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Neuralink Continues Human Trials with New Candidate Search

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Neuralink Continues Human Trials with New Candidate Search
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Neuralink last month hoped to implant a chip in a second human patient with a brain implant made by an unrelated health problem. Now, the company is looking for a new subject that can stand the implant, and if one is found, they will perform the surgery next month at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Michael Lawton, Barrow’s CEO, then went on to stress that what was part of the selection process was deciding “who has to live without the device.” The second former patient, who is barred from getting the implant, suffers from Lou Gehrig’s disease, a killer that obscurely stops physical function. ALS3 is inexorably fatal, except for a few cases of long-term survival after diagnosis.

Elon Musk had said previously that Neuralink was looking for its second patient, more exactly, an individual without physical limb function. The first human patient with quadriplegia, Noland Arbaugh, had received an earlier Neuralink brain implant.

Arbaugh, thirty-five years old, pointed out that he had advanced significantly with the implant because, at that point, he was able to play games with his mind and, honestly, even went ahead to defeat his friends in playing games. He and other hopeful implant users hope that Neuralink’s technology will eventually cure paralysis and other disabilities.

The company deals with the treatment of neurological diseases through the implementation of brain chips, therefore offering hope for such patients. With continued human trials for Neuralink, several other significant medical technological breakthroughs are yet to be witnessed; hence improving the quality of life that the patients lead.

iOS 18 Language Enhancements: What’s New in Apple’s Update?

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iOS 18 Language Enhancements: What’s New in Apple’s Update?
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Apple has recently detailed the new improvements in iOS 18, showcasing some major language-related overhauls across features. The changes will bring more support for the lock screen, Siri, keyboard, and search into several more languages. Enhanced customization in lock screens allows displaying time in other numerals while adding support for other options of the clock, like analog clocks.

The iOS 17 keyboard comes with a lot many updates. Some of the important ones include trilingual predictive typing. Users can view the scripts of more languages on the suggestion field and can tap to change among them easily. The keyboard also remembers the last language used in each thread, supporting languages such as English, Hindi, and Tamil. Another new addition to the iOS 17 keyboard is to represent the Korean and English multiscript. This is to provide an improved language input experience.

Expanded Language Support on Lock Screen on iOS18

One important feature in iOS 18 is the language search feature, which allows users to search different spellings of words that sound similar in some languages. Now, one could search for “चंद्र” and “चन्द्र” in Hindi. The update has brought live voicemail transcription for Indian English and compatibility with Arabic in sub features such as support for Hindi in the translate app and live text.

iOS 18

iOS 18 is adding a new grammar engine for Hindi and Korean, increasing the language capabilities on the platform. It will also allow users to create contact posters with Indian languages and numbers, adding a new personal dimension to the contact cards. iOS 18 is due to be publicly released fully this fall, for now, its beta versions can be tested, though there might be bugs, so it shouldn’t be run on primary devices.

By the fact that Apple is investing in this area through improvements on language in iOS 18, this only shows a commitment to offer better services and have accessibility reach the diverse linguistically less capable backgrounds.

Netflix Subscription Update: Ad-Free Plan Phasing Out

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Netflix Subscription Update: Ad-Free Plan Phasing Out
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Netflix this week quietly discontinued its basic plan for $11.99 a month, in place of three options to choose from a $6.99 ad-supported tier, a $15.49 ad-free tier without ads, or a $22.99 ad-free 4K premium plan.

Subscribers have reportedly begun receiving notices nearly exclusively in Canada and the UK to choose a different plan. The exercise follows an earlier notice in January by Netflix regarding the disappearance of the company’s basic tier for existing subscribers from the second quarter.

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Last year, Netflix already stopped offering the basic plan to new or returning members in the US, Canada, and the UK, which until now remains the case. The service has declined, however, to comment on its plans regarding phasing out the basic plan among its US subscriber base.

The company referred to the statement it had made at the January earnings call, giving the signal for a strategic turn towards support of its ad-supported tier. The service counted over 40 million users by May, and Netflix is marching on to grow the adoption of ad-supported offers.

