Author: Zach_Wilson
‘Dark oxygen’ discovered on the seafloor raises stakes for deep-sea mining negotiations
The discovery of “dark oxygen” in the ocean’s abyss is raising the stakes in negotiations over whether to mine the seafloor for battery materials — and how to protect sensitive marine life in the process. Rules for deep-sea mining have been at the heart of talks during the International Seabed…
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‘You are a helpful mail assistant,’ and other Apple Intelligence instructions
Apple’s latest developer betas launched last week with a handful of the generative AI features that were announced at WWDC and are headed to your iPhones, iPads, and Macs over the next several months. On Apple’s computers, however, you can actually read the instructions programmed into the model supporting some…
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OpenAI has an AI text detector but doesn’t want to release it
OpenAI has developed some new tools to detect content generated by ChatGPT and its AI models, but it isn’t going to deploy them just yet. The company has come up with a way to overlay AI-produced text with a kind of watermark. This embedded indicator might achieve the goal of…
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Safari’s new ‘Distraction Control’ feature lets you hide annoying cookie pop-ups
Apple is adding a new feature to Safari called “Distraction Control” that lets you remove distracting things like cookie preference pop-ups while you’re browsing, MacRumors reports. The new feature is available with the fifth iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia developer betas that launched on Monday. You can get…
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US v. Google: all the news from the search antitrust showdown
It’s Internet Explorer day in US v. Google! We’re a bit over an hour into Sundar Pichai’s testimony in US v. Google, and we’ve spent a surprising amount of the morning in a time machine back to 2005. That’s when Microsoft released Internet Explorer 7 (the browser a Pichai-led team…
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Judge rules that Google ‘is a monopolist’ in US antitrust case
A federal judge ruled that Google violated US antitrust law by maintaining a monopoly in the search and advertising markets. “After having carefully considered and weighed the witness testimony and evidence, the court reaches the following conclusion: Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its…
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