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NERF – Neural Radiance Fields

Making narrative film just keeps getting easier. What once took a studio is now within reach of the dedicated hobbyist. And Neural Radiance Fields are making it a dramatic step easier. The guys from [Corridor Crew] give an early peek. Filming and editing have reached the cell phone and laptop stage of easy. But sets,

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How Twitter users in China have been circumventing the nation’s Great Firewall and fighting spam to get footage of protests out to the rest of the world (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: How Twitter users in China have been circumventing the nation’s Great Firewall and fighting spam to get footage of protests out to the rest of the world  —  Chinese users employ VPNs to get videos and images out of the country, while fighting spam  —  Why Tesla’s China Ties Could Be a

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OpenAI releases a demo of ChatGPT, a chatbot version of GPT-3 that answers follow-up questions, admits its mistakes, challenges incorrect premises, and more (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)

Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: OpenAI releases a demo of ChatGPT, a chatbot version of GPT-3 that answers follow-up questions, admits its mistakes, challenges incorrect premises, and more  —  A chatbot version of GPT-3 that admits its mistakes is more transparent than the original.  But it’s still not perfect.

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Twitter says it’s expanding recommended tweets to all users, including those who may not have seen them in the past (Karissa Bell/Engadget)

Karissa Bell / Engadget: Twitter says it’s expanding recommended tweets to all users, including those who may not have seen them in the past  —  Twitter is now pushing more tweets from accounts users don’t already follow into their timelines.  The company revealed that it’s now surfacing recommendations to all its users …

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Mozilla’s Firefox and Microsoft’s Edge plan to stop trusting new certificates from TrustCor, after a report revealed TrustCor’s ties to a US defense contractor (Joseph Menn/Washington Post)

Joseph Menn / Washington Post: Mozilla’s Firefox and Microsoft’s Edge plan to stop trusting new certificates from TrustCor, after a report revealed TrustCor’s ties to a US defense contractor  —  TrustCor Systems is what’s known as a root certifcate authority, a key position in the internet infrastructure that guarantees a website is genuine

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Server-side rendering improvements slated for Angular 16

Now that Angular 15 has arrived, the developers of the Google-created, TypeScript-based web framework are eyeing improvements to server-side rendering and runtime performance for a planned Angular 16 release. Tentatively due in May 2023, Angular 16 would explore hydration and server-side rendering usability improvements, with a first step being non-destructive hydration. This technique would allow

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A Weather Station For Whether It Rains or Shines

[Giovanni Aggiustatutto] creates a DIY weather station to measure rain fall, wind direction, humidity and temperature. [Giovanni] has been working on various parts of the weather station, including the rain gauge and anemometer, with the weather station build incorporating all these past projects and adding a few extra features for measurement and access. For temperature

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LastPass says attackers accessed customers’ data after breaching its cloud storage using information stolen during a security incident in August 2022 (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: LastPass says attackers accessed customers’ data after breaching its cloud storage using information stolen during a security incident in August 2022  —  LastPass says unknown attackers breached its cloud storage using information stolen during a previous security incident from August 2022.

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Elon Musk says he met with Tim Cook at Apple’s HQ on Wednesday, and that Cook was clear that Apple “never considered” removing Twitter from the App Store (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

Juli Clover / MacRumors: Elon Musk says he met with Tim Cook at Apple’s HQ on Wednesday, and that Cook was clear that Apple “never considered” removing Twitter from the App Store  —  Twitter CEO Elon Musk today met with Apple CEO Tim Cook at the Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California, according to a

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Twitch unveils Shield Mode, which lets streamers and mods activate customizable safety measures with one click, mass ban chatters using specific terms, and more (Jon Fingas/Engadget)

Jon Fingas / Engadget: Twitch unveils Shield Mode, which lets streamers and mods activate customizable safety measures with one click, mass ban chatters using specific terms, and more  —  Twitch has steadily added to its streamer safety measures, but they can still be a pain to use if a hate raid or dedicated harasser makes

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Pathmatics: Apple’s Twitter ad purchases grew from $989K in October to $1M+ in November; on November 28, Elon Musk said Apple “mostly stopped” Twitter ads (Thomas Germain/Gizmodo)

Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: Pathmatics: Apple’s Twitter ad purchases grew from $989K in October to $1M+ in November; on November 28, Elon Musk said Apple “mostly stopped” Twitter ads  —  Musk tweeted that Apple had all but stopped buying ads on Twitter.  The iPhone maker’s ad purchases had actually increased, according to an ad analytics

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Mark Zuckerberg says Apple’s policies that let the company unilaterally control which apps can be installed are not sustainable and cause a conflict of interest (Sara Fischer/Axios)

Sara Fischer / Axios: Mark Zuckerberg says Apple’s policies that let the company unilaterally control which apps can be installed are not sustainable and cause a conflict of interest  —  Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday added to the growing chorus of concerns about Apple, arguing that it’s …

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