At long last, the GTA VI rumor mill can slow down. Rockstar Games officially announced the sequel in February 2022, but the studio just confirmed that a trailer for the long-awaited crime sim sequel will arrive on December 5. As we gear up for GTA VI‘s reveal, we at Kotaku have just one question: What do y’all want to…
Source: Kotaku – Kotaku Asks: What Do You Want To See From GTA 6?
Support for NVIDIA graphics processors has traditionally been a sore point
for Linux users; NVIDIA has not felt the need to cooperate with the kernel
community or make free drivers available, and the reverse-engineered
Nouveau driver has often struggled to keep up with product releases. There
have, however, been signs of improvement in recent years. At the 2023 Linux
Plumbers Conference, graphics subsystem maintainer Dave Airlie provided
an update on the state of support for NVIDIA GPUs and what remains to be
done.
Source: LWN.net – [$] A Nouveau graphics driver update
After a surge in desktop and laptop shipments during the pandemic when working from home became the norm, it’s been a bit of a tough landscape for the PC industry as things settled down. However, a rebound is in sight. According to the fortune tellers at Canalys, “worldwide PC shipments are on the verge of a recovery” after seeing shipments
Source: Hot Hardware – PC Market Is On The Cusp Of A Big Rebound Thanks To AI And Santa Claus
Perplexing name aside, the Sony WH-1000XM5 is our favorite pair of wireless headphones for most people, and now the noise-canceling cans are back on sale for $328. This deal has popped up multiple times in the past year, most recently during the many Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales held over the course of November, but it still takes $72 off Sony’s list price. While there’ve been a few steeper discounts since the headphones arrived in May 2022, we don’t see them with much regularity. This offer is available at Amazon, Adorama and B&H; Sony also has it for $2 more.
Engadget Senior News Editor and audio expert Billy Steele gave the WH-1000XM5 a score of 95 in his review last year. This pair’s active noise cancellation (ANC) is still among the better options we’ve tested, and its lightweight, well-constructed design should be comfortable for most to wear over extended periods. Battery life sits at a decent 30 or so hours per charge, the built-in mics are perfectly solid for phone calls and the whole thing can connect to two devices at once. The default sound profile emphasizes the bass, so it’ll work best with hip-hop and pop music, though you can rein that in to something more neutral if you’re willing to use the EQ tools in Sony’s app. That app is home to a few other useful bonus features as well, including “Speak to Chat,” which automatically pauses whatever you’re playing when you start speaking.
The XM5 isn’t without flaws: The design can’t fold up (unlike the older Sony XM4s), and you can’t manually adjust the strength of the ANC to the extent that you can on other pairs. Bose’s QuietComfort Ultra delivers more powerful ANC on the whole, while Apple’s AirPods Max can still offer more conveniences to iPhone owners. You can get better sound for the money, too. Taken as a complete package, however, the XM5 remains our top pick.
If you want a pair of noise-canceling earphones, meanwhile, the Sony WF-1000XM5 has dropped back to $248. Again, that’s a deal we’ve seen for much of the last month, but it matches the price we saw on Black Friday. The WF model tops our guide to the best wireless earbuds, as it provides most of the features noted above in an in-ear design that isolates a good chunk of outside noise even when the ANC isn’t turned on.
Follow @EngadgetDeals on Twitter and subscribe to the Engadget Deals newsletter for the latest tech deals and buying advice.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/sonys-wh-1000xm5-headphones-are-back-on-sale-for-328-160516896.html?src=rss
Source: Engadget – Sony’s WH-1000XM5 headphones are back on sale for 8
For years, India’s tech graduates could bank on a job offer from one of the country’s IT giants. Now those starting positions are suddenly waning, leaving hundreds of thousands in peril and creating a fresh headache for Prime Minister Narendra Modi. From a report: Infosys and Wipro were among companies that shocked students nationwide last month, saying they were cutting college recruitment as demand for their services cooled across the globe. […] The unusual pullback from the $245 billion industry risks exacerbating youth unemployment in the world’s most populous nation, a potential scar on Modi’s ambitious plan to keep India growing at a fast clip and make it the third-biggest economy during his reign. The high-profile problem of youth joblessness also gives the opposition another rallying point ahead of next year’s elections, in which Modi is trying to snag a third term that would extend his tenure to 15 years.
