Meta’s AI Watermarking Plan is Flimsy, At Best
In the past few months, we’ve seen a deepfake robocall of Joe Biden encouraging New Hampshire voters to “save your vote for the November election” and a fake endorsement of Donald Trump from Taylor Swift. It’s clear that 2024 will mark the first “AI election” in United States history. With many advocates calling for safeguards […]
How to Open Spotify Links If You Aren’t a Spotify User
Spotify dominates the music industry. This becomes really obvious if you don’t use Spotify: You end up being sent, and inevitably clicking on, Spotify links all the time. It happens on social media, yes, but also in text exchanges with friends, in emails, and in DMs. The thought is a good one; someone enjoyed a […]
Why Bitcoin is surging to a near-record high
Bitcoin is nearing its record-high price, previously set in 2021 at about $69,000, and some financial experts say the cryptocurrency’s recent surge could cement its status as a viable alternative to state fiat currency. This is a big moment for bitcoin, which has long been vying for legitimacy among traditional investors. Recent regulatory changes that […]
Nintendo’s lawsuit with emulator Yuzu comes to a $2.4 million close
It’s finally game over for Yuzu after the company responsible for the illegal Switch emulator conceded in court today (Monday, 4 March) over a dispute with Nintendo. Tropic Haze, the company that created Yuzu, has been at the center of a very public case involving some of Nintendo’s flagship console games. The culmination of this […]
NASA cancels a multibillion-dollar satellite servicing demo mission
Enlarge / Artist’s illustration of the OSAM-1 spacecraft (bottom) linking up with the Landsat 7 satellite (top) in orbit. NASA NASA has canceled an over-budget, behind-schedule mission to demonstrate robotic satellite servicing technology in orbit, pulling the plug on a project that has cost $1.5 billion and probably would have cost nearly $1 billion more […]
Nobody knows how AI works
Recently we’ve seen some AI failures on a far bigger scale. In the latest (hilarious) gaffe, Google’s Gemini refused to generate images of white people, especially white men. Instead, users were able to generate images of Black popes and female Nazi soldiers. Google had been trying to get the outputs of its model to be less […]
New report confirms Europe’s tech investment doldrums, but there are signs of life
Europe is suffering from a big hangover after the tech investment party of the 2020-2021 period. That said, compared to pre-pandemic levels, VC investment in European startups is up, historically speaking, and reached $60 billion, according to a new report. However, the anomaly of the surge in investment over the pandemic stands in marked contrast […]