Monthly Archives: July 2023

Musk subpoenas Elizabeth Warren days after she called for Tesla investigation

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Sen Elizabeth Warren sits during a Senate committee hearing.

Enlarge / Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) during a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on Thursday, May 18, 2023. (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg)

Elon Musk’s X Corp. is serving a subpoena on Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), days after Warren urged the Securities and Exchange Commission to launch an investigation into Musk’s dual role running Tesla and Twitter.

Musk’s subpoena demands documents and communications related to Warren’s letter to the SEC, as well as Warren’s communications with the SEC and Federal Trade Commission. Musk is seeking documents going back to October 27, 2022, the day he completed his $44 billion purchase of Twitter.

Warren’s July 17 letter urged the SEC to investigate Tesla “regarding the actions of its Board of Directors in managing the apparent conflicts of its Chief Executive Officer, Elon Musk.” She wrote that Musk’s actions while running Twitter and Tesla simultaneously “have raised concerns about conflicts of interest, misappropriation of corporate assets, and other negative impacts to Tesla shareholders. Despite recent and repeated calls from investors to address these actions, the Board appears to have failed to uphold its legal duty to ensure that Mr. Musk act in the best interest of Tesla.”

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Source: Ars Technica – Musk subpoenas Elizabeth Warren days after she called for Tesla investigation

‘Borderlands’ movie is set to be released next August

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The Borderlands movie is finally getting a release date. According to a tweet from the game’s official Twitter account it will premiere in theaters on August 9th, 2024.

The film, directed by Eli Roth (best known for Hostel) is based on the popular video game of the same name. Borderlands follows Lilith (Cate Blanchett), a treasure hunter who returns to her home planet of Pandora (unrelated to the Avatar movie). She teams up with Roland (Kevin Hart), Tiny Tina (Arian Greenblatt), Krieg (Florian Munteanu), Tannis (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Claptrap (Jack Black) to find the missing daughter of Atlas.

A first look was released last year, though there’s no official trailer yet. It’s peculiar that they’ve decided to announce the release date for the movie more than a year out. What makes it even more odd is that the movie had reportedly wrapped up filming over two years ago in June 2021.

Delays for video game-based movies seem to be increasingly common. The Uncharted movie was delayed several months from its original release date. And when it did release, the film saw mixed reviews, including from Engadget’s Devindra Hardawar, who said the Uncharted movie “boldly goes nowhere.“The Super Mario Bros. Movie also saw delays in the film’s release. However, that movie set box office records for a video game movie. Barring any further delays, fans should expect to see Borderlands in theaters next year.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/borderlands-movie-is-set-to-be-released-next-august-210515223.html?src=rss

Source: Engadget – ‘Borderlands’ movie is set to be released next August

Fry Food Without Burning Your Beautiful Hands

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Fried food is art, and fish houses, purveyors of fried chicken, and Southern gas stations have it making down to a science. But there is something deeply satisfying about transforming a pale tenderloin into a crunchy, golden chicken tender in the comfort of your own kitchen. It can also be messy, smelly, and…

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Source: LifeHacker – Fry Food Without Burning Your Beautiful Hands

Report: Apple has already built its own ChatGPT-like chatbot

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The Siri interface on an iPhone

Enlarge / Apple’s current AI assistant, Siri, is far less capable—but also less error-prone—than tools like Bard or ChatGPT. (credit: Samuel Axon)

Apple has built its own large language model (LLM) AI framework and associated chatbot service similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Bard, and Microsoft’s ChatGPT-based Bing Chat, according to a new report.

The project is codenamed “Ajax” internally, the sources say, though some engineers within the company colloquially refer to it as “Apple GPT.” It is built on top of Google machine learning framework Jax and runs on Google Cloud.

The news comes via an article from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who cites “people with knowledge of the efforts.” Gurman has generally been accurate in his reports citing sources like these in the past, though he has seemingly misinterpreted what he was told on rare occasions.

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Source: Ars Technica – Report: Apple has already built its own ChatGPT-like chatbot

AMC Theaters Decides Charging Different Prices for Seats Was a Boneheaded Idea

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AMC Theatres is backtracking on increasing its prices for some seating options after the company realized it didn’t make a difference for customers. The company launched a price upcharge at select theaters earlier this year, charging customers more money for “preferred” seating.

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Source: Gizmodo – AMC Theaters Decides Charging Different Prices for Seats Was a Boneheaded Idea

Linux 6.6 To Deal With Unresponsive Intel QAT Devices

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Linux has supported Quick Assist Technology (QAT) devices from the start whether it be QAT PCIe adapters or QAT support found within select Atom and Xeon CPUs as well as the latest-generation Sapphire Rapids CPUs. Only now though with the upcoming Linux 6.6 kernel is it adding a heartbeat feature for determining if a QAT device becomes unresponsive so that it can be acted upon…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.6 To Deal With Unresponsive Intel QAT Devices

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Is Ready to Start Moving On

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is far from a show with growing pains—as we’ve said many times already, its first season landed with a confidence of what it wanted to do in ways few Star Trek debuts ever have before it. But it is a show where growing is inevitable: it’s a prequel about Kirk’s Enterprise before Kirk’s on…

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Source: Gizmodo – Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Is Ready to Start Moving On

‘Mind Blowing’ Trojan Planet Suspected of Sharing the Same Orbit as Its Sibling

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A group of radio telescopes in the Chilean desert was aimed at a young star system 400 light years away when it detected something unusual: a cloud of debris chasing a planet along the same orbit. The debris could be a planet in the midst of being born or the remains of one that already exists, making this the first…

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Source: Gizmodo – ‘Mind Blowing’ Trojan Planet Suspected of Sharing the Same Orbit as Its Sibling