The tech-services industry is one of the largest employers in India, and accounts for 7.5% of the South Asian country’s more than $3 trillion economy. The biggest tech companies have each traditionally hired tens of thousands of tech graduates every year, then rigorously trained them for tasks such as writing software for some of the world’s biggest enterprises ranging from Apple to PepsiCo. The IT companies hired particularly aggressively in the past two years as the pandemic prompted customers to spend on services and technologies enabling remote working. The top two IT companies, Tata Consultancy Services and Infosys, hired more than 284,000 graduates over that period combined. Now the uncertainty caused by Russia’s attack on Ukraine as well as high global inflation and interest rates are causing customers around the world to hold off on spending. Meanwhile, technologies such as artificial intelligence are increasingly performing tasks previously handled by entry-level IT workers.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Vanishing Graduate Tech Jobs Worsen Modi’s Headache Before Elections
Publisher EA has been making it easier for developers to implement accessibility features by making many of them free for other developers to use. Now, the company is expanding that toolset with a patent to help folks with epilepsy and other forms of light sensitivity.
Source: Kotaku – EA Is Making An Awesome New Innovation Open-Source
If it seems like Disney+ changes their plans faster than Marvel puts out new series, that’s because it’s not far from the truth. The entire streaming industry is going through a period of price changes, ad-supported tiers, and crackdowns on password sharing. In the mix, Disney+ has a new pricing structure, and more plans than ever to contend with.
If you want to keep Disney+ around to watch kids’ shows, content from Disney networks like ABC, or to catch up on the Marvel Expanded Universe when you get a moment, here are all your current options.
Disney+ now has two main plans.
The Disney+ Basic plan runs $7.99 per month, and you can stream everything on Disney+, but with ads. This plan does not offer a yearly discounted rate, and you can’t download content offline.
The Disney+ Premium plan now starts at $13.99 per month, or $139.99 per year. With it, you can stream everything on Disney+ with no ads, and you’ll be able to download content for offline viewing.
If there’s one thing Disney loves, it’s bundles of all their streaming services. Here are all the available options:
Disney Bundle Duo Basic: For $9.99 per month, you’ll get Disney+ (with ads) and Hulu (with ads).
Disney Bundle Duo Premium: For $9.99 per month, you can access Disney+ and Hulu, both without ads.
Disney Bundle Trio Basic: For $14.99 per month, you can get Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+, but all with ads.
Disney Bundle Trio Premium: For $24.99 per month, you’ll get all of Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+. While Disney+ and Hulu are ad free, ESPN+ will still show ads. This tier also supports offline downloads.
Speaking of bundles, Disney+ and Hulu will soon be available in the same app. The current plan is to combine both services under the same program sometime in December.
The above prices are updated for November 2023, including Disney+’s recent $3 hike in price for the ad-free plan. If you’re ready to sign up, head over to the Disney+ website to create your account.
Source: LifeHacker – Here’s How Much the Different Disney+ Plans Will Cost You
Whether you are looking to upgrade your home theater for the holidays or find the perfect gift for someone, Amazon’s running deals that are hard to pass up. You can save up to 42% off the regular price on brands such as TCL, Amazon Fire, Hisense, and LG, netting you big savings on big TVs.
Leading us off today, we have the headliner Hisense
Source: Hot Hardware – TV Deals At Amazon Surge With Big Holiday Savings Up To 42%
Tesla’s highly anticipated Cybertruck made its retail debut by blowing the doors off a Porsche 911, and doing it while towing a Porsche. Elon Musk shared the video of the race about an hour after the first customer received their very own Cybertruck.
