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connect 2024 was today and Mark Zuckerberg dropped some big news there was the official reveal of the quest 3s basically a cheaper version of the quest 3 shipping on October 15th the 3 s's starting price is $200 less than the three but with most of the same features a brief live demo showed off the 3 s's pass through and judging by the bystander one seat over its ability to make people nearby uncomfortable thanks Mark a crucial aspect of VR that's what meta is about it's tradition in AI news Mark revealed llama 3.2 the company's first quote opensource multimodal model uh open source here means you have to request access to it and also it isn't currently available in the EU it's that kind of Open Source meta's AI stud studio will now let influencers create virtual speaking AI versions of themselves something Zuck demonstrated by ignoring a real man to instead chat with the man's AI clone this is what are we doing here guys just because Mark has gotten an unfathomable Riz upgrade doesn't 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the emotions of a natural person oh man AKA human being from workplaces and schools the intent of the prohibition is to prevent invasive surveillance like an AI system that makes sure fast food workers look happy or else but for now it appears to be blocking this relatively benign feature from expanding to Europe in GPT adjacent news Microsoft apparently plans to fix that tricky AI hallucination problem with what else more AI the company has released a preview of their new correction tool as part of their Azure AI content safety API correction is a service that Flags AI generated text that might contain a factual error then cross references it with a document known to be trustworthy in order to fact check it like a natural person might one researcher o Keys says that this might cause additional problems because the factchecking model itself may also hallucinate and introduce errors and trying to eliminate hallucinations from generative AI is like trying to eliminate hydrogen from water so let's just keep using it I guess Marquez Brown Lee AKA MKBHD Tech reviewer YouTuber and noted frisbee Enthusiast released his new panels app which offers access to a curated collection of wallpapers for mobile devices these wallpapers are free at lower resolutions but can be downloaded at full resolution for a subscription of $12 monthly or $50 annually which comes out to around four bucks a month the launch sparked immediate backlash some of which was sort of Justified brownley acknowledged Community concerns about the kinds of permissions the app was requesting which included usage data and user location and promised to fix the issue embarrassingly though with a little digging it was discovered that all of the wallpapers in the app were stored in a publicly accessible bucket whoops yeah devs have come out and said that the app appears to be built from a template or it's simply an old app that has been rebranded based on the fact that the app's Twitter account is listed as joining the service in late 2021 Marquez has confirmed however that this is just because they bought that handle on Twitter other complaints cuz yes there were more focused on the amount of ads in the free version of the app and the price of the subscription and all that is totally fair however the wallpapers are real art by real human artist artists and the app offers a 50/50 profit split which sounds great Until you realize that's actually even worse than the iOS app store's 3070 cut with developers I don't know if that's comparable I'm not in the wallpaper app market perhaps the weirdest thing to me personally though is the fact that a high proportion of the artists on the app seem to be just current MKBHD employees the CEO of rabbit the company behind the R1 AI not a phone device Jesse Lou even got a meme in he hasn't had a good Twitter post in the while though in mkbhd's defense you don't actually have to buy the app you can just ignore it and at least you didn't shove it into completely 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used users can also choose to only block certain Bots and will eventually be able to sell access to their website like a little virtual toll booth for webcrawlers AI but I wanted pictures of Spider-Man get out of my office kasperski the Russian antivirus software deemed a national security concern and banned by the US government started deleting itself from American users PCS last week sounds expected except for the part where the app also automatically installed a different antivirus on the way out Ultra AV made by a company called Pango kasperski had told customers via email they'd be receiving cyber security protection from their trusted partner Ultra AV but they didn't mention the whole automat IC install thing which is kind of like coming home to find your key doesn't work and then having the Rando who changed your locks let you in I I'm kaspers buddy yeah you got me don't worry we got you good news everyone we're going to Nuke an asteroid scientists at the Sandia National Laboratory have been blasting silica with bursts of x-rays powerful enough to vaporize Rock and they say that we could probably use nukes to deflect asteroids that are around 2 and 1/2 mil across this this would work by superheating one side causing material to vaporize and push the asteroid in the opposite direction just giv A little nudge out of its Collision Course with Earth like it won't be enough to save us from bigger rocks like the one that killed the dinosaurs but it's a step up from shooting Ben Affleck and Bruce Willis into space and getting them to figure it out Twitter has released its 2024 transparency report the first one since 2021 despite the very public fight El musk picked with Brazil's Supreme Court he seems to be more open to government takeown requests behind closed doors the platform complied with 71% of the legal requests it received this year compared to around 30% of requests in a typical year under previous management meanwhile X has changed its block feature so that a user's public posts are now visible to people they've blocked but they just can't engage with them what you thought you should be able to completely block people you don't like that's a privilege x/ Twitter only affords to certain special entities like the Turkish government and Panasonic is apparently repurposing an outdoor air conditioning system called silky fine Mist to create what I'd like to call wet Holograms I'll explain the silky fine Mist in question is a spray of extremely small water droplets around 6 to 10 microns in size which quickly evaporate removing heat without making users feel damp well only a name at some point however Panasonic realized that this Mist could also be used as a transparent projector screen for extremely cool and cooling art displays unfortunately the system is heavy bulky and prohibitively expensive which is no good when you're trying to get a message out to a Jedi hermit hiding on tattooing we need to get more efficient with this how that can't fit that in a Droid Panasonic you're my only hope but you shouldn't hide from more Tech news come back on Friday for another episode it won't be scary it'll be it'll be positive everything's fine everything's fine out there so okay"}