We’re going to create a deep umami condiment out of mushrooms, and then use that condiment on freaking everything this Thanksgiving. Doesn’t sound very convincing? Think about Worcestershire sauce: It goes with absolutely everything. Meat, vegetables—heck, it’s a major component of Caesar salad dressing. The reason is…
Source: LifeHacker – Make Mushroom Garum Today and Use It on Everything This Thanksgiving
Get the most out of Arch Linux’s AUR with our guide on the best AUR helpers.
Source: LXer – Top 10 Best AUR Helpers for Arch Linux
After teasing the return of Doctor Who’s traditional Christmas special, the BBC and Disney have confirmed that Ncuti Gatwa’s debut episode as the Doctor will air on Christmas Day 2023—the series’ first holiday broadcast in six years.
Source: Gizmodo – At Last, Doctor Who Christmas Specials Are Officially Back
After what’s felt like a never-ending final season, Attack on Titan, the mega-popular shonen anime series, finally came to an end on November 4 on Crunchyroll and Hulu. Unlike the manga it’s based on, whose controversial ending split its fandom in half over whether the decade-spanning series was an utter disappointment
Source: Kotaku – Attack On Titan Anime Finale Rewrites The Ending For The Better
The first time I was invited to a vegetarian Thanksgiving, I remember feeling slighted. I was going to miss out on the very point of the day—the bird. Instead, I was impressed by the breadth of flavors that came to the table when we didn’t rely on turkey and gravy. For the last 10 years, when I’ve hosted dinners,…
Source: LifeHacker – This Miso-Roasted Cabbage Will Be the Surprise Hit of Your Thanksgiving
Enlarge / “GPTs” will allow ChatGPT users to create custom AI assistants that serve different purposes. (credit: Getty Images)
On Monday, OpenAI announced “GPTs,” a new feature that allows ChatGPT users to create custom versions of its AI assistant that serve different roles or purposes. OpenAI will let users share GPT roles with others, and it plans to introduce a “GPT Store” later this month that will eventually share revenue with creators.
“Since launching ChatGPT, people have been asking for ways to customize ChatGPT to fit specific ways that they use it,” writes OpenAI in a release provided to Ars. “We launched Custom Instructions in July that let you set some preferences, but requests for more control kept coming.”
For example, in a screenshot of the GPTs interface provided by OpenAI, the upcoming GPT Store shows custom AI assistants called “Writing Coach,” “Sous Chef,” “Math Mentor,” and “Sticker Whiz” available for selection. The screenshot describes the GPTs as assistants designed to help with writing feedback, recipes, homework help, and turning your ideas into die-cut stickers.
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Source: Ars Technica – OpenAI introduces custom AI assistants called “GPTs” that play different roles
100 million people are using ChatGPT on a weekly basis, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced at its first-ever developer conference on Monday. From a report: Since releasing its ChatGPT and Whisper models via API in March, the company also now boasts over two million developers, including over 92 percent of Fortune 500 companies. OpenAI announced the figures as it detailed a range of new features, including a platform for building custom versions of ChatGPT to help with specific tasks and GPT-4 Turbo, a new model that has knowledge of world events up to April 2023 and which can fit the equivalent of over 300 pages of text in a single prompt.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – OpenAI Says ChatGPT Has 100 Million Weekly Users
Enlarge / Epic says launching Fortnite on Android without Google Play is as difficult as playing Fortnite while skydiving. OK, they didn’t literally say that, but work with me here… (credit: Epic Games)
Two years ago, Epic Games went to court to challenge what it called Apple’s monopolistic control of the iOS app marketplace. Now, as that trial crawls through the appeals process, Epic’s legal focus is moving to the other major mobile platform holder: Google.
The Epic v. Google trial, which starts today in a US district court in San Francisco, won’t be a precise rehashing of the issues laid out in that Apple trial. But while legal history won’t precisely repeat itself in the coming days and weeks, it will very likely rhyme.
Both of Epic Games’ antitrust cases date back to August 2020, when Epic flaunted iOS and Google Play App Store rules by hotfixing an “Epic Direct Payment” option into Fortnite‘s mobile in-game V-Bucks store. While Apple was the first to respond by removing the game from iOS that afternoon, Google followed suit just a few hours later by taking the game down from the Google Play Store. Epic was ready with lawsuits to instantly respond to both moves.
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Source: Ars Technica – Why today’s Epic v. Google trial is (and isn’t) a repeat of Epic v. Apple
This beginner’s guide explains the steps to install Debian 12 “Bookworm” with standalone and dual-boot systems.
The post Complete Guide to Installing Debian 12 ‘Bookworm’ With Dual Boot appeared first on Linux Today.
