Nov 23
The former president has been repeatedly critical of Judge Arthur Engoron and a law clerk who advises the judge in the New York civil fraud trial.
Nov 23
There’s nothing more satisfying than buying a new piece of tech, whether for yourself or a loved one. However, you might not always be in a position to splurge on the top-of-the-line. Luckily, there are plenty of fantastic gadgets out right now at lower price points. Here’s our curated list of high-end and…
Nov 23
Ubisoft is the latest company to join what seems to be a growing list of advertisers pulling their campaigns from Elon Musk’s X, formerly known as Twitter. The company has confirmed to PCGamer and Axios that it has paused advertising on the website, possibly making it the first video game publisher to do so. While Ubisoft didn’t elaborate on its reasoning behind the decision, X’s advertisers have been suspending their advertising activities on the social network after Musk supported an antisemitic tweet and Media Matters published a research showing brands’ advertisements next to Nazi content.
IBM, Apple, Disney, Paramount, Warner Bros, Sony and Comcast have all paused their advertising on X. Lionsgate pulled its ads, as well, specifically citing Musk’s tweet as the cause. Axios says Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Nexus VR ad campaign was still showing up for X users as recently as Monday morning, and it’s unclear if it stopped advertising on the social network before or after Linda Yaccarino published a statement calling Media Matters’ report “misleading and manipulated.”
X’s CEO issued a call for users and advertisers to “stand with X,” claiming that “not a single authentic user on [the website] saw IBM’s, Comcast’s, or Oracle’s ads next to the content in Media Matters’’ article.” Shortly after that, X officially filed a lawsuit against the media watchdog, accusing it of “knowingly and maliciously manufactur[ing] side-by-side images depicting advertisers’ posts on X Corp.’s social media platform beside Neo-Nazi and white national fringe content.”
In its complaint, X explained that Media Matters had to create the right conditions, which included following accounts that post fringe Neo-Nazi and white nationalist content, in order to see ads right next to antisemitic posts.
Media Matters called the lawsuit “frivolous” and an attempt to “bully X’s critics into silence” in a statement sent to Engadget. The organization also told us that it “stands behind its reporting and looks forward to winning in court.”
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/ubisoft-has-suspended-advertising-on-elon-musks-x-074507139.html?src=rss
Nov 23
Lenovo is back with its annual Black Friday Sale, and this year, it’s bigger and better than ever before. From laptops to gaming PCs, accessories to smart devices, you can get your hands on the latest tech at discounted prices.
The sale features a wide range of products, including the latest laptops, monitors, gaming accessories, and more. You can save big on Lenovo ThinkPad laptops, backpacks, and other devices. If you’re into gaming, you can get an IdeaPad Gaming 3 AMD (15”) gaming laptop with 24% off, for cheaper than you’ll find them at most other times throughout the year.
The best deal is the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 11, a laptop that will give you plenty of power to work on the go. This machine can be bought with a whopping 61% off, for $999 instead of the usual $2,609 (a great $1,609.01 saving).
You can save even more money if you’re looking for a basic machine like the Lenovo 100e Gen2 (11.6″), which is being offered with 68% off, for only $99 instead of the usual $309.
The sale is not just limited to laptops and desktops. You can also save on PC accessories like the Lenovo Legion KM300 RGB Gaming Combo Keyboard and Mouse ($39.99) and Lenovo R25i-30 24.5 inch Monitor ($159.99).
It’s important to pay close attention because some deals will start on the 23rd, others on the 25th or 26th of November. Nonetheless, you’ll have plenty of savings for the next couple of days so grab your credit card and enjoy all these great deals!
Lenovo’s Black Friday Sale: The Latest Tech At Discounted Prices
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Nov 23
House Ethics Committee Will Not Investigate Rep. Jamaal Bowman For Pulling Fire Alarm
Posted in: Today's Chili“I am embarrassed to admit that I activated the fire alarm,” the Democrat said last month.
