you know you think you know Tech news but then it goes and changes every
single day honestly Tech news needs to figure itself out this is too much being
your friend is really hard apple the company that has been following the AI
hype train at a safe distance just quietly dropped an open-source AI model
called mg which stands for multimodal
large language model guided image editing bit of a mouthful it's what you
thought it was as described in a newly published paper from Apple researchers
the image editing model can't generate images from scratch but it can for
example add vegetable toppings to a picture of a pizza when asked to make it
healthier or change only the part of the image specified in a prompt rather than
replacing the pizza with a head of broccoli and translating sign in the background into
simlish be useful in a different scenario mg is actually freely available
to try on hugging face so long as you don't mind a wait time currently listed
as 3 3563 seconds you can calculate what
that is in minutes while you wait we didn't mind but while it did remove my
glasses as requested it also removed half my face and melania's helmet wings
so I think apples got their work cut out for them it's been a positive few days
overall for AI though OnePlus is rolling out AI features including the ability to
summarize articles and phone calls with
the ability to bring stuff up that you talked about so you can remember later I
need this badly Roblox released a realtime AI chat translator so you find
out near instantaneously what players all around the world are threatening to
do to your mom hey mama hey oh hey and
thanks to machine learning we've successfully interpreted a scroll that
was char broiled during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius and then there's the
recent study from several us universities which pitted eight llm
agents against each other in a series of War games where where they acted as
Nations and they wound up replicating human-like arms races and only
occasionally blew each other to Kingdom Come Just Like Us honestly they showed
remarkable restraint with the nukes they could have used them earlier Apple's
newly launched Vision Pro has continued to wobble like a freshly born fo with
the major bad news of the day being Mark German's Revelation that there's no
option for users to independently reset the device if they forget the password
instead they'll need to either mail it to customer support or physically bring
it into a store like some kind of peasant get your assistant to bring it
in so that Apple can wipe and reset it
part of the problem is that the device doesn't have any port that would allow
users to plug it into a Mac for testing and troubleshooting Apple did create a
special strap that would allow the device to be connected to a Mac via USBC
but it costs $300 and was only intended
for developers if civilians get their hands on on this they'll shoot their eye
out because why would you ever be without access to Bluetooth or Wi-Fi
what are you an animal or Worse an Android User Apple has released its
first developer beta for vision OS which will probably address some of the vision
Pros early software hiccups including an issue where virtual objects would
disappear when pulled closer and Apple's
gross looking Persona avatars no explanation necessary they're they're
just wrong oddly YouTube came out this week to announce that they would in fact
be developing an app for the Vision Pro at some vague point in the future after
saying they wouldn't only a few short weeks ago really the only thing that's
changed in the meantime is that the Apollo for Reddit developer Christian
selig made an unofficial Vision Pro YouTube app called Juno which was
immediately popular celic even designed to show YouTube's own ads to quote not
make Google grumpy too late they are grumpy and they're making an nap the EU
Council and Parliament have reached a provisional agreement on how to
implement its right to repair directive for appliances and similar products most
notably they will now require vendors to extend a product's warranty by an
additional 12 months once it's been repaired while under its original
warranty yeah this thing's been under warranty for decades I I just keep
fixing it they can't stop me while EU law also requires vendors to offer users
the choice of a replacement device this warranty extension is intended to
encourage users to repair their goods rather than replace their broken Goods
thereby keeping them out of landfills the provisional agreement also includes
rules against barriers to repair such as
Hardware that is purposefully difficult to replace or software that blocks the
installation of secondhand and third-party Parts by independent repair
shops it likewise requires that manufacturers make spare parts available
for a reasonable price this is sounds like a good deal another interesting
idea within the eu's right to repair directive is the creation of an online
platform for matchmaking between consumers and repair services it's like
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slow chunks and that's math NVIDIA's recently released RTX video HDR feature
which uses an NVIDIA gpus tensor cores to convert SDR video into HDR in real
time can apparently be tweaked to do the same thing for games we know this this
because a modder going by emuse figured it out and published it as a mod on
Nexus mods possibly with a special keyboard built for split hooves cuz he's
a moose you'll need Windows 11 to run it
but based on early feedback it seems like the mod generates better looking
visuals than Windows 11's Auto HDR feature so you'll want to enable this if
you want to be so much happier a fusion
reactor has now generated almost twice the amount of energy that was put into
it we're getting there guys the same scientists who reported a net energy
gain in 2022 have had their original findings peer-reviewed and have now
released a separate paper on more recent trial runs they now claim their reactor
has been able to generate 1.9 times the amount of energy it received to start
the fusion reaction this is promising news but experts point out we're still
decades away from commercial power plants I kind of feel bad for nuclear
fishing everyone's been neglecting it since Fusion was born but Fusion can't
even even walk yet tsmc manufacturers of
the world's most advanced semiconductors and the world's largest semiconductor
Foundry is now also the largest semiconductor maker by Revenue having
finally surpassed both Intel and Samsung for the 2023 fiscal year despite
difficulties getting plants up and running in the US of a tsmc is also
expanding and announced that it will build a second Japanese fabrication
plant which is scheduled to begin construction before the end of this year
that being said n of these external plants are likely to fabricate tsmc's
most advanced 2 nanometer processes which The Firm seems intent on keeping
in Taiwan where it's safe and nothing bad could ever
happen the US state department has announced visa restrictions could be
placed on groups and individuals who misuse commercially available spyware to
harass activists journalists political opponents and otherwise vulnerable
people further they will also be placing these restrictions on investors and
vendors whose companies enable this kind of misuse commercial spyware is
typically marketed to police and government agencies for use against
known criminals and foreign spies but their misuse is rampant worldwide
according to google around 80% of the zero day vulnerabilities uncovered by
its threat analysis group in 2023 were attributable to commercial spyware
vendors so remember every time you report an exploit or install a security
update you are chewing into some massive jerks bottom line great job and Amazon
is testing some changes to one of its pilot programs in the US to prevent the
untimely murder of the company's Flex drivers an uber-like program where
independent contractors AKA random people can sign up to use their own
unbranded cars to make deliveries Amazon's app will Now display a flex
driver's name and photograph to customers waiting for packages likewise
select drivers will receive Amazon branded magnets and lights to display on
their car now all this is happening because since 2022 five Flex drivers
have been shot while at least five others have had guns pulled on them by
homeowners who mistook them for intruders tragically there were even at
least two fatalities Amazon launched the
flex program in 2015 meaning it took them almost a decade to realize sending
civilians out in the dark of night in unmarked Cars full of real life Loop
boxes wasn't the smartest idea but it would be smart of you to come back on
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