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Bring all your book ideas to life with this $40 tool
15+ hour, 3+ min ago (529+ words) Disclosure: Boing Boing earns a commission on purchases made through links in this post. TL; DR: Create all the books you can dream up with this'lifetime subscription to the Ebook Magic Starter Plan, on sale now for just $39. 99 (MSRP $149). Got…...
A reader built a breed-aware app for hot-pavement dog safety
16+ hour, 5+ min ago (274+ words) It estimates asphalt, concrete, sand, and turf temperatures hour by hour, adds a 24-hour timeline to find safe walking windows, and runs offline so "no data actually leaves their device." Fiegel, an ML engineer at Skywalker Sound, says it uses…...
Working with Anthropic's new model feels like being a patron, not a wizard
16+ hour, 17+ min ago (350+ words) Ethan Mollick got early access to Anthropic's new Fable model and came away unsettled " not by what it couldn't do, but by how little he had to. He gave it one ambitious prompt: build a researched and beautiful isochronic travel-time…...
Anthropic's most powerful model comes with a kill switch aimed at you
17+ hour, 43+ min ago (269+ words) The full-strength version, Claude Mythos 5 " the same model with the cyber guardrails removed " isn't for the unwashed masses. It goes first to US-government-aligned "cyberdefenders" under something called Project Glasswing, which Anthropic calls the model with "the strongest cybersecurity capabilities of…...
Master Chat GPT and AI Automation for just $15
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (479+ words) Disclosure: Boing Boing earns a commission on purchases made through links in this post. TL; DR: Learn how to'automate workflows with Chat GPT and optimize the power of over 20 indispensable AI tools'at your own pace with the Chat GPT & Automation…...
Turn your data into diagrams in just a few clicks with this $13 Microsoft tool (MSRP $250)
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (482+ words) Disclosure: Boing Boing earns a commission on purchases made through links in this post. TL; DR: Present information more clearly with this lifetime license to'Microsoft Visio 2021 Professional for Windows'for only $12. 97 (MSRP $249. 99) through June 14. We've all been there " in the midst…...
Ted Chiang argues an LLM chatbot is as conscious as Microsoft Word
4+ day, 17+ hour ago (256+ words) Being open to a conscious LLM, Chiang writes, "is the same as being open to the possibility that Microsoft Word is conscious." He argues that a chatbot's use of the word "I" is fundamentally dishonest, and reads Anthropic's 84-page Claude…...
Chat GPT Plus is $20/month'Chat On packs in GPT, Claude & Gemini for 5 years for just $90. 99
4+ day, 21+ hour ago (583+ words) Disclosure: Boing Boing earns a commission on purchases made through links in this post. TL; DR: Chat Onbundles GPT, Claude, Gemini, Sonar, image generation, web search, and more into one app for $90. 90 over five years'which feels a lot cleaner than…...
Robo-party clown ignores Asimov's first law of robotics
5+ day, 16+ hour ago (278+ words) This clown was clearly a big hit, or rather, a kick! It seems that a robotic party clown didn't get Asimov's First Law of Robotics: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being…...
Tesla FSD is so good its trainers won't ride in it
5+ day, 19+ hour ago (389+ words) Tesla's Full Self-Driving is so ready for the future that some of the people who trained it reportedly will not get in the car. "We have all seen it fail," one Tesla insider told'Reuters. "Definitely don't trust Elon on this,…...