Author: Hunter

Samsung’s flagship soundbar, the HW-Q990D, is being rendered useless for some owners after a faulty firmware update that the company rolled out this week. The sheer number of reports on Samsung’s community forums, Reddit, and AVSForum confirm that something has gone very wrong with the premium Dolby Atmos system in recent days. The issue isn’t… Read more

A directive from the National Institute of Standards and Technology eliminates mention of “AI safety” and “AI fairness.” Read more

The average person makes about 35,000 decisions every day. Those aren’t just simple choices. It’s a chain of decisions that branches in different directions along the way. But circumstances always change, so a person’s decision at a particular branch point might vary depending on any number of factors. You always walk to work, for instance,… Read more

The Trump administration is embarking on a massive university speech crackdown, starting with Columbia University, where it’s demanding external control of entire departments and punishment for student activists. Its first test case, Mahmoud Khalil, a graduate student with a green card, offers a hint of what’s to come: a state of intentional chaos that undermines… Read more

The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) has ushered in a new era of large language models (LLMs) capable of understanding and generating human-like text. However, the proprietary nature of many of these models poses challenges for accessibility, collaboration, and transparency within the research community. Additionally, the substantial computational resources required to train such models… Read more

Google is rolling out a Find My Device app feature update that shows a map of your friends and the family members who share their location with you, 9to5Google reports. The new feature was announced in the Android March feature update last week and is now available for more users. There’s already a way for… Read more

Now that all the industry thought leaders have weighed in and published their predictions for what the cybersecurity landscape will look like in 2025, it seems that there’s a clear consensus emerging: Both attacks and defense of devices and networks will increasingly be AI-driven as time goes by. But even as AI lends more attacking… Read more

Ashly Burch, the award-winning voice and performance actor behind Horizon Zero Dawn’s Aloy — one of the most prominent characters on PlayStation today — has some news and some very strong thoughts about the leaked Sony experiment that saw her character voiced and performed by AI technology instead of her or any other human being.… Read more

It is hard to describe how utterly joyless and devoid of imaginative ideas The Electric State is. Netflix’s latest feature codirected by Joe and Anthony Russo takes many visual cues from Simon StÃ¥lenhag’s much-lauded 2018 illustrated novel, but the film’s leaden performances and meandering story make it feel like a project borne out by a… Read more

I sat through a dozen AI panels at SXSW, and three dominant themes came up again and again. Here’s what they mean for you. Read more