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Mad science award ceremony returns to MIT after four years online
With less than a month to go before the Nobel Prizes are handed out for the most worthy scientific discoveries of the preceding year, it would be remiss of The Register not to observe the honors conferred by the gong's bratty little brother, the Ig Nobel Prize.…
| Begun, the open source AI wars have
This is going to be ugly. Really ugly
Opinion The Open Source Initiative (OSI) and its allies are getting closer to a definition of open source AI. If all goes well, Stefano Maffulli, the OSI's executive director, expects to announce the OSI open source AI definition at All Things Open in late October. But some open source leaders already want nothing to do with it.…
| Meta back at it, harvesting Britons' public Facebook, Insta feeds for AI training
I wanna know 🎵 What you're feeling 🎵 Tell me what's on your mind
Meta is going to resume scraping the personal public feeds of British Facebook and Instagram users for training AI after reaching an agreement with the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).…
| Apple AirPods Pro 2 can be sold as hearing aids, says FDA
You gotta admit, that speaks volumes for Cupertino
America's drug watchdog this week gave Apple permission to market its AirPods Pro 2 as over-the-counter hearing aids, disrupting an industry where traditional devices have often cost thousands of dollars.…
| EU OKs $1.9B aid for Intel Polish plant, assuming x86 giant doesn't end up cutting it
That's zloty money but is it too little, too late?
Intel is scrambling to stanch the bleeding of its floundering foundry business, but in Poland at least the chipmaker's luck is looking up.…
| AI giants pinky swear (again) not to help make deepfake smut
Oh look, another voluntary, non-binding agreement to do better
Some of the largest AI firms in America have given the White House a solemn pledge to prevent their AI products from being used to generate non-consensual deepfake pornography and child sexual abuse material.…
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