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View More NewsIn brief Meta filed a patent for cameras that use facial recognition to tag people by name and auto-generate clips around their detected actions. The system is assistant-driven: it serves pre-sorted “who did what, when” highlights to a phone or headset on request. It’s a continuation of a 2022 parent application and sits at “Ready for Examination”—not granted, and far from a shipping feature. Meta Platforms Technologies, the entity that holds Meta’s R&D and hardware intellectual property, published a patent for a camera system that identifies people by face and logs what they do.The filing describes cameras feeding footage into…
Solana is preparing to change how it charges for computing resources on the network.Solana Improvement Document (SIMD-0553) would make its most resource-intensive users pay more while cutting the costs for simpler transactions. As a bonus, it would increase SOL’s burn rate in stages — and one day could even help make it deflationary.Cavey, a researcher at Solana infrastructure firm Temporal and author of the proposal, tells Magazine that fees currently don’t reflect the real costs:“If I submit a transaction that does nothing versus a transaction that burns 200 million CPU cycles, I’m charged the same amount.” This proposal would change…
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“Dogma,” Albert Einstein told an audience at the Sorbonne in 1929, “is the enemy of progress.” Just kidding—it’s what ChatGPT whispered in the ear of the rector of my university at the start of this academic year after she decided to outsource her inaugural address to AI. The speech she delivered was a string of grammatically impeccable platitudes garnished with four quotations, three of which turned out to be hallucinations—the kind of false erudition that academics like to flaunt. The fourth quotation was real, but it was a cringeworthy piece of self-flattery lifted from an obscure 1946 speech: “There are…
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from the never-wrong-prez-just-dying-to-be-wrong-again dept This is why having a case dismissed with prejudice is important. Trump’s cronies/donors — who were paid millions to do…
Yesterday’s Seventh Circuit opinion in McDonald v. Trustees of Indiana Univ. held that public university professors lacked standing to challenge a state law that…
The moves followed CoinDesk’s report late Thursday that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was set to further delay its anticipated “innovation exemption,” which…
UK Reform leader Nigel Farage will face an investigation that had been briefly paused following his resignation from Parliament after winning a by-election on…
Raúl Castro, Cuba’s 94-year-old former dictator, was indicted Wednesday for his alleged role in the 1996 shootdown of two civilian aircraft operated by Brothers…
Network NewsETHEREUM COMMUNITY RESPONDS TO EF DEPARTURES: A wave of departures from the Ethereum Foundation (EF) is reigniting a debate inside the crypto industry:…
Hester Peirce, a two-term commissioner at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), head of the agency’s crypto task force and known to many…
In brief Fairshake claimed victory after six congressional candidates won Tuesday primaries with over $20 million in crypto industry support. But all GOP winners…
from the it’s-just-so-brazen dept There were two rumors last week regarding the supposed “settlement” of Donald Trump’s ridiculously problematic lawsuit against his own IRS,…
The New York Times is once again suing the Pentagon over its press rules, this time challenging a policy implemented in March that requires…
Cryptocurrency custody firm Copper has been out shopping itself, seeking a buyer willing to pay about $500 million for the platform, according to two…
Key points:Bitcoin is at a critical juncture, as a close below $76,000 may deepen the pullback toward $70,000.HYPE and ZEC are in an up…