Month: September 2024
Nintendo jumps on AI images of Mario shared on X
The free-for-all of AI image creation on X had a rude wakeup this week when Nintendo’s copyright infringement hunter Tracer, as first reported by the Verge, laid takedown notices on several users who had shared images of Mario built using X’s Grok-2 AI model. Tracer sent dozens of users the notices under…
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Intel is releasing another microcode update to protect crashing Raptor Lake CPUs
While there’s still no fix for chips that are already crashing, the company is now releasing microcode update 0x12B to motherboard manufacturers to help prevent one of the root causes of damage. In this case, it prevents the Intel CPU from asking for too much power when it’s just sitting…
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Blue Origin gets its New Glenn rocket on track with new test fire
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket hit a significant milestone this week, completing its first second-stage hot fire test that validates the interactions between the subsystems, its two BE-3U engines, and the ground control systems. The test lasted for 15 seconds and allowed the launch operations team to practice launch procedures…
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OpenAI’s for-profit switch could include equity for Sam Altman
Open AI describes its business structure as “a partnership between our original Nonprofit and a new capped profit arm,” which has been a contributing factor in last year’s short-lived board coup against CEO Sam Altman and a recent lawsuit by co-founder Elon Musk. But that’s reportedly set to change along…
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Just 5,000 people use the Rabbit R1 every day
Pour one out for the Rabbit R1. Only 5,000 people of the 100,000 who bought the orange AI gadget are still using it daily, five months after it launched. That’s straight from the mouth of Rabbit founder Jesse Lyu, who gave the number to Fast Company while explaining that the…
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Someone built a system with Intel’s first CPU that’s half a century old, and it can boot Linux – if you have a spare week to wait
Wish your PC booted up faster? Well, if you think your computer has a sluggish startup time, how about waiting the best part of a week for the machine to boot? That’s the length of time a Linux PC powered by an ancient Intel CPU will keep you tapping your…
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