The streamer’s pricing pages for Canada and the UK now show that the basic plan is no longer available, thus giving some flexibility to subscribers looking to make changes to their subscription at any time.

It is just like the several moves that other streaming services are making, directing users in the droves toward ad-supported options as the dynamics in the market change.

Indeed, Netflix will be phasing out its existing customer base’s basic ad-free plans in light of the market trend that thrives on promoting ad-supported and premium offerings.

Musk Announces New Versions of Grok AI Coming Soon

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Musk Announces New Versions of Grok AI Coming Soon
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No surprise, Elon Musk announced a big launch on X. The notice was that Grok AI 2.0 is going to drop in August. He conceded that it appears hard to get out all the LLMs from the training data. Grok 2, though, will do a lot better in that regard.

Musk didn’t expand his tweet but doubled down on Grok 2’s expected superiority. In March, he said Grok 2 “should exceed current AI on all metrics.” This ambitious statement raised expectations.

Curiously, the life of Grok 2 seems to be very short with us. Musk has since tweeted that Grok 3 will release by the end of the year. It’s going to be big because it’s going to train on 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs. Musk promises that Grok 3 “should be really something special.”

Grok was announced as Musk’s answer to ChatGPT back in November, and then Grok 1.5 debuted in April and was only made available to Premium subscribers on x; this is as Musk’s xAI startup prepares to build a supercomputer in Memphis, Tennessee, where the facility will handle Grok’s training.

After all, Grok AI had a few reliability issues from the very beginning it was launched. Even though Musk tried to push back against the “propaganda machine” of ChatGPT, Grok has suffered in sharing fake news like attributing a false quote for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi about his election.

To counter this, X introduced a “fun mode” in Grok. One such mode will generate news in a silly and childish manner. This feature would be unsuitable during election years. The Grok experiences summarize the entire complexity developing sophisticated AI. Otherwise, Musk’s plans with Grok AI are extensive and of interest.

Man Arrested for Setting Up Fake Public Wi-Fi Networks

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Man Arrested for Setting Up Fake Public Wi-Fi Networks
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Australian police have arrested the man on nine charges of cybercrime-related offenses for opening the fake public Wi-Fi. He is accused of having created this network through a mobile wireless access point to steal user information.

He set up “evil twin” Wi-Fi networks at airports, flights, and other places linked to his former job in order to harvest users and their e-mail or social media logins, authorities said. After that, such login details were routed to the man’s own devices.

This technique was reported to have obtained hundreds of credentials. Such information would be used by the man to access the accounts of other consumers to commit other computer crimes. The relevant sensitive information such as banking login credentials and other data could be stolen from them.

One of the strange in-flight Wi-Fi networks was discovered by the airline worker.  An Australian airline that is not mentioned thus was contacted to report the presence of such Wi-Fi to the authorities. It is the police that managed the case and earlier month, on May, had the suspect arrested.

According to the Australian Broadcasting Corp., the man, Michael Clapsis, appeared before the Perth Magistrates Court in Australia. He has since been granted liberty on “strict” bail, with limited access to the internet. Besides this, he was required to hand in his passport.

Yet, a LinkedIn profile, since taken down, appeared to suggest that Clapsis may have once worked for a shipping corporation. He is charged with knowingly causing impairment to electronic communication without authority among other counts. Clapsis also faces charges for possession or control of data with the intention to commit a serious offense.

It also charges the man with accessing restricted data without authority or modifying that data. He is charged with dishonestly dealing in or obtaining personal financial information. Lastly, he is charged with possessing identification information with intent to commit and offense. Clapsis is due to reappear in court in August.

There are plenty of ways in which the information from a victim is stolen through evil twin attacks. Normally, these free Wi-Fi networks appear to be genuine in nature and normally these free Wi-Fi networks demand login details that are supposed to steal your data. Genuine Wi-Fi networks are never supposed to ask you to log in with your social media credentials. It is recommended that public Wi-Fi be avoided, and a VPN is better to use if possible.

Apple Intelligence is Free Now, Paid Later?

