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Google announces plans to eliminate third-party cookies in Chrome, starting with a 1% user testing period early in 2024 and leading to a broader phase-out in Q3 (Mayank Parmar/BleepingComputer)

Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer: Google announces plans to eliminate third-party cookies in Chrome, starting with a 1% user testing period early in 2024 and leading to a broader phase-out in Q3 — Google has officially announced plans to gradually eliminate third-party cookies, a key aspect of its Privacy Sandbox initiative.

Bigfoot Turns Classic Sewing Machine into a Leather-Eating Monster

If you try to sew leather on a standard consumer-grade machine, more often than not you’ll quickly learn its limits. Most machines are built for speed, and trying to get them to punch through heavy material at the low motor speeds often needed for leather work is a lesson in frustration. How frustrating? Enough so

Sources: in a memo, OpenAI Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon told employees that the company is “optimistic” it can bring back Sam Altman and Greg Brockman (Erin Woo/The Information)

Erin Woo / The Information: Sources: in a memo, OpenAI Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon told employees that the company is “optimistic” it can bring back Sam Altman and Greg Brockman — OpenAI is “optimistic” it can bring back Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and other key employees who departed in the wake …

Miniature Hydraulic Jack is a Scale Marvel

Most hydraulic jacks are big tools that can lift upwards of 1000 kg but [Maker B]’s is quite a bit smaller than average. The world’s smallest hydraulic jack is a tiny hand-machined model made out of tiny pieces of iron, brass and copper. But here’s the kicker: It’s a real hydraulic jack with real hydraulic

How to Charge Your Phone Faster With Adaptive Charging

Your phone battery will slowly wear down over time. Here’s how to make sure it stays healthier for longer.

Google announces plans to eliminate third-party cookies in Chrome, starting with a 1% user testing period early in 2024 and leading to a broader phase-out in Q3 (Mayank Parmar/BleepingComputer)

Sources: Sam Altman and Greg Brockman are planning to pitch a new AI startup to investors and are considering which OpenAI employees would join them (New York Times)

New York Times: Sources: Sam Altman and Greg Brockman are planning to pitch a new AI startup to investors and are considering which OpenAI employees would join them — Sam Altman, who was forced out of his company on Friday afternoon, was quickly moving to create another company with another OpenAI executive who quit on

Sources: OpenAI investors discussed reinstating Sam Altman by threatening OpenAI with mass researcher revolt, withholding Microsoft cloud credits, and a lawsuit (Forbes)

Forbes: Sources: OpenAI investors discussed reinstating Sam Altman by threatening OpenAI with mass researcher revolt, withholding Microsoft cloud credits, and a lawsuit — With the ousted OpenAI CEO actively discussing a new artificial intelligence venture, investors in his previous company are trying …

Wandering Through Old Word Processors Yields a Beast

The world once ran on hardcopy, and when the digital age started to bring new tools and ways of doing things, documents were ripe for change. Today, word processors and digital documents are so ubiquitous that they are hardly worth a thought, but that didn’t happen all at once. [Cathode Ray Dude] has a soft

Sources: Microsoft and Thrive are working to reinstate Sam Altman as OpenAI’s CEO; Satya Nadella, blindsided by the board’s decision, pledged to support Altman (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: Microsoft and Thrive are working to reinstate Sam Altman as OpenAI’s CEO; Satya Nadella, blindsided by the board’s decision, pledged to support Altman — – Board has considered resigning, hasn’t made final decision — Altman has been weighing new venture, but open to returning

Restoring the Silver Swan Automaton

It’s easier than ever to build your own robot, but humans have been building automatons since before anyone had even thought of electronics. One beautiful example is the Silver Swan, built in the 18th century. The brainchild of [John Joseph Merlin] and silversmith [James Cox], the swan features three separate clockwork drives, appearing to swim

An interview with DeepMind’s Shane Legg and Meredith Ringel Morris, who propose five levels of AGI taxonomy and say the first, “emerging”, has been achieved (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)

Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: An interview with DeepMind’s Shane Legg and Meredith Ringel Morris, who propose five levels of AGI taxonomy and say the first, “emerging”, has been achieved — AGI is one of the most disputed concepts in tech. These researchers want to fix that.

