First News on 570 listeners are a wonderful bunch. They soak up our witty and informative antics on technology and continuously keep us on our toes. Last week, Listener Sara made a request. She asked us to look into FedNow and bring our insights on The Show. FedNow Isn’t Digital Cash FedNow isn’t a digital...
Yesterday, the Federal Trade Commission issued a proposal saying Meta, the company who owns Facebook and Instagram, should be banned from making money off of children. Well, children’s data. The FTC says, “Meta’s recklessness has put young users at risk, and Facebook needs to answer for its failures.” For it’s part, Facebook says the FTC...
On Wednesday, Virgin Galactic’s Eve spacecraft completed a successful glide test returning to Earth safely. The flight test was conducted after Virgin Galactic’s inaugural flight in 2021. The company had grounded its spaceplane to make structural improvements and extend the flight. Since then, the company lost half a billion dollars because it had not flown...
Normally, cellphones aren’t able to connect directly to satellites. Usually cellphones connect to cell towers and relay their signals between towers. AT&T, Vodaphone, and Rakuten have teamed to connect a call from Midland, Texas to Japan. An ordinary Samsung Galaxy S22 and an iPhone were used for placing the call. This is notable because NO...
Just as YoungGuru started warning music consumers the danger AI poses to their favorite music artists, a script kiddie named @ghostwriter877 goes viral with a generated Drake and TheWeeknd track. What Had Happened Was Last weekend, Drake took to the Gram and proclaimed, “this is the final straw, AI!” He was upset a song used...
Large language models like GPT-4 still need humans to tell it the kind of content it’s being trained on. This process is called labeling. Human beings read content, and give it labels like news article, medical report, jokes, etc. These labels give GPT-4 the ability to understand the type of text someone like you prompts...
The FBI’s Denver Field office tweeted a warning to travelers encouraging them to avoid public smartphone charging ports. Avoid using free charging stations in airports, hotels or shopping centers. Bad actors have figured out ways to use public USB ports to introduce malware and monitoring software onto devices. Carry your own charger and USB cord...
In one of the most stunning turns of events, the Electronic Entertainment Expo; E, won’t return for 2023. E3 hasn’t held an in-person event since the pandemic. E3 was supposed to be, ‘full speed ahead’, as recently as February. Nintendo, Microsoft, and UbiSoft have all stated they won’t be participating this year and that simply...
That’s the headline. It’s been a wild week after Elon Musk and other tech figureheads asked for a pause on AI innovation, and we reported on Young Guru raising the alarm on audio deepfakes. This week, the Italian Data Privacy and Security regulator has banned ChatGPT from use in its country. Italy’s regulator says it...
Days after Elon Musk completed his latest layoff spree; Twitter, asked online source code host GitHub to remove the Twitter’s source code from its servers. What Is GitHub? GitHub.com is an online service used to share software source code between different software developers. GitHub is used by companies, open source organizations, and individuals to share...