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@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-08-21 22:45:54

Gurman: as part of Vision Pro cuts, Apple is largely shutting down a team focused on gaming and reducing the size of a unit producing immersive video content (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
9to5mac.com/2026/08/21/apple-l

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-06-21 08:05:19

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SeekAndDestroy
Agriculture:
🎵 Bodhidharma
#Agriculture
agriculturemusic.bandcamp.com/
open.spotify.com/track/1NoYnWz

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2026-08-21 10:15:04

Statt Wearables: Google-Forscher messen Körperfett anhand von Smartphone-Fotos
Google zeigt mit Photoscan AI, dass künftig einfache 2D-Bilder ausreichen, um die genaue Verteilung des Fettanteils im Körper darzustellen.

@joxean@mastodon.social
2026-07-21 14:16:25

AI advice suppresses people’s willingness to say “I don’t know”, even when the advice is wrong and accuracy is incentivized.
arxiv.org/abs/2607.13562v1

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-08-20 20:50:48

Google rolls out an embeddable "Preferred Sources" button, natural language Discover controls, and custom audio briefings in the Google News app on Android (Matt G. Southern/Search Engine Journal)
searchenginejournal.com/google

@arXiv_qbioOT_bot@mastoxiv.page
2026-07-21 07:56:08

Orientation Reading by Production Vision-Language Models on Optotype Charts: A Controlled Multi-Model Evaluation Across Reasoning Modes, Prompts, and Access Modalities
Shahryar Wasif, Avneek Sandhu, Bin Hu
arxiv.org/abs/2607.16595 arxiv.org/pdf/2607.16595 arxiv.org/html/2607.16595
arXiv:2607.16595v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: OBJECTIVES: Vision-language models are increasingly used to interpret medical and everyday images through consumer chat interfaces, yet their ability to read orientation - the single perceptual operation tested by the tumbling-E acuity optotype - is poorly characterized on the surfaces through which they are actually used. METHODS: We evaluated four production vision-language models (referred to as Claude, GPT, GROK, and Gemini) through their consumer chat interfaces on a locked set of seven optotype charts: four uniform tumbling-E charts (one per cardinal orientation), two mixed-orientation tumbling-E charts, and one Snellen letter chart as a specificity control. Each model was run in two reasoning modes (Fast and Thinking) under two prompt variants (with and without an explicit orientation-decoding rule) by up to three operators. The corpus comprised 920 scoreable trials and 50,420 glyph judgements. The primary outcome was glyph-level accuracy against the chart's designed orientation, summarized with Wilson 95% confidence intervals. RESULTS: Accuracy ranged from 43.0% to 97.0% across models on identical charts, and the strongest model depended on reasoning mode (GPT 97.0% in Fast mode; GROK 96.6% in Thinking mode). Errors were not random but collapsed onto a model-specific attractor direction. Models were 96-100% internally self-consistent yet ranged widely in accuracy, dissociating reliability from validity. An answer-key-free ensemble-consensus estimate tracked accuracy closely (r = 0.998). For one model, consumer-interface accuracy fell 25-27 points below programmatic access, almost entirely on a single orientation. CONCLUSIONS: A single accuracy figure conceals clinically relevant, orientation-specific failure modes; vision-language models should be evaluated along multiple axes and on the deployment surface before image-interpretation outputs are trusted.
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@simoncox@seocommunity.social
2026-06-20 22:13:10

Just on the way to bed and to the South East on the horizon is a spectacular thunder storm. I checked my lightning app and I can see it a huge storm stretching from Amiens to Lille in France - 140 miles away across the Channel!
#weather #lightning

Dark night photo with horizon across middle of image with bright orange lightning showing up a cloud 140 miles away.
Dark night photo with horizon across middle of image with bright orange lightning showing up a cloud 140 miles away.
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-08-20 20:30:44

Google rolls out an embeddable "Preferred Sources" button, natural language Discover controls, and custom audio briefings in the Google News app on Android (Matt G. Southern/Search Engine Journal)
searchenginejournal.com/google

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2026-07-20 10:09:03

Asteroideneinschlag: Dinosaurier von äußerst seltenem Meteoritentyp ausgelöscht
Der Asteroid, der vor 66 Millionen Jahren die Dinosaurier ausgelöscht hat, gehörte wohl einer seltenen Klasse an. Das Aussterben lief anders ab als gedacht.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-07-20 05:16:12

Blackstone agrees to invest an undisclosed sum in South Korea-based Futronic, which makes actuators used in industrial robots, sources say at a ~$675M valuation (Manuel Baigorri/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20