Amazon is designing its own AI chips for Echo, Fire TV and future devices, exec tells CNBC

Amazon hardware chief Panos Panay says the company is designing custom chips for key devices as it experiments with AI ...
Tech Xplore

Horror-movie cue inspires wearable that turns robot movements into warning music

In horror movies, music is a dead giveaway. Tension builds with each note, and you brace for the inevitable jump scare. The same sense of anticipation has taken a leading role in an unlikely venue: a ...
MUO on MSN

I plugged my headphone amp into Ethernet, and streaming finally sounded right

I never thought to hardwire my desktop amp to streaming until I tried the Fiio K15.

OpenAI and Broadcom announce chip designed for LLM inference at scale

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT and Codex and the models those tools use, and Broadcom, an established silicon supplier, ...
The Atlantic

AI-Writing Scandals Are Getting Very Confusing

Steven Rosenbaum has decided that the real villain behind the bogus quotes in his book is a chatbot. Earlier this week, The New York Times reported that The Future of Truth, Rosenbaum’s much-discussed ...
Variety

Seth Rogen Says if You Use AI to Write Scripts, Then ‘You Shouldn’t Be a Writer’: ‘Go Do Something Else’

Seth Rogen told Brut at the Cannes Film Festival that if you use AI to write your stories or scripts, then you “shouldn’t be a writer.” “I don’t understand what it’s supposed to do,” Rogen said when ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Seth Rogen Says If “Your Instinct Is to Use AI” to Write Scripts, “You Shouldn’t Be a Writer”

'The Studio' creator said people who are thinking about using the technology to aid their writing skills should try another occupation: "Go do something else." By McKinley Franklin Don’t expect Seth ...
Inside Higher Ed

Curation, Taste and the Writing Classroom

Last fall I delivered a keynote address at a one-day conference about teaching writing in the age of AI at Iona University. As part of the conference, there were also additional talks by Iona faculty ...
Dark Reading

Serial-to-IP Devices Hide Thousands of Old & New Bugs

Researchers have identified 20 new vulnerabilities in popular models of serial-to-IP converters — devices that sit at the heart of modern industrial networks. Even more worryingly, the same ...
Hackaday

Arduino Uno Q

MicroPython is a well-known and easy-to-use way to program microcontrollers in Python. If you’re using an Arduino Uno Q, though, you’re stuck without it. [Natasha] saves the day by bringing us a a ...
Christianity Today

To Write Well Is Human

Using AI to write is a disordered and deforming means of fulfilling a good desire. The church must offer something better. A major publisher recently pulled a new novel for a novel reason: a strong ...