Tesla’s Cybertruck has seen its share of highs and lows throughout the process of its production.
Source: Hot Hardware – Watch Tesla’s Cybertruck Beat A Porsche 911 In A Drag Race…While Towing A Porsche
Enlarge / This image shows the Uni Wheel concept in three different stages of articulation. (credit: Hyundai)
We like weird new engineering ideas here at Ars, and today we have a particularly interesting one in the realm of electric cars. It’s called the Uni Wheel, and it has been designed by Hyundai and Kia as a way to revolutionize the layout of an EV powertrain to more efficiently use space. In fact, the automakers say it’s not just for cars—the new drive system works with wheel sizes as small as four inches to as large as 25 inches.
For EV enthusiasts of a certain bent, there’s something a little inefficient about the way virtually every EV powertrain is laid out.
Not the battery in the middle, though—while it’s bulky and raises the overall height of EVs, it makes sense for weight distribution, although people working on structural carbon-fiber batteries have some different ideas about that. The problem is the EV drive unit, a bulky thing that contains the electric motor, some gearing, and usually some power electronics. These take up room between the axles and have to be packaged around.
Read 5 remaining paragraphs | Comments
Source: Ars Technica – Hyundai and Kia completely rethink the EV drive unit with Uni Wheel idea
Turtle Beach is set to release the Stealth Ultra Wireless Smart Game Controller, a wireless controller that’s specifically designed for Xbox. That said, the controller will not be limited to Xbox—gamers playing on PC or Android based devices will also be able to use what Turtle Beach considers to be its top tier offering.
According to Turtle
Source: Hot Hardware – Turtle Beach’s Wireless Stealth Ultra Game Controller Aims To Defeat Stick Drift For Good
Enlarge / Containers with cut cantaloupe in a cooler case. (credit: Getty | Ben Hasty)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning everyone in the country to back away from pre-cut cantaloupe unless you’re certain the fruit in question is not tied to a large, nationwide Salmonella outbreak that is unusually severe.
So far, 117 cases of infection across 34 states have been identified in the outbreak. The cases are in people ranging from infants to the elderly, including a 100-year-old. Of the cases, 61 (52 percent) have been hospitalized, and two deaths have been reported in Minnesota.
The CDC attributes the unusually high hospitalization rate to the fact that the pre-cut fruit was served at long-term care facilities and childcare centers. The elderly and young children are at higher risk of severe Salmonella illness.
Read 4 remaining paragraphs | Comments
Source: Ars Technica – Severe outbreak tied to cantaloupe sickens 117 in 34 states; half hospitalized
The long-awaited sci-fi strategy sequel Homeworld 3 at last has a release date. It’s now slated to arrive on March 8. That’s another slight delay, given the February release window that developer Blackbird Interactive and publisher Gearbox were aiming for, but at least there’s now a concrete date. Those who pick up the Fleet Command edition, meanwhile, will get access 72 hours earlier.
In a short behind-the-scenes video, Blackbird CEO and co-founder Rob Cunningham said this was “really our original dream of Homeworld 2. The problem was, in the late ’90s, early 2000s, the vision for Homeworld 3 was utterly impossible to make.” Homeworld 2 debuted in 2003. Cunningham noted that Blackbird had to wait 20 years to achieve the kind of scale and scope it wanted.
The team has revealed a few more details about what’s in store. Players will have a choice between the classic Homeworld control scheme or a more modern setup that should be familiar to fans of other real-time strategy games or MOBAs — you’ll just need to click on an element in the environment to get there. There’s also a focus on cover-based tactics. You can use a larger ship to protect yourself or even flank enemies.
Launch sequence initiated. Homeworld 3 is set for arrival on March 8, 2024.
Get a closer look at how powerful visuals and unique mechanics came together to create the immersive sci-fi strategy experience fans have been waiting for.
