Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Google Faked Gemini AI Demo Video
December 8th, 2023Via: Ars Technica: Google is facing controversy among AI experts for a deceptive Gemini promotional video released Wednesday that appears to show its new AI model recognizing visual cues and interacting vocally with a person in real time. As reported by Parmy Olson for Bloomberg, Google has admitted that was not the case. Instead, the […]
EU Automakers Have Secured Less Than a Fifth of the Battery Metals They’ll Need by 2030
December 6th, 2023Via: Electrek: European automakers have secured less than a fifth of the cobalt, lithium, and nickel they’ll need to meet targets by 2030, according to a new analysis by Transport & Environment (T&E). Exceptions are Tesla and China’s BYD, but Tesla and certainly BYD fall a bit short on responsible practices compared to other automakers. […]
Gemini: Google Launches New AI Model
December 6th, 2023Via: Forbes: Google’s most anticipated large language model, Gemini, has been officially announced today. During a virtual press conference, the leaders from Google DeepMind and Google Cloud showcased the capabilities of the new LLM while also sharing the roadmap. Initially announced at Google I/O 2023 by Sundar Pichai, Gemini is the most capable LLM that […]
Governments Spying on Apple, Google Users Through Push Notifications
December 6th, 2023What can I say? If you’re even mildly surprised by this, you haven’t been paying attention for the past couple of decades. Via: Reuters: Unidentified governments are surveilling smartphone users via their apps’ push notifications, a U.S. senator warned on Wednesday. In a letter to the Department of Justice, Senator Ron Wyden said foreign officials […]
Billionaire Palmer Luckey Unveils Jet-Powered VTOL Kamikaze Drone
December 6th, 2023Via: ZeroHedge: Introducing: Roadrunner, a compact VTOL drone powered by twin thrust-vectored turbojet engines with extraordinary speed, range, and payload capacity. & Roadrunner-M, a radical new low-cost weapon that allows for unprecedented tactics against powerful threats. pic.twitter.com/2C7Ga0h1Hf — Palmer Luckey (@PalmerLuckey) December 1, 2023 Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus, is positioning Anduril Industries, his […]
Israeli AI ‘Assassination Factory’ Plays Central Role in the Gaza War
December 4th, 2023Via: Antiwar: Tel Aviv has been relying on an AI Program dubbed the Gospel to select targets in Gaza at a rapid pace. In past operations in Gaza, the IDF ran out of targets to strike in the besieged enclave. A statement on the IDF website says the Israeli military is using the Gospel to […]
Microsoft Inked Deals With Chinese Communist Party Propaganda Outlets
December 4th, 2023Via: Washington Free Beacon: Microsoft helped Chinese state-run media outlets disseminate propaganda as part of previously unreported partnership agreements, documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show. The nation’s second largest corporation signed collaboration deals with state-run Chinese media outlets including China Daily and People’s Daily, the latter of which is the official newspaper of […]
Cyber Threat Intelligence League: US And UK Military Contractors Created Sweeping Plan For Global Censorship In 2018
November 30th, 2023Flashback 2020: Meet the IDF-Linked Cybersecurity Group “Protecting” US Hospitals ‘Pro Bono’: …an odd group of “cyber threat intelligence” analysts with ties to the US government, Israeli intelligence and tech giant Microsoft have “volunteered” to protect US healthcare institutions for free and have even directly partnered with US federal agencies to do so. They have […]
Musk on Large Corporate Advertisers Leaving Twitter: “If Somebody is Going to Try to Blackmail Me… Go Fuck Yourself.”
November 30th, 2023MUSK: “The judge is the public.” SORKIN: “And you think that the public is going to say that Disney is making a mistake?” MUSK: “Yes.” SORKIN: “And they’re going to boycott Disney?” MUSK: “They already are.”@elonmusk pic.twitter.com/3LDxuk8wDC — Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) November 30, 2023 Via: CNBC: Speaking at the 2023 DealBook Summit in New York […]
Artist Tries to Prove Work Wasn’t Generated by AI, Fails
November 27th, 2023Via: Hackaday: For digital artist [Mizkai], this problem has already become very real. [Mizkai] entered an illustration contest in October, penning a Halloween scene with a young witch. After submission though, things went awry. “At first they said they suspected I had traced AI work as my style was inconsistent,” [Mizkai] told Hackaday. Trying to […]
