AI can create game characters with realistic personalities
SMU researchers show AI can create game characters with realistic personalities
SMU study finds GPT-4 achieves 74% accuracy creating video game NPCs with consistent personalities, revolutionizing character development in gaming.www.smu.edu
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What in your country/area is totally normal but visitors get excited for?
I've only been abroad one time, and there were little gecko/lizard things everywhere, climbing up walls and scurrying across roads, and nobody cared. I was constantly fascinated but to the locals they're just kinda there.
Bonus question to anyone who visited the UK - was there anything that fascinated you but I'd be taking for granted?
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CDC spiraled into chaos this week. Here’s where things stand.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention descended into turmoil this week after Health Secretary and zealous anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ousted the agency's director, Susan Monarez, who had just weeks ago been confirmed by the Senate and earned Kennedy's praise for her "unimpeachable scientific credentials."
It appears those scientific chops are what led to her swift downfall. Since the Department of Health and Human Services announced on X late Wednesday that "Susan Monarez is no longer director" of the CDC, media reports have revealed that her forced removal was over her refusal to bend to Kennedy's anti-vaccine, anti-science agenda...
CDC spiraled into chaos this week. Here’s where things stand.
CDC is in crisis amid an ouster, resignations, defiance, and outraged lawmakers.Beth Mole (Ars Technica)
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Nous Research drops Hermes 4 AI models that outperform ChatGPT without content restrictions
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Hermes 4 expands Nous Research's line of neutrally-aligned and steerable models with a new group of hybrid reasoners. Like all of our models, these are designed to adhere to the user's needs and system prompts, rather than to a company's ethics code. Hermes users will feel an eagerness for roleplaying and creativity in the model. They'll also notice a lack of lecturing and sycophancy. Put simply, Hermes users will experience a more pleasant, humanistic interaction.Because they are "reasoning" models, they have the ability to "spend" more tokens during inference to think longer about hard problems. Hybrids can toggle between reasoning and standard responses by including or omitting a tag with a request. By being hybrid, Hermes improves performance across a number of benchmarks and maintains efficiency when thinking isn't necessary.
The training dataset for Hermes 4 expands over the dataset for Hermes 3 with 50x more data tokens. Much of the data was synthesized using Atropos, and special care was taken to highlight creative content.
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Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll - how to check and turn it off
Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll - how to check and turn it off
Some Facebook users have noticed new settings that let Meta analyze and retain your phone's photos. Yes, you read that right.Elyse Betters Picaro (ZDNET)
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Alastair Crooke: Russia's Patience Is Over, Escalation Begins
Alastair Crooke: Russia's Patience Is Over, Escalation Begins
Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat and the Founder of Conflicts Forum based in Beirut.Glenn Diesen (Glenn Diesen’s Substack)
Luo Weiwei: former Nasa scientist who became China’s semiconductor trump card
Luo Weiwei: the former Nasa scientist who became China’s semiconductor trump card
Chinese company Innoscience in high-stakes competition against US and European giants, thanks to rising star founding scientist.Dannie Peng (South China Morning Post)
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- Meta chatbots included Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway, Selena Gomez
- Meta removed some flirty celebrity bots after being questioned by Reuters
- Meta says its own AI created inappropriate images, violating its policies
- Legal expert says Meta's use of likenesses may have violated celebrities' publicity rights
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That actually sounds interesting, flirting in Elizabethan English. Willst thou bopping over for Netflixxe and Chille?
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Pentagon Warns Microsoft: Company’s Use of China-Based Engineers Was a “Breach of Trust”
The Defense Department is opening an investigation to determine if the tech giant’s use of overseas engineers to maintain sensitive U.S. government computer systems compromised national security.
Best 3rd Party Discord Client That Enables 1080p Screen Sharing?
Can yall recommend your favorite 3rd party Discord client (desktop) that enables the high quality screen sharing normally only available to Nitro subscribers? I found this list but there's quite a few options, so I don't know where to start
Edit: forgot to specify I’m mainly gonna be using it on Windows but Linux support is cool too
GitHub - Discord-Client-Encyclopedia-Management/Discord3rdparties: A non-exhaustive collection of third-party clients and mods for Discord.