Pre-order now: https://t.co/rbs3Dtk9yJ pic.twitter.com/AGCakm1oZo
— Homeworld (@HomeworldGame) November 30, 2023
Comedy is subjective, and it’s nearly impossible to categorically gainsay anyone else’s taste. Unintentional comedy, though? That’s universal. Let’s face it: From the crudest of us to the most outwardly noble, we all love a fiasco, as long as we’re on the proper end of things.
Jokes that are meant to be jokes flop at least as often as they succeed, but nothing generates laughs as consistently as a failed attempt at being serious. That’s because we are, all of us, awful humans who delight in the failures of people who aren’t us. Might as well accept it, and enjoy a series of movies that each tried their best, god bless ’em. In failing, they all succeeded in ways their creators never imagined. Here are 20 of the most unintentionally funny movies you should definitely watch, but only in the right mindset.
Director Roger Christian has an Oscar thanks to his art direction work on the original Star Wars, but he only took home a Golden Raspberry for his work directing John Travolta’s $50 million Church of Scientology fundraiser. In the year 3000, Earth is ruled over by the Psychlos, aliens who look humans but for their very tall heads. It’s badly acted, cheap-looking, and ugly, with a color palette that ranges from dirt brown to urine yellow. But hey, at least the plot’s incoherent! All that having been said, if you can’t laugh at John Travolta and Forest Whittaker arguing over the fate of humanity in giant drag queen wigs, you have no sense of fun.
Where to stream: Vix
Christopher Walken’s abysmal Irish accent alone would earn this movie a spot, with Emily Blunt and Jamie Dornan likewise trying hard and achieving very little by way of authenticity. The rom-com plot is mostly unexceptional, dealing with two people on adjacent farms who stick around for no particularly good reason until they get together…also for no particularly good reason. It’s all pretty bland, but you definitely have a reason to stay, and it’s for the completely out-of-nowhere, utterly ludicrous, twist magical ending.
Where to stream: Hulu
Speaking of Jamie Dornan! The weird, BDSM-lite (very lite) cultural phenomenon that was 50 Shades came to the screen with Dornan and Dakota Johnson, exploring a pairing intended to scandalous and titillating, even though it never feels like they’re in entirely the same movie. He’s glowering and self-serious every moment, while she’s mousy and quirky, looking at all times as if she was supposed to be in the rom-com filming next door. Except that movie wouldn’t give her dialogue like “What are butt plugs?” As if the definition isn’t right there in the name!
Where to stream: Max
Joel Schumacher was certainly aware of the kind of campy, queer, and idiosyncratic movie he was making here, but the intent was to blend superhero thrills with comedy. Instead it’s pretty much all funny, except for when it’s trying to be. The actual “jokes” about chicks digging the car and the Bat credit card don’t land at all, but the prominently nippled batsuits and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s groaners elicit plenty of derisive laughs.
Where to stream: Max, Prime Video
There’s an intentional B-movie charm to this M. Night Shyamalan film, even though the twist reveal is the lamest of the writer/director’s career, but I also don’t believe it’s nearly as intentional as some of its defenders have argued. Certainly the movie’s excessive seriousness with regard to its premise (a mysterious suicide epidemic) makes it, at least occasionally, a real howler. A scene, for example, of “terrorist” lions slowly eating a zoo worker is meant to be shocking, but mostly just feels silly. And based on his other movies, Shyamalan doesn’t exactly strike me as a hilarious dude.
Where to stream: Digital rental
Start with the fact it isn’t actually a sequel and includes no actual trolls, and we’re already in unintentionally funny territory. Director and writer Claudio Fragasso’s film adapts a story from his wife, Rosella Drudi, who wanted to make a serious artistic statement about how obnoxious vegetarians are—the goblins here force their victims to eat food that turns them into a kind of vegetable paste, which is totally something a vegetarian would do. During filming, the cast spoke mostly English while the crew mostly only spoke Italian, complicating production of what was apparently intended to be a serious horror movie. One that involves a scene of a kid saving the day by pissing all over the dinner table.
