Engineer Restores Pay Phones For Free Public Use
An electrical engineer, Patrick Schlott, has restored old pay phones in Vermont for free public use to combat cellular dead zones. He modifies these phones, allowing free calls anywhere in…
ChatGPT Nears 700 Million Weekly Users, Up 4x From Last Year
Summary OpenAI’s ChatGPT is rapidly approaching 700 million weekly active users, a significant increase from 500 million reported in March, indicating a fourfold growth in a year. The growth encompasses…
The Uproar Over Vogue’s AI-generated Ad Isn’t Just About Fashion
The article discusses the controversy surrounding Vogue’s use of an AI-generated model in a Guess advertisement, highlighting the implications for the fashion industry and the movement towards digital modelling as…
CrowdStrike Investigated 320 North Korean IT Worker Cases In the Past Year
Summary CrowdStrike’s annual threat hunting report reveals that the company investigated over 320 cases of North Korean operatives pretending to be IT workers in the past year. Notably, this activity…
Hyundai To Help Build Nuclear-Powered Datacenter In Texas
Hyundai To Help Build Nuclear-Powered Datacenter In Texas Fermi America is planning to build a colossal AI datacenter complex in Amarillo, Texas, powered by up to six gigawatts of nuclear…
Rivian Sues To Sell Its EVs Directly In Ohio
Rivian Sues To Sell Its EVs Directly In Ohio Rivian has initiated a federal lawsuit in Ohio challenging a law that prevents it from selling electric vehicles directly to consumers.…
Disney Scrapped Deepfakes For Moana and Tron To Avoid ‘Bad Publicity’
Disney Scrapped Deepfakes For Moana and Tron To Avoid ‘Bad Publicity’ Disney has opted not to use deepfake technology featuring Dwayne Johnson in the upcoming live-action remake of Moana, as…
Google Agrees To Pause AI Workloads To Protect the Grid When Power Demand Spikes
Google Agrees To Pause AI Workloads To Protect the Grid When Power Demand Spikes Google will pause non-essential AI workloads to protect power grids amidst soaring demand during a heat…
Perplexity is Using Stealth, Undeclared Crawlers To Evade Website No-Crawl Directives, Cloudflare Says
AI startup Perplexity is allegedly using undeclared web crawlers that disguise themselves as standard browsers to access content on websites that have blocked their official bots. According to a report…
Microsoft Used China-Based Engineers to Support Product Recently Hacked by China
Microsoft Used China-Based Engineers to Support Product Recently Hacked by China Microsoft recently revealed that Chinese state-sponsored hackers exploited vulnerabilities in SharePoint, affecting numerous firms and government agencies. However, it…