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 multi-modal large language model guided image editing
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 phase
So long as you don't mind a wait time currently listed as 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 millennia's helmet wings
So I think apple's 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 real-time AI chat translator
So you find out near instantaneously what players all around the world are threatening to do to your mom
Oh Hey, and thanks to machine learning. We've successfully interpreted a scroll that was charbroiled during the eruption of mount visuvius
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 they acted as nations
And they wound up replicating human-like arms races and only occasionally blew each other to kingdom come
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 foal
With the major bad news of the day being mark gurman'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 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 pro's 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 faredad developer
Christian selig made an unofficial vision pro youtube app called juno
Which was immediately popular selig even designed to show youtube's own ads to quote not make google grumpy too late
They are grumpy and they're making an app the eu council and parliament have reached a provisional agreement on how to implement
It's right to repair directive for appliances and similar products most notably
They will now require vendors to extend a products warranty by an additional 12 months
Once it's been repaired while under its original warranty. Yeah, this thing's been more under warranty for decades
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 second hand 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 tinder
But for people with broken washing machines quick bits are a series of five smaller stories
Which by logical deduction makes the three big stories. You've just heard
Slow chunks and that's math NVIDIA's recently released rtx video HDR feature
Which uses an NVIDIA GPU's 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 because a modder going by emus figured it out and published it as a mod on nexus mods
Possibly with a special keyboard built for split hooves because 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 for 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 fission. Everyone's been neglecting it since fusion was born
But fusion can't 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 u.s
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 none of these external plants are likely to fabricate tsmc's most advanced two nanometer processes
Which the firm seems intent on keeping in taiwan where it's safe and nothing bad could ever happen
Huh the u.s 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 percent 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 u.s
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 loot boxes wasn't the smartest idea
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