Pass into the after worlds with the Good Omens cast and crew in this new featurette from Prime Video, which is one of more than a dozen “exclusive behind-the-scenes videos” which will be available via Prime Video’s X-Ray. “If season one is a comedy about the end of the world, season two is a comedy about the beginning…
Source: Gizmodo – Good Omens Goes Behind the Scenes of Season 2 for San Diego Comic-Con
One of several Neil Gaiman adaptations in recent years, Good Omens follows an angel named Aziraphale (Michael Sheen) and a demon named Crawley (David Tennant)—two celestial beings who become friends despite their obvious oppositions. Aziraphale and Crawley become pretty comfortable with their life on Earth, but of…
Source: LifeHacker – Where to Watch ‘Good Omens’ Season 2 (and What You Should Know)
The first step in avoiding the pain of chafing is to prevent it from happening in the first place. But sometimes—especially in sweaty weather—you’ll return home to find some part of yourself rubbed raw. Take a tip from the butts of babes: You can soothe raw skin with diaper cream.
Source: LifeHacker – The Best Way to Treat (and Prevent) Post-Run Chafing
OpenAI’s trust and safety lead, Dave Willner, has left the position, as announced via a Linkedin post. Willner is staying on in an “advisory role” but has asked Linkedin followers to “reach out” for related opportunities. The former OpenAI project lead states that the move comes after a decision to spend more time with his family. Yes, that’s what they always say, but Willner follows it up with actual details.
“In the months following the launch of ChatGPT, I’ve found it more and more difficult to keep up my end of the bargain,” he writes. “OpenAI is going through a high-intensity phase in its development — and so are our kids. Anyone with young children and a super intense job can relate to that tension.”
He continues to say he’s “proud of everything” the company accomplished during his tenure and noted it was “one of the coolest and most interesting jobs” in the world.
Of course, this transition comes hot on the heels of some legal hurdles facing OpenAI and its signature product, ChatGPT. The FTC recently opened an investigation into the company over concerns that it is violating consumer protection laws and engaging in “unfair or deceptive” practices that could hurt the public’s privacy and security. The investigation does involve a bug that leaked users’ private data, which certainly seems to fall under the purview of trust and safety.
Willner says his decision was actually a “pretty easy choice to make, though not one that folks in my position often make so explicitly in public.” He also states that he hopes his decision will help normalize more open discussions about work/life balance.
There’s growing concerns over the safety of AI in recent months and OpenAI is one of the companies that agreed to place certain safeguards on its products at the behest of President Biden and the White House. These include allowing independent experts access to the code, flagging risks to society like biases, sharing safety information with the government and watermarking audio and visual content to let people know that it’s AI-generated.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/openais-trust-and-safety-lead-is-leaving-the-company-190049987.html?src=rss
Source: Engadget – OpenAI’s trust and safety lead is leaving the company
For a limited time, you can get 18 bottles of Splash Wines for $69.99 (reg. $350) plus shipping, which will shake out to less than $7 a bottle. The assortment of wines is delivered to your door, and you can choose from a mixed selection of reds, whites, and champagnes for your next dinner party, summer barbecue, or…
Source: LifeHacker – You Can Get 18 Bottles of Splash Wine for
Enlarge / An Astranis satellite is seen in the company’s factory. (credit: Astranis)
Astranis, a company seeking to provide Internet connectivity from geostationary space, said in May that its “Arcturus” satellite was successfully deployed following a launch on a Falcon Heavy rocket.
After taking control of the satellite, Astranis then began to send commands and update the flight software before raising Arcturus’ orbit and slotting it into a geostationary position overlooking Alaska. Once there, the satellite linked up with an Internet gateway in Utah and communicated with multiple user terminals in Alaska.
Sometime after this, however, the satellite experienced what Astranis characterized as an abrupt anomaly with a supplier’s component on the solar array drive assembly. In an update on Friday, Astranis co-founder John Gedmark explained that this assembly rotates to solar arrays to ensure they are always pointed at the Sun, allowing the spacecraft to remain fully powered at all times.
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Source: Ars Technica – A promising Internet satellite is rendered useless by power supply issues
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Organizations that have yet to patch a 9.8-severity vulnerability in network devices made by Zyxel have emerged as public nuisance No. 1 as a sizable number of them continue to be exploited and wrangled into botnets that wage DDoS attacks.
