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Cruise plans to pause all supervised and manual car trips in the US while undergoing a full safety review and will hire an outside safety expert (Reuters) 15-11-2023

Reuters: Cruise plans to pause all supervised and manual car trips in the US while undergoing a full safety review and will hire an outside safety expert  —  General Motors’ (GM.N) Cruise driverless car unit said on Tuesday it will pause all supervised and manual car trips in the U.S. and expand … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Intel patches a bug affecting virtually all modern Intel CPUs that lets code running inside a VM crash hypervisors, a risk to cloud providers in particular (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica) 15-11-2023

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Intel patches a bug affecting virtually all modern Intel CPUs that lets code running inside a VM crash hypervisors, a risk to cloud providers in particular  —  Among other things, bug allows code running inside a VM to crash hypervisors.  —  Intel on Tuesday pushed microcode updates to fix … Lees verder op Tech Meme

A profile of Holly Herndon, an artist and musician who uses AI in her work and has co-founded Spawning, a company to build a “consent layer for AI” for artists (Anna Wiener/New Yorker) 15-11-2023

Anna Wiener / New Yorker: A profile of Holly Herndon, an artist and musician who uses AI in her work and has co-founded Spawning, a company to build a “consent layer for AI” for artists  —  The artist and musician uses machine learning to make strange, playful work.  She also advocates for artists’ autonomy in a world shaped by A.I. Lees verder op Tech Meme

A look at some wrongful arrests in the US due to bad facial recognition matches, and how “automation bias” could lead police to ignore contradictory evidence (Eyal Press/New Yorker) 15-11-2023

Eyal Press / New Yorker: A look at some wrongful arrests in the US due to bad facial recognition matches, and how “automation bias” could lead police to ignore contradictory evidence  —  Too often, a facial-recognition search represents virtually the entirety of a police investigation. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Three young hackers behind Mirai talk about building the DDoS botnet, losing control of their monster, their work for the FBI as part of a plea deal, and more (Andy Greenberg/Wired) 15-11-2023

Andy Greenberg / Wired: Three young hackers behind Mirai talk about building the DDoS botnet, losing control of their monster, their work for the FBI as part of a plea deal, and more  —  Netflix, Spotify, Twitter, PayPal, Slack.  All down for millions of people.  How a group of teen friends plunged into an underworld … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sam Altman says OpenAI is pausing new ChatGPT Plus signups “for a bit” as “the surge in usage post devday has exceeded our capacity” (Kristi Hines/Search Engine Journal) 15-11-2023

Kristi Hines / Search Engine Journal: Sam Altman says OpenAI is pausing new ChatGPT Plus signups “for a bit” as “the surge in usage post devday has exceeded our capacity”  —  OpenAI has paused new ChatGPT Plus signups due to overwhelming demand for new features introduced at recent DevDay conference. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Huawei and China Mobile have built a 3,000 km network that they claim is the world's first internet network to achieve a “stable and reliable” 1.2Tbps bandwidth (Bloomberg) 15-11-2023

Bloomberg: Huawei and China Mobile have built a 3,000 km network that they claim is the world’s first internet network to achieve a “stable and reliable” 1.2Tbps bandwidth  —  – Huawei, Tsinghua and China Mobile claim an industry first  — The network spans 3,000 km from Beijing to Guangzhou Lees verder op Tech Meme

A study found that AI-generated photos of faces, particularly white faces, were perceived as more real by survey participants than photos of actual people (Nicola Davis/The Guardian) 15-11-2023

Nicola Davis / The Guardian: A study found that AI-generated photos of faces, particularly white faces, were perceived as more real by survey participants than photos of actual people  —  Photographs were seen as less realistic than computer images but there was no difference with pictures of people of colour Lees verder op Tech Meme