Notices by Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social), page 2

*The curated bottles at the bar in a small but no-kidding excellent Italian restaurant outside Turin

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/adversarial-misuse-generative-ai

"Hey Siri, how about somehow explaining my computer's keyboard to me"

"Well, where do I even start"

*Getting an AI to somehow explain your own PC to you, is this, perhaps, an AI application that might make some sense

*It's nice that Craiyon still has its rude and unpolished crayon-like generative qualities

*Way to go, Grokkie

*The Olivetti Programma 101 has a pretty good claim to be "the first desktop computer," but not a lot of people have seen the guts of one #deadmedia

https://www.flickr.com/photos/brucesterling/albums/72177720323496661/

*These British videogame-restoration guys are really working the "boffin" here. I've rarely seen any video so boffinesque

https://youtu.be/aqbQw1s9LOo?si=hc_plTqwrgoQRa0f

"There’s a lot of interest already. The Open-R1 project racked up 10,000 stars in just three days on GitHub."

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/28/hugging-face-researchers-are-trying-to-build-a-more-open-version-of-deepseeks-ai-reasoning-model/

*Even the state-sponsored AI troll bots can't be trusted to keep the story straight

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/01/29/official-israeli-ai-twitter-bot-backfires-makes-pro-palestinian-posts-trolls-other-official-accounts/

"The coming technological singularity: How to survive in the post-human era"

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19940022856

*Got no idea what that "image" was, but I almost certainly cut-and-pasted that

*because Internet

*European outer-space rocket labelling.

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-wants-make-space-safe-law-label-boring/

European outer-space single market.

*okey-doke

https://www.euractiv.com/section/defence/news/eu-to-launch-space-single-market/

European space traffic management.

https://defence-industry-space.ec.europa.eu/eu-space/space-traffic-management_en

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-turn-off-apple-intelligence/

*Here's your big chance, Blade Runner 2049 fans

https://propstoreauction.com/auctions/catalog/id/444

*Working the prop blaster rayguns there. The collector price on those must be colossal.

https://youtu.be/VzvR_yh5Cls?si=-b2mi65NhVgvmMkD

*Well... *I* own one. As for you, you probably won't make it

https://toshareproject.it/artmakerblog/comical-italian-survival-multitool/

"Singin’ in the Public Domain"

https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/23/virtual-public-domain-day-celebrates-1929-creative-works-1924-sound-recordings/