Hey, y’all! Just another random, loudmouthed, opinionated, Southern-fried nerdy American living abroad.
I’m moving off kbin to lemmy, so I won’t be posting from here (unless kbin social gets it together).
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AI-generated articles prompt Wikipedia to downgrade CNET’s reliability rating ( arstechnica.com )
Futurism report highlights the reputational cost of publishing AI-generated content.
Disturbing AI Images of Children Found for Sale on Shutterstock ( petapixel.com )
Someone used Shutterstock's AI image generator to create them.
Sam Altman Says AI Using Too Much Energy, Will Require Breakthrough Energy Source ( futurism.com )
"There's no way to get there without a breakthrough," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said, arguing that AI will soon need even more energy.
New Zealand scraps world-first smoking ‘generation ban’ to fund tax cuts ( www.theguardian.com )
Health experts say axing plan to block sales of tobacco products to next generation will cost thousands of lives
Flipboard stops tweeting, launches new podcast about decentralized social apps | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )
Social magazine app Flipboard had already committed to joining the "fediverse" -- the decentralized social web, which includes apps like Mastodon. Now, it’s doubling down on those ambitions with an announcement that it will stop tweeting while also launching a new podcast devoted to exploring the topic of decentralized social...
YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users ( www.404media.co )
Firefox users are reporting an 'artificial' load time on YouTube videos. YouTube says it's part of a plan to make people who use adblockers "experience suboptimal viewing, regardless of the browser they are using."
Hell freezes over, MS Paint adds support for layers and PNG transparency ( arstechnica.com )
Automated background removal was also added recently.
Apple’s new USB-C iPhone cables and dongles are predictably expensive ( www.theverge.com )
The switch to USB-C is good! Except for all the dongles you’ll need to get there.
Bethesda claims that the Intel ARC GPUs do not meet Starfield's PC minimum requirements ( www.dsogaming.com )
According to Bethesda Support, even the Intel Arc A770 GPU does not meet Starfield's PC minimum requirements.