Ford to Remove AM Radios from Most New Cars in 2024: According to the Detroit Free Press, Ford’s spokesperson Wes Sherwood said: “We are transitioning from AM radio for most new and updated 2024 models. A majority of U.S. AM stations, as well as a number of countries and automakers globally, are modernizing radio by offering internet streaming through mobile apps, FM, digital and satellite radio options. Ford will continue to offer these alternatives for customers to hear their favorite AM radio music, news and podcasts as we remove amplitude modulation — the definition of AM in this case —…
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Bill Ackman Argues AI-chatGPT Pause Allows “Bad Guys” to Catch Up: In response to a call by Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, and other tech and AI specialists to halt further development of AI systems for six months, hedge fund investor Bill Ackman has warned that this will allow the “bad guys” time to catch up. When more than a thousand people signed a petition urging that safety guidelines ought to be devised by independent overseers to guide the development of AI systems, Ackman, founder of Pershing Square Capital Management, made the comment. Shutting down AI development for six months gives…
After Elon Musk’s decision to make Twitter’s algorithm open source, a researcher claims to have discovered a mechanism that would enable government interference in the algorithm. According to Breitbart, on Friday Musk made good on his promise by posting a section of Twitter’s recommendation algorithm to the popular code-sharing platform GitHub, where developers can discuss and improve open-source projects together. Nevertheless, web engineer Steven Tey said he found a technique in the coding that the U.S. government may use to alter the website’s algorithm. “When needed, the government can intervene with the Twitter algorithm. In fact, @TwitterEng (Twitter Engineering) even…
On Thursday, NASA said that a new computer model using AI and agency satellite data might aid in preparing for hazardous space weather. DAGGER (Deep Learning Geomagnetic Perturbation) is a model that employs the technology to evaluate data collected by spacecraft in order to predict where on Earth a solar storm would have the most impact up to 30 minutes in advance. Researchers from around the world working together at the Frontier Development Lab have claimed that their model can make predictions in under a second, with updates occurring once every minute. NASA, the U.S. Geological Survey, and the U.S.…
After a data breach, Italy’s privacy authority has temporarily blocked the use of the AI program ChatGPT while it examines whether or not the company broke strict European Union data protection standards. The Italian Data Protection Authority has announced it would take temporary measures “until ChatGPT respects privacy,” including preventing the firm from processing the data of Italian users. OpenAI, a company located in the United States that created the chatbot, announced late on Friday night that it had blocked ChatGPT for Italian users per a request from the Italian authorities. The firm has stated that it is certain its…
Stop Gmail Hackers by Removing This Dangerous Extension: A malicious browser extension that targets Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and other Chromium-based browsers has been spreading via phishing emails and is now actively targeting Gmail accounts. Once installed, this dangerous extension may read your Gmail messages and infect even the most secure Android devices with malware. The campaign was discovered, as reported by BleepingComputer(opens in new tab), by the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the National Intelligence Service of South Korea, who released a joint statement warning others about it. Kimsuky (aka Thallium, Velvet Chollima) threat…
After Jack Ma dared criticize the Chinese Communist Party at a meeting in Shanghai in October 2020, he lost his respect in China and much of his riches. After the Shanghai event, Ma disappeared for roughly three months, during which time he was removed from all public events and websites, including the website for the TV show he had previously hosted. The normally upbeat billionaire was notably depressed when Ma made a return appearance. Meanwhile, the Chinese government conducted an antitrust investigation against Alibaba, and Ma’s mammoth finance firm, Ant Group, was fined more than $1 billion. The industry-wide crackdown…
The open letter calling for a six-month ban on the development of strong AI systems was criticized by an AI specialist with more than two decades of expertise in the field for not going far enough. Decision theorist and Machine Intelligence Research Institute employee Eliezer Yudkowsky recently argued in an opinion piece that the current six-month “pause” on building “AI systems more powerful than GPT-4” called for by Tesla CEO Elon Musk and hundreds of other innovators and experts understates the “severity of the predicament.” He would go further, implementing a moratorium on new large AI learning models that is…
Elon Musk and Tech Leaders Want a Massive AI Pause: In an open letter published Tuesday, Elon Musk and other tech leaders and AI, computer science, and other professionals asked premier artificial intelligence laboratories to halt the development of AI systems more capable than GPT-4, citing “deep hazards” to human society. Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque, and Sapiens author Yuval Noah Harari are among the 1,000 signatories of the Future of Life Institute’s open letter. It requires a public, verifiable, six-month stop in system training. “AI systems with human-competitive intelligence can pose profound risks to…
MacStealer Spyware Can Steal iCloud Passwords and Keychain Info: According to a study by cybersecurity firm Uptycs, which discovered the virus while conducting a dark web search, Mac machines are the newest targets of new information-stealing spyware. As the dark web is a hotbed for criminal activity and the development of new forms of malware, it should come as no surprise that hackers are specifically aiming at Macs. This is what we know at this time. To What End Does This New Spyware Work? MacStealer is a new piece of malware that can access and steal information from iCloud Keychains,…