Collaborate Disseminate
As Christie’s auction house planned the first-ever auction dedicated to AI-generated art works, over 5,600 people signed an online letter urging them to cancel it. “Many of the artworks you plan to auction were created using AI models that are known to… Continue reading Ignoring Protests, Christie’s Holds AI Art Auction, Makes Big Money
Movies mirror the time they were made. [ErnieTech] asserts that we can see what people thought about computers back in 1957 by watching the classic Spencer Tracy/Katharine Hepburn movie “Desk …read more Continue reading Fictional Computers: EMERAC was the Chatbot of 1957
“The early web was fun,” Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian posted Wednesday on X.com. “It was weird. It was community-driven. It’s time to rebuild that.
“Which is why Kevin Rose and I just bought back Digg.”
The amount of that purchase is “undisclos… Continue reading Reddit and Digg Cofounders Plan Relaunch of ‘Human-Centered’ Digg With AI Innovations
This week the Free Software Foundation “backed a lone developer’s brave effort to overturn a pivotal court ruling that threatens to undermine the AGPLv3 — the foundation’s GNU Affero General Public License, version 3,” reports the Register.
“At… Continue reading Free Software Foundation Rides To Defend AGPLv3 Against Neo4j License Add-ons
Although most people would use C, C++ or MicroPython for programming microcontrollers, there are a few more obscure options out there as well, with MicroZig being one of them. Recently …read more Continue reading Writing an OLED Display Driver in MicroZig
Axiom Space and Red Hat will collaborate to launch Data Center Unit-1 (AxDCU-1) to the International Space Station this spring. It’s a small data processing prototype (powered by lightweight, edge-optimized Red Hat Device Edge) that will demonstrate in… Continue reading Axiom Space and Red Hat Will Bring Edge Computing to the International Space Station
“PepsiCo is launching a new product, Simply Ruffles Hot & Spicy, which uses natural ingredients like tomato powder and red chile pepper instead of artificial dyes,” reports Bloomberg. But it’s part of a larger trend:
In one of the final acts of Pr… Continue reading Snack Makers Are Removing Fake Colors From Processed Foods
If you’re a photography enthusiast, you probably own quite a few cameras, but the chances are your “good” one will have interchangeable lenses. Once you’ve exhausted the possibilities of the …read more Continue reading Expensive Camera, Cheap 3D-Printed Lens
“The ubiquitous ESP32 microchip made by Chinese manufacturer Espressif and used by over 1 billion units as of 2023 contains an undocumented ‘backdoor’ that could be leveraged for attacks,” writes BleepingComputer.
“The undocumented commands allow spoo… Continue reading Undocumented ‘Backdoor’ Found In Chinese Bluetooth Chip Used By a Billion Devices
Butterflies “are vanishing from U.S. landscapes at an alarming rate,” reports CBS News:
A comprehensive study, published Thursday in the journal Science, found that 22% of butterflies in the United States disappeared between 2000 and 2020… The rese… Continue reading America Lost 22% of Its Butterflies Within Two Decades