Zyxel patched the flaw on April 25. Five weeks later, Shadowserver, an organization that monitors Internet threats in real time, warned that many Zyxel firewalls and VPN servers had been compromised in attacks that showed no signs of stopping. The Shadowserver assessment at the time was: “If you have a vulnerable device exposed, assume compromise.”
On Wednesday—12 weeks since Zyxel delivered a patch and seven weeks since Shadowserver sounded the alarm—security firm Fortinet published research reporting a surge in exploit activity being carried out by multiple threat actors in recent weeks. As was the case with the active compromises Shadowserver reported, the attacks came overwhelmingly from variants based on Mirai, an open source application hackers use to identify and exploit common vulnerabilities in routers and other Internet of Things devices.
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Source: Ars Technica – Zyxel users still getting hacked by DDoS botnet emerge as public nuisance No. 1
Memory overclocking performance has historically been a weak point of AMD’s Ryzen processors. This is true even on Socket AM5; where Intel-based DDR5 rigs can hit 7000, 8000, all the way up to the world record of 11,202 MT/s, AMD systems tend to struggle to get much past 6000 MT/s. On the Socket AM4 platform, memory overclocking was limited
Source: Hot Hardware – AMD’s Next AGESA Update For AM5 Pushes The Nitro Button For A DDR5 Speed Boost
It’s a Barbie world at San Diego Comic-Con 2023!
Source: io9 – The Most Awesome Cosplay of San Diego Comic-Con 2023, Day 1
The climate crisis is raising summertime temperatures, and the sky-high heat is straining electrical grids and healthcare systems. A pilot program launched this year is working to address potential heat injuries before they happen.
Source: io9 – This Pilot Program Is Working to Prevent Heat Injury in the U.S.
Grapher creates 2D and 3D graphs from simple and complex equations. It includes a variety of samples ranging from differential equations to 3D-rendered Toroids and Lorenz attractors.
Source: LXer – Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Grapher
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If Boston Dynamic’s $75,000 robot dog, Spot, is too rich for you, how about a stripped-down consumer version? The Chinese robotics company Unitree’s latest robot dog is the Unitree Go 2, which starts at an incredible $1,600. After shipping and duty fees and all that, it’ll cost more like $2,400, but that’s still a bargain compared to an industrial robot.
Sometimes it’s hard to tell if these upstart robotics companies are serious and have real products to sell, but we want to stress this is not Unitree’s first robot dog. This is the company’s third-generation consumer product, along with two models of beefier “industrial” bots that compete with Boston Dynamics.
Unitree Go 2 stands at just under 16 inches tall, is 27 inches from head to tail, and weighs 33 pounds. It has a camera, flashlight, and a constantly spinning 360-degree LiDAR sensor on the face. The robot has 12 motors—we’re guessing that means three for each leg—making this a pretty agile robot able to deal with all sorts of uneven outdoor terrain and, like any good dog, do a ton of tricks. The Go2 has an 8000 mAh battery good for about “1–2” hours of runtime, along with Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth for communication with the app. The base model has a top speed of 2.5 meters per second.
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Source: Ars Technica – This LiDAR-equipped, 30-pound robot dog can be yours for ,600
Earlier this month, someone created a Wikipedia page for Barbenheimer, the internet phenomenon inspired by the simultaneous release of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, two highly anticipated movies with rave reviews that are expected to bring in millions at the box office this summer. The…
Source: Kotaku – The Massive Wikipedia War Over Barbenheimer, Explained
The DRM subsystem is slated to pickup a GPU Virtual Address “VA” Manager with the Linux 6.6 kernel that is motivated by work around Vulkan sparse memory binding requirements…
Source: Phoronix – GPU VA Manager To Land In Linux 6.6
The last time I ate an arepa was pre-pandemic. I met with an old friend and we chatted happily–until our arepas arrived. The thick corn cakes were split and crammed full of different roasted meats, beans, fruits, and cheeses, and we forgot the other person was there for a moment (or five minutes). Sadly, that…
Source: LifeHacker – Make Piping Hot Arepas With Four Ingredients
Enlarge / Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer. (credit: IMAx/Universal Picture/YouTube)
It’s a big week for IMAX, which has been promoting today’s release of Oppenheimer. It’s a particularly big deal for IMAX because the film is the first to get a 70 mm IMAX release since 2020’s Tenet. So, you could understand why the company took to social media to boast of the size and magnitude of running the film, which is said to be 11 miles long and 600 pounds. But in addition to the blockbuster IMAX release is something that hasn’t been a showstopper in ages: a PDA.