Source: Linux Today – Complete Guide to Installing Debian 12 ‘Bookworm’ With Dual Boot
A machine-learning tool can easily spot when chemistry papers are written using the chatbot ChatGPT, according to a study published on 6 November in Cell Reports Physical Science. From a report: The specialized classifier, which outperformed two existing artificial intelligence (AI) detectors, could help academic publishers to identify papers created by AI text generators. “Most of the field of text analysis wants a really general detector that will work on anything,” says co-author Heather Desaire, a chemist at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. But by making a tool that focuses on a particular type of paper, “we were really going after accuracy.”
Desaire and her colleagues first described their ChatGPT detector in June, when they applied it to Perspective articles from the journal Science. Using machine learning, the detector examines 20 features of writing style, including variation in sentence lengths, and the frequency of certain words and punctuation marks, to determine whether an academic scientist or ChatGPT wrote a piece of text. The findings show that “you could use a small set of features to get a high level of accuracy,” Desaire says. The findings suggest that efforts to develop AI detectors could be boosted by tailoring software to specific types of writing, Desaire says. “If you can build something quickly and easily, then it’s not that hard to build something for different domains.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – ‘ChatGPT Detector’ Catches AI-Generated Papers With Unprecedented Accuracy
Every week I play a very specific game. No, it’s not Halo (though I do occasionally play that), but the game where I desperately try to manage the storage space on my PC because of video games. Oh and if I go to my PS5, trying to curate a decent list of installed games also runs into problems. Same on Steam Deck. Same…
Source: Kotaku – Modern Warfare III and Starfield Highlight An Obnoxious Trend
Prioritizing a to-do list can be overwhelming—but, with the right system in place, it can become much less stressful. If you’re tired of your to-do list feeling such a heavy lift, try so simplify things and prioritize your tasks with the “Must, should, want” technique.
Source: LifeHacker – Use the ‘Must, Should, Want’ Method to Prioritize Your To-Do List
While the next revision of the C standard won’t see its formal publishing until the 2024 calendar year, the ISO C++ standards committee already decided on keeping “C23” as the informal name for this next major C update. As such, with today’s GCC 14 Git the -std=c23 compiler option for targeting C23 is now honored along with -std=gnu23 for the GNU dialect of C23…
Source: Phoronix – GCC 14 Now Honors The -std=c23 & -std=gnu23 Compiler Options For C23
If you are Apple Watch has recently had issues with its battery life, there may be some relief on its way. Sort of. Apple recently sent an internal memo with a few Apple Authorized Service Providers saying that a fix for some Apple Watches suffering from excessive battery drain after updating to WatchOS 10.1. was…
Source: Gizmodo – A Fix for Apple WatchOS 10.1 Battery Drain Issue Is ‘Coming Soon’
It’s almost impossible to imagine it now, but city builders were once PC gaming royalty with Maxis’ SimCity 2000 moving over 4 million copies. These days, the mantle of SimCity has almost entirely been handed off to Colossal Order’s Cities: Skylines. That game just got a sequel, but unfortunately instead of the wide acclaim that publisher
Source: Hot Hardware – Cities: Skylines 2 Autopsy Reveals The Reason For Its Terrible Performance
After returning from a large, exclusive party over the weekend, some Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT owners are complaining about severe eye pain, skin burns, and poor vision potentially caused by powerful UV lights used at the event. Some folks have reported the pain was so bad they had to go to the hospital for treatment.
Source: Kotaku – Bored Ape NFT Partygoers Blame UV Lights For Burned Eyes And Skin
If you have an anime fan on your holiday gift list—or even someone you think might want to get into anime—Crunchyroll, which just launched a linear channel and a Prime Video channel, would like to help you out. The anime purveyor is launching Crunchyroll Fan Shops in over 2,400 Walmart stores across the U.S.
Source: Gizmodo – Crunchyroll Is Launching 2,400 Pop-Up Shops This Holiday Season
At least 15 visitors at Yuga Labs’ ApeFest, a celebration of the marvels of Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs, may have experienced serious eye injuries. Bloomberg reports that multiple people attending the NFT event in Hong Kong last weekend say they experienced vision problems, which they suspect stem from the event’s stage lighting. Some of the attendees claim doctors subsequently diagnosed them with photokeratitis (aka “welder’s eye”), caused by exposure to ultraviolet rays.
“Woke up in the middle of the night after ApeFest with so much pain in my eyes that I had to go to the hospital,” the user Crypto June posted on X (via Coin Telegraph). “Doctor told me it was due to the UV from stage lights.” User @docwagmi suspected that the “ape friends” reporting problems appeared to have been “up close with us front stage.”
Meanwhile, Adrian Zduńczyk wrote on X, “To all my friends who suffer now: go get your eyes checked. You’ve likely most literally got your eyes burnt with UV like I did, which requires medications, eye drops, eye protection, antibiotics and specialist care. Don’t ignore this health hazard. Without proper treatment, it may cause long lasting vision impairment and other serious damage.” Zduńczyk wrote that seeking medical attention quickly appears to have spared him long-term damage. “My vision was tested as close to perfect with no serious cornea damage, luckily.”
