Encode, the nonprofit organization that co-sponsored California’s ill-fated SB 1047 AI safety legislation, has requested permission to file an amicus brief in support of Elon Musk’s injunction to halt OpenAI’s transition to a for-profit company. In a proposed brief submitted to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California Friday afternoon, counsel for Encode said that OpenAI’s conversion to a for-profit would “undermine” the firm’s mission to “develop and deploy … transformative technology in a way that is safe and beneficial to the public.” “OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, claim to be developing society-transforming technology, and those claims…
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Data-loss prevention startup Cyberhaven says hackers published a malicious update to its Chrome extension that was capable of stealing customer passwords and session tokens, according to an email sent to affected customers, who may have been victims of this suspected supply-chain attack. Cyberhaven confirmed the cyberattack to The Tech Spot on Friday but declined to comment on specifics about the incident. An email from the company sent to customers, obtained and published by security researcher Matt Johansen, said the hackers compromised a company account to publish a malicious update to its Chrome extension in the early morning of December 25.…
DeepSeek hasn’t revealed much about the source of DeepSeek V3’s training data. But there’s no shortage of public datasets containing text generated by GPT-4 via ChatGPT. If DeepSeek V3 was trained on these, the model might’ve memorized some of GPT-4’s outputs and is now regurgitating them verbatim. “Obviously, the model is seeing raw responses from ChatGPT at some point, but it’s not clear where that is,” Mike Cook, a research fellow at King’s College London specializing in AI, told The Tech Spot. “It could be ‘accidental’… but unfortunately, we have seen instances of people directly training their models on the…
The lawsuit alleges that, over the course of five years, San Francisco unfairly labeled money earned by Lyft drivers as company revenue. In the complaint, Lyft maintains that its drivers are its customers, not employees. “Accordingly, Lyft recognizes revenue from rideshare as being comprised of fees paid to Lyft by drivers, not charges paid by riders to drivers,” the complaint reads. The lawsuit is just the latest chapter in a yearslong debate over how gig economy apps should classify drivers. Last summer, Lyft, Uber, and DoorDash notched a win after the California Supreme Court upheld Proposition 22, which allows the…
If you wish to use an iPhone with virtually no bezels around the screen, you will need to wait a little longer than initially thought. A new industry report says the release of Apple’s long-rumored OLED display with ‘zero bezels’ for the iPhone has slid further into an uncertain timeline. South Korean outlet The Elec, which was the first to report on the existence of a ‘zero-bezel” iPhone display, has now reported the launch date is unforeseeable because the technology “is not yet developed enough. The publication did not outrightly dismiss the existence of the supposed iPhone display, stating that…
James Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown, would seem to mark a return to an era of serious-minded films about serious-minded musicians, psychological character studies rather than jukebox-inflected, semi-fantasist extravaganzas. In honor of its release this past week, it’s worth looking back at the films that have led us here. The following is a list of the seven best music biopics has ever released. 1.Walk the Line – 2005 Mangold’s earlier music biopic was the prototypical 21st-century example of the genre. Walk the Line, the birth-to-death story of Johnny Cash (played by the Oscar-nominated Joaquin Phoenix), was memorably parodied…
So, it’s Christmas Day. You’ve finished opening all your presents. Now, you’ve got a whole bunch of gift cards and maybe even some extra cash thanks to a kind uncle who has no idea what to buy you every year. The Steam Winter Sale is happening now through January 2, 2025. As always, it brings some major discounts on some of the year’s best games (and plenty more beyond that. If you’ve been waiting to buy some games this year, assuming they’d get a discount down the line, this is your moment. To help you sort through your options, I’ve…
We’re in that exciting period leading up to the release of some of next year’s best graphics cards, and that means leaks and predictions are coming out every single day. The last few weeks have really brought into focus AMD’s next-gen flagship, which is now said to be called the RX 9070 XT. But now, more than ever, we’re seeing a lot of conflicting information about the kind of performance we can expect from the top RDNA 4 card. The latest leaks see it falling within a stone’s throw of Nvidia’s RTX 4080. According to Zhangzhonghao on the Chiphell forums…
Christmas can be a time to enjoy wholesome movies together with the family. But if you’re looking for something to get your blood pumping on Christmas that isn’t sentimental or sweet, then Netflix has all of the thrillers you need to make it through to New Year’s Eve. Three of our picks for the five great Netflix thrillers to watch on Christmas share a snowy setting, but only one of them is explicitly a Christmas-related film. Regardless, all five movies are exciting to watch, especially when the twists in the stories arrive and make the viewer question what they’ve seen…
What a great year for wearables 2024 has been! Don’t believe me? We’ve had three standout products this year. One has individually broken new ground, an established product line has been refined so it’s close to perfect, and another has driven other brands to muscle in on its success. Let’s talk about each one in turn, why they all complement each other really well, and how there has never been a better time for wearables. Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses Many have tried to get the smart glasses formula right over the years, but none have come even close to Meta’s…
