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The organization responsible for the PCIE Express standard has released a new specification for high-speed internal and external cables. The PCI-SIG says the new CopprLink Cable specification incorporates PCIe 5.0 and PCIe 6.0 capabilities at launch, …
The organization responsible for the PCIE Express standard has released a new specification for high-speed internal and external cables. The PCI-SIG says the new CopprLink Cable specification incorporates PCIe 5.0 and PCIe 6.0 capabilities at launch, but work is already underway on adding support for PCIe 7.0. While internal cables can measure up to 1 […]
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HMD may be ready to start selling smartphones under its own brand name, but the company that’s been responsible for most Nokia-branded phones to launch in recent years is keeping the Nokia name for its cheap dumb phones. Last month the company l…
HMD may be ready to start selling smartphones under its own brand name, but the company that’s been responsible for most Nokia-branded phones to launch in recent years is keeping the Nokia name for its cheap dumb phones. Last month the company launched three new models that won’t be sold in the US (since they’re […]
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Take the “Moral Turing Test” yourself to see whether you’d trust “artificial” moral advice.
Enlarge / Judging moral weights (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images)
When it comes to judging which large language models are the "best," most evaluations tend to look at whether or not a machine can retrieve accurate information, perform logical reasoning, or show human-like creativity. Recently, though, a team of researchers at Georgia State University set out to determine if LLMs could match or surpass human performance in the field of moral guidance.
In "Attributions toward artificial agents in a modified Moral Turing Test"—which was recently published in Nature's online, open-access Scientific Reports journal—those researchers found that morality judgments given by ChatGPT4 were "perceived as superior in quality to humans'" along a variety of dimensions like virtuosity and intelligence. But before you start to worry that philosophy professors will soon be replaced by hyper-moral AIs, there are some important caveats to consider.
For the study, the researchers used a modified version of a Moral Turing Test first proposed in 2000 to judge "human-like performance" on theoretical moral challenges. The researchers started with a set of 10 moral scenarios originally designed to evaluate the moral reasoning of psychopaths. These scenarios ranged from ones that are almost unquestionably morally wrong ("Hoping to get money for drugs, a man follows a passerby to an alley and holds him at gunpoint") to ones that merely transgress social conventions ("Just to push his limits, a man wears a colorful skirt to the office for everyone else to see.")
It sounds like the company is now blocking access from “bootleg” APKs.
Enlarge / The Rabbit R1. (credit: Rabbit Inc)
If you haven't heard of the Rabbit R1, this is yet another "AI box" that is trying to replace your smartphone with a voice command device that runs zero apps. Just like the Humane AI Pin, this thing recently launched and seems to be dead on arrival as a completely non-viable device that doesn't solve any real problems, has terrible battery life, and is missing big chunks of core functionality. Before the device fades into obscurity, though, Android Authority's Mishaal Rahman looked at the software and found the "smartphone replacement" device just runs a smartphone OS. It's Android—both an Android OS and Android app, just in a very limited $200 box.
OK, technically, we can't call it "Android" since that's a Google trademark that you only get access to after licensing Google Play. It runs AOSP (the Android Open Source Project codebase), which is the open source bits of Android without any proprietary Google code. The interface—which is mostly just a clock, settings screen, and voice input—is also just an Android app. Being a normal Android app means you can install it on an Android phone, and Rahman was able to get the Rabbit R1 software running on a Pixel 6. He even got the AI assistant to answer questions on the phone.
Rabbit Inc. does not sound happy about Rahman's discovery. The company posted on X that it is "aware there are some unofficial rabbit OS app/website emulators out there" and that since it does not want to support "third-party clients," a "local bootleg APK without the proper OS and Cloud endpoints won’t be able to access our service." The company describes its device as a "very bespoke AOSP and lower level firmware modifications," but that's a statement that would be true for many phones. In another statement to Rahman, the company threatens that "We reserve all rights for any malicious and illegal cyber security activities towards our services."
Court denies application for a stay but could still hear challenge to the law.
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The US Supreme Court yesterday denied a request to block a Texas law that requires age-verification systems on porn websites. The Supreme Court denial leaves in place, at least for now, an appeals court ruling that said Texas can enforce the law.
