Meta introduces a $20/month Meta One Premium tier for its glasses and limits its Conversation Focus feature to three hours of use per month for free users (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/959899/meta-ai-glasses-paywall-rate-limit…
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New features in gnuplot 5.4.
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/826456/2ea90dd464e104d5/
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"By introducing an AI image generator as a Google Earth feature, Google risked undermining public trust in Google Earth as a reliable reference for providing authentic imagery of the real world, Ess said. It could have also handed an additional excuse to government officials or anyone who wants to deny genuine satellite photos by claiming they were modified or generated entirely by AI tools."
#GoogleEarth
QGIS tabbed ribbon UI experiments
A long-standing feature request in the QGIS repo has been an option for a ribbon-style GUI to replace the plethora of toolbars that usually characterize the top rows of any QGIS window.
A couple of months ago Eithan published an experimental "Ribbon Toolbar" plugin for QGIS 3 that implemented a first version of this idea. I recently picked up the threads, ported the plugin to QGIS 4 and continued …
Never a dull day in cybersecurity, so check out today's Metacurity for the most critical developments you should know, including
--Anthropic restores Fable 5 and Mythos 5, launches Sonnet 5,
--China's Mythos rival fuels AI arms race,
--Taiwan probes claimed PChome hack,
--Alberta voter leak sparks lawsuit,
--Hackers breach DHS sharing network,
--Apple privacy feature exposes emails,
--Adobe fixes critical ColdFusion bugs,
--Crypto thieves…
Return of the feature back: Why NFL running backs are making a massive comeback
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/return-of-the-nfls-feature-back-run-game-resurgence/…
Eine API für Linux: Remote-Verwaltung mit systemd
Neue systemd-Features erlauben Systemverwaltung, die vorher nur mit externer Software möglich war.
https://www.heise.de/news/Eine-API-fuer-Li…
How a new Amazon-built transatlantic fiber-optic link in Ireland is symbolic of the country's AI ambitions, but also of its chronic lack of defense spending (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20