Where to stream: Tubi, Hoopla, Kanopy
Roadhouse lands right in between Dirty Dancing and Ghost in Patrick Swayze’s career, which makes the gloriously low-rent blend of action and romantic drama even more fascinating. When he’s not involved in smoldering love scenes with Kelly Lynch, bouncer Swayze is battling Ben Gazzara for control of the titlular dive bar…for some reason. With incoherently macho dialogue to spare (what does “dig a hole” even mean? How about “pain don’t hurt”?), but the coup de grace involves our hero ripping the trachea out of another dude’s throat. Funnier than it sounds.
Where to stream: Max
Unhappy with your not-so-smart TV? Looking for a new streaming device? Here are your best bets:
Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Max $39.99
Roku Express 4K+ $24.95
Roku Ultra $69
The first 40 minutes or so of director James Nguyen’s film are spent introducing a couple of characters who don’t have nearly enough depth nor backstory to justify that time. Rod is a business-type guy who’s a whiz at PowerPoint presentations. Nathalie is a successful fashion model doing high-end photoshoots in what appear to be converted closets. When we finally get some bird action going, we’re treated to scenes of flying predators who kill by aimlessly floating in front of their victims while we’re encouraged to imagine ripping and slashing. That’s all before we learn that they’re doing it because fossil fuels kinda suck. Which is true. It might all sound like intentional comedy, but Nguyen had serious goals, and was inspired by both Hitchcock’s The Birds, and Al Gore’s documentary An Inconvenient Truth…the mash-up you never knew you needed. His intentionally satirical sequel isn’t nearly as funny as this one.
Where to stream: Peacock, Tubi, Freevee, Redbox, Plex
Hayden Christensen, a reasonably talented actor in pretty much anything else, is brought low by the second Star Wars prequel. We’re meant to find Anakin Skywalker’s tragic course heartbreaking, but instead find ourselves hoping for James Earl Jones to show up so we can move past the future Darth Vader’s whiny, petulant phase. If there’s anything funnier in the saga than the young Jedi’s pointless and uninvited discourse about sand, I haven’t found it.
Where to stream: Disney+
Look, I know that it’s the movie that opened up a national discussion about child abuse…but there’s no universe in which a woman in a collagen mask having that big of a freakout over metal hangers won’t be a hoot. Faye Dunaway hams it up to delicious effect.
Where to stream: Max
The title here is all over the place, with an abbreviation usually reserved for court cases and a colon leading into an allusion to the next movie in the series. Highlights include a dramatic moment that turns on Lex Luthor’s peepee, Batman suddenly developing dream powers that allow him to glimpse scenes from upcoming sequels, and the movie’s titular conflict resolving itself when the heroes remember that their moms have the same name.
Where to stream: Max, Prime Video
As dramatized in Tim Burton’s Oscar-winning biopic, B-movie director Ed Wood possessed tremendous energy, confidence, and precious little self-awareness—a winning combo, in this case. There’s just the hint of a plot in this legedarily bad sci-fi yarn about aliens invading earth by resurrecting the dead, but we’re not here for the plot. Wrestler Tor Johnson appears, as does horror host Vampira and the legendary Bela Lugosi…sort of. Lugosi died during production, so we’re treated to Wood’s chiropractor filling in, waving a cape around for no good reason and in scenes that might be happening in broad daylight, the middle of the night, or both at once. A treasure, the whole thing.
