder Suggests He Left Elon Musk's Company Over Safety Concerns (gizmodo.com)
Elon Musk Laid Off Supercharger Team After Taking $17 Million in Federal Charging Grants (gizmodo.com)
Despite its CEO railing against Biden, Tesla was more than happy to take the administration's money.
Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone (gizmodo.com)
AI Can Tell Your Political Affiliation Just by Looking at Your Face, Researchers Find (gizmodo.com)
Researchers Develop Horrifying Face-Mimicking Robot (gizmodo.com)
Court Bans Use of 'AI-Enhanced' Video Evidence Because That's Not How AI Works (gizmodo.com)
A judge in Washington state has blocked video evidence that’s been “AI-enhanced” from being submitted in a triple murder trial. And that’s a good thing, given the fact that too many people seem to think applying an AI filter can give them access to secret visual data.
Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores (gizmodo.com)
Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores (gizmodo.com)
Amazon is phasing out its checkout-less grocery stores with “Just Walk Out” technology, first reported by The Information Tuesday. The company’s senior vice president of grocery stores says they’re moving away from Just Walk Out, which relied on cameras and sensors to track what people were leaving the store with.
Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores (gizmodo.com)
Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts.
The BBC Won't Use AI to Promote Doctor Who Again After Being Yelled at by Fans (gizmodo.com)
The backlash was immediate, but it didn’t stop the BBC from using text generated by LLMs—and purportedly checked and copy-edited by a human before approval—in two marketing emails and mobile push notifications to advertise Doctor Who. But now, the corporation will stop the experimentation entirely after a wave of official...
Project Ghostbusters: Facebook Accused of Using Your Phone to Wiretap Snapchat (gizmodo.com)
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Boeing Demands Virgin Galactic Destroy All Data From Its Failed Space Tourism Partnership (gizmodo.com)
The aerospace company is accusing Virgin Galactic of unlawfully using Boeing's proprietary information for a mothership design....
You Don’t Need to Use Airplane Mode on Airplanes | Airplane mode hasn't been necessary for nearly 20 years, but the myth persists. (gizmodo.com)
You Don’t Need to Use Airplane Mode on Airplanes | Airplane mode hasn't been necessary for nearly 20 years, but the myth persists.::Airplane mode hasn't been necessary for nearly 20 years, but the myth persists.
WordPress and Tumblr Plan to Sell User Content to AI Companies (gizmodo.com)
Up to 30% of Apple Vision Pro Returns Are Because Users Don't Get It, Analyst Says (gizmodo.com)
Up to 30% of Apple Vision Pro Returns Are Because Users Don't Get It, Analyst Says::While Vision Pro returns were uncommon, many came down to owners not figuring out its spatial computing.