More than 96 percent of the island now has power, according to Luma, the local energy company. An outage on New Year’s Eve took out power for close to 90 percent of the US territory, the latest in a series of blackouts.
OpenAI’s new video generator, Sora, can make some really impressive visuals... it just can’t make them actually make sense or follow the laws of physics or properly depict people eating or... just watch:
Bezos, who killed The Washington Post’s endorsement of Harris and also owns a space company with billions in government contracts, was among the first major US tech leaders to chime in this morning. He is certainly aware that one of his biggest rivals in aerospace is run by a close confidant of the president-elect.
As the vote count increasingly points toward Trump, who courted the crypto industry throughout his campaign, the price of Bitcoin has hit a new all-time high of over $74,000.
writes David Heinemeier Hansson, the CTO at 37signals and creator of the open-source framework Ruby on Rails.
DHH says it “occasionally irks” him to see companies failing to contribute to Ruby on Rails, but that’s the rules:
None of the major licenses, however, say anything close to “it’s free but only until the project owners deem you too successful and then you’ll have to pay 8% of your revenues to support the project”. That’s a completely bonkers and arbitrary standard based in the rule of spite, not law.
[world.hey.com]
WordPress.org’s contributor login page now requires users to certify that they are “not affiliated with WP Engine in any way, financially or otherwise.” 404 Media spotted the new checkbox.
Some turned out great, but others highlight just how messy this technology is, according to Pitchfork. From Shaad D’Souza’s review:
AI is simply another tool that will sometimes be used badly and sometimes be used well, and on Honey I think it’s used well—to complicate and expand the abilities of an artist well into his career, whose creative impulses can no longer be entirely satiated through the means previously available to him. There is one exception: The rap verse on “Campfire” is also Snaith, and it edges toward racial ambiguity in a way that feels queasy. At best, it’s a misguided experiment; at worst, outright minstrelsy.
[Pitchfork]
Our friends at Polygon are running their annual 24-hour live stream charity fundraiser today — I’ve been promised Minecraft builds, a late night horror block, and “lots of shenanigans.” Tune in, have fun, and help them raise some money for a good cause. You can watch on Twitch or over at Polygon’s site.