Monthly Archives: November 2022

Farah Nayeri / New York Times: ICA Miami and other museums continue to collect and display NFTs even as the market sinks, arguing digital art has a long history and valuations are unimportant  —  ICA Miami owns a few, and M.F.A. Boston and others are selling them to reach new […]

Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg: Musk says Neuralink expects human trials to begin in about six months pending FDA approval, and unveils work on implants to treat paralysis and improve vision  —  Elon Musk’s Neuralink Corp. aims to start putting its coin-sized computing brain implant into human patients within six months […]

Wall Street Journal: How Twitter users in China have been circumventing the nation’s Great Firewall and fighting spam to get footage of protests out to the rest of the world  —  Chinese users employ VPNs to get videos and images out of the country, while fighting spam  —  Why Tesla’s […]

Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: OpenAI releases a demo of ChatGPT, a chatbot version of GPT-3 that answers follow-up questions, admits its mistakes, challenges incorrect premises, and more  —  A chatbot version of GPT-3 that admits its mistakes is more transparent than the original.  But it’s still not […]

Karissa Bell / Engadget: Twitter says it’s expanding recommended tweets to all users, including those who may not have seen them in the past  —  Twitter is now pushing more tweets from accounts users don’t already follow into their timelines.  The company revealed that it’s now surfacing recommendations to all […]

Joseph Menn / Washington Post: Mozilla’s Firefox and Microsoft’s Edge plan to stop trusting new certificates from TrustCor, after a report revealed TrustCor’s ties to a US defense contractor  —  TrustCor Systems is what’s known as a root certifcate authority, a key position in the internet infrastructure that guarantees a […]

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: LastPass says attackers accessed customers’ data after breaching its cloud storage using information stolen during a security incident in August 2022  —  LastPass says unknown attackers breached its cloud storage using information stolen during a previous security incident from August 2022.

Juli Clover / MacRumors: Elon Musk says he met with Tim Cook at Apple’s HQ on Wednesday, and that Cook was clear that Apple “never considered” removing Twitter from the App Store  —  Twitter CEO Elon Musk today met with Apple CEO Tim Cook at the Apple Park campus in […]

Jon Fingas / Engadget: Twitch unveils Shield Mode, which lets streamers and mods activate customizable safety measures with one click, mass ban chatters using specific terms, and more  —  Twitch has steadily added to its streamer safety measures, but they can still be a pain to use if a hate […]

Enlarge / An example of Disney’s FRAN age-changing AI that shows the original image on the left and re-aged rows of older (top, at age 65) and younger (lower, at age 18) examples of the same person. (credit: Disney) Disney researchers have created a new neural network that can alter […]