Nov 23
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Nov 23
OpenAI introduced voice chats with ChatGPT on Android and iOS back in September, giving users the option to have actual back-and-forth conversations with the chatbot if they want to. The company only made the feature available to Plus and Enterprise subscribers back then, though, with the promise that it will eventually release it to other groups of users. Now, OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman has announced on X that voice conversations on ChatGPT have started rolling out to all free users on mobile.
ChatGPT Voice rolled out for all free users. Give it a try — totally changes the ChatGPT experience: https://t.co/DgzqLlDNYF
— Greg Brockman (@gdb) November 21, 2023
When the company first introduced voice chats, it admitted that the capability to create “realistic synthetic voices from just a few seconds of real speech” presents new risks. It could, for instance, allow bad actors to impersonate public figures or anybody they want. As a result, it decided that ChatGPT’s voice feature will focus on conversations. It’s powered by a text-to-speech model that can generate “human-like audio from just text and a few seconds of sample speech.” OpenAI worked with voice actors to create the capability and offers five different voices to choose from.
We checked our ChatGPT app on Android and have yet to gain access to voice conversations, which indicates that the feature could take sometime before reaching everybody’s accounts. It’s not quite clear if users have to opt in to be able to access it, but paid subscribers had to enable it by going to Settings and then to New Features when voice chats rolled out.
Brockman announced the capability’s wide release after he had already left his seat as President of OpenAI. He quit of his own accord after the company’s board fired Sam Altman as CEO, causing mayhem with senior staff members resigning in protest and the rest of the employees threatening to quit unless he’s reinstated. Shortly after he made the announcement, OpenAI announced that Altman and Brockman had been reinstated and will be returning to their posts.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/chatgpts-voice-chat-feature-is-rolling-out-to-free-users-085549323.html?src=rss
Nov 23
Matt Rife’s ‘Apology’ For Domestic Abuse Joke Is As Stale As The Rest Of His Comedy
Posted in: Today's ChiliThe comedian responded to the backlash over his new Netflix special with a recycled put-down.
Nov 23
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Nov 23
OpenAI has been hit with another lawsuit, accusing it of using other people’s intellectual property without permission to train its generative AI technology. Only this time, the lawsuit also names Microsoft as a defendant. The complaint was filed by Julian Sancton on behalf of a group of non-fiction authors who said they were not compensated for the use of their books and academic journals in training the company’s large language model.
In their lawsuit, the authors state how they spend years “conceiving, researching, and writing their creations.” They accuse OpenAI and Microsoft of refusing to pay authors while building a business “valued into the tens of billions of dollars by taking the combined works of humanity without permission.” The companies pretend copyright laws do not exist, the complaint reads, and have “enjoyed enormous financial gain from their exploitation of copyrighted material.”
Sancton is the author behind Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica’s Journey Into the Dark Antarctic, which tells the true survival story of an 1897 polar expedition that got stuck in the ocean in the middle of a sunless Antarctic winter. Sancton spent five years and tens of thousands of dollars to research and write the book. “Such an investment of time and money is feasible for Plaintiff Sancton and other writers because, in exchange for their creative efforts, the Copyright Act grants them ‘a bundle of exclusive rights’ in their works, including ‘the rights to reproduce the copyrighted work[s],'” according to the lawsuit.
As Forbes notes, OpenAI previously said that content generated by ChatGPT doesn’t constitute “derivative work” and, hence, doesn’t infringe on any copyright. Sancton’s lawsuit is merely the latest complaint against the company over its use of copyrighted work to train its technology. Earlier this year, screenwriter and author also Michael Chabon sued OpenAI for the same thing, as did George R.R. Martin, John Grisham and Jodi Picoult. Comedian Sarah Silverman filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Meta, as well. Sancton is now seeking damages and injunctive relief for all the proposed class action’s defendants.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/openai-and-microsoft-hit-with-copyright-lawsuit-from-non-fiction-authors-101505740.html?src=rss
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