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Creed III brings Adonis’ story full circle by trading in one set of daddy issues for another

Michael B. Jordan’s directorial debut feels like an experimental remake of Rocky V that finally lets Adonis Creed step outside of his mentor’s shadow. Share this story a:hover]:text-black [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-e9 dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray-63 [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-13 dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63″>Jonathan Majors as Damian Anderson and Michael B. Jordan as Adonis Creed.a:hover]:text-black [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-e9 dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray-63 [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-13 dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63″>Michael B. Jordan as Adonis Creed, Mila Davis-Kent as Amara Creed, and Tessa Thompson as Bianca Taylor.

YouTube says it isn’t messing with 1080p — ‘1080p Premium’ is higher-bitrate

/ The company also says it’s not changing ‘the existing quality offerings for 1080p.’ a:hover]:text-black [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-e9 dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray-63 [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-13 dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63″>People in the experiment have access to both the regular and Premium 1080p options, according to a Reddit user claiming to have access to it.

SEC comes out against Binance.US’s $1 billion deal to buy a bankrupt crypto firm’s assets

/ Binance.US wants to buy the now-bankrupt Voyager Digital’s assets for $1 billion, but the SEC and NYFDS don’t want to let that happen.

The biggest news from PlayStation’s State of Play

/ Featuring new trailers for Street Fighter 6, Baldur’s Gate 3, Tchia, and more. a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin [&>a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-white”>Destiny 2: Lightfall It always looks like the Guardians of Destiny 2 are having so much fun with their cool spaceships and guns with impossible names and backstories. With a new trailer for the next expansion Lightfall, the Traveller is under attack (again) by a malevolent force (of course), and it’s poor Zavala’s job to rally the troops with the help of new human-adjacent allies. You can protect the big, white, fancy ball on February 28th. a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin [&>a]:shadow-underline-black...

Bing, Bard, and ChatGPT: AI chatbots are rewriting the internet

Big players including Microsoft, with its new Bing (or is it Sydney?), Google, with Bard, and OpenAI, with ChatGPT are making AI chatbot technology previously restricted to test labs more accessible to the general public. How do these Large Language Model (LLM) programs work? OpenAI’s GPT-3 told us that AI uses “a series of autocomplete-like programs to learn language” and that these programs analyze “the statistical properties of the language” to “make educated guesses based on the words you’ve typed previously.”  Or, in the words of James Vincent, a human person, “These AI tools are vast autocomplete systems, trained to predict which word follows the next in any given sentence. As such, they have no hard-coded database of ‘facts’ to draw on — just the ability to write plausible-soun...

Mozilla study lambasts Google over ‘misleading’ privacy labels on top Android apps

/ Mozilla discovered privacy disclosure discrepancies for apps like TikTok, Twitter, and Facebook following investigation into Google Play Store data safety labels. a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray”>Photo: STR/NurPhoto via Getty Images An investigation into data safety labels on the Google Play Store has allegedly uncovered “serious loopholes” that allow apps like Twitter, TikTok, and Facebook to easily provide false or misleading information regarding how user data is shared. The study, conducted by the Mozilla Foundation, identified 40 of the most globally downloaded Android apps ...

Valve bans 40,000 accounts after laying a trap for cheaters in Dota 2

/ The developer used a ‘honeypot’ to catch and punish players accessing a known exploit. a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray”>Image: Valve Over 40,000 Dota 2 accounts have been permanently banned in the last few weeks after they were caught red-handed using third-party software to cheat the game. In a blog post published on Tuesday, Valve revealed that it had recently patched a known issue used by third-party software to cheat in Dota while simultaneously setting a honeypot trap to catch players using the exploit. According to Valve, the cheating software gave its users an unfair advan...

Spotify’s new AI-powered DJ will build you a custom playlist and talk over the top of it

/ The company’s ‘AI DJ in your pocket’ feature uses a synthesized voice to provide a personalized radio listening experience.

The US Copyright Office says you can’t copyright Midjourney AI-generated images

/ A copyright registration granted to the Zarya of the Dawn comic book has been partially canceled, because it included “non-human authorship” that hadn’t been taken into account. a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray”>Image: Zarya of the Dawn — Kris Kashtanova / Midjourney The US Copyright Office has reconsidered the copyright protection it granted last fall to Kristina Kashtanova for her comic book Zarya of the Dawn, reports Reuters. It featured pictures created by feeding text prompts to Midjourney, an artificial intelligence image generator. According to this letter (PDF) sent to her...

Google is still trying to fix Gmail’s Outlook syncing issues

/ If you haven’t gotten any new email on Wednesday, it may be because Gmail and some of Microsoft’s servers aren’t talking right now. a:hover]:text-black [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-e9 dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray-63 [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-13 dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63″>The error message that shows up when trying to access a Hotmail account in the Gmail app.

Tesla announces new engineering headquarters in California

/ The company is taking over office space in Palo Alto previously occupied by Hewlett Packard. Tesla used to be headquartered in California before moving to Austin, Texas, in early 2021.

Was trading NBA Top Shots actually like trading stocks? A lawsuit will decide

/ A judge allowed a lawsuit accusing Dapper Labs of selling unregistered securities to proceed, despite arguments that the NFT Moments are just like baseball cards.