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Apple Intelligence is Free Now, Paid Later?
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According to a new report from Bloomberg, Apple will reportedly shift to a subscription model for AI features. In this regard, Bloomberg says that Apple Intelligence—the company’s AI features—will be segregated into two tiers. One of the tiers has no charge, but there are restricted features, the other—the probable Apple Intelligence+—will give all AI functionalities with a fee likely attached.

Apple Intelligence

This strategy will offset the trend of customers replacing devices less often. With subscription services, Apple can offset weakening sales of devices through an overall shift in revenue generation to services. In this approach, Apple Intelligence is going to be very vital.

Furthermore, along with the device shipments, Apple will have a share of the subscription money from each AI partner to be integrated into them. In this way, the company will hugely benefit every time someone subscribes to third-party services from its App Store, excluding locations—like the EU—where the regulations vary.

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Apple Intelligence

While these are presently unconfirmed rumors, Gurman enjoys a very credible history of early peeks inside Apple’s plans. With other smart device makers doing the same, it wouldn’t come as a surprise to actually see this model in play.

For example, Samsung recently announced that its first-party Galaxy AI features will be free until 2025. A company representative later clarified the addendum, saying it was classified for transparency on their part, and nothing has actually been decided in terms of a paid subscription yet.

How this probable subscription model is going to be implemented by Apple itself, and what users’ behavior towards using this will be, is yet to be observed. Clearly, though, the company won’t stop building new ways of generating revenue to stay ahead in the fast-moving AI space.

Figma Disable New AI Feature Following Apple Design Clone Allegations

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Figma Disable New AI Feature Following Apple Design Clone Allegations
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Figma, a popular design software company, has temporarily disabled its “Make Design” AI feature following accusations that it was copying the design of Apple’s Weather app. It was flagged following a fact brought to light by Andy Allen, founder of Not Boring Software—the artificial intelligence tool had consistency in layout output that resembled Apple’s Weather app. Allen used his X account to accuse Figma of probably training the tool using already existing apps. Figma CEO Dylan Field strongly denied this charge.

Figma’s software claims to give a “Make Design” feature, which delivers UI layouts and components generated from textual descriptions by users. It was meant to make it easier to experiment with design ideas before actually building the design.

It has been explicit since launch that the component had not been trained on Figma content, be it user files or application designs. Field further clarified in his social media posts that these were wrong accusations relating to trainings using data.

In this eagerness to compete in the AI design space, it seems that Figma has fallen short on stringent quality assurance tests. The incident threw its fuel into the debates within the design community, the fear was that AI tools like “Make Design” would eradicate design jobs once and for all. Others riposted that maybe AI will automate just tasks, so that designers have time to work on more creative aspects.

The discovery by Allen that the AI tool was replicating existing apps drove home the concerns already felt by designers. He warned fellow designers to meticulously check against existing apps or develop extensive modifications to the output generated to avoid possible legal action against them.

Dylan Field Respond to the Figma AI design Feature Controversy

Field responded that “Make Design” used ‘out of the box’ large language models combined with “systems especially commissioned for these models.” He admitted that Logic followed, leading to very little variation in the designs actually produced. 

Following Allen’s tweet, Figma very reactively responded to the issue and found the problem lay with the design systems underpinning the AI tool. Field accepted full responsibility for not having assured a more strict QA process had been done and allowing the deadline to get the better of testing.

While Apple hasn’t issued a statement yet, Figma referred queries to Field’s social media posts. The company will be turning off the “Make Design” feature until it has confidence the output from the tool is at a quality bar that it can stand by. The feature will be turned off starting Tuesday and remain disabled until Figma can do an end-to-end quality assurance pass on the mixing design system.

Figma AI Makes Like Apple? Design Tool Accused of Copying

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Figma AI Makes Like Apple? Design Tool Accused of Copying
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Recently, Figma released its AI-powered Make Designs feature. According to the report, it was expected to enhance designer productivity, helping designers create UI layouts and components rapidly by merely entering text prompts describing the elements of the interface.

Shortly after launch, a variety of issues with its output were flagged. One developer called Andy Allen reported his results with the Make Designs tool, any attempt to create a weather app design with it resulted in the layouts formed being very similar to Apple’s own Weather app.

