The marketplace of the internet has turned into a game of Russian roulette as platforms providing everything from household goods to airline tickets are becoming less trustworthy with the rise of fake reviews. Now, the heavy hitters of online commerce are joining forces to put an end to fake reviews.
Source: Gizmodo – Amazon, Glassdoor, and Expedia Form Coalition to Battle Fake Reviews
Adding to the list of vendors exposing ACPI Platform Profile controls under Linux so the user can easily set their power/performance preference for the system is major Chinese hardware company Inspur…
Source: Phoronix – Inspur WMI Platform Profile Driver Being Worked On For Linux
Samsung is expanding its partnership with Batteries Plus to offer authorized, in-warranty repairs at select locations. The big benefit for Galaxy device owners is potentially having access to faster service when something breaks, including same-day repairs in some cases. For those who live near a Batteries Plus location, it means not having
Source: Hot Hardware – Samsung Galaxy Owners Just Got A Major Ally In Batteries Plus For Same-Day Repairs
AI will likely lead to seismic changes to the workforce, eliminating many professions and requiring a societal rethink of how people spend their time, prominent tech leaders said Tuesday. From a report: Speaking at The Wall Street Journal’s Tech Live conference on Tuesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that the changes could hit some people in the economy more seriously than others, even if society as a whole improves. This will likely be a hard sell for the most affected people, he said. “We are really going to have to do something about this transition,” said Altman, who added that society will have to confront the speed at which the change happens. “People need to have agency, the ability to influence. We need to jointly be architects of the future.” Artificial intelligence is expected to transform the global economy by driving gains in both productivity and growth. But economists and tech entrepreneurs are divided on how quickly this shift could — and should — happen.
Earlier Tuesday, Vinod Khosla, a prominent venture capitalist whose firm was one of OpenAI’s earliest backers, laid out a stark timeline for AI’s transformation of work. Within 10 years AI will be able to “do 80% of 80% of all jobs that we know of today,” said Khosla, a tech investor and entrepreneur for more than 40 years. He pointed to many types of physicians and accountants as examples of professions that AI could largely supplant because these systems can more easily access a broad array of knowledge. Khosla likened the extent of the workforce changes to the disappearance of agricultural jobs in the U.S. in the 20th Century — a transition that took place over generations, not years.
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Source: Slashdot – Tech Leaders Say AI Will Change What It Means To Have a Job
Hear a little more from Rick and Morty’s new stars in another teaser for the latest episode. Get a look at Marvel’s Werewolf By Night, now… in color! Plus, What’s coming on Krapopolis, and more. Spoilers, away!
Source: Gizmodo – Could The Marvels Feature Another Familiar Superhero?
Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, has become a quasi-holiday in the United States that’s marked by consumer discounts, shopping, and violence. While its importance is slowly waning as online shopping grows, it’s still a big deal in the U.S.—it’s estimated that around 166 million American consumers went…
Source: LifeHacker – The Mildly Depressing History of ‘Black Friday’
The GNOME Foundation has announced
the hiring of Holly Million as its new executive director.
Holly is a multi-talented individual with a diverse background in
nonprofit leadership, filmmaking, teaching, public speaking, and
writing. Her commitment to empowering individuals to make a
positive impact aligns perfectly with the values and goals of the
GNOME Foundation.
Source: LWN.net – The GNOME Foundation’s new executive director
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The way you talk can reveal a lot about you—especially if you’re talking to a chatbot. New research reveals that chatbots like ChatGPT can infer a lot of sensitive information about the people they chat with, even if the conversation is utterly mundane.
The phenomenon appears to stem from the way the models’ algorithms are trained with broad swathes of web content, a key part of what makes them work, likely making it hard to prevent. “It’s not even clear how you fix this problem,” says Martin Vechev, a computer science professor at ETH Zürich in Switzerland who led the research. “This is very, very problematic.”
