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TWEAKS AND UPDATES
How-To Geek: Wi-Fi 7 Has Officially Arrived. “We saw more than a few Wi-Fi 7 routers in 2023, and a lot more are coming in 2024. However, you couldn’t actually use Wi-Fi 7 on the first batch of routers, because the standard wasn’t finalized and there were hardly any devices that supported it. Now, Wi-Fi 7 is finally here, and all those routers will probably get retroactively certified.”
Artifact Team: Shutting down Artifact. “We’ve made the decision to wind down operations of the Artifact app. We launched a year ago and since then we’ve been working tirelessly to build a great product. We have built something that a core group of users love, but we have concluded that the market opportunity isn’t big enough to warrant continued investment in this way.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
Ars Technica: Lazy use of AI leads to Amazon products called “I cannot fulfill that request”. “Amazon users are at this point used to search results filled with products that are fraudulent, scams, or quite literally garbage. These days, though, they also may have to pick through obviously shady products, with names like ‘I’m sorry but I cannot fulfill this request it goes against OpenAI use policy.'”
Polygon: Capcom adds new DRM to old PC games, raising worries over mods. “Publisher Capcom has been adding file-protection software to its back catalog of games on Steam, seemingly as part of the company’s efforts to crack down on piracy — but also on PC mods, which the company claims are ‘no different than cheats’ for its games.”
TechCrunch: Google will allow more real-money games on the Play Store. “Google announced today that the company plans to support more real-money games (RMG) on the Play Store this year by allowing more types of games in the category following local laws. The search giant said that the program with extended support for real-money gaming will start in India, Brazil and Mexico in June, with rollout in more countries planned in the future.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
Stanford Law: Artificial Intelligence and the Law. “As the use of generative AI expands, so does the capacity of large language models to cause serious harm. Mark Lemley (BA ’88), the William H. Neukom Professor of Law, worries about a future in which AI provides advice on committing acts of terrorism, recipes for poisons or explosives, or disinformation that can ruin reputations or incite violence. The question is who, if anybody, will be held accountable for these harms?”
Newswise: Dark web fentanyl-selling operations have grown rapidly, offer steep discounts. “Overdose deaths in North America have skyrocketed, primarily because of the spread of illegally manufactured fentanyl. In a new study, researchers analyzed an early and prominent fentanyl-selling operation on the dark web. The organization sustained a significant growth rate, which allowed it to offer consumers steep discounts. In light of these findings, the authors conclude that it might be challenging to constrain supply by shuttering individual organizations since remaining organizations could grow rapidly to fill unmet demand.”
BBC: HelloFresh fined over millions of spam texts and emails. “Food delivery company HelloFresh has been fined for sending millions of spam emails and texts to customers. The recipe box firm was told to pay £140,000 following a 2022 investigation by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). It found 79 million emails and one million texts were sent out over a seven-month spamming campaign.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
Laughing Squid: AI Humanoid Robot Makes Silly Faces in the Mirror. “Ameca, the engaging AI humanoid robot by Engineered Arts, amazingly responded to its own image in the mirror by making silly faces, using an even wider range of expressions than it had in previous years.”
NBC News: Google and Bing put nonconsensual deepfake porn at the top of some search results. “NBC News found that deepfake pornographic images featuring the likenesses of female celebrities were the first images Google and other top search engines surfaced in searches for many women’s names and the word ‘deepfakes,’ as well as general terms like ‘deepfake porn’ or ‘fake nudes.’ The searches were conducted with safe-search tools turned off.
Open Library of Humanities: OLH launches a new journal . “We’re delighted to announce the launch of a new Open Library of Humanities journal. Political Philosophy is edited by Prof. Robert Goodin (Australian National University) along with co-editors Christian Barry (Australian National University), Chiara Cordelli (University of Chicago), Jeffrey Howard (University College London), Nicholas Southwood (Australian National University), and Lea Ypi (London School of Economics). All the former Associate Editors and virtually all members of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Political Philosophy will serve in the same capacity at the new journal, which has the full support of the international academic community.”
OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL
Northwestern News: Dirt-powered fuel cell runs forever. “A Northwestern University-led team of researchers has developed a new fuel cell that harvests energy from microbes living in dirt…. To test the new fuel cell, the researchers used it to power sensors measuring soil moisture and detecting touch, a capability that could be valuable for tracking passing animals…. Not only did the fuel cell work in both wet and dry conditions, but its power also outlasted similar technologies by 120%.” Good morning, Internet…
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January 13, 2024 at 06:31PM
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