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Submission + - Musk-led group makes $97.4bn bid for ChatGPT maker OpenAI (bbc.com)

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A consortium led by Elon Musk has made a $97.4 billion bid to take over OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT. The bid is the latest development in a long-standing dispute between Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman over the future of the company.

Key Points:
  • The bid is backed by Musk's AI company xAI and several private equity firms.
  • OpenAI is valued at $300 billion, according to recent talks over a funding round.
  • Musk's attorney has stated that the consortium is prepared to consider matching or exceeding any higher bid.
  • Musk is also teaming up with Oracle, a Japanese investment firm, and an Emirati sovereign wealth fund to build $500 billion of AI infrastructure in the US through the Stargate Project.
Android

Benchmarks Show Galaxy S8 With Snapdragon 835 Is a Much Faster Android Handset (hothardware.com) 82

Posted by BeauHD from the speed-racer dept.
MojoKid writes: Samsung recently launched the Galaxy S8 series of Android smartphones to much fanfare but only recently did the handsets begin to arrive in market for testing and review. Though the high-polish styling of the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ may or may not appeal to you, few would argue with its claims of significant performance gains and improved battery life. As it turns out, in deep-dive testing and benchmarking, the Galaxy S8 series is significantly faster than any other Android handset on the market currently, especially when it comes to graphics and gaming workloads. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor on board the GS8 is currently a Samsung exclusive, though it's expected to arrive in other handsets later this year. The Adreno 540 graphics engine on board the new Snapdragon chip is roughly 25% faster than the previous generation 820/821 series, though the chip is only about 10 percent faster in standard CPU-intensive tasks. Regardless, these are appreciable gains, especially in light of the fact that the new Galaxy S8 also has much better battery life than the previous generation Galaxy S7 series. The Samsung Galaxy S8 (5.8-inch) and Galaxy S8+ (6.2-inch) are expected to arrive at retail this week and though pricing is carrier-dependent, list for roughly $720 and $850 respectively, off contract.
Social Networks

US Judge Rejects Suit Over Face Scanning for Video Game (newyorklawjournal.com) 69

Posted by msmash from the steering-clear dept.
Two athletes whose images were scanned for a video game have been bounced from court on their claim that the game maker violated a law protecting biometric information. From a report: Brother-and-sister video basketball players Ricardo and Vanessa Vigil were leading a class action that claimed Take-Two Interactive, which manufactured the NBA 2K15 game, ran afoul of an Illinois law that governs biometric identifiers such as retina or iris scans, fingerprints, voiceprints, or scans of hand and face geometry. The Vigils agreed to have their faces scanned to create digital avatars for NBA 2K15, but said they didn't know their images would be available in unencrypted form online. They tried to hold Take-Two liable under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) in Vigil v. Take-Two Interactive Software, 15-cv-8211. Judge John Koetl of the Southern District of New York dismissed the proposed class action suit filed by brother and sister Ricardo and Vanessa Vigil, saying the plaintiffs didn't show "concrete" harm from the way the gaming company stores and uses their biometric data.
Security

College Student Got 15 Million Miles By Hacking United Airlines (fortune.com) 79

Posted by BeauHD from the frequent-flyer dept.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Fortune: University of Georgia Tech student Ryan Pickren used to get in trouble for hacking websites -- in 2015, he hacked his college's master calendar and almost spent 15 years in prison. But now he's being rewarded for his skills. Pickren participated in United Airlines' Bug Bounty Program and earned 15 million United miles. At two cents a mile, that's about $300,000 worth. United's white hat hacking program invites computer experts to legally hack their systems, paying up to one million United miles to hackers who can reveal security flaws. At that rate, we can presume Pickren reported as many as 15 severe bugs. The only drawback to all those free miles? Taxes. Having earned $300,000 of taxable income from the Bug Bounty Program, Pickren could owe the Internal Revenue Service tens of thousands of dollars. He's not keeping all of the, though: Pickren donated five million miles to Georgia Tech. The ultimate thank-you for not pressing charges last year. In May, certified ethical hackers at Offensi.com identified a bug allowing remote code execution on one of United Airlines' sites and were rewarded with 1,000,000 Mileage Plus air miles. Instead of accepting the award themselves, they decided to distribute their air miles among three charities.

Comment Re:Suggested replacement videos? (Score 1) 376

by captainproton1971 (#48890677) Attached to: Behind the MOOC Harassment Charges That Stunned MIT

I am very much in a similar situation and have made the same decision re: use of his videos in my course. That said, though, his lecture videos were fantastic in a flipped classroom context. I haven't found a single source that covers the same material at a similar level. It's possible to piece together an entire course by offerings on YouTube a module at a time, but it's an extremely long process. Sadly, the signal to noise level wrt introductory physics is extremely low.

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