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🔑 Passkeys may not be for you, but they are safe and easy–here’s why

Frequently asked questions about passkeys and how they work, including their safety and trustworthiness, are answered in an article by senior security editor Dan Goodin.

💊 Drug-resistant ringworm reported in US for first time; community spread likely

Two cases of drug-resistant ringworm infections caused by a newly emerging fungus called Trichophyton indotineae were reported in the US for the first time, with community spread likely, and the pathogen is often misidentified in common lab tests.

🤖 Anthropic’s Claude AI can digest an entire book like The Great Gatsby in seconds

Anthropic's Claude AI can now analyze an entire book in less than a minute with its expanded context window of 100,000 tokens, surpassing GPT-4 in input memory and enabling it to participate in longer conversations or answer questions about the text's analysis. This capability also has implications for businesses that deal with complicated queries from multiple documents, potentially outperforming vector search-based methods.

💡 Idea amplification is the potential of generative AI

Generative AI has the potential to amplify creative ideas and make them a reality without the need for extensive skill or talent, but the issue of data consumption and the collapse of traditional talent and skills need to be addressed. However, the spark of inspiration remains a solely human ability, though there is a possibility that even that could fall to AI in the future.

🤯 Google’s new Magic Editor pushes us toward AI-perfected fakery

Google has unveiled its new Magic Editor tool, an AI-powered image editing feature which promises to "make complex edits without pro-level editing tools," allowing users to leverage the power of AI to single out and transform a portion of photos, including enhancing the sky, moving and scaling subjects, as well as removing parts of an image with just a few taps. The tool has been labelled as part of the trend towards AI-perfected fakery, and could transform the way people edit photos and view reality.

🌍 Climate crisis deniers target scientists for vicious abuse on Musk’s Twitter

British scientists are struggling to combat increased abuse from climate crisis deniers on Twitter following the removal of key figures who ensured "trusted" content was prioritized and the disappearance of Twitter's sustainability arm, with several users with millions of followers who propagate false statements about the climate emergency, including Donald Trump and rightwing culture warrior Jordan Peterson, having their accounts reinstated.

💻 Google’s AI tools embrace the dream of Clippy

Google recently demonstrated how its Duet AI features might soon be able to analyze your work and suggest ways to continue or improve it, with a new feature called Sidekick, which is designed to understand what you’re working on, pull together details from across Google’s different apps, and present you with clear information to use as notes or even incorporate directly into your work.

🍟 Too tired to cook. Too easy to open a packet. It’s not our fault we eat junk

Ultra-processed foods make up around 50% of the typical UK adult's diet and 65% of a child's, with newcomers interact with humans in unknown ways, prompting experts to criticise the food industry's manipulative advertising tactics that normalise over-consumption and rely on cheaper, harmful foodstuffs, attributing the wider trend towards ultra-processed foods to work cultures driven by long hours, low pay, structural inequalities, poverty and precarity.

🚫 Tesla cancels all right-hand drive orders for Model S and X

Tesla has cancelled all right-hand drive Model S and Model X orders, leaving customers in countries that drive on the other side of the road with cancelled orders and potential buyers being advised to buy a different model or car from inventory, or try a left-hand drive version.

🎮 Netflix wants to make its games ‘playable on every Netflix device that you have’

Netflix is working on a cloud gaming service that could make its games lineup easier to play and available across more devices, according to Leanne Loombe, Netflix's VP of external games, who said the goal is to have its games “playable on every Netflix device that you have.” Work on the project is in progress, but Loombe said the company is being “super thoughtful” about how it builds the service to avoid making the same mistakes as Google Stadia.

🤖 Google’s AI pitch is a recipe for email hell

Google's AI pitch at the Google I/O 2023 event is to help users write more polished prose in Gmail and other apps, but Adi Robertson from The Verge argues that the AI-generated text is often bloated and formulaic, serving none of writing's core purposes and reinforcing the idea that a high level of professional communication is required regardless of the job or situation.

💔 A moment’s silence, please, for the death of Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse

Mark Zuckerberg quietly discards his metaverse project, which has failed to live up to its promise despite spending $36bn in pursuit of the virtual reality dream, and turns his focus to AI, which could pose a new threat to Facebook and its investors.

🌟 AI Is Speeding Up Astronomical Discoveries

Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the field of astronomy by helping astronomers process massive data sets, pick out patterns, classify galaxies with 98% accuracy, search for extraterrestrial intelligence, identify exoplanets with 96% accuracy, and even make new discoveries and predict the existence of never-before-seen phenomena. The recent breakthrough in imaging a black hole, which became two times sharper through the use of AI, is just one example of how this technology is transforming our understanding of the universe.

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