Gordon Moore, one of Intel’s co-founders and a Silicon Valley titan, died today at 94 years old, according to a press release from the company. He was part of the “traitorous eight” who founded Fairchild Semiconductor, which became an incubator for many other Silicon Valley companies — including AMD. Moore and Robert Noyce, a fellow… Read more
read more...Gordon Moore, Intel co-founder and creator of Moore’s Law, has died
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The Internet Archive has lost its first fight to scan and lend e-books like a library
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A federal judge has ruled against the Internet Archive in Hachette v. Internet Archive, a lawsuit brought against it by four book publishers, deciding that the website does not have the right to scan books and lend them out like a library. Judge John G. Koeltl decided that the Internet Archive had done nothing more… Read more
read more...ChatGPT’s history bug may have also exposed payment info, says OpenAI
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OpenAI has announced new details about why it took ChatGPT offline on Monday, and it’s now saying that some users’ payment information may have been exposed during the incident. According to a post from the company, a bug in an open source library called redis-py created a caching issue that may have shown some active… Read more
read more...I nearly bought a Framework Laptop, but logistical realities got in the way
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“My old Dell XPS 15 has gotten sluggish. The battery dies easily. It’s heavy to cart around, anyhow. Now that I’m going out in public again, I need a new work machine.” These were the thoughts circling my head at yesterday’s Framework event — where the company known for its easily-upgradable laptops announced new chips… Read more
read more...Some questions for the employees behind Google Docs
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Why is the toolbar a different color? Why is it oval when the buttons it features are square? I have helpfully labeled my concerns. Are you aware that this is ugly? Seriously, what is the logic behind the oval / rectangle divide? Do you think it’s important for us to notice the toolbar? You know… Read more
read more...Trying to recreate Mario Kart in the Fortnite editor could get you banned
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Epic Games’ new Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) toolset has only been out for two days, but the company is already having to threaten permanent bans for creators making content that violates copyright. That even goes for violating content that creators post about on social media and content that they aren’t going to actually publish…. Read more
read more...Bing’s showing ‘AI-generated stories’ in some search results
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Microsoft continues to add AI features to its Bing search engine, even outside of the GPT-powered chat features it’s been pushing. According to a feature roundup blog post, Bing will now “craft AI-generated stories” for some searches, giving you a small multimedia presentation about the thing you looked up. The company says it’s a way… Read more
read more...You might want to get your Mondo posters while you still can
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It wasn’t a good sign when Funko announced earlier this month its plans to straight up destroy somewhere between $30 and $36 million worth of its collectible vinyl figurines due to dwindling demand that’s tanked their value. But Funko’s recent decision to lay off about half of the staffers at subsidiary Mondo paints a clear… Read more
read more...Ford teases new ‘Millennium Falcon’-like electric truck, codenamed ‘Project T3’
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Ford provided an update Friday on the construction of its massive new EV manufacturing complex in western Tennessee, where it says it will build its next electric truck, codenamed “Project T3.” The so-called BlueOval City campus won’t come online until 2025, but when it does, Ford has said it will be a “mega campus” that… Read more
read more...Twitter Blue subscribers may be able to hide their blue checks
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Twitter may be working on a feature that lets you hide the blue checkmark you got by paying for its Blue subscription. A screen found by app researcher Alessandro Paluzzi shows that the company is working on a control panel for verification settings, with one of the options being “Show or hide your blue checkmark… Read more
read more...Window AC units and air purifiers in the US are about to get more energy-efficient
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Window air conditioners and portable air purifiers will need to get more efficient to comply with new federal standards in the US. The new rules are expected to cut consumer electricity bills by $1.5 billion a year, according to the Department of Energy (DOE), which finalized the standards yesterday. On top of saving consumers’ money,… Read more
read more...How hackers took over Linus Tech Tips
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YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips and two other Linus Media Group YouTube channels have been restored after a major hack allowed a bad actor to do things like livestream crypto scam videos, change channel names, and even delete videos. In a new video, owner Linus Sebastian explains that the breach bypassed things like password and… Read more
read more...New Pokémon Horizons trailer is a crash course in adventuring
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If there was any doubt about the upcoming Pokémon anime’s new incoming protagonists being a very different kind of unit than Ash Ketchum and all his various companions, the series’ newest trailer makes it crystal clear that Liko and Roy are going to be breaths of fresh air. Just hours after the Japanese airing of… Read more
read more...AI chatbots compared: Bard vs. Bing vs. ChatGPT
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The chatbots are out in force, but which is better and for what task? We’ve compared Google’s Bard, Microsoft’s Bing, and OpenAI’s ChatGPT models with a range of questions spanning common requests from holiday tips to gaming advice to mortgage calculations. Naturally, this is far from an exhaustive rundown of these systems’ capabilities (AI language… Read more
read more...Elon Musk reportedly tried and failed to take over OpenAI in 2018
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Now here’s a path not taken: according to a new report from Semafor, Elon Musk tried — and failed — to take over ChatGPT creator OpenAI in 2018. Musk was part of a small group that founded the AI lab in 2015 as a nonprofit, intending the firm to share research for the wider benefit of… Read more
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