"The increasingly distorted images produced by an artificial-intelligence model that is trained on data generated by a previous version of the model. Credit: M. Boháček & H. Farid/arXiv (CC BY 4.0)" - Nature (ext link) Unfortunately, or fortunately, researchers have found that feeding AI LLMs AI results leads rapidly to the generation of nonsense. This is rather important as there's tons of AI data being generated, and unless we find and apply some sort of watermarking or brand...
This is AI, as well as computing...so, I found this while cruising and figured you all (or at least a lot of you) would be interested in it. It isn't every day that scifi becomes reality, although it does seem that a good deal of scifi is doing just that. "In the quest to train robots for real-world tasks, researchers have created “Holodeck,” an AI system capable of generating detailed, customizable 3D environments on demand, inspired by Star Trek’s holodeck technology. Thi...
Sorry about the picture, I can't figure out how to rotate it properly. I'm running Windows 10 Home. As you can see on my taskbar there is this "News And Weather" widget. I don't want it there. I have tried the right click menu on the taskbar and turned it off. After a few hours in sleep mode it turns itself back on. The widget always turns itself back on after a reboot. I've tried everything I know of to get the widget to stay turned off. Any ideas?
Some seriously good news for those whose computers won't support upgrade to W11. 0Patch which supports at present Windows7 will support W10 until 2030. That's 200 million W10 devices granted a pardon. Martin Brinkmann brings us this good news at gHacks: "Come October 2025, owners of Windows 10 devices will have these five options, if they want to keep on using their devices: Upgrade to Windows 11 -- only available if the device is supported officially. Yes, there are...
There's a serious privacy and control problem with MS. They are positive your computer is really theirs to do with as they wish. The latest is now Windows 11 has altered whichever settings you determined in your backup preferences for OneDrive. I'm not against backing up data, as all here know, I am however against MS determining and acting, without obtaining your permission, to determine what you must back up from your privately owned computer. The article linked above informs yo...
Thank you for all the memories!
As a father myself, let's all have a great one!
When I look at the people who have gotten "canceled" over things they posted on the Internet, it's disproportionately GenXers. Why is that? I think it's the awkward timing. GenX grew up on BBSes and Usenet which were a free for all. It wasn't until the Millennials and later GenZ came on the scene that the raunchy, insensitive, or intentionally trolling behaviors of GenX got us into trouble.
v2.5 and the Warlords Expansion is now available, and we're excited to share the ins and outs. Check out my guided tour below: v2.5 and the Warlords Expansion is now available, and we're excited to share the ins and outs. Check out my guided tour below: [confluence title=""]https://stardock.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SDEnt/pages/1791918081/Guided+Tour+of+GalCiv+IV+v2.5+Warlords[/confluence]
I've been saying this a lot to design teams lately: There is no subsitute for playing the game and then playing the game some more and then playing it still more. And Warlords really shows that. Now, those of you who get it right away are in for a particular treat that you should take advantage of as much as you can while you can: There are a lot of absolutely crazy ship components in this that we have balanced as best we can but I can tell you right now, I there are going to be some...
I'm looking for some high quality (512x?) icons suitable for large Start 11 icons. I like to have my custom icons take up most all of the space and there's a few items on the start menu from OD that need some attention.
ObjectDock brought me bakc to the forums after a long time away. It' sgood to see familiar faces (or whatever). Thanks for coming to my TEDTalk.
I'm wondering if there's an easy way to get apps downloaded from the Windows store, onto ObjectDock. Generally apps appear in the dock when you open the app, and you can pin them to the dock from there, but apps downloaded from the Windows store, Facebook Messenger for example, do not appear to work that way and they're stored in a hidden, inaccessible folder so you can't just create a link to them. Is there a work-around to this?
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