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People are playing a new DOOM-themed CAPTCHA
TechCrunch,
CAPTCHA programs that are used to determine whether a site visitor is a person or a bot come in pretty standard formats. Think text distortion (where users type the characters they see in a box amid other squiggles); image recognition (you’re selecting, say, all the squares in a grid with a bicycle image); and checkbox […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Internal SpaceX documents show the sweet stock deals offered to investors like a16z, Gigafund
Like many highly valued startups, SpaceX sometimes allows its employees to cash out some of their shares by selling to company-authorized outside investors. TechCrunch has gotten a peek at an internal SpaceX document about such a tender offer from May 2022. Musk posted on X last month that SpaceX holds such sales for employees about […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Let Claude 3 Opus, MistralAI, and ChatGPT do your job for you in 2025
Boing Boing,
TL;DR: Streamline all the tedious tasks you have to complete this year with help from 1minAI's collection of almost all the major AI models, now only $29.97 (reg. $234). When AI first came out, we were a little worried it would take a lot of people's jobs. — Read the rest The post Let Claude 3 Opus, MistralAI, and ChatGPT do your job for you in 2025 appeared first on Boing Boing.
Robinhood, already a ‘comeback’ stock, has even more aggressive plans for 2025
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev has a lot to celebrate this holiday season. After a bumpy few years following Robinhood’s 2021 IPO — a period during which shares of the commission-free trading app plummeted by more than 90% after it abruptly restricted trading in some meme stocks — the 12-year-old company was just declared Yahoo Finance’s […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
The Rest Is Still Unwritten? Meghan Markle Runs on the Beach in Return to Instagram
Jezebel,
Markle marked her return to the platform with a video of herself running and laughing on the beach. The video doesn't have music, but I just <em>know</em> she was singing Natasha Bedingfield's "Unwritten" in her head.
Pop Culture’s 16 Messiest Friendship Breakups
The Cut,
If you’ve cried harder over an ex-friend than an ex-lover, this list is for you.
OpenAI failed to deliver the opt-out tool it promised by 2025
Back in May, OpenAI said it was developing a tool to let creators specify how they want their works to be included in — or excluded from — its AI training data. But seven months later, this feature has yet to see the light of day. Called Media Manager, the tool would “identify copyrighted text, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Silicon Valley stifled the AI doom movement in 2024
For several years now, technologists have rung alarm bells about the potential for advanced AI systems to cause catastrophic damage to the human race. But in 2024, those warning calls were drowned out by a practical and prosperous vision of generative AI promoted by the tech industry — a vision that also benefited their wallets. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.