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‘Openwashing’

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: There’s a big debate in the tech world over whether artificial intelligence models should be “open source.” Elon Musk, who helped found OpenAI in 2015, sued the startup and its chief executive, Sam Altman, on claims that the company had diverged from its mission

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Sugar’s big twist was more than a gimmick

Image: Apple For most of its first season, Sugar on Apple TV Plus was a fairly typical if slickly produced detective story. It starred Colin Farrell as John Sugar, a private investigator with a number of charming quirks — obsessed with old movies, unable to get drunk, beloved by dogs — who was determined to

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This waterproof Bluetooth speaker offers 360° surround sound at a price better than Amazon’s, now $100

Macworld Whether you’re planning a beach day or camping trip this summer, there’s one thing you’ll need to keep the mood upbeat: music. Fortunately, you can bring happy beats and tunes wherever you go with the TREBLAB HD-360 Bluetooth speaker. This highly portable and user-friendly speaker is sure to be a welcome accessory, especially since has an

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Use Beelinguapp to learn a new language by reading and listening, only $29.97

Macworld Learning a new language can help you communicate abroad and can even improve your career prospects. While language learning isn’t easy, you can learn more intuitively with Beelinguapp. Beelinguapp helps students master a second language by focusing on the listening approach to learning. Now, lifetime access to this innovative language-learning solution is only $29.97 (reg. $100). Compatible with Android 4.3 and up and

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NetBSD Bans AI-Generated Code From Commits

A recent change was announced to the NetBSD commit guidelines which amends these to state that code which was generated by Large Language Models (LLMs) or similar technologies, such as ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Copilot or Meta’s Code Llama is presumed to be tainted code. This amendment was to the existing section about tainted code, which originally

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Winamp Source Code Will be Opened Up, Company Says

Recently the company currently in charge of the Winamp media player – formerly Radionomy, now Llama Group – announced that it will be making the source code of the player ‘available to developers’. Although the peanut gallery immediately seemed to have jumped to the conclusion that this meant that the source would be made available

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