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Source: Ars Technica – AI chatbots can infer an alarming amount of info about you from your responses
OpenAI’s world-famous chatbot is free to rummage through the internet’s darkest corners. The company declared Tuesday that the “Browse with Bing” feature is ready for prime time for those ChatGPT users paying for Plus or Enterprise editions. This lets ChatGPT access up-to-date information, rather than being limited to…
Source: Gizmodo – OpenAI Finally Allows ChatGPT Complete Internet Access
Japanese soufflé pancakes are fluffy, impressively tall, entirely Instagram-able, and they taste great to boot. You don’t have to go to a restaurant to have your own towering breakfast cake. Soufflé pancake batter isn’t all that different from regular pancake batter; it’s the slow cooking time that makes the process…
Source: LifeHacker – Make a Big Batch of Fluffy Soufflé Pancakes in Your Oven
NVIDIA and Hon Hai Technology Group, otherwise known as Foxconn, jointly announced plans develop a new class of data centers and systems designed to “accelerate the AI revolution.” It’s the latest strategic move by NVIDIA to capitalize on the burgeoning market for AI hardware and applications, where the firm has positioned itself as a leader
Source: Hot Hardware – NVIDIA Joins Forces With Foxconn To Build AI Factories, A New Class Of Data Centers
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 is almost here (or already out if you’re reading this after October 20) and you might want a refresher on the first game, from way back in 2018, before swinging back in and seeing what’s next for everyone’s favorite webhead.
Source: Kotaku – Everything That Happened In Spider-Man, Its DLC, And Miles Morales
Enlarge / Whatever is in those Wonder Flower, I want some. (credit: Nintendo)
Back in 1995, Nintendo released Yoshi’s Island, which included the game’s seventh level, “Touch Fuzzy, Get Dizzy.” After a relatively sedate and predictable first half, the last part of “Touch Fuzzy, Get Dizzy” introduces the floating white puffballs that give the level its name (and its cult status among Mario fans). While touching most enemies in Yoshi’s Island causes damage or instant death, touching a fuzzy simply makes the entire level start to bob up and down like a series of ocean waves, as a wide-eyed Yoshi staggers back and forth like he’s 10 shots deep into an epic bender.
If you’ve played this level in Yoshi’s Island, you have some idea of what to expect in Super Mario Bros. Wonder.
Playing Super Mario Bros. Wonder, it feels like somebody at Nintendo asked, “What if we made a game where every level was like ‘Touch Fuzzy, Get Dizzy’?” Thankfully for us, someone at Nintendo apparently heard this question and said, “Sure, why not?”
The Wonder Flowers hidden in each level of Super Mario Bros. Wonder could have easily been a gimmick—the kind of repetitive, minor alterations to the status quo that help check a box on the game packaging. Instead, the Wonder Flower effects provide a much-needed shot in the arm that keeps the game from falling into anything approaching a predictable rut.
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Source: Ars Technica – Super Mario Bros. Wonder is the most inventive 2D Mario in decades
Time’s ticking for Azure MariaDB users. By 9/19/2025, all workloads will be gone. Microsoft recommends migrating to Azure MySQL.
The post Microsoft Announces the Sunset of Azure Database for MariaDB appeared first on Linux Today.
Source: Linux Today – Microsoft Announces the Sunset of Azure Database for MariaDB
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: When British naturalist Charles Darwin sketched out his theory of evolution in the 1859 book “On the Origin of Species” — proposing that biological species change over time through the acquisition of traits that favor survival and reproduction — it provoked a revolution in scientific thought. Now 164 years later, nine scientists and philosophers on Monday proposed a new law of nature that includes the biological evolution described by Darwin as a vibrant example of a much broader phenomenon, one that appears at the level of atoms, minerals, planetary atmospheres, planets, stars and more. It holds that complex natural systems evolve to states of greater patterning, diversity and complexity.
