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Launching October 1st, Gemini For Home is a suite of new AI-powered features for Google’s smart home hardware and software.

The biggest change: Gemini is replacing Google Assistant on all of Google’s smart speakers, all the way back to the original Google Home speaker. This LLM-powered upgrade, announced at Google I/O, will be available through an Early Access program at first, with a wider rollout planned for next year.

On smart speakers, Gemini brings an entirely new voice assistant that uses and understands natural language, can interpret context, and can pull in more real-time information. You still activate it with the wake words “hey Google,” but Google Assistant has been evicted.

“Gemini for Home is the intelligence for your entire home,” Anish Kattukaran, head of product at Google Home and Nest, tells The Verge. “It’s not going to just replace Assistant on speakers and displays, but it’s going to upgrade your other devices as well, your cameras and doorbells, where you interact with those devices, and bring those smarts collectively to your entire home.”

I’m not excited for Apple to invent smart homes after this, completing the duopoly of LLMs being in everyone’s homes even harder than before.

Long live Home Assistant

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I downvote because it’s paywalled.

Paywalled links are just ads with extra steps.

How long until parliament decides to push the undo button on this stupid law?

Corporations don’t have stable political identities.

They’ll promote trans people if it makes them money.

And then sell trans people to ICE the next quarter if it makes them even more money.

And then use a shell company to sell trans merch to the people boycotting them.

I read the word st*le in your comment and was forced to take candy from a baby.

Please, censor your comment to protect the innocent.

It’s always “notorious” with these guys.

Identity of Notorious Hacker USDoD Revealed

A notorious hacker group is now targeting the aviation industry, the FBI says

Notorious Hacker Group TeamTNT Launches New Cloud Attacks for Crypto Mining

Notorious image board 4chan hacked and internal data leaked

Jones says that linguists and subtitlers are not necessarily against AI – but at the moment, it’s making practitioners’ lives harder rather than easier. “In every industry, AI is being used to replace all the creative things that bring us joy instead of the boring, tedious tasks we hate doing,” she says.

Thanks for the Discord link. I looked into it and updated my comment.

Link in the OP is fake, please update to correct site.

Correction: I was wrong. Comick.dev is not fake. The base Comick.io site did briefly link to comick.dev, but the link has since been removed, likely because comick.dev was throwing errors (see screenshot below).

After looking deeper into it, here’s my understanding:

• comick.io is and will remain the official website.
• comick.dev is a temp site the owner set up for building and testing the new tracker version of ComicK. It will likely disappear or be archived once development is complete.
• If your account is older than 1.5 months (the site owner was forced to remove servers with more recent data), you should be able to log in and retrieve your lists from comick.dev.
• We’ll probably have to wait a couple of weeks for real news about the future of ComicK.

Those are definitely words.

“We show that by exploiting the physics of specular reflection, an adversary can inject phantom obstacles or erase real ones using only inexpensive mirrors,” the researchers wrote in a paper submitted to the journal Computers & Security.

“Experiments on a full AV platform, with commercial-grade LIDAR and the Autoware stack, demonstrate that these are practical threats capable of triggering critical safety failures, such as abrupt emergency braking and failure to yield.”

I’d be fooled, too, at first - and suspicious (who’s fucking around with mirrors on the road?) - but I’d probably figure it out after a second.

My main concern is people could use these kinds of exploits to “jailbreak” robo-cars (or whatever we’re calling them) to behave in dangerous ways in real traffic.

It will not. The article is nostalgia and hopium-baiting.

Restarting a mass-manufacturing production line for something like once super-common CRT TVs would require a major investment that so far nobody is willing to front.

Meanwhile LCD and OLED technology have hit some serious technological dead-ends, while potential non-organic LED alternatives such as microLED have trouble scaling down to practical pixel densities and yields.

There’s a chance that Sony and others can open some drawers with old ‘thin CRT’ plans, dust off some prototypes and work through the remaining R&D issues with SED and FED for potentially a pittance of what alternative, brand-new technologies like MicroLED or quantum dot displays would cost.

Will it happen? Maybe not. It’s quite possible that we’ll still be trying to fix OLED and LCDs for the next decade and beyond, while waxing nostalgically about how much more beautiful the past was, and the future could have been, if only we hadn’t bothered with those goshdarn twisting liquid crystals.

According to the cube rule, both burgers and quesadillas are sandwiches.

I have the French dub, which has a very different broadcast order.

S03E12 in French might be S02E22 in English, while S03E13 is part one of a special episode (so… S00E04, p1).

No one had published a conversion guide yet,so I ended up playing each file up through the title credits, to determine the new watch order.

Apple is one of the few companies whose cult I think could rival MAGA.

Tim Cook gets no brownie points from me for sucking up to 40-whatever-number-he-is.

Futurama is also a pain to organize.

Their policy to not be evil.

The content was great. The furry art between every paragraph was completely inoffensive and sometimes cute.

Using a picture of your (I assume) furry avatar presenting their ass in my general direction as the header/thumbnail almost made me not click.

It’s not even a furry thing.

It’s a you-look-so-unserious-right-now thing.

Went to the comments to follow up on that URL and had a lesson in the history of unfortunate website names.