Month: January 2025

Es geht in dem Rechtsstreit um Tesla-Aktien, die derzeit rund 100 Milliarden US-Dollar wert sind. Ursprünglich sollte Elon Musk 2,6 Milliarden US-Dollar bekommen. (Elon Musk, Rechtsstreitigkeiten)

Jackery hat Solarziegel vorgestellt, die sich an klassischen Dachpfannendesigns orientieren. Das könnte Streitigkeiten wegen der Optik verhindern. (Solarenergie, Technik/Hardware)

Mittels KI-Technik will Disney Werbeblöcke ausspielen, die abhängig vom gezeigten Inhalt ausgewählt werden. Das soll mehr Geld einspielen. (CES 2025, Onlinewerbung)

Xpeng Aeroht bringt mit dem Land Aircraft Carrier ein Auto, das ein kleines Flugzeug mit sich herumträgt. (Flugauto, Auto)

The people overseeing the security of Google’s Chrome browser explicitly forbid third-party extension developers from trying to manipulate how the browser extensions they submit are presented in the Chrome Web Store. The policy specifically calls out search-manipulating techniques such as listing multiple extensions that provide the same experience or plastering extension descriptions with loosely related or unrelated keywords.

On Wednesday, security and privacy researcher Wladimir Palant revealed that developers are flagrantly violating those terms in hundreds of extensions currently available for download from Google. As a result, searches for a particular term or terms can return extensions that are unrelated, inferior knockoffs, or carry out abusive tasks such as surreptitiously monetizing web searches, something Google expressly forbids.

Not looking? Don’t care? Both?

A search Wednesday morning in California for Norton Password Manager, for example, returned not only the official extension but three others, all of which are unrelated at best and potentially abusive at worst. The results may look different for searches at other times or from different locations.

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The Italian government is considering the purchase of satellite Internet services from SpaceX's Starlink constellation, and the potential deal has triggered controversy along political, economic, and spaceflight lines in Europe.

The story was initially broken by Bloomberg on Sunday, which reported that Italy is in "advanced talks" with SpaceX to purchase $1.6 billion worth of secure telecommunication services from SpaceX. The publication said an agreement, for which talks began in mid-2023, had been stalled until Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni visited President-elect Donald Trump in Florida recently.

This report set off a firestorm of responses that highlight the increasing sensitivity of European countries to partnering with SpaceX—the success of which has put serious pressure on Europe's launch industry—as well as the Trump administration and SpaceX founder Elon Musk.

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It's pretty easy to see the problem here: The Internet is brimming with misinformation, and most large language models are trained on a massive body of text obtained from the Internet.

Ideally, having substantially higher volumes of accurate information might overwhelm the lies. But is that really the case? A new study by researchers at New York University examines how much medical information can be included in a large language model (LLM) training set before it spits out inaccurate answers. While the study doesn't identify a lower bound, it does show that by the time misinformation accounts for 0.001 percent of the training data, the resulting LLM is compromised.

While the paper is focused on the intentional "poisoning" of an LLM during training, it also has implications for the body of misinformation that's already online and part of the training set for existing LLMs, as well as the persistence of out-of-date information in validated medical databases.

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Just when you thought you had seen every possible Doom mod, two game developers released a free browser game that reimagines the first level of 1993's Doom as an art gallery, replacing demons with paintings and shotguns with wine glasses.

Doom: The Gallery Experience, created by Filippo Meozzi and Liam Stone, transforms the iconic E1M1 level into a virtual museum space where players guide a glasses-wearing Doomguy through halls of fine art as classical music plays in the background. The game links each displayed artwork to its corresponding page on the Metropolitan Museum of Art's website.

"In this experience, you will be able to walk around and appreciate some fine art while sipping some wine and enjoying the complimentary hors d’oeuvres," write the developers on the game's itch.io page, "in the beautifully renovated and re-imagined E1M1 of id Software's DOOM (1993)."

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Astrohaus has been selling portable, distraction-free writing devices under the Freewrite brand for years. Most have been described as portable typewriters or modern takes on word processor hardware. But the new Freewrite Wordrunner is something different: instead of a standalone device, it’s a mechanical keyboard designed for use with PCs or mobile devices. Astrohaus is debuting […]

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UGREEN entered the network-attached-storage space in 2024 with a robust lineup of NAS systems covering a wide range of price points and hardware capabilities. While Ian was underwhelmed with the company’s work-in-progress software when he reviewed the NASync DXP480T Plus in September, the hardware itself is priced rather competitively and it turns out you can install […]

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