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Hey everyone. I made two themes inspired and based off the winternord theme some of you may have seen already in your instances. One is a darker, more contrasty theme (icy-nord-darker) based on the other (icy-nord). They are very simple, but they do fix some issues I had with winternord, such as some text being very hard to read...

This article from 2022 does a very good job of capturing the social media landscape and the condition of political discourse right now. It highlights one thing that I've been hearing a lot and agree with, the cruelty is the point.

Meta announced a new AI model called Voicebox yesterday, one it says is the most versatile yet for speech generation, but it’s not releasing it yet: The model is still only a research project, but Meta says can generate speech in six languages from samples as short as two seconds and could be used for “natural, authentic”...

They say the system could be used to guide underwater or underground robots.

https://www.ft.com/content/ffb46e79-5524-4bfc-ac78-a4bf848c9f53 [Paywalled,Full article in the comments]

What could possibly go wrong?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1366662...

Like most who’ve joined kbin or lemmy, I’m actively looking for more communities to subscribe to. We don’t have a way to do a centralized search for these across instances yet, so I’m sure there’s some I’ve overlooked. What smaller technology related groups have you discovered that could use more publicity?...

If Neuralink can prove its device is safe in humans, it would still potentially take more than a decade for the start-up to secure commercial use approval

Taking a hint from the magician’s playbook, scientists have devised a way to pull electricity from thin air....

cross-posted from: https://radiation.party/post/19241...

One of the things I'm cautious about when it comes to lemmy (and mastodon) is how easy it can be to lose control of your account....

While not a major breakthrough in terms of computing power, it's crazy to see that CPU can have more cache than desktop PC had hard drive space in the late 90s.

A Wharton professor believes that businesses should motivate their employees to share their individual AI-enhanced productivity hacks, despite the prevalent practice of hiding these tactics due to corporate restrictions....

Still a descent build! https://lemmy.one/pictrs/image/2bd24db9-4eab-45de-bea9-49623c420467.jpeg

Since Internet search has and will change, which search engines do you use successfully, and what are their advantages?

I'd like to take my RSS feeds from an aggregator of news to a curated selection of interesting things. Interesting newsletters and blogs are where I think RSS shines, but I struggle to find this content....

For those who don't want to click through, this is the content of the post:...