An early pic we received from the CES show floor shows Samsung’s delightful rolling robot trapped in a glass case. I’d love to see this thing actually move around — but it looks like those wheels aren’t going anywhere for now.
Tetris players developed new techniques to more quickly operate the NES controller over the past few years... and that has now paid off in one player finally getting far enough to crash the game — some 120+ levels after the original “kill screen.”
So far, I’ve seen:
• A couple wholesale reuploads to YouTube (one has more than 200,000 views as of this writing)
• An AI generator trained on 1928 Mickey Mouse
• Whatever this horror game is...
writes US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, discussing lawyers who used AI and then cited non-existent cases.
Mostly, though, he seems pretty optimistic about how AI could make the courts and legal research more accessible:
I predict that human judges will be around for a while. But with equal confidence I predict that judicial work—particularly at the trial level—will be significantly affected by AI.
[www.supremecourt.gov]
Musk keeps asking creators to post their videos to X. Turns out there’s a very obvious reason why they’re not.
It’s been on sale for $250 for the last two months, and now Meta is making that sale price permanent — that means you can get two of them for the price of a single (albeit much better) Quest 3. Accessories are seeing a price cut, too.
The Washington Post reports that Indian officials pushed back on Apple after the company sent alerts to journalists and politicians saying their phones had been targeted by state-sponsored hackers — i.e. the Indian government.
The government then demanded that Apple say the warnings had been a mistake. (And it kinda-sorta did.) The pressure puts Apple in a tense position between its security ideals and its political standing in an important growing market.
[The Washington Post]
The New York Times reports that there was a meeting “with the department’s antitrust lawyers” on December 12th — a few days after Apple first blocked the app’s iMessage for Android solution.
The DOJ has an ongoing antitrust probe into Apple. Meanwhile, a handful of legislators would like the green bubble drama to stop, too.
[The New York Times]