TWiG 725: But Senator Trellis... - IoT cybersecurity label, defending Lina Khan, LLaMA 2, AI Synthetic data

The White House details its IoT cybersecurity label plan.

Framework Laptop 16 pre-orders are now open.

Pluralistic: Why they're smearing Lina Khan (14 July 2023).

Mark Lucovsky Leaves Google, Calls Company "Unstable".

Meta and Microsoft Introduce the Next Generation of Llama.

Apple is testing an AI chatbot but has no idea what to do with it.

Why computer-made data is being used to train AI models.

G/O media will make more AI-generated stories despite critics.

AI can't even tell you the chronological order of 'Star Wars' movies.

OpenAI strikes $5 million-plus local news deal.

Devindra: AI put me in a 'South Park' episode.

The risks of AI are real but manageable.

This AI Watches Millions Of Cars And Tells Cops If You're Driving Like A Criminal.

Google launches Nearby Share for Windows and partnering to pre-install.

Google confirms related search operator is going away.

Google is testing AI-generated Meet video backgrounds.

Now Google's Bard AI chatbot can talk and respond to visual prompts.

PSA: Google is deleting some old Hangouts photos this week.

Picks:

Stacey - Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Leo - The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

Leo - Click for a random web 1.0 web site

Jeff - Vox Media stops using Chorus, proprietary CMS, for its own websites

Ant - Peak Design Camera Cube

Ant - Yellowgold - This Road

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