2024 was "a year of growth," according to fire-suppression company Fire Rover, but that's not an entirely good thing.

The company, which offers based on thermal and optical imaging, smoke analytics, and human verification, releases annual reports on waste and recycling facility fires in the US and Canada to select industry and media. In 2024, Fire Rover, based on its fire identifications, saw 2,910 incidents, a 60 percent increase from the 1,809 in 2023, and more than double the 1,409 fires confirmed in 2022.

Publicly reported fire incidents at waste and recycling facilities also hit 398, a new high since Fire Rover began compiling its report eight years ago, when that number was closer to 275.

Lithium-ion battery waste fires are increasing, and vapes are a big part of it

Tiny batteries and “disposable” e-cigs remain big risks for waste handlers.

^{Kevin Purdy (Ars Technica)}

After years of companies promising that their quantum dot light-emitting diode TVs use quantum dots (QDs) to boost color, some industry watchers and consumers have recently started questioning whether QLED TVs use QDs at all. Lawsuits have been filed, accusing companies like TCL of using misleading language about whether their QLED TVs actually use QDs.

In this article, we'll break down why new conspiracy theories about QLED TVs are probably overblown. We'll also explore why misleading marketing from TV brands is responsible for customer doubt and how it all sets a bad precedent for the future of high-end displays, including OLED TVs and monitors.

Overblown quantum dot conspiracy theories make important points about QLED TVs

Lawsuits and allegations are creating doubt around quantum dot TVs’ use of QDs.

^{Scharon Harding (Ars Technica)}

cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/59956144

• MediaTek Filogic 880 processor
• 1 x 10 Gigabit SFP port
• 1 x 5 Gigabit Ethernet port
• 4 x 2.5 GbE Ethernet port
• 1 or 2 Gigabit Ethernet ports
• WiFi 7 (tri-band)

OpenWrt Two is expected to sell for around $250 when it hits the streets in late 2025

OpenWrt Two will be a higher-performance router with 10 Gigabit LAN and WiFi 7 support - Liliputing

OpenWrt Two will be a higher-performance router with 10 Gigabit LAN and WiFi 7 support

^{Brad Linder (Liliputing)}

People are using #ChatGPT to create Studio #Ghibli – style images. And the backlash is huge.

source: theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…

#ai #technology #future #anime #entertainment #news

Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Nightmare

People are using ChatGPT to create Studio Ghibli–style images. And the backlash is huge.

^{Damon Beres (The Atlantic)}

There’s a popular adage in policy circles: “The party can never fail, it can only be failed.” It is meant as a critique of the ideological gatekeepers who may, for example, blame voters for their party’s failings rather than the party itself.

That same fallacy is taking root among AI’s biggest backers. AI can never fail, it can only be failed. Failed by you and me, the smooth-brained Luddites who just don’t get it. (To be sure, even AI proponents will acknowledge available models’ shortcomings — no one would argue that the AI slop clogging Facebook is anything but, well, slop — but there is a dominant narrative within tech that AI is both inevitable and revolutionary.)

Tech columnists such as the New York Times’ Kevin Roose have suggested recently that Apple has failed AI, rather than the other way around.

Apple’s Siri-ous Problem + How Starlink Took Over the World + Is A.I. Making Us Dumb?

In the A.I. era, does Apple need to get comfortable shipping less polished products?

^{Kevin Roose (The New York Times)}

Archive: ghostarchive.org/archive/z7vik

March 28 (Reuters) - Elon Musk said on Friday that his xAI has acquired X, the social media app formerly known as Twitter, in an all-stock transaction for $45 billion, including $12 billion debt.

"xAI and X's futures are intertwined. Today, we officially take the step to combine the data, models, compute, distribution and talent," Musk said in a post on X, adding that the combined company would be valued at $80 billion.

Neither X nor xAI immediately responded to a request for comment.

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CoreWeave shares fell on their US debut after the data centre operator downsized its initial public offering over concerns about its business model and waning exuberance in groups linked to artificial intelligence.

The cloud computing provider dropped 2.5 per cent on Friday to $39 as it started trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market following the largest US tech IPO since chipmaker Arm Holdings went public in September 2023.

CoreWeave raised $1.5bn when it floated its shares at $40 a piece on Thursday evening. It had initially targeted raising $4bn and dropped that figure to $2.7bn when it began a roadshow to generate interest for its shares last week.

“I don’t really think of the market as friendly or unfriendly,” CoreWeave chief executive Michael Intrator told the Financial Times on Friday. “We have definitely been doing this during a bit of a challenging time with regards to the AI trade in financial markets.”

CoreWeave falls in market debut after downsized IPO

Investor enthusiasm for companies linked to artificial intelligence boom has waned this year

^{George Steer (Financial Times)}

Vivaldi integrates Proton VPN into the browser to fight web tracking

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