Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider turned lead into gold – by accident
The ancient dream of turning lead into gold is now a reality – but it’s not quite what the alchemists might have hoped for.
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Amazon Upfront 2025: Prime Video will show you AI pause ads - Fast Company
At its star-studded Upfront pitch to advertisers in New York City, Amazon announced a new AI-powered ad format for Prime Video.
Nextcloud accuses Google of “Big Tech gatekeeping” over Android app permissions
Without full file access, it’s kind of hard to use your own cloud.
Nextcloud Cries Foul Over Google Play Store App Rejection - Slashdot
Nextcloud has accused Google of sabotaging its Android Files app by revoking the "All files access" permission, which the company says
cripples functionality for its 824,000 users and forces reliance on limited alternatives like SAF and MediaStore. The Register reports: Nextcloud's Android Files ap...
Three things we learned about Sam Altman by scoping his kitchen
All Drizzle, no sizzle
Elon Musk’s apparent power play at the Copyright Office completely backfired
Trump fired the head of the Copyright Office over the weekend.
The House GOP Quietly Slipped In An AI Law That Would Accidentally Ban GOP’s Favorite ‘Save The Children’ Laws
Buried in the House GOP’s massive budget reconciliation bill is a seemingly simple provision about AI regulation. The idea appears straightforward enough: stop states from regulating AI compa…
Is ChatGPT actually fixed now? - Steven Adler's Substack
I tested ChatGPT’s sycophancy, and the results were ... extremely weird. We’re a long way from making AI behave.
Apple’s new Accessibility Reader can customize text across apps — and in real life
Apple is launching Accessibility Reader, a new feature that lets users with disabilities change the text’s font, color, and spacing on any app across the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro.
Square’s $399 Handheld accepts tap-to-pay at your table
The $399 Square Handheld allows sellers to manage tasks from a single device, including payment transactions, scanning products, and managing inventory.
iOS 18’s best in-car feature is now coming to the Mac too - 9to5Mac
Last year, iOS and iPadOS 18 added a feature that transformed my experience riding in a car—Vehicle Motion Cues—and now it’s coming to Mac.
CarPlay in iOS 19: Apple previews two new accessibility features - 9to5Mac
Apple today previewed a wide array of new accessibility features launching as part of iOS 19 this fall. As part...
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Google’s ‘Always-On’ Coding Agent Is Coming. Where Is OpenAI’s?
AI coding assistants today have saved software engineers lots of time. The CEOs of Amazon, Google and many others can’t stop talking about it during their earnings calls.But even the most popular AI coding tools today often work side-by-side with human engineers and require a lot of prompting ...
The CryptoPunks NFTs are being sold to a non-profit as their value continues to fall
It would seem that the money-making days for CryptoPunks, one of the oldest and most valuable NFT brands, are well and truly over.
The Simulation Says the Orioles Should Be Good
AI, simulations, and technology have revolutionized not just how baseball is played and managed, but how we experience it, too.
Apple will add App Store accessibility labels and new support for brain interface controls
Accessibility updates coming to iPhone, iPad, Vision Pro, Watch, and Mac in 2025 include Accessibility Reader and new App Store labels.
This new USB-C dock will allow any Apple Silicon Mac to connect 5 4K displays
A new docking station breaks through most Apple Silicon display limits while delivering 140W charging through USB-C.
Republicans Try to Cram Ban on AI Regulation Into Budget Reconciliation Bill
Republicans try to use the Budget Reconciliation bill to stop states from regulating AI entirely for 10 years.
Can we still love Apple? Should we ever have?
That was a clearly offensive action, contemptuous of the developer community that built the software Apple reaped a reward from; of users who paid an implicit Apple tax (like renters in a housing market dealing indirectly with property tax spikes); and the court, practically flipping the bird at the judge. Apple wrote this at the time: “As both this Court and the Ninth Circuit recognized, collecting a commission in this way will impose additional costs on Apple and the developers.”
That was a clearly offensive action, contemptuous of the developer community that built the software Apple reaped a reward from; of users who paid an implicit Apple tax (like renters in a housing market dealing indirectly with property tax spikes); and the court, practically flipping the bird at the judge. Apple wrote this at the time: “As both this Court and the Ninth Circuit recognized, collecting a commission in this way will impose additional costs on Apple and the developers.” Ha.
Google tests replacing 'I'm Feeling Lucky' with AI Mode button
Google is testing the removal of its iconic "I'm Feeling Lucky" button with a new AI Mode shortcut taking its place.
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The Copyright Office Issues A Largely Disappointing Report On AI Training, And Once Again A Major Fair Use Analysis Inexplicably Ignores The First Amendment
As this post explains, we have issues with the third installment of the Copyright Office’s report on AI. The rest of this post discusses them, but we note here that, while the report is due c…
Apple discontinuing support for older Home architecture with iOS 19
The original Apple Home architecture will officially lose support with the release of iOS 19, and users are already being encouraged to update ahead of the discontinuation.
Google Developing Software AI Agent, Pinterest-Like Feature Ahead of I/O
After weeks of news about Google’s antitrust travails, the tech giant will try to reset the narrative next week by highlighting advances it is making in artificial intelligence, cloud and Android technology at its annual I/O developer conference. Ahead of I/O, Google has been demonstrating to ...
Nations Meet At UN For 'Killer Robot' Talks - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Countries are meeting at the United Nations on Monday to revive efforts to regulate the kinds of AI-controlled autonomous weapons increasingly used in modern warfare, as experts warn time is running out to put guardrails on new lethal technology. Aut...
Jamie Lee Curtis publicly shamed Mark Zuckerberg to remove a deepfaked ad
Jamie Lee Curtis is the latest celebrity to call attention to scam ads on Facebook and Instagram that use AI-manipulated video to hawk sketchy products.
Asking Chatbots For Short Answers Can Increase Hallucinations, Study Finds - Slashdot
Requesting concise answers from AI chatbots significantly increases their tendency to hallucinate, according to new research from Paris-based AI testing company Giskard. The study found that leading models -- including OpenAI's GPT-4o, Mistral Large, and Anthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonnet -- sacrifice fa...
House Committee Proposes Decade Ban on State AI Laws
The U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce on Sunday proposed a 10-year ban on state and local laws regulating artificial intelligence. That measure would block laws such as a New York state bill that would require AI companies to test AI models for safety risks, similar to a California attempt that failed last year.
Some companies, including OpenAI, Meta Platforms and venture firm
How to claim part of Apple's $95 million Siri lawsuit settlement
Some owners of Apple devices are eligible to file up to $100 in claims for part of a $95 million settlement.