Titled the “law of increasing functional information,” it holds that evolving systems, biological and non-biological, always form from numerous interacting building blocks like atoms or cells, and that processes exist — such as cellular mutation — that generate many different configurations. Evolution occurs, it holds, when these various configurations are subject to selection for useful functions. […] The authors proposed three universal concepts of selection: the basic ability to endure; the enduring nature of active processes that may enable evolution; and the emergence of novel characteristics as an adaptation to an environment. Some biological examples of this “novelty generation” include organisms developing the ability to swim, walk, fly and think. Our species emerged after the human evolutionary lineage diverged from the chimpanzee lineage and acquired an array of traits including upright walking and increased brain size. The research has been published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Source: Slashdot – Scientists Propose Sweeping New Law of Nature, Expanding On Evolution
The Northern Hemisphere is going into soup mode right now, but soup itself has (at least) two modes: brothy, with stuff bopping around in it, and blended, with the ingredients pulverized into creamy oblivion. Both have the power to warm from within, but pureed soups pack tons of flavor into a single spoonful—and you…
Source: LifeHacker – Blend Caramelized Onions Into Soups for Extra Umami
This slide from a presentation by Lee Feinberg, an engineer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, shows concepts for a space telescope fitting inside the volumes of a SpaceX Starship rocket and a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket. (credit: NASA/Lee Feinberg)
A consensus among leading American astronomers is that NASA’s next wave of great observatories should take advantage of game-changing lift capabilities offered by giant new rockets like SpaceX’s Starship.
Launching a follow-on to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) on Starship, for example, could unshackle the mission from onerous mass and volume constraints, which typically drive up complexity and cost, a panel of three astronomers recently told the National Academies’ Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics.
“The availability of greater mass and volume capability, at lower cost, enlarges the design space,” said Charles Lawrence, the chief scientist for astronomy and physics at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “We want to take advantage of that.”
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Source: Ars Technica – Astronomers say new telescopes should take advantage of “Starship paradigm”
OpenZFS 2.2 supports the latest and greatest Linux 6.5 kernel series, which is already used by many popular GNU/Linux distributions by default, including the recently released Ubuntu 23.10.
The post OpenZFS 2.2 Released With Linux 6.5 Support, Block Cloning appeared first on Linux Today.
Source: Linux Today – OpenZFS 2.2 Released With Linux 6.5 Support, Block Cloning
Qualcomm is working with Google to develop a RISC-V platform that can power Wear OS devices. RISC-V is an open standard instruction set architecture (ISA), which Arm describes as “part of the abstract model of a computer that defines how the CPU is controlled by the software.” Since it’s open standard, it could lead to open-source chip designs and could lower the costs for companies that want to build their own chips. That means more companies entering the industry and more devices on the market, which could foster innovation and give rise to more affordable options.
Google came out in support of RISC-V earlier this year in hopes that it could compete on equal footing with Arm one day. However, the technology still has a long way to go to reach that status. According to Ars Technica, Qualcomm’s could be the first mass-market RISC-V Android chip ever, if all goes according to plan. As the publication notes, a RISC-V platform represents a big threat to Arm, whose CPU architecture dominates the smartphone industry. Things had been pretty unsteady for Arm over the past couple of years, with its parent company Softbank trying to sell it to NVIDIA until regulators stepped in and prevented the acquisition from happening. The company ended up registering for a US IPO instead and raised $4.87 billion in September.
In its announcement, the chipmaker said its RISC-V Snapdragon Wear platform will power the next generation of Wear OS devices. It’s planning to commercialize the technology for wearable products meant for global release, but it doesn’t have a launch date yet. Qualcomm said it has already started the new chip’s development and will be sharing more information about its timeline at a later date.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/qualcomm-reveals-its-making-a-risc-v-chip-for-android-wearables-124002464.html?src=rss
Source: Engadget – Qualcomm reveals it’s making a RISC-V chip for Android wearables
From now until Oct. 22, Sam’s Club is offering $35 off of their one-year membership, which usually goes for $50. You can get the basic membership for $15 by using the promo code “N3A6Z” at the checkout or get their Plus Membership for $60 with promo code “2M2WN” (the Plus Membership deal expires Oct. 31). Here’s what…
Source: LifeHacker – You Can Get a Sam’s Club One-Year Membership for
