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PBS附属台恐因云存储商倒闭丢失50TB数据

After its cloud storage provider went defunct, a PBS affiliate decided to sue a data center provider to regain access to 50TB of TV shows, videos, and other data dating back 70 years. As reported this week by Current, a trade newspaper covering public broadcasting, St. Louis affiliate Nine PBS filed...

每日简报：Flock新规、克隆技术未来及其他

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Flock is tightening its rules in response to a growing surveillance backlash The police-tech giant Flock is changing officers’ access to its nationwide netw...

这位科学家正在绘制儿童细胞的缺失图谱

In 2017, Deanne Taylor attended a presentation at the University of Pennsylvania, just a short walk from her office. A researcher was there to unveil the Human Cell Atlas, an ambitious project that aimed to map every cell in the human body. Taylor was floored, and then concerned. As details emerged,...

今年夏天为何如此炎热以及2027年可能更糟的原因

This summer has been a scorcher for much of the Northern Hemisphere. June and July marked the hottest two-month stretch in Europe since record-keeping began. The contiguous US endured its hottest month on record in July. South Korea saw its highest-ever recorded temperature.   The heat isn’t over...

Thousands of servers can be backdoored by exploiti

Thousands of Internet-connected servers sold by the world’s biggest manufacturers can be remotely backdoored by exploiting critical vulnerabilities—some more than a decade old—that lurk deep inside system motherboards, according to research presented Wednesday. Baseboard management controllers are m...

AI Slop Melodramas Are Taking Over X—and Their Cre

在社交媒体平台上，一些讲述正义战胜邪恶的感人故事正以惊人的速度传播，动辄收获数百万次观看。然而，这些看似鼓舞人心的内容背后，隐藏着一个令人不安的真相：它们几乎全部是由人工智能生成的点击诱饵。

这些故事通常以简洁的叙事结构呈现，描绘了弱者如何凭借智慧或勇气击败强大的对手。例如，一位普通员工揭露公司高层的腐败，或者一个孩子用纯真感化了一个冷酷的成年人。这类内容在Facebook、TikTok和YouTube等平台上广泛传播，吸引了大量用户点赞、评论和分享。但细心的观察者发现，这些视频的画面往往存在明显的AI生成痕迹，比如人物面部表情不自然、背景细节出现逻辑错误，或者声音与口型不同...

LinkedIn adds a button to report AI-generated ‘slo

在人工智能内容泛滥的当下，职业社交平台LinkedIn（领英）正试图通过一系列新举措来遏制低质量AI生成内容的蔓延。据最新消息，该平台将引入一项名为“疑似AI垃圾内容”的举报选项，并计划用AI校对工具取代其原有的AI写作功能。这一转变标志着社交媒体平台在应对AI内容泛滥问题上迈出了实质性的一步，同时也引发了行业对内容生态治理的深入讨论。

长期以来，LinkedIn作为全球最大的职业社交网络，一直致力于为用户提供专业、有价值的交流空间。然而，随着生成式AI技术的普及，平台上开始出现大量由AI生成的、缺乏深度和真实性的内容。这些内容往往形式相似、语言空洞，甚至包含错误信息，严重影...

How an overlooked geothermal plant got a second ch

In June 2024, a small company called Zanskar purchased a geothermal power plant in New Mexico that was failing fast. The water coming from the underground reservoir was getting colder by the day, making the plant uneconomical to run. Now, two years later, that plant is running at full capacity ag...

The Download: a chip talent battle, and deflating

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Samsung’s chip workers are jumping ship to rival SK Hynix   Lee, an engineer at Samsung’s semiconductor division, used to work late. But lately, he’s been c...

祖父母疯狂赠送AI生成劣质童书，家长不堪其扰

在人工智能技术日益渗透日常生活的今天，一项看似温馨却引发争议的应用正在全球范围内悄然兴起——基于真实儿童照片生成的AI（人工智能）睡前故事。然而，原本旨在增进亲子互动的科技尝试，却因生成内容的质量问题而让众多家长感到失望甚至愤怒。据最新调查显示，不少父母反映，这些由AI自动编撰的睡前故事常常出现逻辑混乱、情节怪异甚至令人不安的“乱码”式内容，而故事中的人物形象却直接取自他们孩子的真实照片，这种反差让家长们的体验大打折扣。

这一现象的背后，是近年来AI图像生成与自然语言处理技术的快速融合。以OpenAI（开放人工智能研究中心）的DALL-E（一种图像生成模型）和Meta（元公司...