Where to stream: Tubi, Freevee, Plex, Pluto, Mubi, Hoopla, The Roku Channel
The plot here is pretty much just E.T., (“MAC,” in the film, referring to the “Mysterious Alien Creature”), but with a much lower budget and more finely honed commercial instincts. Because Mac is also a reference to the Big Mac, as in the hamburger from primary sponsor McDonald’s, a fact we are never allowed to forget. The movie’s worst/best scene involves and elaborate, impromptu dance number inside a McDonald’s that includes a cameo from Ronald himself. As Paul Rudd taught us by sneaking the clip repeatedly onto Conan O’Brien’s talk show, there’s even some unexpected comedy in the form of an out-of-control wheelchair.
Where to stream: Prime Video, Tubi
The sheer outlandishness of much of what goes on in this movie has sparked a lot of discussion over the extent to which its comedy is intentional. Years after the fact, Nicholas Cage, who plays Edward Malus, said it was, but I’m not entirely convinced. “No, not the bees! Not the bees!” (in a scene during which Cage’s character is being tortured with bees, natch) is Nicholas Cage par excellence, and still has life as a meme, but my personal favorite moment is when Malus, disguised in a bear suit, sucker-punches a cultist leading a ritual. The movie is also dedicated to Johnny Ramone, for some reason. (I’ll say this: if the comedy was intentional, then director Neil LaBute wildly miscalculated the public’s interest in a folk horror human sacrifice satire.)
Where to stream: Digital rental
Paul W. S. Anderson (director of approximately 80 Resident Evil movies) heads into historical epic territory with mixed results (to be charitable). Kit Harrington is fine in the lead, while Keifer Sutherland is far less convincing as a Roman Senator; the mix of accents is frankly a little distracting. The movie has a very Michael Bay-lite style in its uneasy blend of CG action set pieces and very serious historical romance, summed up best during the fiery conclusion (spoiler: the town doesn’t make it) when a two lovers are dramatically encased in lava and immediately turn into statues as the music swells. Which is not how that works, but OK. Sure.
Where to stream: Netflix
A triumph of Michael Caine’s glorious “anything for a paycheck” era, the actor famously quipped of this movie: “I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific!” The briefly venerable Jaws franchise reached its nadir here, for sure, with the story of a shark coming to Amity for revenge against the widow and son of Roy Scheider’s character from the first two movies (Martin Brody having died offscreen). Ellen Brody decides to move to the Bahamas, because she clearly hasn’t had enough of the ocean by this point. No matter: the shark follows her and has even learned to roar like a lion for some reason. Don’t be too sad about characters who get eaten, because there’s a good chance they’ll pop up again before the end. If you can forget it’s a sad end to the Jaws series, this one is a delightful shark-themed comedy.
Where to stream: Netflix
Matthew McConaughey plays Baker Dill, a fishing boat captain on a very on-the-nose quest for a giant yellowfin tune he has dubbed “Justice.” Anne Hathaway plays his scheming femme fatale of an ex-wife, who hires Dill to throw her current husband off of his ship. It’s all very noir-lite, and pretty retrograde in its treatment of its women characters, particularly Diane Lane’s Constance, who does nothing all movie but lay in her bungalow waiting for Dill to come over so she can pay him for sexr. But! That’s all before we realize we’re not in a noir movie, we’re in a science-fiction movie! Kinda! Or maybe it’s just a straight-up murder thriller? I love a good plot twist or two, but Serenity has so many of them it quickly steers the boat into batshit-infested waters. It’s supremely entertaining trash.
Where to stream: Digital rental
John Huston directs Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor in an adaptation of a Carson McCullers book. A prestige-y no-brainer, right? Instead, this is high-end melodrama all the way, with a blend of good performances and way over-the-top ones that make the whole thing feel like some sort of fever dream. The above video of the film’s final scene is a spoiler, of course, but watch it and try not to laugh; it captures the movie’s tonal misfires flawlessly. Major points for injecting queer themes into a Hollywood movie of the 1960s, but this was not the way.
