Daily Tech News 12 September 2024

• But wait, it gets worse: We spent $20 to attempt RCE and accidentally became the admins of .mobi. (Watchtowr)
  
  A story of how one thing led to another and now we seem to have conquered Southeast Asia.

• This bubble has holes in it. (The Register)
  
  AI in general is not all nonsense. But generative AI, which has sucked all the oxygen out of the AI room, is actually useful for very few of the purposes to which it is being put.
  
  
  
• Mistral has released Pixtral 12B, it's first multimodal generative AI model. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Multimodal generative models work by having a collection of smaller models each trained for a certain task, rather than trying to pack them all into one unwieldy mess.
  
  It's still not useful for much but on the upside, it's free.
  
  
  
• Human drivers keep running into Waymo autonomous vehicles. (Ars Technica)
  
  This list includes two cases of criminals who ran into a Waymo vehicle while fleeing the police, and another of where the human-controlled vehicle hit the Waymo car, backed away, and then hit it again before fleeing the scene.
  
  
  
• And while generative AI may be largely worthless, it is at least taking jobs away from journalists. (Wired) (archive site)
  
  Be thankful for small mercies.

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