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Neon sticks it to A24 by announcing a Creative Commons SCP Foundation movie (opens the original)
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The studio says the movie will be in theaters next year. The studio says the movie will be in theaters next year. A24 pissed off one of the internet’s largest horror communities when it announced it was working on an SCP Foundation film, but apparently hadn’t bothered to contact the SCP Wiki team, nor did it commit to releasing it under a Creative Commons license as required. Seeing an easy PR win, Neon is cashing in by announcing it’s making its own SCP movie. But unlike A24, it proactively rea
Engram is a sampler that turns broken AI hallucinations into music (opens the original)
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Thoughtful Things says Engram is a ‘field recorder for latent space’ and circuit-bending tiny AI models. Thoughtful Things says Engram is a ‘field recorder for latent space’ and circuit-bending tiny AI models. Music startup Thoughtful Things has just launched the Kickstarter campaign for its first instrument, Engram. It’s a sampler and groovebox that uses AI to mangle incoming audio and even hallucinate completely new sounds. This isn’t Suno in a box, though. This isn’t a “push-button, get-song”
OpenAI agents tried to ‘bruteforce’ a UN website (opens the original)
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OpenAI’s agents resorted to increasingly aggressive tactics when they couldn’t immediately get what they wanted. OpenAI’s agents resorted to increasingly aggressive tactics when they couldn’t immediately get what they wanted. Security researcher Rowan Howard-Jones says that OpenAI agents scanned the UN Conference on Trade and Development’s (UNCTAD) statistics site over 16,000 times between April and June. While the incident doesn’t quite rise to the level of the Hugging Face hack, or the recent
Apple hit with $5.7 billion in damages over haptic patents (opens the original)
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Apple’s Taptic Engine was found to infringe on two of Taction’s patents. Apple’s Taptic Engine was found to infringe on two of Taction’s patents. Haptics tech company Taction sued Apple in 2021, alleging it infringed two of its patents. Now a federal jury in San Diego has awarded Taction over $5.7 billion in damages. According to CNBC, “The lawsuit centered around U.S. Patent Nos. 10,659,885 and 10,820,117, which both involve vibration-based, tactile transducer technology that helps users feel a
Decap is the man behind the drums behind your favorite song (opens the original)
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Producer and sound designer Decap’s ‘Drums That Knock’ are all over some of the biggest hits of the last 10 years. Producer and sound designer Decap’s ‘Drums That Knock’ are all over some of the biggest hits of the last 10 years. I don’t think I’m going to hurt anyone’s feelings by pointing out that Decap doesn’t have the name recognition of Kendrick Lamar, Olivia Rodrigo, or Charli XCX. But his fingerprints are all over tracks from them, as well as many other artists, including Freddie Gibbs, B
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