Where to stream: Digital rental
Saturday Night Fever is remembered for its memorable disco dance sequences, but the film outside those moments had gritty 1970s realism—though it has come to signify disco’s garish ’70s heyday, it also tells a fairly down-to-earth story about a young man’s coming-of-age. Its sequel replaces all of that with a series of musical numbers with minimal connective tissue, none of which are superior to anything in the original, and all of which are pretty amusing. This ill-advised sequel is shot through with a very ’80s lack of irony or any modicum of self-awareness, and all the better for it. It’s like that friend you know who desperately wants to make it in theatre, even though they’re terrible. You feel a little bad about it, but sometimes you can’t help but laugh.
Where to stream: Paramount+
All unintentionally funny roads lead here, to Tommy Wiseau’s plot-impaired masterpiece of incoherent dialogue, indecipherable accents, and love scenes that will make you reconsider all ideas you’ve ever had about sex being in any way appealing. If you can figure out why it’s called “The Room,” other than the fact that several scenes are, indeed, set in rooms, please chime in.
Where to stream: I couldn’t not include it, but The Room is tragically not streaming anywhere. Grab a highlight reel from YouTube and you’ll get the idea.
Source: LifeHacker – 20 of the Most Unintentionally Funny Movies Ever
A US Federal Judge blocked a Montana law Thursday that would have banned TikTok in the state starting on January 1st, arguing the bill is unconstitutional on the basis that it violates users’ right to free speech.
Source: Gizmodo – US Judge Blocks Montana’s ‘Anti-Chinese’ TikTok Ban
Meta executives said there’s been no major drawbacks to openly sharing its AI technology, even as many peers take the opposite approach. From a report: Over the past few months, Meta has been releasing open-source versions of its large language models — the technology behind AI chatbots like ChatGPT. The idea is to keep those models free and then gain an advantage by building products and services on top of them, executives said at an event for the company’s AI research Lab FAIR. “There is really no commercial downside to also making it available to other people,” said Yann LeCun, Meta’s chief AI scientist. Meta has joined most of the world’s biggest technology companies in embracing generative AI, which can create text, images and even video based on simple prompts. But they aren’t taking the same path.
Many of the top AI developers, including OpenAI and Google’s DeepMind, don’t currently open-source their large language models. Companies are often fearful of opening up their work because competitors could steal it, said Mike Schroepfer, Meta’s senior fellow and former chief technology officer. “I feel like we’re approaching this world where everyone is closing down as it becomes competitively important,” he said. But staying open has its advantages. Meta can rely on thousands of developers across the world to help enhance its AI models.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Meta Says There’s Been No Downside To Sharing AI Technology
To the surprise of no one, a Five Nights at Freddy’s sequel is in the works. Tim Burton drops a new look at Beetlejuice 2 as filming wraps. Say hi to Godzilla and Kong in new Godzilla x Kong posters. Plus, another new look at the Kaiju No. 8 anime. To me, my spoilers!
Source: Gizmodo – Wyatt Russell Thinks Thunderbolts Is Doing Something Different to Other Marvel Movies
Miriway is an effort for bringing Wayland to desktops not currently having native Wayland support and is made possible via the Canonical-developed Mir. Miriway has been a side-project of Alan Griffiths as the lead Mir developer and today he published a blog post with more details for users interested in making use of it…
Source: Phoronix – Using Miriway For Empowering Xfce / MATE / LXQt & Other Desktops With Wayland
It’s no secret that the Xbox Series X hasn’t been selling great, and this holiday season Microsoft’s “next-gen” console is getting some huge discounts. For a brief period today, Amazon was selling the Starfield machine for as little as $350.
Source: Kotaku – Xbox Series X Briefly Selling For 0 In Biggest Discount Yet
Creating images with generative AI could use as much energy as charging your smartphone according to a new study Friday that measures the environmental impact of generative AI models for the first time. Popular models like ChatGPT’s Dall-E and Midjourney may produce more carbon than driving 4 miles.
Source: Gizmodo – Generating AI Images Uses as Much Energy as Charging Your Phone, Study Finds