"The application for stay presented to Justice [Samuel] Alito and by him referred to the Court is denied," the one-sentence order issued yesterday said.
Pornhub disabled its website in Texas after the appeals court ruling in March. Pornhub and other websites owned by the same company have also gone dark in Arkansas, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, Utah, and Virginia in protest of similar laws.
Easy-to-use language that drove Apple, TRS-80, IBM, and Commodore PCs debuted in 1964.
Enlarge / Part of the cover illustration from "The Applesoft Tutorial" BASIC manual that shipped with the Apple II computer starting in 1981. (credit: Apple, Inc.)
Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That's when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the first program written in their newly developed BASIC (Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) programming language on the college's General Electric GE-225 mainframe.
Little did they know that their creation would go on to democratize computing and inspire generations of programmers over the next six decades.
In its most traditional form, BASIC is an interpreted programming language that runs line by line, with line numbers. A typical program might look something like this:
When Walmart launched its Onn 4K media streamer in 2021, the $30 box box was one of the cheapest Android TV devices available. The company followed up a few months later with an even cheaper 1080p model, and Walmart has released several updates since …
When Walmart launched its Onn 4K media streamer in 2021, the $30 box box was one of the cheapest Android TV devices available. The company followed up a few months later with an even cheaper 1080p model, and Walmart has released several updates since then that drop prices even lower, while adding support for new […]
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Feature currently only works on iPhones, and not iPads, Macs, or Apple Watches.
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If you've ever sent an iPhone in for repair, you might be familiar with the dance Apple asks you to do if your device still powers on: back up your data, then either erase the phone or disable the Find My feature so your phone can easily be serviced (or, if it's being exchanged for a new one, refurbished and resold). If you're also using the Stolen Device Protection and Security Delay feature introduced in iOS 17.3, this can be a pain, since you need to wait a full hour to turn Find My off after you make the request.
It looks like Apple is making some changes to that process in iOS 17.5, which is currently in beta testing. The update adds a new "repair state" mode that leaves the device functional while keeping both Find My and Activation Lock enabled. This means that iPhones swiped while in transit will still be trackable and that they'll still stay locked to your Apple ID so they can't easily be wiped and resold.
MacRumors has a good overview of the feature as it currently functions. You can set an iPhone to repair state mode by pulling it up in the Find My app and attempting to remove the device from your account while it’s still online and active. Rather than removing the device from your account, the app will offer to put it in the repair state instead; unlike when you try to disable Find My entirely, this doesn't trigger the one-hour Security Delay waiting period. If your phone is offline, Find My will offer to remove it from your account, as it currently does.
The devil, as always, is in the details.
Enlarge / EU Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton wants Europe to have its own secure satellite communications network. (credit: Thierry Monasse/Getty Images)
It has been 18 months since the European Union announced its intent to develop an independent satellite Internet constellation, and the plans appear to be heading into troubled waters.
In that time, a single bid—from a consortium of multinational companies that includes Airbus Defence and Space, Thales Alenia Space, and Arianespace—has emerged to build the network of a few hundred satellites. The companies are to build, launch, and deploy the network of satellites, intended as Europe's answer to SpaceX's Starlink satellite Internet service for connectivity and secure communications, by 2027.
However, the European Commission recently delayed the awarding of a contract to this consortium from March to an undetermined date. In April, Europe's Commissioner for Internal Market, Thierry Breton, said, “There is an independent committee which is working on the evaluation process. The work is being carried out extremely seriously." He did not say when this work would conclude.
Workers in animation, advertising, and real estate test rival AI systems.
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OpenAI has been showcasing Sora, its artificial intelligence video-generation model, to media industry executives in recent weeks to drum up enthusiasm and ease concerns about the potential for the technology to disrupt specific sectors.
The Financial Times wanted to put Sora to the test, alongside the systems of rival AI video generation companies Runway and Pika.
We asked executives in advertising, animation, and real estate to write prompts to generate videos they might use in their work. We then asked them their views on how such technology may transform their jobs in the future.
