Jeep’s owner Stellantis is teasing a new Jeep Compass for 2025 that’ll first release in Europe, followed by North American (and the rest of the world) in 2026. Could it be the $25,000 EV that was promised? It will be the first vehicle built on the automaker’s STLA Medium platform. Stellantis is currently revamping US factories and is under pressure from its American dealerships that are upset about slow product timelines and lack of affordable models.
A retro game hobbyist in Japan posted to X after stumbling on two Famicom Disk System games, one a dev build of Eggerland. The other was, incredibly after all this time, “a mysterious undocumented game” called Maze.
Time Extension noted that the hobbyist plans to post video from the find soon.
With several media companies striking AI training deals with OpenAI, the number of websites blocking GPTBot has taken a big dip, according to data seen by Wired:
At its peak, the high was just over a third of the websites; it has now dropped down closer to a quarter. Within a smaller pool of the most prominent news outlets, the block rate is still above 50 percent, but it’s down from heights earlier this year of almost 90 percent.
Last year’s “Tatanka” rumor of a technology switch is confirmed, with these clips from a new “research project” dubbed Project Foundry and a new studio name.
According to Halo Studios head Pierre Hintze, the UE5 move “allows us to put all the focus on making multiple new experiences at the highest quality possible,” while this preview shows what to expect in future projects.
The hackers worked their way into the networks of AT&T, Verizon, Lumen Technologies, and others, according to anonymous sources cited by The Wall Street Journal:
For months or longer, the hackers might have held access to network infrastructure used to cooperate with lawful U.S. requests for communications data, according to people familiar with the matter ... The attackers also had access to other tranches of more generic internet traffic, they said.
The US DHS recently said thwarting Chinese hackers was a top security priority.
As a reminder that AI image generators’ training data tends to include peoples’ regular smartphone photos, try entering an iPhone-like picture file name into the prompt field for Flux1.1 Pro, as this person did.
I got some similar results when I tried prompts like “IMG_4001.JPG” with its predecessor, Flux.1, a model that drives xAI’s Grok-2 image generation.
Colin of the This Does Not Compute YouTube channel says what started as a Macintosh SE/30 motherboard repair turned into spending “over a year and about a thousand bucks” building this franken-Mac, instead.
He used some original parts; but it’s otherwise assembled from new old-stock chips, a custom motherboard, and solid polymer caps that will “never leak like electrolytic ones tend to.” The end result? A functional, RGB-laden, translucent SE/30.
If you signed up for Google’s waitlisted feature that lets you ask Gemini questions to surface photos and videos, you might be getting it soon, as 9to5Google reports that the feature seems to be going live for some who’ve joined the list.
If you’re not already on the waitlist, you can jump in the queue by signing up on Google’s site.
