I am in awe of Becca’s attempt to use the Galaxy Z Flip’s selfie screen as her daily driver for a week. I can barely sign my kids out of school or get my authenticator codes without feeling an overwhelming urge to flip open the bigger screen.
But now I can do this — and it makes all the difference to me.
Just kidding; it wasn’t all night. But according to Business Insider, when the recording artist and producer pulled up to Louis Vuitton, he struggled for about 10 minutes to get his chunky metal triangle car into a spot before giving up and letting a valet handle it.
Guess he just couldn’t find the right angle.
Daniel Stenberg, the Curl programming language’s lead developer, writes that AI is gumming up the works in bug reporting.
Stenberg says AI-prompted bug reports can seem legit, and take longer to disprove than normal false alarms. In one case, he asked the submitter for help reproducing the bug. The responses were all suspiciously chatbot-like.
After repeated questions and numerous hallucinations I realized this was not a genuine problem and on the afternoon that same day I closed the issue as not applicable. There was no buffer overflow.
[daniel.haxx.se]
The New York Times writes that Flight 1282 made an emergency landing at Portland International Airport 20 because a wall blew out. Thankfully, all 171 passengers survived.
In a statement yesterday, Alaska Airlines said it would inspect the 65 grounded planes over “the next few days.” Today, the airline updated the statement, saying it’s inspected over a quarter of the fleet and saw “no concerning findings.”
Variety reported on Thursday that the director said he was doing a Peloton workout when the trainer, Jenn Sherman, called his movie Tenet “a couple hours of my life I’ll never get back again!”
Yesterday, Deadline spotted that Sherman posted a video inviting Nolan to come workout in the Peloton studio with her, promising not to insult him this time (and saying she loved Oppenheimer).
In May, we wrote that New York City is sagging by about 1–2mm per year, per a US Geological Survey study. That’s not all.
The so-called subsidence rate of the whole East Coast is as high as 5mm a year, according to a study published in PNAS Nexus and cited by Ars Technica this morning.
Even the very levees meant to protect people from worsening storm surges and climate change-induced sea level rise are sinking, say the researchers.
Two more authors, Nicholas Basbanes and Nicholas Gage, have filed a class action lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, as reported by Reuters. The complaint alleges that OpenAI and Microsoft “engaged in a massive and deliberate theft of copyrighted works” created by the authors to help train their LLMs.
Adam Mosseri says that Threads has had some issues with what he calls “low quality recommendations” over the last few weeks. He says that “a lot of it” should be fixed and that things should get “much better over the next few weeks.”
Remember the November upheaval at OpenAI, with Sam Altman fired and rehired as CEO? After all that, new board chair Bret Taylor said the ChatGPT company would “build a qualified, diverse Board of exceptional individuals” that included a nonvoting observer from Microsoft, which is OpenAI’s biggest financial backer.
Now Bloomberg reports that person is Microsoft vp Dee Templeton, who has been there for 25 years and leads a team responsible for managing its relationship with OpenAI.
