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LG Gram 17 Pro review: a discrete GPU, lightweight at 3.2 lbs, a 144Hz screen, and ample ports, but a flimsy chassis and not the best Nvidia GPU for the price (Monica Chin/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/23879367/lg-gram-pro-17-inch-2023-rtx-3050-rev…

LG Gram Pro 17 review: a Gram with more gusto
LG’s new Gram Pro is a three-pound PC with an RTX GPU inside — a great achievement for LG and a fairly niche product for the rest of us. It’s a solid system with decent performance and battery life all around, but it’s not the kind of laptop that most people need.

Slightly off-topic, but the fake AI-generated authors attached to pretty bad AI-generated articles have really detailed bogus bios.
For example, one writer, who doesn't exist, has a bio that reads: "Drew has spent much of his life outdoors and is excited to guide you through his never-ending list of the best products to keep you from falling to the perils of nature, Nowadays, there is rarely a weekend that goes by where Drew isn't out camping, hiking, or just back on his p…

Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers
Sports Illustrated was publishing articles under seemingly fake bylines. We asked their owner about it — and they deleted everything.

BREAKING: Fiona Bruce will no longer be allowed to bang the Tory drum on Antiques Roadshow.
#BBC #SocialMedia #FionaBruce

Gary Lineker: New rules for BBC flagship presenters after social media row
The guidance has been issued following a review into BBC presenters' social media.

Archival Producers Alliance, a group of 100 documentarians, calls for generative AI guardrails, citing the danger of "forever muddying the historical record" (Mia Galuppo/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.holl…

Doc Producers Call for Generative AI Transparency in Documentary
"Generated material presented as 'real' in one film will be passed along – on the internet, in other films – and is in danger of forever muddying the historical record," reads the open letter from the newly established Archival Producers Alliance.

Right-Wing Riots Erupt in Dublin After Stabbing Attack (Tom Sykes/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/right-wing-riots-erupt-in-dublin-after-stabbing-attack

Right-Wing Riots Erupt in Dublin After Stabbing Attack
Garda Commissioner Drew Harris blamed the unrest on a “lunatic, hooligan faction driven by far-right ideology,” following horrific stabbing of three children and a woman.

Filling Radius, Quantitative $K$-theory and Positive Scalar Curvature
Jinmin Wang, Zhizhang Xie, Guoliang Yu, Bo Zhu
https://arXiv.org/abs/2311.15347 https…

Filling Radius, Quantitative $K$-theory and Positive Scalar Curvature
We prove an upper bound on the filling radius of complete, spin manifold with uniformly positive scalar curvature using the quantitative operator $K$-theory and index theory.

kudos to the dude on rollerblades at 11 PM on a fairly dark sidewalk that has 2 to 3 inch offsets because of tree roots, carrying a boombox blasting *NSYNC. He rolled into the intersection and did a rollerblading version of a sideshow back-and-forth across the cable car tracks. A for not falling anywhere.

Skydio debuts X10, an autonomous drone capable of mitigating high-speed police chases by flying at 45 mph and tracking people in the dark using infrared sensors (Khari Johnson/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/new-autonomous-drone-for-cops-can…

This New Autonomous Drone for Cops Can Track You In the Dark
Startup Skydio says its powerful new drone for public safety can reduce the need for high-speed chases. Civil liberties groups warn that few rules govern police use of drones.

FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Announces New Actions to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Combat the Climate Crisis (The White House)
https://www.whit…

FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Announces New Actions to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Combat the Climate Crisis | The White House
New steps will catalyze action across the federal government to account for climate change impacts in budgeting, procurement, and other agency decisions, and save hardworking families money From unprecedented wildfires, to extreme flooding, to record breaking hurricanes, Americans across the country are feeling the devastating impacts of the climate crisis. In just the first eight…