And you can’t discuss personal digital assistants (PDAs) without mentioning PalmPilots. The Palm computing devices were once the epitome of handheld technological organization. But Palm Computing, which endured a series of acquisitions before HP sunset the brand in 2011, made other devices besides PalmPilots. One of those is the Palm m130, which is apparently IMAX projectionists’ ideal controller for running 70 mm film.
As shown in IMAX’s TikTok video below, the 70 mm print for Oppenheimer is so large that they had to extend their film platter. That’s fascinating and all, but so is the emulated 2002 PDA apparently running things:
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Source: Ars Technica – IMAX emulates PalmPilot software to power Oppenheimer’s 70 mm release
That was quick. ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) already has some tantalizing plans for Next Unit of Computing (NUC) style PCs, a form factor which it only became the custodian of earlier this week.
A highly reputable source asserts that ASUS is brewing up the most powerful NUC gaming PC ever. The key ingredients of the upcoming next-gen ROG
Source: Hot Hardware – ASUS May Build An ROG Gaming NUC With Meteor Lake And RTX 40 Graphics Inside
Amazon is building a facility in Florida for Project Kuiper, which aims to launch a projected 3,236 satellites into Earth’s low orbit. The company will build the $120 million facility at Space Florida’s Launch and Landing Facility (LLF) at Kennedy Space Center.
Source: Gizmodo – Amazon Funds 0 Million Facility for Satellite Megaconstellation Project in Florida
As it promised, Reddit has been taking over control of subreddits that shut down to protest changes to the platform’s API. The admin account u/ModCodeofConduct has taken sole charge of r/malefashionadvice, a community with more than 5.4 million subscribers.
The subreddit joined thousands of others in closing shop in mid-June to show opposition to the new API rules. Other subreddits started allowing users to post porn in protest.
Third-party developers used the API to build thousands of apps that hook into Reddit. Many of their apps helped with moderation or accessibility. However, Reddit decided to start charging for the formerly free API, forcing the developers of many popular apps to abandon their projects. A transcription community also closed over a “lack of trust” in the platform.
Reddit saw a sizable drop in traffic after the protest started, according to third-party data. The company warned moderators that kept their subreddits private or in read-only mode that it would replace them.
One of the former r/malefashionadvice mods told The Verge that Reddit removed their privileges on Thursday, something they’d been expecting to happen. In a pinned post, u/ModCodeofConduct sought volunteers to take over the subreddit. The admin account has posted similar messages on other subreddits for which it’s the only current moderator, including r/AccidentalRenaissance (which has more than 925,000 subscribers) and r/ShittyLifeProTips (1.7 million subscribers).
“We are, and have been, enforcing the moderator Code of Conduct. This is not new because of the protests,” a Reddit spokesperson told Engadget. Under its guidelines, Reddit considers a public community that has indefinitely been made private to be “abandoned,” and it seeks “new mods who want to reinvigorate it.” The spokesperson added that “we have a practice of reactivating private, high-subscriber communities that are being ‘camped’ on.”
Meanwhile, Reddit this week revived r/place, a communal art project that allows each user to place a single pixel onto a large mosaic once every few minutes. Unsurprisingly, redditors are using it to call out the company and CEO Steve Huffman (aka u/spez). “Never forget what was stolen from you,” reads a message on the mosaic that directs viewers to the r/Save3rdPartyApps community.
the new reddit r/place is going exactly as expected lmao pic.twitter.com/8UVKlxOZMk
— [archer] (@archer_uwu) July 20, 2023
Pokémon games are not typically difficult. Because the RPGs are meant to be an all-ages affair, getting through them is usually just about knowing type advantages and striking an enemy’s weakness for a one-hit knockout. That’s why fan-made rules like the Nuzlocke came to be: Players have to find ways to make the game…
Source: Kotaku – Pokémon Sleep Is Secretly The Hardest Game In The Series
