Apple’s Open-Source AI, Vision Pro Bugs, EU Right-To-Repair Win, + More! - TechLinked Feb 27, 2024

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THE SCROLL OF TRUTH

AI News Round UP

Apple researchers release open-source multi-modal AI model that can edit images based on natural language instructions

https://venturebeat.com/ai/apple-releases-mgie-a-revolutionary-ai-model-for-instruction-based-image-editing/

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.17102v2.pdf

https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/02/07/apple-throws-its-hat-into-the-ai-generated-image-ring

https://huggingface.co/spaces/tsujuifu/ml-mgie

machine learning used to read burnt scroll

https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1754519304471814555?t=NV-sdMZCsSG-KbbfBIUSlg&s=09

https://www.pcgamer.com/machine-learning-means-we-can-read-a-2000-year-old-carbonized-scroll-buried-by-mount-vesuvius-and-turns-out-its-all-about-the-pleasures-of-stuffing-your-face/

Roblox releases real-time AI chat translator

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/5/24061495/roblox-generative-ai-chat-translator

OnePlus starts rolling out new AI features including one that summarizes phone calls

https://9to5google.com/2024/02/06/oneplus-ai-features-summarize-phone-calls/

A wargame experiment pitting AI chatbots against each other ended exactly how you'd expect

https://www.pcgamer.com/a-wargame-experiment-pitting-ai-chatbots-against-each-other-ended-exactly-how-youd-expect/

 

TOTAL RECALL

Forgot Your Apple Vision Pro’s Passcode? You May Have to Take It Back to Store

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-05/forgot-your-apple-vision-pro-s-passcode-you-may-have-to-take-it-back-to-store?srnd=undefined&sref=9hGJlFio&leadSource=reddit_wall

Several fixes coming along in first beta build

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/6/24063746/apple-vision-pro-first-beta-1-1-device-management

And improving personas

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/02/06/visionos-1-1-beta-improved-personas/

YouTube says a Vision Pro app is ‘on the roadmap’

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/5/24062425/youtube-vision-pro-app-360-vr-video

 

WE’VE BEEN TRYING TO REACH YOU

EU Right-to-Repair legislation moves forward: European Council and Parliament reach provisional agreement that R2R laws should force sellers to extend product warranty by 12 months after it’s repaired while under warranty

https://www.androidauthority.com/europe-right-to-repair-legislation-12-months-3410699/

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2024/02/02/circular-economy-council-and-parliament-strike-provisional-deal-on-the-right-to-repair-directive/

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/eu-right-to-repair-sellers-will-be-liable-for-a-year-after-products-are-fixed/

Also would forbid companies from blocking the use of second-hand or 3D-printed spare parts

https://lmg.gg/gxCm4

Also proposes a set of tools to make the whole process easier https://lmg.gg/h99KF

Before you get too excited… this is for appliances, not personal electronics https://lmg.gg/7OuRv

 

QUICK BITS

 

GOT THAT HDR REZ

Nvidia feature that converts SDR games to HDR uncovered by modder -- RTX TrueHDR settings found in latest Game Ready driver

https://www.tomshardware.com/null/nvidia-feature-that-converts-sdr-games-to-hdr-uncovered-by-modder-rtx-truehdr-settings-found-in-latest-game-ready-driver

https://videocardz.com/newz/nvtruehdr-nvidia-rtx-hdr-mod-can-convert-sdr-games-to-hdr

Post by modder who found:

https://www.nexusmods.com/site/mods/781

 

FUSION DANCE

Fusion Facility Generates Twice the Power Put Into It

https://futurism.com/fusion-facility-generates-twice-power-put-in

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.065102

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2414681-nuclear-fusion-reaction-releases-almost-twice-the-energy-put-in/

 

BIGGER AND BETTER

TSMC is now the world's largest semiconductor maker by revenue, beating Intel and Samsung: Analyst

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/tsmc-is-now-the-worlds-largest-semiconductor-maker-by-revenue-beating-intel-and-samsung-analyst

Expanding in Japan

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/07/tech/tsmc-taiwan-japan-second-factory-intl-hnk/index.html

Report: TSMC and Samsung to Keep 2nm Chip Production in Taiwan, Korea

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/report-tsmc-and-samsung-to-keep-2nm-chip-production-in-taiwan-korea

 

SPY WITHOUT A COUNTRY

Visa Restrictions on The Way For Commercial Spyware Vendors who target journalists

https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2024/02/06/visa-restrictions-on-the-way-for-commercial-spyware-vendors/?sh=7edc6f8e57ec

https://www.state.gov/announcement-of-a-visa-restriction-policy-to-promote-accountability-for-the-misuse-of-commercial-spyware/

https://www.itworldcanada.com/article/more-countries-to-act-against-misuse-of-spyware/558227

Google says spyware vendors behind most zero-days it discovers

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-says-spyware-vendors-behind-most-zero-days-it-discovers/

 

DON’T SHOOT THE MESSENGER

Amazon pilots new safety features to prevent people from shooting their drivers

https://mashable.com/article/amazon-new-driver-safety-features 

Five Amazon Flex Drivers shot since 2022, at least five others had guns drawn on them

https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/five-amazon-flex-drivers-shot-in-four-separate-incidents-report-193505861716

One died

https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/amazon-delivery-driver-killed-on-the-job-deputies-search-for-shooter/281-85f5ccaf-0b83-439f-8a13-54ebc2980cc6