OpenAI drama continues as board in talks to bring fired CEO back

Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority OpenAI fired CEO Sam Altman on November 17. OpenAI’s board is reportedly in discussions with Altman to return as CEO. Altman is “ambivalent” about coming back. OpenAI has been on a bit of a rollercoaster over the last 48 hours. On Friday, Open AI announced it had fired CEO

Sources: Sam Altman and Greg Brockman are planning to pitch a new AI startup to investors and are considering which OpenAI employees would join them (New York Times)

Source: OpenAI’s board had agreed to resign and let Sam Altman and Greg Brockman return, but has since waffled; Altman would want significant governance changes (The Verge)

The Verge: Source: OpenAI’s board had agreed to resign and let Sam Altman and Greg Brockman return, but has since waffled; Altman would want significant governance changes — The OpenAI board is in discussions with Sam Altman to return to CEO, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.

A look at OpenAI interim CEO Mira Murati’s challenges, like convincing staff the company’s philosophy is workable, raising new funding, and attracting AI talent (Steven Levy/Wired)

Steven Levy / Wired: A look at OpenAI interim CEO Mira Murati’s challenges, like convincing staff the company’s philosophy is workable, raising new funding, and attracting AI talent — Sam Altman made OpenAI into a powerhouse by adding a profit-seeking arm to its utopian mission.

A profile of Ilya Sutskever, who left Google in 2015 to become an OpenAI co-founder and its chief scientist at Elon Musk’s urging, and now focuses on AI safety (Steve Mollman/Fortune)

Steve Mollman / Fortune: A profile of Ilya Sutskever, who left Google in 2015 to become an OpenAI co-founder and its chief scientist at Elon Musk’s urging, and now focuses on AI safety — Ilya Sutskever, chief scientist of OpenAI. — As speculation swirls around the leadership shakeup at OpenAI announced Friday …

OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO

Sam Altman speaking on behalf of OpenAI at the APEC CEO Summit the day before he was fired. | Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The OpenAI board is in discussions with Sam Altman to return to the company as its CEO, according to multiple people familiar with the matter. One of them said Altman, who

Source: OpenAI’s board had agreed to resign and let Sam Altman and Greg Brockman return, but has since waffled; Altman would want significant governance changes (The Verge)

Cooking with Magnets and 3D Printing

Have you ever wondered how induction cooking works? A rotating magnetic field — electrically or mechanically — induces eddy currents in aluminum and that generates heat. When [3D Sage] learned this, he decided to try to 3D print some mechanical rigs to spin magnets so he could try cooking with them. We doubt at all

Sources: OpenAI has received only a fraction of Microsoft’s $10B investment, a big portion of which is in cloud purchases, giving Microsoft significant leverage (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)

Reed Albergotti / Semafor: Sources: OpenAI has received only a fraction of Microsoft’s $10B investment, a big portion of which is in cloud purchases, giving Microsoft significant leverage — Only a fraction of Microsoft’s $10 billion investment in OpenAI has been wired to the startup, while a significant portion of the funding …

Meta disbanded its Responsible AI team

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Meta has reportedly broken up its Responsible AI (RAI) team as it puts more of its resources into generative artificial intelligence. The Information broke the news today, citing an internal post it had seen. According to the report, most RAI members will move to the company’s generative AI

A look at OpenAI interim CEO Mira Murati’s challenges, like convincing staff the company’s philosophy is workable, raising new funding, and attracting AI talent (Steven Levy/Wired)

Cooking with Magnets and 3D Printing

Sources: OpenAI has received only a fraction of Microsoft’s $10B investment, a big portion of which is in cloud purchases, giving Microsoft significant leverage (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)

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