The experience that Allen went through raised a red flag on the possible legal risks involved. For designers, especially when directly copying established designs—such as those of Apple, for example—with no modifications, one can easily find themselves in legal wrangles over intellectual property rights.

Figma CEO Responds: Admits to Design System Issues

In a response to the criticism, Figma’s CEO, Dylan Field, explained that Figma AI is never trained on app designs. Rather, he blamed the problem on some underlying issues with the design systems in the tool.

On the basis of considerations raised, Figma immediately turned off its Make Designs feature. This is to prevent the accidental copying of already existent design until the underlined issues get completely resolved.

Further in future, Figma is going to improve its AI tools by making them compliant with legal norms and practices. Designers are recommended to be mindful and creative when using such automated characteristics in design so they may not get wrapped up in legal problems.

Wise Data Breach Impacted by Evolve Bank Hack

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Wise Data Breach Impacted by Evolve Bank Hack
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The latest one to be recorded is the data breach at Evolve Bank, which exposed the personal information of its customers at Wise. Wise made a statement concerning this on Friday, confirming that data might have been stolen. There is not yet an exact determination of how much effect it had on third-party companies and their users. The cooperation between Wise and Evolve was from 2020 to 2023 and provided USD account details.

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In case of a breach by Evolve, it is possible that Wise customers’ personal data was involved. Wise says it will directly notify affected customers. This includes data of U.S. customers shared with Evolve: names, addresses, and Social Security numbers, and that of non-U.S. customers having another identity document number.

Wise continues to investigate what, if anything, was stolen. A Wise spokesperson said their systems had not been breached but they are directly notifying customers that may have been impacted. An Evolve spokesperson would not comment beyond the company’s statement.

Evolve remains at work, responding to the cybersecurity incident. The incident was a ransomware attack perpetrated by the LockBit gang. The breach occurred in May when an employee clicked a malicious link. Evolve claims there is no evidence customer funds were accessed but does acknowledge downloaded customer information.

The company has committed to directly informing every affected individual. Affirm, EarnIn, Marqeta, Melio, and Mercury are all Evolve partners that have been asked to notify their respective customers of the event. The full extent of exposure from the breach has yet to be determined.

LG Launches New CLOi ServeBot to Enhance Delivery Services

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LG Launches New CLOi ServeBot to Enhance Delivery Services
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LG Electronics presents one more invention—the LG CLOi ServeBot (model LDLIM31). This autonomous-serving robot will be utilized in the hospitality and healthcare industries to raise the level of service delivery. Its four-door design has spacious storage capacity, which helps the ServeBot to handle repetitive tasks efficiently. LG expands on its strategy for advanced AI robots and B2B business growth.

  • LG CLOi ServeBot
  • LG CLOi ServeBot
  • LG CLOi ServeBot

Its design is innovative, and it’s a winner of the Red Dot and iF Design Awards in 2024. Every shelf will have a maximum capacity of 30 kg, which is able to hold as many as 32 cups of regular-sized coffee cups. Shelving for this robot can also be adjusted to carry loads of different sizes, hence suitability for any type of environment.

The ServeBot can perform tasks indoors, availing elevator travel and moving across uneven surfaces. It has six wheels, independent suspension, which provides stability to prevent serious spills. The doors of this particular robot open and also close automatically to enhance the convenience for end-users.

AI algorithms make ServeBot capable of avoiding any obstacles and finding the best route, it is able to communicate with up to 20 other CLOi ServeBots for maximum efficiency in completing all tasks. This feature removes the possibility of potential collisions and keeps smooth operations in busy settings.

This acts as a mobile advertisement board with a screen at the front of 10.1″. Content is uploaded via the LG CLOi Station or the CMS mobile app. It also guides visually challenged people with voice guidance, expanding its accessibility features.

LG has developed diverse robot solutions for places like airports, hotels, hospitals, and warehouses. It develops a suite of solutions to manage the distribution process efficiently. This will involve supplying robots, facilitating last-mile delivery—areas in which LG showcases its expertise in robotics.

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