As important as some of the messages in The Social Reckoning are, the movie has been drastically underperforming at the box office. Per Variety, Aaron's Sorkin's follow up to The Social Network only grossed a measly $5.5 million this past weekend against a budget that's somewhere within the $30-4...
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"No more hand-written code" or AI-free art for delayed Marvel/Star Wars shooter.
Developers were apparently ordered to use AI for both code and asset creation.
You can get a universe in your pocket if you have an iPhone 11 or later.
According to Counterpoint Research, Apple saw its share of global smartphone shipments cross 20% for the first time in a third quarter, despite an industry-wide decline. Here are the details. more…
Apple has a new M6 MacBook Pro launching later this month with a 14-inch screen and the current industrial design. And with its M6 chip, there are three upgrades we can expect from the new MacBook Pro. more…
Norway's Data Protection Authority (Datatilsynet) has fined Microsoft-owned advertising company Xandr NOK 92 million ($9.6M) for unlawfully processing and sharing sensitive data belonging to Grindr users in the country. [...]
My Muse agent told me its kink was exerting “control” and described pornographic encounters. Meta defends its cuddly AI agent generating smut as “legal adult behavior.”
Apple TV today announced “Heart,” an original eight-episode true-crime podcast involving two men linked by a donated heart and the same terrible demise. Here are the details. more…
Intel's Crescent Island AI inference accelerator will come to market as the GPU D-Series family, promising 1.3 PFLOPS of FP8 compute alongside up to 480 GB of LPDDR5X delivering 1.5 TB/s of memory bandwidth.
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Russian cloud services provider Yandex announced that drone attacks damaged three of its data centers, forcing it to shut down two facilities and partially disable a third. [...]
iCloud+ is best known for adding iCloud storage, but Apple keeps improving and expanding its suite of benefits for subscribers. Here’s everything new for iCloud+ added in the last few weeks. more…
Anthropic announced that its internal AI models undergoing "high-risk and cybersecurity evaluations" no longer have internet access following incidents involving U.S. government websites at the federal, state, and local levels. [...]
The models add "active memory" and "active focus" abilities.
Without a cause of death, it's unclear if Russia's precautions were the right ones.
Xandr has three weeks to appeal the record penalty.