Yuga Labs briefly addressed the issue on X, saying it’s “aware of the eye-related issues that affected some of the attendees of ApeFest,” while claiming it’s “proactively reaching out to individuals since yesterday to try and find the potential root causes.” The company downplayed the number of people reporting issues, adding, “Based on our estimates, we believe that much less than 1% of those attending and working the event had these symptoms.” The NFT company advised attendees experiencing symptoms to “seek medical attention just in case.”
X users seemed none too pleased with Yuga Labs’ PR response:
From the PR team:
– Guys completely downplay it, make it look like a small number, eg… less than 1%
– Make it look like you’re actively helping and solving
– Try to ‘Find’ the ‘Potential’ root causes, even though we know exactly what it wasBruh
— Shad (@madladshad) November 6, 2023
Fixed the post for you pic.twitter.com/KcFSQzXU1S
— ZachXBT (@zachxbt) November 6, 2023
The potentially dangerous incident echoes one in 2017 when attendees of a HypeBeast party reported eye damage. The event’s DJ later reported that the lighting contractor used Philips bulbs that emit UV-C, often used as a disinfectant.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/bored-ape-nft-event-at-least-15-attendees-reporting-severe-eye-burn-welders-eye-173746237.html?src=rss
Source: Engadget – Bored Ape NFT event leads to at least 15 attendees reporting severe eye burn
At least 15 visitors at Yuga Labs’ Apefest, a celebration of the marvels of Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs, may have experienced serious eye injuries. Bloomberg reports that multiple people attending the NFT event in Hong Kong last weekend say they experienced vision problems, which they suspect stemmed from the event’s stage lighting. Some of the attendees claim doctors subsequently diagnosed them with photokeratitis (aka “welder’s eye”), caused by exposure to ultraviolet (UV) light.
“Woke up in the middle of the night after Apefest with so much pain in my eyes that I had to go to the hospital,” the user Crypto June posted on X (via Coin Telegraph). “Doctor told me it was due to the UV from stage lights.” User @docwagmi suspected that the “ape friends” reporting problems appeared to have been “up close with us front stage.”
Meanwhile, Adrian Zduńczyk wrote on X, “To all my friends who suffer now: go get your eyes checked. You’ve likely most literally got your eyes burnt with UV like I did, which requires medications, eye drops, eye protection, antibiotics and specialist care. Don’t ignore this health hazard. Without proper treatment, it may cause long lasting vision impairment and other serious damage.” Zduńczyk wrote that seeking medical attention quickly appears to have spared him long-term damage. “My vision was tested as close to perfect with no serious cornea damage, luckily.”
Yuga Labs briefly addressed the issue on X, saying it’s “aware of the eye-related issues that affected some of the attendees of ApeFest,” while claiming it’s “proactively reaching out to individuals since yesterday to try and find the potential root causes.” The company downplayed the number of people reporting issues, adding, “Based on our estimates, we believe that much less than 1% of those attending and working the event had these symptoms.” The NFT company advised attendees experiencing symptoms to “seek medical attention just in case.”
X users seemed none too pleased with Yuga Labs’ PR response:
From the PR team:
– Guys completely downplay it, make it look like a small number, eg… less than 1%
– Make it look like you’re actively helping and solving
– Try to ‘Find’ the ‘Potential’ root causes, even though we know exactly what it wasBruh
— Shad (@madladshad) November 6, 2023
Fixed the post for you pic.twitter.com/KcFSQzXU1S
— ZachXBT (@zachxbt) November 6, 2023
The potentially dangerous incident echoes one in 2017 when attendees of a HypeBeast party reported eye damage. The event’s DJ later reported that the lighting contractor used Philips bulbs that emit UV-C, often used as a disinfectant.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/blind-apes-nft-party-leads-to-reports-of-welders-eye-from-stage-lighting-173746164.html?src=rss
Source: Engadget – Blind Apes: NFT party leads to reports of ‘welder’s eye’ from stage lighting
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Something unexpected happened as I looked down to watch two Mercedes-Benz EVs crash into each other: I felt… scared.
It was the culmination of a day spent with Mercedes-Benz discussing the company’s plans to fully prevent serious injuries in its vehicles and the first time an automaker publicly conducted a crash test between two EVs, in this case with a select group of journalists in attendance. Witnessing two cars smash into each other would be, at the very least, very exciting.
But I didn’t expect to feel my stomach drop in the moment of impact and the dread that lingered after. The experience hammered home the importance of all the safety measures automakers implement in the cars we spend our lives with and how much work goes into engineering the successful outcomes we hope we never have to experience firsthand.
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Source: Ars Technica – The brutality of this EV crash test was shocking, but both cars passed
