Leo’s Twitter Updates for 2008-01-31

I take full credit for Audible’s success. I just hope Amazon thinks so. #
My first Tweet from the OLPC. Typing is unbearably slow. Guess its Javascript is bogged down? A first world problem I guess. #

A Sobering Message About the Future at AI's Biggest Party | WIRED 15 December 2019

Problems that involve reasoning or social intelligence, such as weighing up a potential hire in the way a human would, are still out of reach, he said. “All of the models that we have learned how to train are about passing a test or winning a game with a score, [but] so many things that […]

New Orleans City Hall hit by ransomware in cyber attack: what we know, don't know | Local Politics | nola.com 15 December 2019

The exact nature and extent of the attack were unclear, but it appears to have started about 5 a.m., when city officials first noticed suspicious activity on their network. Reports of suspicious activity picked up as employees got to work around 8 a.m., and officials decided to shut down the system after 11 a.m.

Xbox Series X: Microsoft’s next Xbox console for 2020 - The Verge 14 December 2019

The Xbox Series X will include a custom-designed CPU based on AMD’s Zen 2 and Radeon RDNA architecture. Microsoft is also using an NVMe SSD on Xbox Series X, which promises to boost load times. Xbox Series X will also support 8K gaming, frame rates of up to 120 fps in games, ray tracing, and […]

Samsung has sold 1 million Galaxy Fold smartphones | TechCrunch 13 December 2019

Today at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin, Samsung Electronic’s President Young Sohn revealed the company had sold 1 million foldable Galaxy Fold smartphones. Estimates from October pegged sales at that time at 500,000 units.

Google Hands Feds 1,500 Phone Locations In Unprecedented ‘Geofence’ Search 13 December 2019

The requests, outlined in two search warrants obtained by Forbes, demanded to know which specific Google customers were located in areas covering 29,387 square meters (or 3 hectares) during a total of nine hours for the four separate incidents. Unbeknownst to many Google users, if they have “location history” turned on, their whereabouts are stored […]

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