A non-exhaustive collection of third-party clients and mods for Discord. - Discord-Client-Encyclopedia-Management/Discord3rdpartiesGitHub
Microsoft fires 4 employees after protest over Israel ties, break-in at Washington office
Microsoft has fired four employees in response to a protest over the company’s alleged ties to Israel, with two more dismissed after a break-in at President and Vice-Chair Brad Smith’s office at the company’s Redmond headquarters in Washington state, Anadolu reports.“Two additional employees were terminated due to serious violations of established company policies and our code of conduct,” a Microsoft spokesperson told CBS News on Thursday. The company had announced the initial two firings in relation to the event on Wednesday.
Now totaling four, the firings followed a demonstration on Tuesday by seven current and former employees at the company’s Redmond headquarters in Washington state. The activists, affiliated with the group No Azure for Apartheid, entered Smith’s office to demand that Microsoft end what they described as direct and indirect support for Israel in its war on Gaza.
The No Azure for Apartheid group identified the dismissed employees on Instagram as Riki Fameli and Anna Hattle, following their arrest by police on Tuesday.
Mainstream Media Betrayal, Deliberate Deception Persists /Lt Col Daniel Davis
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Fed announces new capital levels for large banks
The U.S. Federal Reserve announced Friday it had finalized new capital levels of the nation's largest banks following the June stress tests, although it added that Morgan Stanley is seeking reconsideration of its upcoming capital level.
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Microsoft fires 4 employees after protest over Israel ties, break-in at Washington office
Microsoft has fired four employees in response to a protest over the company’s alleged ties to Israel, with two more dismissed after a break-in at President and Vice-Chair Brad Smith’s office at the company’s Redmond headquarters in Washington state, Anadolu reports.
“Two additional employees were terminated due to serious violations of established company policies and our code of conduct,” a Microsoft spokesperson told CBS News on Thursday. The company had announced the initial two firings in relation to the event on Wednesday.
Now totaling four, the firings followed a demonstration on Tuesday by seven current and former employees at the company’s Redmond headquarters in Washington state. The activists, affiliated with the group No Azure for Apartheid, entered Smith’s office to demand that Microsoft end what they described as direct and indirect support for Israel in its war on Gaza.
The No Azure for Apartheid group identified the dismissed employees on Instagram as Riki Fameli and Anna Hattle, following their arrest by police on Tuesday.
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Telegram for Monkrus?
Came across 2 different telegrams for monkrus. His/her site here w16.monkrus.ws/ points to "real_monkrus" but the "m0nkrus" has an insane amount of people in it.
t.me/real_monkrus
t.me/m0nkrus
What is the "legit" way to find monkrus? Do they ever use PGP and how can I tell that a new site is also the same user? Both telegrams have different methods of donation, so it feels unlikely they're both real.
I won't blame these torrents, but I've recently gotten a state-actor-level type of malware and I'm double-checking everything that's been into my machine.
Варез от m0nkrus'a [Warez by m0nkrus]
В данном блоге представлен обновляемый список продуктов (сборок) от m0nkrus’a и даны ссылки на ресурсы, откуда их можно скачать.w16.monkrus.ws
I think it's safe to say the 50k person "t.me/m0nkrus" telegram is a very dedicated malware-for-hire type shit.
Torrents are very similar to M0nkrus' shit but they've implanted very sophisticated viruses in most of them.
Might want to include that in the megathread @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
WhatsApp fixes ‘zero-click’ bug used to hack Apple users with spyware
WhatsApp fixes 'zero-click' bug used to hack Apple users with spyware | TechCrunch
A spyware vendor was behind a recent campaign that abused a vulnerability in WhatsApp to deliver an exploit capable of hacking into iPhones and Macs.Zack Whittaker (TechCrunch)
If I recall correctly, at least for non-group chats they do use end-to-end encryption. That being said, obviously there are some practical limitations on the impact if you think that WhatsApp would actively try to be malicious, since they're also providing the client software and could hypothetically backdoor that.
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According to this, they do use end-to-end encryption for group chats too.
Maybe I'm recalling some other service or a default setting or something. Some service had non-e2e-encrypted-group messages for at least some period of time.
FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson claims Google is using "partisan" spam filtering in Gmail that sends Republican fundraising emails to the spam folder
FTC claims Gmail filtering Republican emails threatens “American freedoms”
FTC chairman revives GOP claims previously rejected by judge and election agency.Jon Brodkin (Ars Technica)
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How a hacker helped win a wrongful death lawsuit against Tesla
Tesla denied having fatal crash data until a hacker found it
The data was key evidence in the death of a pedestrian in 2019.Jonathan M. Gitlin (Ars Technica)
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Start looking for other coffee brands than Douwe Egberts
Douwe Egberts komt in Amerikaanse handen
Het moederbedrijf van Douwe Egberts, JDE Peets, wordt gekocht door drankenbedrijf Keurig Dr Pepper.NOS Nieuws
The new lawsuit said Li began working as an engineer for xAI last year, where he helped train and develop Grok. The company said Li took its trade secrets in July, shortly after accepting a job from OpenAI and selling $7 million in xAI stock.
I must say that it's going to be a bitch-and-a-half to retain core engineers if people are walking away at what amounts to $7 million/year in effective compensation.
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Looks like he only started working in industry in 2023, too (though was doing relevant work as a graduate student prior to that).
Blizzard’s Diablo Game Developers Has Unionized
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36522273
Blizzard’s Diablo Game Developers Has Unionized
Hundreds of Diablo Game Developers Join Communications Workers of America
Today, over 450 game developers behind the popular video game series Diablo have voted strongly in favor of union representation with CWA.Communications Workers of America
Blizzard’s Diablo Game Developers Has Unionized
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Blizzard’s Diablo Game Developers Has Unionized
Hundreds of Diablo Game Developers Join Communications Workers of America
Today, over 450 game developers behind the popular video game series Diablo have voted strongly in favor of union representation with CWA.Communications Workers of America
Blizzard’s Diablo Game Developers Has Unionized
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36522273
Blizzard’s Diablo Game Developers Has Unionized
Hundreds of Diablo Game Developers Join Communications Workers of America
Today, over 450 game developers behind the popular video game series Diablo have voted strongly in favor of union representation with CWA.Communications Workers of America
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Law firm email blunder exposes Church of England abuse victim details
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Law firm email blunder exposes Church of England abuse victim details
Law firm email blunder exposes Church of England abuse victim details
: Apology issued after names tied to redress scheme revealed in mass mailingConnor Jones (The Register)
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You no longer need JavaScript: an overview of what makes modern CSS so awesome
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Clickbait. Actual less sensational point is in the text:
Not every site needs JavaScript.
Exactly!
The one I build for work definitely does since we do things like manipulate 3D models. The majority of sites just present information and costs would go down significantly if they used a static site generator.
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Dexter: Resurrection Finale Leaks Online in Russian Dub
Dexter: Resurrection Finale Leaks Online in Russian Dub
Dexter: Resurrection finale leaks in Russian dub ahead of release. Episodes 9 and 10 surface online, echoing past TV leaks like Game of Thrones.Waqas (Hack Read)
GitHub engineer claims team was 'coerced' to put Grok into Copilot
Source: Mastodon.
Why collaborate with xAI? · community · Discussion #171322
Select Topic Area Product Feedback Copilot Feature Area Copilot Coding Agent Body GitHub, a company which supposedly values diversity, recently added Grok support to Copilot. Grok, an AI that calle...GitHub
This was pushed out with a rushed security review, a coerced and unwilling engineering team, and in full opposition to our supposed company values.If you don't want it, tell them. Social media and support forums. Leadership won't listen to employees. github.blog/changelog/2025-08-…
Grok Code Fast 1 is rolling out in public preview for GitHub Copilot - The GitHub Blog
Grok Code Fast 1 will be available as an opt-in public preview for GitHub Copilot Pro, Pro+, Business, and Enterprise plans in Visual Studio Code. Rollout will be gradual —…The GitHub Blog
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The White House Apparently Ordered Federal Workers to Roll Out Grok ‘ASAP’ | A partnership between xAI & the US government fell apart earlier this summer. Then the White House apparently got involved
So we can expect covert mecha-Hitler to run everything
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‘It’s madness’: Trump-voting fishermen oppose Revolution Wind halt
‘It’s madness’: Trump-voting fishermen oppose Revolution Wind halt
The Rhode Island offshore wind project, now nearly finished, employed 80 fishermen to help with construction. With Trump's pause, they are losing vital…Canary Media
“It’s like having the rug pulled out from under you. … Nobody understands why Trump did it. I don’t know what Trump’s agenda is,” said Morris.
Oh boy. It’s so funny.
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