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It’s become common knowledge among home owners to avoid Samsung home appliances like the plague. They’re notorious for frequently breaking down, and fixing them can turn into an expensive ordeal — if it’s even an option at all.And after an entirely unnecessary and infuriating injection of AI, many unfortunate owners of a Samsung “Bespoke AI 4-Door” fridge were in for a rude surprise. Customers across South Korea found that their almost $4,000 appliance suddenly shut down after a faulty firmware update, turning them into an expensive — and fresh food ruining — brick.As Star News Korea reports, an internal panel…

The tech world’s potential future founders are living out hedonistic existences in giant Silicon Valley mansions, where they live with a dozen and even more like-minded individuals, and where life is more a less a constant party. These so-called hacker houses, though, have a dark side. A recent New York Times investigation has uncovered several harassment cases and rape allegations stemming from hacker houses. The most prominent of these is the AGI House — short for “artificial general intelligence” — in Hillsborough, where police have logged 37 incidents since 2022. At least 17 were related to the often large and extravagant…

Stanford University was caught using AI to swap out a student in a photo and replace him with a Black woman who didn’t exist. That edited photo, which shows the students — both the fake one and a pair of real ones — smiling and holding up plates of food, was then plastered around campus to promote the university’s dining hall.At first, Billy Ramirez, the student who was edited out of the photo, thought it was “hilarious.” But Ramirez, who is Hispanic, soon felt “silenced and erased from a representation that was supposed to include me,” he told Stanford Review,…

Earlier this month, OpenAI announced that it had found a solution for one of the biggest unsolved problems in math, the Navier-Stokes equations, by directing 10,000 of its powerful AI agents to work on the enigma for 88 hours straight. It was an occasion fraught with controversy, however, as mathematicians accused the company of essentially stealing their work.That controversy is still rippling through the math world. But what has the AI’s solution taught us? Not a lot, as it turns out, because the proof it wrote, while technically correct, is borderline incomprehensible.“So far it’s been very difficult to really extract…

A crowd of anxious community members in Springfield, Missouri turned downright hostile on Monday, leaping to their feet after city council members rubber-stamped a resolution around Flock surveillance cameras.Footage published by local channel KY3 captured the moment counselors voted 5-3 to send the resolution on Automatic License Plate Readers (ALPRs) to the city’s planning committee, functionally bypassing any chance at a public hearing.The audience immediately turned hostile following the vote, with throngs of attendees screaming out at the top of their lungs as they filed out of the meeting hall in protest.“Worthless!” one unidentified community member bellowed before storming off.

Trying to escape the increasingly dystopian real world with a jaunt into the virtual one? A new system patented by Microsoft might make that easier said than done.Recently, Microsoft published a brand-new patent application for an “ad credit” system meant to seamlessly pump paid promotional material into video games. That’s according to Respawn First, which noted that the system would rely on signals relayed by the game engine to choose opportune times to serve gamers in-game commercials.These would vary from game-to-game, but generally encompass pre-existing events like boss fights, loading screens, and transitions out of cutscenes. When the system receives…

The advent of powerful AI coding tools has quickly made programmers heavily reliant on the tech, with experts warning that they’re slowly but surely losing the ability to write code by hand.It’s a growing existential crisis that’s significantly raising the chance of errors or security issues in AI code that hasn’t been properly vetted. Experts are warning of a “class divide” between those, who are over relying on AI tools and more experienced coders, or “craftsmen,” who are left wading through the former’s group’s output and applying any necessary fixes.Meanwhile, coders who’ve been instructed to use nothing but AI in…

As the US federal government rolls ahead with its controversial plans to deploy an AI air traffic control system across some of the nation’s busiest airports, one former air traffic controller is speaking out about the unprecedented risks involved.In an appearance on News Nation, 13-year air traffic control veteran Todd Sheridan Yeary made it clear that the new system — called the Strategic Management of Airspace, Routes and Trajectories, or SMART — is little-understood, as the aviation community is still asking basic questions about how it’s actually going to be used.“The first that comes to mind is, what is the…

If you’ve even so much as glanced at the news recently, you may have picked up on the raging debate over AI regulation in the US. Stronger regulations are incredibly popular with Americans from across the political spectrum — but not so much with their head of state, Donald Trump.In his speech to the United Nations General Assembly in New York City today, Trump blasted those calling for any kind of pause or slowdown to AI development. His rationale is stunning: near-total deregulation is working out great for the environment, he suggested, so why not replicate that success in the…

Almost a decade after his tragic passing, iconic comedian Robin Williams is being remembered in the worst way possible: by mind-numbing AI slop video tributes that gullible netizens are sharing with abandon on social media.His surviving daughter and film director Zelda Williams has been watching with dismay.“That supposedly ‘private video’ of dad that I’ve been shown talking about conspiracies is clearly AI, and not even particularly convincing AI,” she tweeted on Monday. “Anyone who claims to be a fan who believes it clearly listened to his movies on mute because that voice is robotic and terrible.”A brief search on the…