Speaking of new (“interim”) Sonos CEO Tom Conrad and Scott Forstall, here’s an interesting anecdote from Tyler Hall’s terrific piece for Motherboard in 2021, “How Pandora Won Its Royalty Battle but Lost the War to Spotify”: After pushback on only allowing web apps for the iPhone, … | Continue reading
one man finally sold his horde of 2,200 machines for dirt cheap on eBay, held in storage for 33 years, inspiring a preservation effort # | Continue reading
“GOP Senator Markwayne Mullin challenged Teamsters president Sean O’Brien to an MMA fight on Monday after O’Brien called him a “greedy CEO” and a “clown & fraud” in a tweet last week.” In other news, Brawndo has what plants crave! #Democracy [Link] | Continue reading
"Please click each image containing a Yoko" # | Continue reading
The mesmerizingly freakish, constant live stream of AI-generated versions of Joe Rogan, Amourath, Alinity, PewDiePie, Hasan Piker, and more is run by a group that's been called a "cult" and “pseudo-religion.” | Continue reading
After investigating the neo-Nazi homeschool network in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, the Ohio Department of Education appears to have concluded that the group is doing nothing wrong. Logan and Katja Lawrence were unmasked last week as the operators of a neo-Nazi homeschool network with t … | Continue reading
less than a month after AI VTuber Neuro-Sama was banned for two weeks for denying the Holocaust # | Continue reading
The tweet drew instant criticism and outrage from commenters who felt that Netflix was using AI to avoid paying human artists. This has been a central tension since image-generation AI took off last year, as many artists see the tools as unethical-due to being trained on masses o … | Continue reading
a large language model with text-to-speech output interacts with users in chat, while a separate AI plays games like Minecraft and osu # | Continue reading
For decades, the network has asked to be able to film all of what happens in the House chamber, not just the person speaking. Thanks to the Kevin McCarthy Speaker battle, it is finally happening, in all its chaotic glory. | Continue reading
Musk has welcomed neo-Nazis back onto the platform, engaged with them on his timeline, and posted multiple tweets that appeal directly to them. | Continue reading
"We’re not here to judge your art, we just ask that you add a Community Label to your mature content," the updated guidelines say. | Continue reading
New research reported that people experienced around a decade’s worth of personality changes over the two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. | Continue reading
"I used to tell my niece I worked in a chocolate factory, because I would come home covered in oil." | Continue reading
Douse yourself in Elon Musk's burnt-hair perfume and strap on "the Titan." | Continue reading
Moderators of r/Dune said they’ve been removing AI-generated art from the community for months. | Continue reading
Emails between the DEA and NSO obtained by Motherboard explain why the DEA didn't purchase the company's malware in 2014. | Continue reading
Or: Why you are not ever getting an inexpensive ticket to a popular concert ever again. | Continue reading
The lawsuit claims that the chess cheating saga has ruined Niemann's life. | Continue reading
At last, they will have revenge. | Continue reading
After India banned TikTok, Wikipedia's servers were hammered for requests to look at this specific flower. | Continue reading
"This is the first time I saw or received a medium of any kind that is critical of the current regime." | Continue reading
The federal government wants to expand its energy conservation rules to include right-to-repair provisions. | Continue reading
The gamma ray burst is the brightest ever detected in X-rays, according to scientists, and could shed light on the most energetic phenomena in space. | Continue reading
“Good thing we don’t need radio anymore. I can’t remember last royalties they paid me. YouTube d ting Deh anyway,” said one musician. | Continue reading
Thanks anyway, though. | Continue reading
Essays written by AI language tools like OpenAI's Playground are often hard to tell apart from text written by humans. | Continue reading
The Synthetic Party in Denmark is dedicated to following a platform churned out by an AI, and its public face is a chatbot named Leader Lars. | Continue reading
A jumble of brain cells got pretty good at 'Pong,' according to a new study. And there's video. | Continue reading
The board stated that to depict the location of property lines and fixed features requires a license. | Continue reading
We’re just crawling out of a pandemic, prices are through the roof, and your boss is cost-cutting. Is it time companies got less stuck up about the ethics of moonlighting? | Continue reading
Screenshot of Tucker Carlson/Ye interview obtained by Motherboard. Fox News recently aired a two-part interview between Tucker Carlson and Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West. Motherboard has obtained portions of the interview that were edited out of the final broadcast.( … | Continue reading
“Releasing one of these Parabon images to the public like the Edmonton Police did recently, is dangerous and irresponsible, especially when that image implicates a Black person and an immigrant.” | Continue reading
The world’s richest man spoke directly with Vladimir Putin, Eurasia Group’s Ian Bremmer wrote. | Continue reading
Platforms are having to deal with all sorts of scammers during the coronavirus pandemic. | Continue reading
Vintage technology has powered the innards of the NYC subway system for decades—and sometimes, it surfaces in interesting ways. This one’s for you, OS/2 fans. | Continue reading
Workers at ALB1, which plans to host a union election this upcoming week, reported a fire in a cardboard compactor last night. | Continue reading
The developers of The OG App, an Instagram without ads, claim that Meta banned its staff in "extralegal retaliation." | Continue reading
The cosmic web is a vast and mysterious structure that forms the universe, and we're learning how it shapes galaxies that host stars and planets. | Continue reading
A Motherboard investigation based on FOIA requests show how U.S. schools have been dealing with ransomware attacks. | Continue reading
Airbnb customers say they are being permanently banned after background checks reveal minor offenses like broken tail lights and old misdemeanors. | Continue reading
In three years I took control of the U.S., began dismantling an authoritarian regime in Egypt, and accidentally forgot about the looming alien threat. | Continue reading
Hordes of wealthy and prominent figures acted like Musk's typical reply guys, all clamoring for the chance to get in on his Twitter deal | Continue reading
It's hard to get straight answers about whether the Meta CEO will be testing himself against elite competition on ESPN this Saturday. | Continue reading
Grayshift filed a series of documents with the FCC that reveal the looks of the new cellphone unlocking device. | Continue reading
Facing increased competition from the likes of Truth Social, Torba has pivoted from free-speech zealot to hardcore Christian nationalist. | Continue reading
Jupiter's moon Europa is one of the best possible sites for alien life, and new observations will answer that question and many others. | Continue reading
Make-A-Video is the first time we are seeing a text-to-video tool that will soon be available to the public. | Continue reading