Google Starts the GA Rollout of Its Privacy Sandbox APIs To All Chrome Users

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Google continues the rollout of its Privacy Sandbox APIs — its replacement for tracking cookies for the online advertising industry. From a report: Today, right on schedule and in time for the launch of Chrome 115 into the stable release channel, Google announced that it will now start enabling the relevance and measurement APIs in its browser. This will be a gradual rollout, with Google aiming for a 99% availability by mid-August. At this point, Google doesn’t expect to make any major changes to the APIs. This includes virtually all of the core Privacy Sandbox features, including Topics, Protected Audience, Attribution Reporting, Private Aggregation, Shared Storage and Fenced Frames. It’s worth noting that for the time being, Privacy Sandbox will run in parallel with third-party cookies in the browser. It won’t be until early 2024 that Google will deprecate third-party cookies for 1% of Chrome users. After that, the process will speed up though and Google will deprecate these cookies for all users by the second half of 2024.

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Source: Slashdot – Google Starts the GA Rollout of Its Privacy Sandbox APIs To All Chrome Users

Redditors Vent Their Rage At CEO In Funniest Way Possible

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r/place, the Reddit-based collaborative art project, is back for its third incarnation since the 2017 original. And it couldn’t arrive at a better time for pissed-off Reddit users who have had enough of the message board management’s shit. With everyone able to place only a single pixel every few minutes, it’s some…

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Source: Kotaku – Redditors Vent Their Rage At CEO In Funniest Way Possible

Use the 'Hierarchy of Needs' to Find Your Perfect Job

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Let’s take it back to that introductory psychology course you took in college for a moment: Remember Maslow’s hierarchy of needs? It’s that pyramid-shaped chart with physiological needs at the bottom and self-actualization at the top. It’s great for understanding what you need to be truly content in life, but it’s…

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Source: LifeHacker – Use the ‘Hierarchy of Needs’ to Find Your Perfect Job

This Nintendo Franchise Doesn’t Sell, And Shigeru Miyamoto Has A Theory

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Pikmin 4 is out tomorrow, July 21, and from the sound of it, the Switch game is pretty dope. Despite this, the series has only had four mainline games since the first entry launched on the GameCube in 2001. The games don’t perform as well as other first-party Nintendo games, with the best-selling entry, Pikmin 3 Deluxe…

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Source: Kotaku – This Nintendo Franchise Doesn’t Sell, And Shigeru Miyamoto Has A Theory

NYC Is Using AI to Scan Subway Fare Dodgers for 'Research Purposes'

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New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority has admitted it uses cameras equipped with AI software to scan riders believed to have jumped subway turnstiles without paying fares. The MTA, which says it collects the scans “as a counting tool” plans to expand the system to more than two dozen more stations by…

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Source: Gizmodo – NYC Is Using AI to Scan Subway Fare Dodgers for ‘Research Purposes’

The Best IMAX Movies Still Need a Palm Pilot To Work

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Ahead of the Oppenheimer release, IMAX’s TikTok showed the massive 70mm film print and special IMAX extensions. The video interestingly featured an emulated Palm m130, commonly known as a Palm Pilot, a 2002 device running on a Motorola 33MHz DragonBall VZ processor and Palm OS 4.1. From a report: In an IMAX theater, the m130’s job is to control the quick turn reel unit, or QTRU for short. (For many years, it appears, a non-emulated m130 sat holstered in most theaters.) The QTRU’s job is to control the platters, which are those large horizontal shelves where all of a film’s many reels are stitched together, stored, and then quickly spun out to and from the projector. The IMAX 1570 projector moves film at a little under six feet per second, so it’s all happening really fast.

The m130 is apparently crucial to keeping the thing humming — “PALM PILOT MUST BE ON ALL THE TIME,” reads a notice above an image of a different m130 that has since been passed around the internet — but doesn’t often need to be used. “I’ve never had to interact with the Palm Pilot,” says one person familiar with the technology. “It’s really just a status screen.” Its job is to keep the QTRU moving at a consistent speed and to help keep the film’s video in sync with its audio.

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Source: Slashdot – The Best IMAX Movies Still Need a Palm Pilot To Work

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Brought the Mutant Mayhem to Comic-Con

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It’s not too much longer until we get to see the latest take on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles when the sumptuous looking Mutant Mayhem hits theaters in a few weeks. But that didn’t stop the filmmakers behind it from coming to San Diego with some shiny new footage anyway.

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Source: Gizmodo – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Brought the Mutant Mayhem to Comic-Con

What to Do Right Away When Your Mortgage Gets Sold

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You might assume that the lender you used to obtain your home’s mortgage will be the lender you’ll pay off until the bitter end—until the day you get a letter from them informing you that your mortgage has been sold to another entity. It might comes as a shock, given the amount of time and effort you put into…

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Source: LifeHacker – What to Do Right Away When Your Mortgage Gets Sold

New Last Of Us PC Mod Turns Game Into Intense FPS

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The Last of Us Part 1 is a brutal game that features a lot of murder and gore. But because the game is played from a third-person perspective, there is a bit of distance between players and its intense action. But that distance disappears when the game is modded into an action-packed first-person shooter.

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Source: Kotaku – New Last Of Us PC Mod Turns Game Into Intense FPS

Harley Quinn’s Ready To Take On Every Villain in Season 4

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Harley Quinn showed up to San Diego Comic-Con, giving fans a sneak peek at the fourth season that’s set to release on MAX at the end of the month. This is a different animated series than ISEKAI, but obviously we’re excited for every version of Harley that has her kicking butt and taking names.

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Source: Gizmodo – Harley Quinn’s Ready To Take On Every Villain in Season 4