Daily Tech News 10 February 2025

• Did Google fake the AI output in its Super Bowl ad? Yes. (The Verge)
  
  Not only was it wrong, it was a verbatim copy of text that has appeared on the web since 2020, before Google Gemini existed.

  But Google maintained that the website description was written by Gemini all along. In addition to showing Gemini "generate" the description in the commercial, Google Cloud apps president Jerry Dischler said on X that the Gouda stat was "not a hallucination," adding that "Gemini is grounded in the Web."

  Well, if by "grounded in" you mean "a human copying and pasting directly from", then sure.
  
  The original text claimed that Gouda accounts for 50 to 60 percent of cheese consumption worldwide, and is "one of" the most most popular varieties of cheese, which is comical.
  
  Everyone knows that's Venezuelan beaver cheese.

• Brainfly is a high-performance Brainfuck JIT and AOT compiler built on top of C# type system. (GitHub)
  
  Why it is, we don't know.
  
  
  
• The Brave browser is getting a feature like the old Firefox Tampermonkey plugin, to let you automatically add scripts to web pages. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  This lets you adjust the page layout of sites that fill the entire screen with a banner image, for example.
  
  
  
• How close is Elon Musk to controlling a nuclear weapon? (The Verge)
  
  They got their answer:

  Launching a nuke requires physical access to the weapon itself. Missileers have to turn keys. A submarine crew must prep and fire a missile. A bomber crew must pull levers and hone in on targets. Short of Musk or his employees entering a silo, climbing onto a stealth bomber, or getting into a submarine, it's not going to happen.

  The entire article is pointing out that the premise is insane. But The Verge published it anyway, because so are they.
  
  
  

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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