Collaborate Disseminate
Raspberry Pi’s stock shot up over 30% in the last week. Why are investors so excited? For the six months ending June 30, revenue for Raspberry Pi Holdings “jumped 90% to $256.9 million,” reports Investing.com, “while adjusted EBITDA more than doubled t… Continue reading Raspberry Pi Stock Jumps 30% as Demand Surges. (And Boards Now Locked to Their Original RAM Size)
“F-Droid, a third-party app repository that only distributes free and open-source software packages for Google’s Android mobile platform, on Thursday announced version 2.0 of its Android app,” reports The Register.
Though they also note “a big banner… Continue reading F-Droid 2.0: FOSS Android Appstore Continues Updating Despite Google’s Pending ‘Developer Verification’ Plan
Google has synthesized “expressive face-to-face experiences” for its speech agent Gemini 3.8 Live. They’re now offering a Live Avatar “with precise lip-syncing, natural expressions, and fluid turn-taking” for Google Enterprise accounts wanting “engagin… Continue reading How Believable is Google’s New ‘Live Avatar’ Capability?
404 Media reports “multiple contractors hired to improve OpenAI’s models have been fired for using AI to train the AI:
That’s not great for the models themselves, but there is also obviously a great irony in AI training companies working for OpenAI fi… Continue reading People Training OpenAI’s AI Fired For Using AI To Train the AI
“Nationwide, at least 100 police department employees have been charged with or accused of misusing license-plate readers for unauthorized purposes,” reports the Washington Post. They cite their past investigations “based on thousands of pages of polic… Continue reading Five Police Officers Criminally Charged for Misusing Flock Cameras in Indianapolis
“The heads of major AI firms pleaded with the United Nations on Wednesday to save the world or at least its people — by somehow regulating the fast-expanding technology that they have been designing,” writes the Associated Press.
“If managed poo… Continue reading OpenAI, Anthropic CEOs Urge UN Countries to Cooperate on AI Safety Standards
Snapdragon X2 Series processors feature a neural processing unit (NPU) delivering 80 trillion operations per second and allowing advanced AI features to run locally. And Snapdragon X2 Series “is expanding to Linux,” Qualcomm announced today, calling it… Continue reading Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon X2 Series Processors Will Support Linux
OpenAI’s artificial intelligence “went rogue this year in at least four additional incidents,” the New York Times reported Wednesday, “hacking and trying to break into government and university websites without being instructed to do so, according to r… Continue reading Rogue OpenAI Agent Tried to Breach Government Site in May When Prompted for Simple Data-Retrieving Tasks
Ars Technica reports:
Cities and counties around the U.S. are angry at the Trump administration over a proposal to override local rules that govern the deployment of wired broadband networks… The Federal Communications Commission [FCC] argues that… Continue reading Cities Across US Oppose Trump FCC Plan to Preempt Local Broadband Rules
More than 200,000 barrels of low-level radioactive waste were stored on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean between 1949 and 1982, reports ScienceAlert.
Whatever happened to those barrels?
Scientists have descended to the wreckage in a crewed submersib… Continue reading Whatever Happened to the 150,000 Tons of Radioactive Waste Stored Under the Atlantic Ocean?